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    I disagree - endorsing 3 sexual predators is actually quite a lot.

    Also weird he didn’t deny it.

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    He had 20 hours to think of a response, and that’s what he came up with? How the hell did anyone think he was smart?

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        You ever wonder why the other billionaires with space companies have actually flown on their companies vehicles and he hasn’t?

        I bet he doesn’t let his car autopilot him either.

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          To be fair, SpaceX isn’t selling amusement park ride tickets on suborbital flights to the highest bidders like those competitors are. They aren’t really comparable.

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            They put a Tesla in orbit. If he trusted them and wasn’t spineless he absolutely would

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              He might believe he’s burned too many bridges with apaceX engineers and launch techs. If he was on board, one of them might take an opportunity…

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              That was marketing. The alternative would have been a generic mass simulator, basically just a large block of metal.

              The car gets headlines and people remember it. You obviously did.

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                  That particular mission did not have a return module. The car is still up there somewhere. To anticipate the next comment yes I know it would still be an improvement.

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          The man-rated Falcon 9 is good enough for NASA. NASA does not have low standards on these sorts of things.

          Honestly, SpaceX is the only one of those that is doing actual work. Most of the others aren’t much more than tourist rides at this point.

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        Yeah, I do have a better suggestion. Vote Mamdani. Done.

        I’m not expecting clear thinking from the guy who sieg heiled on national TV, though.

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    I find it incredibly funny that everyone seems to forget or intentionally ignore that Sliwa is also running

    he’s that much of a goofball that the Republicans won’t support him even though he’s the literal official Republican candidate lmfao

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    Pretending he doesn’t know how his name is spelled, as if Mamdani hasn’t spent the last months living rent free in Musk’s head.

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    Intentionally misspelling someones name just makes you sound like an insecure 5yr old. Oh wait… mentally I guess it fits.

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      It’s the exact kinda shit Trump would do, he’s just funnier than Musk, which is a low bar to clear but it’s true

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      Ironic coming from the guy who named his daughter X-AE-Uh or whatever that bullshit was and expected everyone to go along with that.

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    Hey, we need an archived link of this tweet, especially the Elon portions. Archive.is is fine. If anyone wants to help out and give it, that’s great and you all have half an hour.

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    Ah, the good ol’ “a vote for X is really a vote for Y” being used against a Democrat instead of for. You love to see it!

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      It commonly is, because it’s logical and they understand it. When will the criminally online leftists get that too?

      The goal is not to have your balls tickled by politicians, it’s to do the best you can with what you have availible.

      You aren’t eating the rich any time soon, so you vote for change in primaries, local and state politics, and fall in line for elections, senate races (where it’s too close).

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      there’s a lot of morons who think staying on twitter while being leftish is an act of defiance and not providing the nazi bot farm the engagement it needs to perpetuate its evil. they make false equivalency comparisons saying things like leaving twitter is like fleeing a country, abandoning the people without the resources to flee. the problem with that argument is EVERYONE has the resources to leave twitter. no one is trapped on twitter, forced to stay (though the department of homeland security is surely trying by demanding all immigrants show their major social media platform posting history)

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    I Remember when I knew who Elon Musk was. The guy had a joint in its hand and was sharing “dank memes” on twitter while he was setting anime as pfp. Never heard of the guy before that.

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      Wow because by the time he was doing podcasts and trying to fix his image he was already a known fuckwit.

      The weed thing was PR after the pedo-sub guy in the Thai cave thing.

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      Haha, I remember when I was in a NASA Space App Challenge on a weekend some years ago. I was tired af, I was sleeping along another friend, we went to sleep late the night before, when suddenly, at fuckin 7am somebody wake up us, saying that someone important have arrived to the event. Was a guy who “worked along” Elon Musk. The man was like the 10th guy in the red thread that connected him and Elon. The guy got us listen to him like one hour and half, time that we see like lost time, we were tired, we had pizza for dinner the night before and then some random guy came to say that had worked along Elon Musk and got us one hour and half showing off that lame utter fact