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    Both assassins donated to progressive causes. They were not republicans. The second guy they caught on the golf course with a scoped rifle poking through the bushes. Idk how that “didn’t happen?” Next you will be saying it was Trump who staged these events himself. You are deep in the propaganda. Good luck to you

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      The second guy voted for trump in 2016 and was a huge Vivek stan in the republican primary. They were both republicans just not the MAGA ones who are motivated purely by racism.

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      Not saying he staged them himself, but the campaign had those fundraising emails ready to go very quickly after the second one. Since the SS didn’t kill this one, maybe we’ll get some actual answers about who he is rather than more armchair speculation.

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    “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote Monday, adding later, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

    The owner of Twitter is learning how text-based communication works in realtime before our eyes.

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    Good thing it didn’t get out to the internet. That would be embarrassing to keep being reminded of.

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      Even if it did get out to the Internet, though, all you have to do is delete it and it instantly disappears.

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    Elon Musk after somebody invents time travel: “why is everybody only going back in time to assasinate Hitler???”

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    It is odd that this man has any government contract, let alone any national security contract with the United States government

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      Indeed. He seems like a dangerous and unstable individual. Shouldn’t he be on a watchlist instead?

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      Yeah… spend some time actually interacting with people with clearances. They are people just like any other so you have some humans and some deranged chuds. And everyone in positions of power are either political appointees (elected or otherwise) or ladder climbers who want to suckle on the teat of those appointees.

      So when you point out that someone is actively cheering for russia in a conflict with our allies or is openly calling people slurs? You get told that people are allowed to have political opinions and you are the problem. Because YOU are the reasonable person who will drop it. Whereas they will then bitch and moan that someone in IT has “blue hair” and whine until a local politician runs on that and suddenly everyone has very strict dress codes.

      Which, in turn, leads to people leaving in droves which just leaves the shitheads and the appeasers.

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        I’ve actually had clearances and government contracts. I’ve seen them pulled for much less than what Elmo did here.

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          Not for the upper managers though, right? I’ve also had clearances, and I know about some shocking things that some of the government managers did while never so much as being investigated for them.

          Contractors are different though.

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            Know of a company that misrepresented a product to the government. When the government found out they frooze all purchases from them for 3 years. Once that was found out, wall street crashed their stock. After that happened, the CEO was fired.

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              Which is a completely different topic.

              starlink works… if it isn’t out in the sun for too long. spacex works… for the purposes of what the actual contracts are for.

              the issue is musk being highly likely to be compromised and openly calling for the rape and murder of people he doesn’t like. Which gets back to “politics is allowed and you are the intolerant one” level responses.

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                The DoD has wanted a Starlink network for a long time. I think we should nationalize SpaceX, of course paying Elmo fair value.

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                  I mean, nationalized spacex is just NASA again. Which I am all for since spacex (and blue origin and the other one) mostly just came out of poaching staff from NASA and JPL in the first place.

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      There was never a time when he wasn’t a jackass. He just abandoned his job of running companies in exchange for being a full time dumbass.

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        He was always a jackass, he just used to be a quiet jackass that nobody ever heard from so we couldn’t tell. Now that he is fully incapable of shutting the fuck up, his jackassery is on full display.

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      If I’m honest, and bear in mind that I HATE ELON MUSK, I don’t think he was calling for anyone’s assassination. He is just such an idiot that he didn’t realize that his attempt at a fabricating a conspiracy would be misconstrued as such a call.

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      I’ve heard that autistic people are usually more concerned with justice than the average person. Is it because they’re really bad at hiding unjust meaning behind their words?

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        Narcissists tho care less about justice and more about revenge. Guess which aspect dominates his personality?

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    I hate this brand of pseudo-intellectualism.

    Adversity doesn’t mean you’re right. Lack of adversity doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It just means some people agree with you and some people disagree. That’s it.