guy with enormous megaphone: “they’re trying to silence, everybody click on my thing I’m so silenced! I have secret truths!”
We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has.
Submitted 5 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
If they don’t want me to see it, it must be true!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The worms speak the secret truth to him
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
RFK is going to siphon away possible Trump voters, not possible Biden voters. I have no problem with this.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
He won’t have the ® next to his name. I hope you’re right, but the Never Trumpers talk a big game every time… then bend the knee.
Bipta@kbin.social 5 months ago
We hope...
elgordio@kbin.social 5 months ago
Yeah, talking to some folks on a recent visit to the states. It sounds like there are at least some young voters who would normally vote D but won’t because of Biden’s age that are leaning towards RFK. I don’t think his influence can be easily dismissed
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I dunno. His own staffer came out and said their entire purpose was to keep Biden from winning re-election. Third party candidates don’t typically siphon votes away from the party that religiously tows the line. The republicans have gotten their voters in lockstep formation, to a scary degree. The democrats have a harder time because their needed voters are a wide swath of different people, from those scared of republicans (really the dems bread and butter), to people who want social programs, to liberals, to liberal-leaning conservatives (though this group has been disappearing for a while), to leftists that begrudgingly vote for the lesser of two evils…it’s a melting pot. That’s also why the dems have a harder time winning, typically. The dems and the left will debate procedural shit for how to accomplish similar goals. The right is all emotional appeals/reactionaries. Herding cats vs shooting fish in a barrel. I wouldn’t be so sure about RFK jr only appealing to the right.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Third party candidates don’t typically siphon votes away from the party that religiously tows the line.
Trump doesn’t really tow the line, through. He’s a manifestation of a revolt from inside the GOP’s white nationalist electoral core, against the financial internationalist who have controlled the party since Reagan.
I don’t think it’s clear who RFK is really feeding from. It’s possible his voters simply wouldn’t turn out if he wasn’t on the ballot. But it’s doubtful that he can steal Biden voters by parroting Trump positions.
The dems and the left will debate procedural shit for how to accomplish similar goals. The right is all emotional appeals/reactionaries.
Liberal admins don’t debate procedural shit, they kill legislation hostile to their donors with technicalities. These same technicalities never affect our illegal wars or unconstitutional policing or criminally unconscionable polluting or corrupt corporate bailouts.
The big difference between libs and cons is that cons demand their red meat and are willing to lose an election or two to guarantee it, while liberals are constantly running scared of their replacements in the next election.
The emotion you see isn’t unique to conservatives. It’s simply rewarded rather than shamed.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did Woody ask if they could talk about Rampart?
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I dunno. I would have no interest in watching such a thing.
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deep cut lol
blazera@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is just how capitalism works. Society’s resources are divied up based on capital. But capital is one of those resources. So it feedback loops into concentrating more and more resources into fewer and fewer hands. And elon is the poster child for just how incompetent you can be and it not matter.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unlimited Passive Income, baby! The white whale of every tech bro.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well yeah its not about competence. Its about how much capital you already have. That’s the only prerequisite to power.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
What is scary is how consistently cruel, apathetic and ignorant our plutocrats are, which is exactly why we gave up on monarchy in the first place.
It shows us how capitalism doesn’t work and just deteriorates to rule by force (but with more manufactured consent).
masquenox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
which is exactly why we gave up on monarchy
We didn’t give up on monarchy. We guillotined the fuck out of it.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Hey, only some folk guillotined it away, lots of the rest of us either still have the monarchy, or just kinda wandered off, fought with the monarchy for a little bit and now are on speaking terns but do their own thing.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What a ridiculous bulletin.
“Excuse me, I’d like to inform you, with your permission of course, that, and I will stress that this is an interpersonal transfer of information between you and I that is entirely within your purview to block or disregard, a tweet, which is to say a post on x (.) (dot) com, a website only recently renamed so from its previous moniker “twitter,” which explains the origin of the nomenclature of its posts, “tweets” in case can’t recall, mentioned a biographical film titled “who is Bobby Kennedy.”
Thank you for reading the Kentucky bacon. Your information has been logged.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did I have a stroke or did you?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’m joking about how overly verbose they were in speaking about a retweet from a doofus billionaire. In attempting to offer gravitas, they simply seemed timidly giddy.
BlackNo1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
glad that feeling i had that woody harrelson is a massive cunt was correct
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Now, now, there’s no need for that kinda talk.
We should probably stick to talking about Rampart
DeepThought42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If they made a documentary about the life of little Bobby’s brain worm, I might watch that. Provided, of course, that it’s also narrated by Woody Harrelson.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Great. Now I can’t enjoy anything new from Woody Harrelson.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You could just focus on Rampart instead.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 months ago
…ok…and how does this demonstrate his power, again? I’m not following.
Phegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It demonstrates his reach.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 months ago
His “reach” is 90% bots and the rest are white supremacists
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
im baffled that someone was seemingly notified for what is literally two paragraphs and a sentence.
What has the internet come to these days?
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The part about his battle with brain worms was truly inspiring.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
youtu.be/yRpWaJRyVQo?si=slyJXZqeUSYjT9Xm
Worth watching.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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Me when I first read who the narrator was.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gotta love Woody Harrelson 😆❤️
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I will never forget his iconic role in Rampart… AmA.
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wow, without feathers getting even side effects!