Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] green_light_stop@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don't mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.

Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's as much a function of human evolution as it is of how our society functions. And hell, isn't that dependent on human evolution too?

We evolved to survive, not to run a society. We've done pretty well overall despite that problem, but the wheels are coming off.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Humans have evolved to be social cooperative creatures not greedy selfish hoarders, and it is only in the last few thousand years, a blip in human history, that these systems developed by, and that only reward, greed and selfishness, have been around.

Don't let these systems and the people who benefit from them (and those who have been propagandised to believe they benefit from it but really don't) fool you in to thinking any of this is natural.

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[-] Midnitte@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

He's so damn creepy. First the pedo thing, then the breeding thing, now this. I'm beginning to think Musk is the pedophile.

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[-] vamp07@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

It's an academic exercise discussing the democratic system and how most voters are not looking at the long-term health of the country that they are leaving to their children or the children of others. I find nothing objectionable to Elon expressing his opinion, which by the way was very short and to the point. What's more concerning is how people get so riled up about these things and talking about Elon and how much they dislike him. The masses are being entertained and you are all falling for the bait.

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[-] YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Considering that he doesn't give a shit about his own children, this is typical Musk-Irony (tm)

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