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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 week ago

Fuck you John Roberts and your Citizens United violence against the citizens.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He's spent like 65 million already.

Incidentally that's like .025% of his net worth. If you make 100K/year, the equivalent percentage of your yearly salary would be $25.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The French had a good solution for people like this. It rhymes with creatine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think you are a bit confused and replied to the wrong person. French food is pretty good but I'm not sure what Ovaltine has to do with this. Besides, it's British.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Ah thanks for clarifying! I was confused how poutine was involved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

also rhymes with scopolamine

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ONE MAN Bankrolling an ENTIRE Political Party is PROOF that THAT Political Party is by and For the People!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

S/people/person

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Felon Musk is cancer

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I wish someone would strap Elon onto a Space X rocket and launch him directly into the Sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Or we could increase our yearly billionaire sacrifice to the ocean god.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Just remember, it takes less delta v to shoot things out of the solar system than it does to shoot them into the sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Work out the right gravity assist profile and a trip to the outer planets can become one that ends WITH THE SUN

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not about the delta v. It's about sending a message.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's about sending a message

Then out of the solar system is still a better option, because then we're announcing to some future spacefaring anthropologist, "Fuck this guy in particular."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You know more than that fascist clown does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just slow his orbit a bit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It should be law, that everyone who owns Occupy Mars memorabilia must be on the first few ships to the new colony. Billionaires will have a very special ship of course, that mysteriously vanishes and is never heard from again.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump bankrupts everything he touches so good luck Elon!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly he's so rich I don't even think that's possible. I mean the dude could lose $1 billion per year and still be a billionaire after two centuries lol.

Few things in this world would make me happier than to be totally wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I should have mentioned that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He was a conservative dipshit then too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Elon stands for elon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

All the other billionaires solicit their bribes discretely. It’ll be interesting how this feud plays out.