• TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Didn’t Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?

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    I would be happy if all tech left the city. It used to be a hipster village of social non challants and detected alternative social movements. A shining, hairy, culty, body odor having, punk rock city on a hill.

    The tech takeover ruined the city and contributed directly to the epidemic levels of homelessness seen because it made the city effectively so expensive non millionaires can’t survive there. Most long time san Francisco families ended up moving out.

    Take all the rest of tech with you please Mr. Musk. Make San Francisco an affordable city again.

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      It’s too late, the landleeches have already taken over. Any city remotely worth living in is too expensive to live in, and will remain that way until we eliminate the landleech class.

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      it literally could not be anywhere else. Texas is a safe-space for oligarchs and bigots. That’s why Elon and Joe Rogan and all these other asshats left CA for TX.

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      Texas, where woke goes to die.

      Blexus!?

      Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

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        Texas, where woke goes to die.

        Blexus!?

        Sorry, I meant Florida. Texas is going purple baby!

        Weeps in despair in South Carolina

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          Young people need to register and vote. If they did, SC would be blue reliably.

          All but 2 states honestly…

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              This might not be the answer, but it is important. This is one of the last videos Beau did before he retired and his wife is taking over. It is still one of my favorite channels, but keep this in mind especially for the next several months, and beyond if things don’t go our way.

              Let’s talk about maintaining hope…

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      I mean the bitch wants to go to Mars. I say we let him. And maybe he’ll finally understand the complete piece of shit he’s been when he is running out of oxygen or is freezing in the vacuum of space because he decided to piss off or remove all the actual intelligent people and was left with the bottom of the barrel pseudo-engineer who created and developed his mars rocket.

      It’s a fun thought experiment, anyway.

      Make sure to take a photo of your roadster as you’re gasping for air, Elon!

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      Considering how many Bay Area tech workers with zero morals leave cali for Texas purely for lower taxes and how Texas loves that, I’m sure they do

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    Although i hate hearing about him, i do like seeing his face and body rapidly deteriorating.

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      And that’s after he spends a ton of money to get it fixed. If he weren’t rich, he’d be bald by now, for example.

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    He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.

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      He really is the DJ Khaled of technology

      Damn, this is fucking spot on. I’ll be Musk wouldn’t make it to the end on Hot Wings either.

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      Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.

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        It’s funny, I just finished Atlas Shrugged and it’s crazy how Ayn Rand got it wrong about those who can “do” must also have the highest moral standards.

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      Rich people really seem to think that them just having shitloads of money in a location makes that place better. I’m a midwesterner and even I know San Francisco has serious issues from how in about a generation or two it went from a working class industrial and military city to home of several of the wealthiest companies and filled with enough upper working class people to skyrocket cost of living.

      So to Elon, don’t bring X to my city either

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        And they are now bringing that problem to Texas. Along with a bunch of liberals.

        Good. Texas is a big enough state it should be blue.

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      “Turn around!” they begged him, as he strode slowly towards the desert sun, but he knew enough of Lot and of Orpheus, that it would only bring them ruin if he did. So heavy was his heart, that he glanced back with melancholy love, and thus the fair city of San Francisco turned to salt. He kept on walking into that desert sun, a heavy heart keeping him anchored to calls of vultures naysaying his poor sense of direction…

      ~Honestly good riddance to both. I have never seen more narcissists in my life than I have in SF.~

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            No misunderstanding. I know Texas does have issues. Which is a major reason I doubt people want to move there besides all the witch hunts and other bs. A nice house in hell is not the same as apt in heaven.

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          The rich engineers weren’t the demographic affected by the “rolling” brownouts. The people in McMansions had power the entire time, while the people in apartments were shitting in grocery bags because their toilets had frozen solid from lack of power for heating.

          The “rolling” brownouts were really just rolling around the same poor areas.