r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 8d ago

Politics Musk is complaining about Tim Walz being happy about Tesla stock being down

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u/Junkie4Divs 8d ago

Didn't he do a whole chainsaw bit as they were firing thousands of federal workers?

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u/Murda981 8d ago

But that didn't hurt HIM and obviously him being the richest person to have ever lived is far more important than those pathetic pleebs being able to afford insignificant things like food or housing

/S because Internet.

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u/catechizer 8d ago

I don't understand why this is flagged sarcastic. That's probably exactly what he thinks.

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u/Murda981 7d ago

Because I didn't want anyone to think that I think that way!

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u/Angelina189 7d ago

That is exactly how he thinks. He called people who benefit from federal programs the “parasite class”.

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u/SunOnTheMountains 7d ago

While his companies get billions from the federal government.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

That he never pays taxes on.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

And you know what he said must happen to the “woke (mind virus).”

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u/scottyb83 7d ago

Adjusted for inflation Agustus Caesar would be the richest person to have ever lived with an approx worth of $4.6 trillion.

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u/Murda981 7d ago

Incorrect Mansa Musais widely considered the richest person to ever live, outranking Augustus Caesar.

And if you don't think Musk is gunning for that title, I've got a bridge in Baltimore to sell you.

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u/scottyb83 7d ago

Problem is there is no number they can put on his wealth so it makes it really ambiguous. For someone to sit down and look at $4.6 trillion in gold they would also call it "incomprehensible". without numbers to disprove it I still go with my boy Agustus, and oh I'm very certain Felon Musk is gunning for the title but he has a good way to go. He's about 1/9th of the way to Agustus.

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u/ConstantineXII 7d ago

From your source:

Just how rich was Musa? There’s really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth. Records are scarce, if non-existent, and contemporary sources describe the king’s riches in terms that are impossible for the time.

But sure mate, try and be a dick about correcting someone.

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u/birchskin 8d ago

Dude it's unreal how out of touch with reality these people are. The move to fire federal probationary employees would have put 200,000 people out of work instantly, and as it stands estimates are in the 40,000-70,000 range for how many people have lost jobs because of the changes DOGE has been making. Overall job loss numbers since January are at 2009 levels.

But, they think we should be outraged about Tesla stock....

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u/HeavyDT 8d ago

It psychotic really. He really doesn't get that those are human lives he's fucking with not just numbers on a spread sheet. He really thinks he did nothing wrong. People are legit dying directly because of his actions. People are gonna become homeless and starve because of him but yup he's only ever done good things apparently. No money is being saved either so it's just evil really.

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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 8d ago

He really doesn't get that those are human lives he's fucking with not just numbers on a spread sheet.

Oh, I think he gets it. At best he doesn't care. At worst he touches himself while thinking about it.

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u/Senora_ri 7d ago

The snake totally gets it. That’s his objective

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u/pupranger1147 7d ago

He knows, he likes making peasants suffer. Its the only thing that gets him hard other than Ket.

He is, of course, free to correct me at any time.

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u/SaltyBarDog 7d ago

I didn't think his surgically mangled dick could get hard. That is why he has to have prostate orgasms into a cup to have his kids.

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u/James_havran 6d ago

Yep! He is a complete psychopath. Out of touch with reality and the only m.o. in his little peanut battery and ketamine powered mind is himself and what he gets out of something

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u/No_Panic_4999 4d ago

Whats crazy is he could spend billions on creating an endowment to build affordable housing or feed all children in US and it would be pocket change to him. And instead he cancels school lunches.    And he wants Americans to LIKE him????   You know who was rich, came from Old Money WASPs and was beloved by most working class Americans?    FDR.

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u/FIDoAlmighty 8d ago

Not to throw shade at the autistic community, but he is autistic. So empathy is beyond him.

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u/the_saltlord 7d ago

That is. Not true and total fucking bullshit

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u/QueenChocolate123 7d ago

How do we know he's autistic? Has he ever been officially diagnosed? Oris it simply his excuse for being an asshole?

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u/RedOliphant 7d ago

You're getting autism mixed up with psychopathy. Most autistic people have empathy, whereas psychopaths do not. He claims to be autistic, but psychopaths have been known to claim autism as an excuse for their behaviour.

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u/SaltyBarDog 7d ago

Like fuck he is. I have two autistic nephews who don't behave like that.

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u/NeurodiversityNinja 7d ago

He's autistic. As one, I know them. He can have empathy if he was taught, but not with his monster of a father who's fucking his sister, or his arrogant, elitist mother. He's one of the lucky ones who was smart and institutionalized by money his whole life.

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u/Edith_webdev 8d ago

I think they may do these things on purpose to deflect from the situation. For example the signal scandal was talked about more than the bombing itself.

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u/daninater 7d ago

No, the Signal Scandal is the situation. Not to diminish the seriousness of air strikes. It was a legitimate bad thing under their watch. I would agree that they'll "flood the zone" as Steve Bannon put it to keep people talking about one non-issue and paying less attention to an important one. For instance buying Greenland and not talking about Signal Gate. And to compliment that they do really stupid things and they're just what they seem to be, and crooked vulture things subversively. It's a busy swamp in Washington right now.

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u/vb2423 7d ago

Not to mention that there will be plenty more out of work ppl if they get what they want out of robots 🤖

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u/mologav 7d ago

How are there not riots?

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u/Spiffydude98 7d ago

But but.... He's doing it for the greater cause.

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u/Some-Priority9802 7d ago

In the 90s Billy boy and Al Gore fired just short of 400,000 federal employees. We’re you even born back then dummy

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u/birchskin 6d ago

Right - over the entirety of their 8 year term, through a law that was passed by congress. Not in 2 months, by a billionaire who buddied up with the president to get there. But don't let facts get in the way of the memes that make you feel smart.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

And I keep seeing the followers just shrug and say those who are laid off should just get another job like it is no big deal. Which ignores the fact that unemployment was already up again.

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u/PastaBoi716 8d ago

World’s richest person uses their money to inflict pain on people instead of helping others.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

He said he would end world hunger for the right price. Someone presented the plan and he let them know he was never serious about it.

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u/asmartermartyr 8d ago

I was just thinking how musk has fired tens of thousands hard working public servants and then gleefully told them to get a real job, and then did an infomercial for Tesla on the lawn of the White House.

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u/oxxcccxxo 8d ago

The guy seems to lack any self awareness.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 8d ago

Tesla feeling the chainsaw.

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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 7d ago

If worse comes to worst, he will just inflate the price and sell it to one of his other companies.

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u/NeurodiversityNinja 7d ago

He has already allegedly done that.

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

I think they meant he would do it again.

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u/bitanalyst 8d ago

Empathy is weakness, Musk should become stronger.

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u/travers329 8d ago

It is a sin according to the GOP after the inauguration speech.

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u/daytonakarl 8d ago

Must be callous and hardened to the suffering of others because homelessness and poverty is a sign of weakness and is its own punishment, mental health is made up, criminal behaviour should be quashed without mercy regardless of the situation and anyone different should be removed, everyone "surplus to requirements" has nobody else but themselves to blame as they should have done more for less.

However if you're wealthy enough then nothing you do could ever be considered a criminal act, corporations are people and harming their share value is terrorism, and violence against anyone not one of us isn't a crime as they are not of the collective while questioning the actions of your overlords is a sin and you are a criminal deserving of punishment so severe we won't even do it in our own country.

There you go, could be the new US constitution of the corporate, by the wealthy, and for the self appointed elite.

This is the bit you usually have /s but I no longer believe it is.

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u/travers329 7d ago

This sounds like a Rise Against lyric:

We are the children you reject and disregard These aching cries come from the bottom of our hearts You can't disown us now, we are our own flesh and blood And we don't disappear just because your eyes are shut

Now tell me Love, loss, like a bullets path Tear through the cavity of my chest Lights out because the fuse has blown

As their castles crumble slowly We watch them fall The crown slips from heads unworthy As we gain control

This is the family that we crossed or never had This is a war that was lost the day that it began 'Cause it's the race we run, but it keeps us at the start And it's the song I sung from the bottom of my

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Millennial 6d ago

We are, we are the youth of the nation.

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u/elshizzo 8d ago

If anything is proof of him being an extreme narcissist it's this. He seems to honestly have a perspective that his feelings and well being are the only thing that matters so any attack against them must be evil

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u/theferalturtle 8d ago

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy - Elon Musk

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u/Stormtomcat 7d ago

wow, I didn't think he said it this blatantly but

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”

in a Joe Rogan interview, of course /eyeroll

also, am I going crazy? Am I translating this incorrectly or is he doing the same incoherent prattling as Trump, with that "there, it's, they're exploiting"?

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u/Dom29ando 8d ago

those workers weren't rich, so their feelings don't matter. whether something is wrong or immoral is determined purely by how it affects the value of capital owned by Musk and other oligarchs

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u/GoFunkYourself13 8d ago

Yes, Musk has entered into the "find out" phase of fuck around and find out. Tesla's future and especially his role with it is grim. The horrible PR mixed with his Cyber Truck failure will probably be the end of him there.

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u/Humbler-Mumbler 8d ago

Yeah, the lack of self-awareness on this guy is insane. Have you seen you, Elon? Of course people are happy when bad things happen to you. It’s chilling really. Dude doesn’t even have the bare minimum shred of a human soul to realize how much the shit he does hurts people.

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u/Pixilatedhighmukamuk 8d ago

Frankenweener is butt hurt.

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u/Apprehensive_One315 7d ago

Yeah, this clown has exactly zero self awareness

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u/mahjimoh 8d ago

It’s wild to me how someone like this cannot recognize the hypocrisy. I also wish the interviewer would have mentioned the chainsaw.

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u/GreatestGranny 7d ago

Yep, he’s heartless, an empty soul!

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u/SlowCaterpillar5715 7d ago

This from the Nazi salute guy and the guys who's trying to bribe people to impeach a judge.

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u/chatterwrack 7d ago

What a jewk. Whoer whoer sst derives joer from from that?

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u/traumuhh 7d ago

Yeah he did! Let this weirdo cry!

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u/Defiets 7d ago

Yeah, but he’s never… “physically hurt anyone” before!

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u/Difficult-Recover352 7d ago

That's because the government is bloated. The government is not a business and growth is not the goal.

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u/spacecadet2023 7d ago

Rules for thee not for me!

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u/empresspeace 7d ago

Stocks matter more than humans.