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submitted 5 months ago by Soltros@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

He's just going to get people killed. But that's ok he doesn't give a shit anyways, so it's moot. What are a few thousand dead peasants when we could make big stock number go up?

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[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 409 points 5 months ago

So I visited Bangladesh one time, and learned they have insanely high rates of cancer there. Why? Well it turns out that (among other reasons) the farmers had been injecting formaldehyde into their vegetables because it made them last longer on the shelves, and therefore sold better.

This is what you get with no regulations. A sick and dying population.

[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 114 points 5 months ago

"regulations are written in blood" is a quote for a reason

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 103 points 5 months ago

I spent a decade living around Africa, and this kind of thinking is common. DDT was what everyone put on the tomatoes because pests mean loss of food. Who wants that?

Lack of relations is only about living in short-term survival thinking 24/7. Long term effects mean nothing.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

DDT isn't going to cause health problems for the people in Africa. It will cause problems for some birds near the top of the food chain however.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

It's just the easiest example to use. I have maybe dozens more examples that require more storytelling and setup.

Ever had someone try to sell you a car with visible drywall screws holding the bumper on, like you were the dick for pointing them out?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago

DDT won't fuck you up if you die in your 20s from unrelated causes

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 20 points 5 months ago

They will just call it Freedom Juice™ and write on the packaging that it makes the food taste more better.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 152 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You have to remember that musk literally, unironically, thinks we're npcs. He actually genuinely does not think that the masses of poor people are actually people.

So no, he won't fucking care.

[-] PyroNeurosis 35 points 5 months ago

He should maybe remember that the deathclaws that punish you for skipping straight to New Vegas are also NPCs.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

He paid someone to get past that part for him.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

You got a little extra negative there.

Not negativity, you can't overstate the direness. Just grammar.

He actually genuinely thinks that the masses of poor people aren't actually people.

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[-] r00ty@kbin.life 140 points 5 months ago

From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don't have enough regulation as it is. There's only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that's the top 1%. It's just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else's expense.

1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I'm sure.

I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.

No, I don't really feel safe even this far away. We're not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.

[-] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

Your list has most of the highlights, but you're missing 2 really important one: 1. food safety. I guess Americans don't care what is being sprayed on their vegetables or what diseases their meat might have. And 2. environmental. Burning rivers, even more wildfires, smog in all your cities, toxic waste in your lakes, etc. Don't think they won't start polluting like crazy if they can.

All regulations means ALL regulations; even the ones most people would think are so common sense they don't expect them to go away. They will. If it makes more money, they'll get rid of any and all regulations.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 121 points 5 months ago

Decades upon decades of progress are going to be gone by the end of this.

We'll spend the rest of our lives living in a system slowly being rebuilt, if we even get that lucky.

There goes our futures. And we voted for it.

Truly a shit nation full of shit people.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

B-bu-but grandstanding uncommitted Jill Steiners told me not to worry and they're all the same though!!?

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago

The wounds are too deep for rebuilding, imo. Even if we do get the chance, there's just not enough Band-Aids, political will, and time in four years for the democrats to repair it. We're facing the complete implosion of our federal government and its legitimacy along with it.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

The worst part is that there's not enough of an organized opposition to stop it, or even really slow it down. Neither major political party acts in favor of the people; major news outlets and social networking tools are owned by billionaires; a sizeable chunk of the country is perfectly OK with getting ratfucked so long as José next door gets it worse. We aren't facing the implosion of the USA into a TechnoFascist Hellscape, we're LIVING IT.

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[-] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

Don't worry. WW3 will be the world against the US within the next decade.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Yes, but the libruls made them do this, because woke/dei/crt and the trans. The amount of actual TDS (transphobic derangement syndrome) out there is something to behold.

The crazies are obsessed with trans and other bullshit that has no impact on their lives (b-roll of migrant caravans, poor people living high on the hog on steak and lobster, etc) that they are completely willing to end democracy over it. Not even fucking kidding. It's one thing when you see the elites saying democracy is over, it needs to be shunted aside so they can rule, it's quite another when they have convinced a lot of stupid peasants to say the same kind of shit. As if the peasants' lives won't be remarkably worse under what the elites have planned....

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[-] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 66 points 5 months ago

I feel like I'm a crazy person, but I'm starting to believe the conspiracy of tech billionaires trying to dismantle the government to create network states. I'm almost certain they will gut the SEC eventually as well, so they can deregulate cryptocurrency. This was a summary I've recently read: Day One of Venture Capital Takeover.

Everyone should google Network States and the cities these VC billionaires are trying to create. Stuff like Próspera, Pronomos Capital, Praxis Nation, Bitcoin City in El Salvador, Afropolitan in Africa etc. etc. The same website has long page on it: The Status of the Network State. They are essentially creating sovereign states or cities that aren't beholden to any local government laws and use their own deregulated cryptocurrencies, so that they can control all the rules and power within.

I have no idea how trustworthy the site I linked is, but I can't see what they would gain from lying about it

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Bitcoin City in El Salvador will never happen now, because they no longer have it as legal tender.

https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment

[-] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 months ago

That's hopeful to hear, but just reading the article, two things stand out:

The reform eliminated the word “currency” when referring to bitcoin, but says it is “legal tender.” Despite the lack of clarity, it lifts, as required by the IMF, the obligation to accept it in transactions or debt payments, a key condition for it to be “legal tender,” according to economic analysts. With the change, “if someone owes you money and wants to pay you in bitcoin, you can refuse to be paid in bitcoin, but you cannot refuse if it’s legal tender,” economist Carlos Acevedo explained.

The government, she assured, will continue buying bitcoin and having reserves in this cryptocurrency. According to the National Bitcoin Office, El Salvador has 6,050 bitcoins worth $634.8 million. “President Bukele continues buying bitcoin, we have a Bitcoin Office, we have the Bitcoin Law, bitcoin can be used in El Salvador. It hasn’t been an easy road,” Mayorga summarized.

They are just removing it as "legal tender" to meet the conditions for an IMF loan and will continue investing in bitcoin.

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 56 points 5 months ago

In my experience, if you have a boss that bitches about OSHA and how they're totally unnecessary, you've got a shitty boss. I'm talking the kind that would get you killed to save a nickel and then go on about how they're the real victims of you going and getting yourself killed like that.

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[-] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 48 points 5 months ago

So US citizens should be able to import Chinese Teslas clones for half the price, right ?

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

No. He's saying THEY get to ignore all regulations. Not you.

[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Does this mean I csn buy a Hilux?

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

My power company fucked up my autopay, they then preceeded to not tell me, then they shut off my power without a note or an in person heads up, leaving it indistinguishable from a regular outage until it was dark and my neighbors lights turned on and their billing department was closed for the night. In February.

I'm saying this because all this was illegal thanks to regulations. I reported it to the government because it was danger, irresponsible, and a dick move. I think a lot of people think of regulations as stuff like wheelchair ramps and no knowingly giving entire towns cancer, but it's also shit like this, that you have to tell people that you shut off their power for non-payment and warn them before you do so they don't have to spend a night eating takeout by candlelight for no reason.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

Remember that we're not allowed to call for violence, but it's okay when Elon does things like this, because allowing industry to poison whole towns isn't violence, it's just capitalism.

[-] throwawayainteasy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Sharing the names of Musk's helpers? Not okay.

Letting nuclear plants operate in a way that risks big swaths of the country uninhabitable? Totally cool.

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[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

If industrialists can pollute wherever they want, we should be allowed to live wherever we want. Private property is just a regulation at the end of the day.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago

All this bullshit from someone that never even took a US civics class. And likely has little to no idea of US history.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago

He learned enough. Accrue enough money, and you can do whatever the fuck you want.

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[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 months ago

It's all going according to plan...we are so fucked

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 22 points 5 months ago

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

Julius Caesar, ACT II Scene II by William Shakespeare

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 41 points 5 months ago

Crashing two planes in his first week wasn't enough, huh?

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

He’s starting with planes, but next he’ll be crashing rockets in your backyard and charge you for the cleanup.

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Side note, Im still not buying this "Worlds richest man" Label.

I believe that title still belongs to Vladimir Putin. his wealth is not published though. He Robbed a vast nation blind to the point that he is a living god in Russia.

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Between this and Ulbrict’s pardon, it seems the libertarians may be happy with their choice.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

World's richest person drunk on power

News at 11

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

You gotta break a few eggs to have your butler make you a ribeye steak.

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[-] kava@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

immigration policies are federal regulations on the labor market. i say we open the borders

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 5 months ago

Hey, Elon: I got some fresh snake oil that will make your dick bigger, make you actually good at video games, and women will actually want to have sex with you and not just because you have more money than fucking God.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He thinks we're probably living in a simulation so logically killing people wouldn't be morally wrong to him.

[-] FolknForage@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Is he including Private Property among these discarded regulations?

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[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

Why americans even pay taxes?

[-] ours@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

For the military and giving handouts to billionaires.

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