Throw his Nazi ass in jail
Poor guy
Submitted 1 year ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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witnessbolt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only thing poor about him is his genetics
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
it’s like this with almost everything
it’s amazing how you can break almost everything down into terms a neanderthal can understand and the short sighted conservative will break from their script
but breaking down simple concepts can be so overwhelming… and the right takes your exhaustion as an expression of failure.
it’s a never ending battle
TripleIris@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
It became painfully clear since last year why he bought Twitter. He’s not trying to make a profit. He wanted a place where he and his cronies could freely and widely spread misinformation. He’ll gladly throw more and more money at it because he knows whatever money he loses running Twitter, he’s getting back through brainwashing people to do his bidding for him.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was clear from the start. From the moment he was interested in buying the site.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BBBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements.
For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist and operator, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences.
It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.
BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.
So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.
So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.
I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.
hansolo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is 100% correct in high detail.
What’s amazing is that many other African countries have the same or a similar rule. And Starlink operates on those counties, meaning that he is willing to engage with the rules-as-official-bribes system. It’s that he wants to try and name the SA government look like they’re prioritizing bribes over “improving” things for the average person. He has demonstrated it’s entirely personal.
Meanwhile, Amazon and EuTelSat are going to have a non-politicized alternative to market before he ever gets his head out of his ass, and lap him in that largest market on the continent.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I don’t think saying “because i’m not black” is the same as “i don’t want to pay the bribes that only enrich the political connected”. He seems to be only angry about the colour part, and not cronyism and nepotism. He’s twisting the truth, let’s not help justifying shit for him and make him happy.
Ohh do i mention he’s also the result of cronyism and nepotism? He have no right to criticise others.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I agree with you that he is being a racist asshole about it. He is emphasizing the race part of the legislation over the bribe part of it, because that is more politically useful to him.
It does not make the legislation less problematic. The ANC is begging the world to invest in the country, but not because that is what the country needs, but because it feeds the state mandated corruption.
Both parties are in the wrong here.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In what sense is he correct? It’s not because he’s not black, you’ve just cited the workaround—and it’s not like he’s a guy who takes a principled stand against nepotism.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Of all the people who deserve money, corrupt politicians and lobbyists are the only two groups who deserve it less than people like musk
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Agree, he is not taking a principled stance. He is playing the “I am being oppressed because of my race” card, despite his extensive privilege.
One correction, it’s not the state that officially takes ownership, it’s politically connected private individuals who get the ownership. The public gets zero benefit.
notaviking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Funny enough, I do believe our BEE laws in South Africa should be scrapped. According to our news he offered to pay 26% in royalties, like Google does for example in South Africa, but did not agree to give away equity. The BEE laws are basically a way for politically connected ANC members to get a slice of the pie, does not one bit help the majority of people here.
Look Elon is a shit, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. There also needs to be empowerment laws, I say to poor citizens not based on any race laws, even though the majority of extremely poor people are black, coloured indian, mixed…, but not ones that mostly filter to the politically connected like the current BEE laws favour.
Wigners_friend@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I live in SA. Care to back up the royalties claim?
notaviking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I admit it is not royalties, it’s called something else not sure what, word that came to my mind. But basically an equivalent of paying similar money but without giving away equity or ownership.
yeather@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
There doesn’t seem to be a reliable source one way or another. The South African reported he was denied a liscence because of the black ownership laws while Newsweek says there was never a public liscence application filed. It’s possible the royalities offer was given privately and rejected, this is most likely since Starlink does pay for liscenses based on service in ither African countries.
Denjin@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Regulating your telecoms sector is WOKE!!!
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Only net neutrality and a ban on exclusivity agreements are required. Otherwise you get the US internet hellscape of local monopolies.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
which are both woke.
I’d argue you need a little more, but those things are also woke. the only thing that WOULDN’T be woke would be requiring all the internal wiring be done by children, who yearn for the
minesserver racks
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t this stupid fuck FROM South Africa? The levels of shit here I swear to god.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
yeah but he’s from south africa before his guys lost the war.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He lies constantly to stir up shit with his base and enemies, something for us plebs to “discuss/argue about” while they distract from the grift. It’s part of the game to play the victim.
Our leadership is less than dog shit.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s their core propaganda mechanic. Some bit of offensive trivia is found and shared by Elon. He’ll tweet it. Trump will share it. It’s on the evening show on fox they evening and in newspapers by morning. Repeat this the next day.
Glide@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Of course he is. His entire wealth is rooted in arapatheid. The irony of him claiming to be a victim of racism is so dissonant from reality that I genuinely struggle to find good words to describe it.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lie. The word to describe it is lie.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
He’s also an illegal immigrant who stayed on an expired visa.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
and he’s super high profile, has committed tons of crimes. why hasn’t ICE deported his ass?
I mean, I know why, but it would be a fun thing to ask on, like, CNN or something.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He just drumming up his nazi base who have no idea of the multiple levels of irony.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Black, white, doesn’t matter. He should however be dead.
M137@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. At the very least banned from everything everywhere, except jail and hell.
Franklin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Elon downvoted this twice.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Does this mean they won’t take him back now?
RouxBru@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure we don’t want him back
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We have an Island for people like him. It’s small, windswept, covered in bird and penguin poop. Civilization and freedom is close enough to see and swim for, but it is surrounded by great white sharks.
But we stopped sending people to Robben Island, instead of sending the right types of people there.
Wigners_friend@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t think you understand why he left. Just look up the timeline… apartheid had the writing on the wall. Racist muskrats mysteriously flee to Canada because “the blacks” might atain self governance. It’s like they don’t understand rational eugenics…
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s why he wants to colonize Mars. Everyone here fucking hates him (or should).
Godort@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.
That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Laws for thee, nor for me!
EisFrei@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The exploited - Law for the rich
PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I wonder why nobody (you know what) did it yet.