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[-] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 65 points 15 hours ago

Oh man, that's hilarious. Almost as funny as that time he joked about buying Twitter; can you imagine if that happened?

[-] AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago

For what it's worth, he tried his damndest to get out of buying Twitter. I'm sure he wants people to forget that part.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

That's true, but casually joking about buying companies when you basically did that (albeit with enough details to not be taken as a joke) is so monumentally dumb. Even for musk. Dude really has not learned to shutup yet.

[-] Free_Thoughts@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago

..after finding out they lied about the actual amount of bots there.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago

Then the bots quadrupled under him.

[-] Free_Thoughts@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

What are you basing that on? I lost a ton of followers when they started deleting bot acconts and the steady flow of around 4 new bot followers each day has died down as well. Maybe your experience has been different but if you're not even on Twitter, I wonder how you would know.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

3 day old account and this is the 3rd time I've noticed you jUsT AsKInG QueSTIonS.

Went ahead and tagged you for future reference.

[-] Free_Thoughts@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Now you got me curious. What's your theory on why I'm here? A bot? Foreign agent? Russian troll? I'm genuinely curious.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I lost a ton of followers

In USA that's about 8 at most.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 136 points 18 hours ago

Musk is doing a great job of showing everyone exactly why no one should be able to have that much money.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

He’s gonna be the Marie Antoinette of this round when it happens

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

I’m not saying anyone should be executed for using their extravagant wealth built off of slavery to manipulate politics, control the economy, oppress the poor, and target minority groups—but I would certainly watch events unfold with great interest

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 61 points 18 hours ago

dont the nazis already have enough propaganda channels with shitter and faux news?

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 54 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

…and CNN now, as well. They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing, bought by conservative billionaires in 2022.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

It's not even subtle. Just controlled opposition

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 35 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

ha ha billionaires buying up media companies ha ha no problem here, funny joke

[-] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 32 points 17 hours ago

He won't buy it with his money. He'll buy with our money. DOGE not being an official department and mostly being a independent contractor means they don't have to have the same level of accountability for funds that the Government has (or in the Pentagon's case should have, but nobody in Congress seems to have a spine about stopping the flow of funds until a successful audit happens).

When they talk about shrinking the Government, they aren't talking about getting rid of services, they're talking about privatizing the services. Everyone who keeps thinking "Oh shits going crash if they do that" is forgetting, they'll just turn those services over to private companies that receive tax dollars for providing that service to the public.

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

they'll just turn those services over to private companies that receive tax dollars for ~~providing~~ pretending to provide that service to the public.

Ftfy

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