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trashhalo ( trashhalo@beehaw.org )  to PoliticsEnglish · 3 years ago

Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children

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Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children

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trashhalo ( trashhalo@beehaw.org )  to PoliticsEnglish · 3 years ago
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Critics have accused Mr Musk of holding eugenecist views about populations
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  • Domiku ( Domiku@beehaw.org ) 
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    Just stop giving this guy press and airtime.

    • The Cuuuuube ( Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 
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      On the one hand, I fully agree, we need to limit his power by just not fucking paying attention to him. On the other, if we stop trying to broadcast what an odious fucking human being he is, the more he’ll be able to pump money into media outlets and PACs to influence global policy in his favor

      • StrayCatFrump ( StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org ) 
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        Yeah. Most of his power comes from his literal hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth, not the attention. Ignoring him will not suddenly make him a working-class bloke like everyone else.

        • billwashere ( billwashere@vlemmy.net ) 
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          But my question is how do schmucks like this get to be billionaires?!? Or do they just get this full of shit AFTER they get so rich?

          • StrayCatFrump ( StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org ) 
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            Becoming a billionaire isn’t a popularity contest. Generally it’s through inheritance, and then being a ruthless sociopath who has no problem exploiting workers. In that sense, Musk is perfect for the “job”.

          • NattyNatty2x4 ( NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org ) 
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            Usually by being born to millionaires

      • ArtVandelay ( ArtVandelay@beehaw.org ) 
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        • The Cuuuuube ( Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 
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          I think we can even take that simaly and turn it into a literal statement

  • Storksforlegs ( storksforlegs@beehaw.org ) 
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    Critics have accused Mr Musk of holding eugenecist views about populations

    I mean, only if you go by the things he’s said and done.

    • The Cuuuuube ( Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 
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      Let’s be fair here. While the things he says might seem racist when you first hear them, if you keep an open mind, listen to them a second time, and think critically about them, they’re actually very racist

    • Thrashy ( Thrashy@beehaw.org ) 
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      Creepy middle-aged white South African man may be racist, more at 11!

  • femboy_link.mp4 ( PascalSausage@beehaw.org ) 
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    Elon Musk says something fucking stupid, must be Tuesday.

    • Banzai51 ( Banzai51@midwest.social ) 
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      Only on days that end in ‘y’.

  • RealAccountNameHere ( RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org ) 
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    I mean at this point if you told me Elon Musk supports shoving babies into Tesla-branded mills to power his private jet somehow, I’d probably feel only mild surprise.

    • nhgeek ( nhgeek@beehaw.org ) 
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      Agreed. Best thing for him would be to STFU, but he seems incapable.

      • buckykat ( buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
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        He spent $44 billion to make sure everyone has to see his takes

        • TehPers ( TehPers@beehaw.org ) 
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          … and then proceeded to close off the website. As far as I’m concerned, I’m perma-banned from Twitter for never making an account, and I still don’t actually care.

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      I thought that too but I gotta admit this take is pretty effed up even for him

  • argv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) Banned
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    Well, I’d support eliminating voting rights for rich people who weasel out of paying their taxes. No taxation without representation or vice versa.

  • FaulerFuffi ( FaulerFuffi@feddit.de ) 
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    One thought I cannot shake off: promoting children that aggressively within the western cultural hemisphere, while the world’s population is actually growing, maybe even too much, is actually horribly racist.

    Is it only me?

    • the_itsb (she/her) ( the_itsb@beehaw.org ) 
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      No, it’s not only you. It reeks of “14 words,” it’s fucking disgusting.

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      while the world’s population is actually growing, maybe even too much

      We could feed another 4 billion people just with the crops and water that’s necessary to run our meat industries.

      • AnarchoYeasty ( AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) Banned
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        And the population of the world will likely never grow to that additional 4 billion people

        https://issuu.com/habsboys/docs/habs_geo_mag21-6th_issu/s/13472380

    • Plume (she/her) ( Plume@beehaw.org ) 
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      Elon Musk? Racist? Noooo…

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech ( ChaoticNeutralCzech@beehaw.org ) 
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        As a matter of fact, African-Americans cannot be racist. /s

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    We should go further and limit it to those who’s kids actually still talk to them, see if he supports it then.

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    I think the only people interested in his opinion are incels, so we can just stop giving them all airtime

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    What… the actual fuck…

    I vote we eliminate elon musk

    • Mnglw ( mnglw@beehaw.org ) 
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      as someone without children, same

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      • Thrashy ( Thrashy@beehaw.org ) 
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        He wants to be king of Mars, and he’s built the rocket to get him there. Just strap him into a nice, well-provisioned oubliette on top of a Falcon Heavy and make his dream a reality!

    • uxia ( uxia@beehaw.org ) 
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      Or at least eliminate all the hate-clicks, retweets, quote tweets, and news articles generated by his daily rage bait tweet.

  • AttackBunny ( AttackBunny@beehaw.org ) 
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    So, if I can’t vote, that means I can stop paying for all the shit I don’t use, that’s specifically for kids, right? No more payments to help schools, after school programs, meal programs. Hell yeah, my taxes just got quite a bit cheaper.

    To clarify, I’m totally fine paying for those things, as they help lift society up (when government doesn’t steal the obey and give it to the Uber rich/giant corporations). It just don’t think that fuck face realizes what all us “childless losers” do for them.

    • CeruleanRuin ( CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one ) 
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      If voting patterns are any indication, people without children already tend to vote against education and childcare funding. Thank you for being an exception. As someone who works around kids and has many friends who do, I can’t emphasize enough the difference that just a little more funding can make to improving the lives of children - and by extension society at large.

      People who are disconnected from it don’t see the direct connection between, say, teacher morale and support, and how well students do. If the teachers in a system are always stressed because they’re underpaid, always scrounging for supplies, and in charge of too large a classroom, everyone in the class suffers. And when kids with emotional disorders spike because there is no support for parents, they soak up all the attention, and students who might be fine start floundering because the staff is busy trying to keep a leash on the poor kid who is acting out because his parents are fucked up.

      • newtraditionalists ( newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) 
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        Do you have a source for your initial claim? That is something I have never heard before, and I taught for 13 years.

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      • Master ( Master@beehaw.org ) 
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        As a married non-parent in their 40s I dont think what you said is true at all. I know a lot of people my age and older without children and none of them vote against those things unless they are voting straight ticket republican. I dont think child status has anything to do with that mentality.

      • confusedbytheBasics ( confusedbytheBasics@beehaw.org ) 
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        Really? This isn’t true in my community. Childfree people know that well educated children will make their future better and they vote like it.

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        Idk. In my area, child free tend to be educated, liberal leaning. Even the older ones. The religious, no birth control types tend to be the conservative, anti government programs types. Theythe religious conservatives also seem to be a lot more likely to have the “I got mine so fuck you” mentality, At least from what I see.

        Edit to clarify something.

      • darkmugglet ( darkmugglet@lemm.ee ) 
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        Plenty of people who have had children and raised them are against paying school taxes after their kids leave school. The number of times I have heard Grand parents talk about unfair it is that they have to pay taxes on schools is insane. Source: lived in a community where the average age was 72.

        • CeruleanRuin ( CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one ) 
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          The empathy deficit in this country is what’s killing us all.

          • darkmugglet ( darkmugglet@lemm.ee ) 
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            This comment is the one we should be talking about. We all lack empathy, at least politically and socially.

            • CeruleanRuin ( CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one ) 
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              It’s the sickness we should be treating, instead of constantly triaging all the symptoms.

    • Omegamanthethird ( Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org ) 
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      Well, you shouldn’t be paying taxes at all if you can’t vote anyways. Like Puerto Rico. Then again, I think all adult citizens should be able to vote, even those incarcerated.

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    All that money and he can’t even buy a brain cell.

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    Elon Musk supports eliminating rights for people who aren’t Elon Musk… That’s about it, I think…

  • Dandylion ( Dandylion@beehaw.org ) 
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    Fine then I don’t have to pay taxes anymore.

    • PostmodernPythia ( PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org ) 
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      A noble idea, but tell DC that.

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    Idiot Billionaire has dogshit opinions. What else is new?

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    Perhaps instead he might propose one vote per mistress. Or one vote for every 20 Scrabble points in their kid’s names.

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