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    10 days ago

    Oligarch is using the state for personal vanity project…

    We pay for this and the normie is fine with it because oligarchs property is note valuable than his own 🤡

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    10 days ago

    That seems like a huge inefficiency, DOGE should eliminate it.

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        10 days ago

        I’ve seen this meme format for years now, but never understood it. Why are they just floating in space? Why is one killing the other?

        I get this individual meme…I just don’t get the format.

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          10 days ago

          When you finally see the big picture, you have to die because you know too much.

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          10 days ago

          The original is something like “it’s all Ohio” “always has been”. The globe shown is just a large landmass that looks like Ohio. They’re probably astronauts since you’d have to be in space to see it. The astronaut killing the other has the Ohio flag on them and is killing them for knowing too much.

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            9 days ago

            Wow, I have so much more context now. And honestly, it’s actually a lot funnier than I thought it was, thanks.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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    10 days ago

    Terrorism is scaring/harming people to manipulate government.

    Tesla is neither government nor their property damage is scaring people.

    More trumped-up charges.

    (It is hilariously fitting Trump the man and Trump the word fit so gand-in-hand)

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      10 days ago

      So are we suddenly pretending Musk isn’t a de facto government leader who might be manipulated by this? (Terrible wording, but y’all get my gist. I’m going hiking now.)

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      10 days ago

      If you want to abstract it enough, hurting Tesla hurts musk, who unfortunately is the government.

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      9 days ago

      this is meant to be read without the emotional loading to the words that we’ve been conditioned with: ie X is implicitly bad… these are just words, whose meaning has more depth than what they actually define

      terrorism is

      the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

      violence is

      an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm

      arson is violence

      and this particular act of violence is intended to achieve political or ideological aims (musk is a political figure albeit not an official government employee, and this is in response to his public political acts)

      now, i’d argue it’s not “against non-combatants”, but perhaps it is? is destruction of a persons property constitute violence against them? it’s at least psychological - trying to scare/influence for sure

      let’s not kid ourselves though: it is what it is… it’s just ridiculous that this is what they pursue while pardoning jan 6 offenders… the issue isn’t that they’re labelling this domestic terrorism. the issue is that it’s singled out because fElon asked daddy dictator

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    10 days ago

    In an alternate universe where the world is logical, insurrections are terrorism and firebombing teslas is patriotism.

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    10 days ago

    Aww, the dot world news mod team is gonna be so happy to know that the FBI is protecting their precious teslas.

    Which mostly speaks to why this is “a good idea”. People vandalizing swasticars was effective. It was a comparatively low effort action that people could do on their way to work or while out drinking with the gang. And it did an amazing job of putting the fear of labor in all the tech workers who “will just ride out the next 4 years”. They couldn’t just say “I am one of the good ones” anymore.

    So… get rid of that and we go back to “This is horrible and I really do care about whatever issue we think matters this week. But if you worked just a bit harder you would be able to afford groceries so…” that we see EVERYWHERE (even on this site).

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    It’ll be great when they see a Tesla that exploded because of how shitty it is and try and spin it into physics being woke

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    10 days ago

    This really does illustrate the idea that police aren’t there to “serve and protect.” They are there to keep the common people in line so that the rich can stay safe.

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      10 days ago

      Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

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        they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

        This isn’t unique to the US. It is called law enforcement so even if it wasn’t a completely broken and horseshit system crime prevention would not be part of their purview.

        You prevent/reduce crime by addressing the underlying societal issues that are contributing to it.

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    10 days ago

    Republicans doing things to stop people from destroying cars but not children in schools. “Family values” party.

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    10 days ago

    Hey Tesla don’t know if it would work but if I see one alone at a dealership totally going to toss a gas rag in and burn baby burn like Gone In 60 seconds. Ok now that I am a terrorist can I get three hots and a cot for about 4 years, then sue the ever living shit out of the US government? Then buy Reddit or whatever and shut it down and use the rest to promote lemmy.world

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      Ok now that I am a terrorist can I get three hots and a cot for about 4 years, then sue the ever living shit out of the US government?

      Best they can do is an illegal deportation to concentration camp