• Etterra@discuss.online
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    19 hours ago

    Yes, yes! I knew it would work. Seems like pretty much everybody got the same idea at the same time and it’s working a treat. If you can’t defeat your enemies, turn them against each other!

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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      18 hours ago

      Actually was more so dems understanding the situation were in

      The “President Musk” messaging is by design, at least partially. This week, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it, at senior levels of different Democratic congressional offices, and also within the Democratic National Committee, discussions have been had about having party leaders and elected officials actively portray Musk as effectively Trump’s boss, and to do so during television appearances that the president-elect is likely to see. The idea is that it’s a cost-free opportunity to potentially drive a petty wedge between the notably mercurial and ego-obsessed Trump and his similarly emotive pal Musk, and to sow some chaos in the upper ranks of the Republican Party.

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/president-musk-dems-troll-trump-elon-1235211922/

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Now would be a good time for a reminder that there is no such thing as a moral billionaire. Scientifically, sane people retire to lives of luxury with their families long before they reach that level of wealth. The only reason to seek such wealth is out of a sick desire to control other human beings. Religiously, scripture says that there are no wealthy people in paradise. In the end, they all burn. Scientifically or religiously, you do not become a billionaire unless there is something broken in your soul.

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      17 hours ago

      How has ‘what is moral’ come to be scientifically settled?

      Different cultures across the world have different morals. Yet for this statement to be true, there must be an agreed scientific consensus on a quantitative metric and its impact on a fundamentally unscientific det of cultural rules.

      The appeal to scientific authority in this statement undermines a good moral argument to be made about inequity and excessive individual rights to property.

      This is just a call to some pop-science, at best, meant to engage the rage. It has no better scientific basis than trickle down economics does.

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        Do not put words in my mouth. I said nothing of scientific morality.

        I said that different people work for different reasons. Sane people work to achieve the necessities of life, providing a means to support themselves and their families. Sane people, with healthy relationships and interests, value things other than work. Once you have enough to live in luxury for a dozen lifetimes, you are no longer pursuing things like friends, family, hobbies, etc. You are instead working primarily because you are a psychopath who gets off on lording power over others. The only thing that billions in wealth gets you is power and influence over others. That’s literally its only utility.

        There are no moral billionaires. If you seek that level of wealth, there is something fundamentally broken in your soul. You need to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum, as you are pathologically addicted to money and power.

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          Claiming a scientific authority that doesn’t exist and someone calling you on it, isn’t putting words in your mouth. Its a reaction to an unjustified claim to authority, that undermines that authority when it is actually appropriate.

          It also undermines your own argument. Its good to see you’re reply shifted position.

    • Etterra@discuss.online
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      19 hours ago

      That’s why it says the oft misquoted “the love of money is the heart of all evil.” That “love” is the key part of that equation.

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    23 hours ago

    “I AM SPARTACUS!”.
    “NO YOU ARE NOT! I AM SPARTACUS!”.
    “NUH-UH!”.
    “AM SO!”

    “Bruh, what are these dorks going on about? Pass me another brew and fire up that J.”

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      21 hours ago

      maybe we’ll be lucky and they’ll be too busy tearing each other apart that they won’t have time to tear this country apart.

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    1 day ago

    So which one gets into a horrible accident /assassination?

    Either one has the willingness and lack of foresight to take out the other

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    I would think Trump pretending to be fabulously wealthy but being exposed as a populist grifter, and Elon being the richest guy in the world, would hang in the air like Trump’s stench.

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    What, junior assistent deputy backup “president” Donald Trump is furious that President Elon Musk outranks him and gives him orders? He cannot be mad at President Elon Musk, President Elon Musk could order a nuclear strike on his house, does lowly Donald Trump not know that? He should thank his President Elon Musk for bringing him with him to the white house, Elon Musk’s new residence!