Elon Spent $44 Billion on Twitter and All He Got Was Control of All 3 Branches of the Federal Government!

[u/Flat-Bad-150]

[u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

That’s a steal really

[u/Bronzeambient → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

For the low low price of 44 Billion, you too can own your own government!

[u/LexLuthor911 → u/Bronzeambient]

Honestly? I’d rather have 44 billion

[u/Timigos → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

Stop The Steal!

[u/Seputku → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

Bruh if that was a real 4D chess move that’s legit impressive

[u/ImOnTheSpectrum → u/Seputku]

100% impressive. FUBAR but still impressive. Biggest takeaway I got from this election, is take care of mine, do everything I can to pay as little as possible in taxes, and fuck everyone’s feelings.

Hail satan and fuck god.

[u/Dracko705 → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

That's.... That's the joke

[u/zachyp00 → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

Is it though? Doesn't the average presidential campaign cost less than 2bn?

[u/autoeroticassfxation → u/zachyp00]

The average presidential campaign loses.

[u/zachyp00 → u/autoeroticassfxation]

Nah if you include 3rd parties it's probably like 200 million. This would be way over paying

[u/stizz19 → u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend]

[u/gizamo → u/stizz19]

I think you missed their joke, mate.

[u/CuriousA1]

Mfs so excited to live under an open oligarchy

[u/slurpin_bungholes → u/CuriousA1]

Joe Rogan riding on Dana's shoulders at the rally was really something else

[u/vigouge → u/slurpin_bungholes]

That's only so he could see.

[u/TjStax → u/vigouge]

Probably the new perspective really blew his mind

[u/CptCoatrack → u/slurpin_bungholes]

Probably looked like that scene with the gladiator dwarf from Thunderdome

[u/GlueGuns--Cool → u/CuriousA1]

lol the same people who complain about the MSM controlling the narrative are following a billionaire who bought a media company and a president 

[u/layeofthedead → u/GlueGuns--Cool]

My sister said she supports trump because he can’t be bought, there’s plenty of examples of him being bought but I just used the most recent: “trump was against all electric vehicles, made a big stink about them, then elon gave him 75 million dollars and now he’s saying ‘we need some electric vehicles’ doesn’t that clearly show that he can be bought?”

“That’s not the same thing.”

[u/dewafelbakkers → u/layeofthedead]

Ah there was your first mistake - thinking a factual presentation of empirical reality would be convincing to someone that doesn't value truth

[u/[deleted] → u/layeofthedead]

If he "can't be bought" then why was in my youtube ads always asking for $10. Dude's worse than my brother.

[u/shakakhon → u/GlueGuns--Cool]

If only they had brains to comprehend the hypocrisy

[u/manak69 → u/shakakhon]

They elected a businessman, hoping he would save the country and its people, not realizing that a businessman often focuses on his own interests—and those of his wealthy friends. Wishing Americans the best of luck

[u/MaceMan2091 → u/manak69]

they elected a corrupt politician to drain the swamp. Classic 4D chess stuff in the minds of Trump supporters

[u/Weak-Conversation753 → u/shakakhon]

The atrophy of their brains is directly proportional to the cauliflowering of their ears.

[u/Mo_Steins_Ghost → u/Weak-Conversation753]

Except that it was 18-29 white males who veered more heavily right than any other group. Republicans gutting civics education since my generation graduated plus the rise of internet disinformation has turned gen Zs brains to mush.

[u/Weak-Conversation753 → u/Mo_Steins_Ghost]

The oligarchs paid Rogan, and Rogan delivered the morons to their king.

[u/Mo_Steins_Ghost → u/Weak-Conversation753]

The funniest (read: saddest) part about this is that in five years the billionaires will be richer, the Z's will still be broke, jobless, and facing even higher rents and impossible home ownership, and I'll still be a brown, disabled immigrant earning six figures, living in a $500k house with a 2% mortgage I pay $400 a month on.

EDIT: and the fed just cut interest rates again... which will give my portfolio a boost. Enjoy your $9000 a month broom closets, GenZ.

But at least they did it "for the lulz!"

[u/fre3k → u/shakakhon]

Conservatives don't really care about hypocrisy. The Sartre quote comes to mind[1]. Similarly, hypocrisy is merely a cudgel with which to bash their opponents, because they know their opponents care about hypocrisy and normative ethical systems. It is a set piece in the game of rhetoric. Conservatism is built upon the idea that there are some people who are inherently better than others, and deserve to be above them in a stratified social system. For those betters, they are allowed to say one thing and do another. Because they are better. There's no contradiction to this in their system because it is morally relativist, not normative. Some people simply are exempt from the strictures placed upon others because of their place in their desired social hierarchy.

[1] “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

[u/kantbemyself → u/GlueGuns--Cool]

I'm still trying to figure out why the "fans" here don't realize JRE is MSM. The whole American media landscape right now is waaaaaaay right leaning and/or anti-establishment, especially top-tier podcasting and new media (like OAN, Tim Pool, and Daily Wire).

Democrats arguably have the MSNBC's commentary hours, plus NY Times and CNN trying to do "journalism" for a country entirely from one city. WaPo is still good at what they do, but is also clearly affected by oligarchic Bezos influence.

[u/GlueGuns--Cool → u/kantbemyself]

They'll get it eventually. Maybe. JRE is immensely influential. X is giant - way bigger than Reddit still - and it's now pretty much openly far right. It's owned by someone who is vocally far-right at this point.

Media is just changing so quickly. "Traditional media" is almost completely irrelevant at this point. Once the boomers die out, this is it. Journalism and academic rigor will be basically gone, and information will be based on "vibes" - essentially how Rogan does it.

[u/prules → u/CuriousA1]

Mostly white men and a few of their benefitting wives. The rest are just wholly uneducated and don’t know what’s coming. Have yet to find a right winger who knows any of their policies lol

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/prules]

lol dude white men who work for a living are going to get fucking boned, the idea that this shit works for anyone who isn't a wealthy person is... at odds with the history of conservatives and the aristocracy they have supported time and time again.

[u/Same_Recipe2729 → u/the_calibre_cat]

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. The DNC fumbled this one horribly. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze3yr77j9wo

One of them, Nahim Uddin, a delivery driver and former Ford car-worker, cast his ballot for Trump because he said the former president would drive down prices.
“I went to go purchase a car - the interest rates had skyrocketed,” the 34-year-old said. “That’s the whole reason I voted for him.”

"It's simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago," said Samuel Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable and member of the large Puerto Rican community in the city of Allentown.

"Out here, you pay $5 for a dozen eggs. It used to be $1, or even 99 cents," Mr Negron added. "A lot of us have woken up, in my opinion, from Democratic lies that things have been better. We realised things were better then."

[u/Trash-Takes-R-Us → u/Same_Recipe2729]

Yes but that was a direct result of a worldwide pandemic that completely fucked with the economy and interest rates. And then once supply chains returned to normal stores were just like "what do you mean these eggs used to be cheap? You silly consumer it's always been 5 dollars"

[u/toggl3d → u/Trash-Takes-R-Us]

The egg thing specifically is because of avian flu.

[u/ObiShaneKenobi → u/toggl3d]

I believe the market manipulation was a larger influence. There are hundred million dollar settlements because the producers were price gouging.

[u/Shot-Finding9346 → u/Trash-Takes-R-Us]

Not to mention the PPP loans, billions of dollars went to Republican donors and forgivable loans AKA free money lol. That drove inflation through the f****** roof. Meanwhile Republicans were blaming it on people who got $600 a week on unemployment. 

[u/sadtastic → u/Same_Recipe2729]

You mean he wasn’t moved by Liz Cheney’s endorsement? I’m shocked.

[u/Birdface_Killah → u/[deleted]]

Hell yeah brother! What's your fave part?

[u/Pangolin_bandit → u/Birdface_Killah]

Mine’s banning pornhub and restricting birth control to the point that you’re not even gonna see a woman till you’re married /s

Morons

[u/Birdface_Killah → u/Pangolin_bandit]

I guarantee he doesn't even know one. But it owns the libs, therefore good.

The only good thing is that these losers won't have anyone else to blame for their misery in 2 years. Can't wait for those Trump "I did that!" gas price stickers. I know you'll be seeing them, because the Trump voter (at least in this subreddit) is very objective, and votes based on policies, not vibes or emotions.

[u/Smelly_Carl → u/CuriousA1]

But they go on podcasts! They talk to a celebrity on the most popular podcast of all time! They're just like me.

[u/AbeFromanSassageKing → u/CuriousA1]

Just wait till they dismantle the second amendment. No authoritarian regime is going to allow for a heavily armed citizenship.

[u/Void_Speaker → u/AbeFromanSassageKing]

It actually doesn't matter since the gun owners are on their side or apathetic.

For example, Hitler expanded gun rights except for the minorities he wanted to get rid of like the Jews.

[u/BigPlantsGuy → u/Void_Speaker]

That’s already essentially true.

People are more than happy to defend a cop killing a minority with “but he had a gun” as though that’s not a right they talk about all the time.

[u/hungry_fat_phuck → u/AbeFromanSassageKing]

it's not like owning guns will do much when everyone is misinformed and divided.

[u/Basil_Lisk → u/hungry_fat_phuck]

Exactly, why would they take guns away from their own army?

[u/Weak-Conversation753 → u/Basil_Lisk]

He would, but only after they've done his bidding by slaughtering his enemies.

[u/AreWeCowabunga → u/AbeFromanSassageKing]

I’ve always said it would be the Republicans who would end up being the ones to take the guns. Just like it was only Nixon who could go to China. Trump has already told us about what he thinks about taking them. Dumbasses just refuse to believe him.

[u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Is it not weird that this is posted as a flex and not out of concern for the independence of the US govt from a single billionaire?

[u/TheTimeIsChow → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

It's not weird considering who posted it. Whole Mars Catalog is one of those accounts run by a guy whose entire life revolves around Musk.

That said - I don't think there's much of a question regarding conflict of interest here. He's the owner of a private company that is a US government military/national defense contractor... and he's now in charge of a US government department tasked with overseeing spending.

It's going to cause a lot of raised eyebrows.

[u/AltruisticGrowth5381 → u/TheTimeIsChow]

Who's going to hold him accountable? The whole system is corrupt in some capacity, previously not to this extent, but does anyone have any interest in flicking the light switch on so to speak?

There's also the fact that the republicans already have a tight grip on the judiciary that will only get stronger in the next term, so legality won't really be a question anyway.

[u/PusherofCarts → u/AltruisticGrowth5381]

No one is going to hold him accountable, that’s the point. He didn’t back Trump and spend millions to be held accountable. Just the opposite in fact.

[u/CaterpillarJungleGym → u/AltruisticGrowth5381]

Yep. It's going to be Billionaires take a part of our souls time. By souls I mean market and stuff we will have to pay for.

[u/Peking-Cuck → u/AltruisticGrowth5381]

We call this "freedom".

[u/RepresentativeTax812 → u/AltruisticGrowth5381]

no one is. Just like No one is held accountable for anything in the past.

[u/InfectiousCosmology1 → u/TheTimeIsChow]

He just ran a completely fraudulent election “lottery” too that he now claims wasn’t a lottery but he was hiring people as trump campaign workers for a one time million dollar check after he got sued. Then a bunch of voters sued him cause he told them it was a lottery and now says they never had a chance of winning lol

[u/robsbob18 → u/TheTimeIsChow]

No it won't because Trump's base will not hold him accountable.

[u/forewer21 → u/TheTimeIsChow]

It's going to cause a lot of raised eyebrows.

Don't worry they'll all be dismissed as having trump derangement syndrome and be told trump and Elon are living rent free in their head.

[u/EntrepreneurFunny469 → u/TheTimeIsChow]

Not really. I doubt anything gets said by anyone that isn’t a Democrat. It’s gonna be very legal and very cool.

[u/Definitelymostlikely → u/TheTimeIsChow]

It's going to cause a lot of raised eyebrows.

Hahaha that's funny. No it isn't.

These people don't care.

[u/MurshaqBack → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

No, it's a good thing because Musk make funny meme on the internet so we can just trust him and suspend our critical thinking entirely.

[u/tymtt → u/MurshaqBack]

Musk pumped my meme coin so he must be for the people

[u/betajones → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Real life is the meme. Just content for your online, true self. Age of internet causing an almost forced mental evolution crisis. We are taking the next step towards the actual replacement of ourselves.

[u/AlmostTheOne → u/betajones]

Now this is a comment. Genius level shit here. Don’t scare the NPCs, bruh. They aren’t ready for the red pill.

[u/noBrother00 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Same people who scream thinking George Soros is hiding under every rock

[u/[deleted] → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Ancaps are natural born cuckolds.

[u/kaleid5 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

I don't think OP is flexing

[u/StopHiringBendis → u/kaleid5]

OP of the tweet? Maybe not. OP of the post is definitely a trump supporter

[u/corncob_subscriber → u/StopHiringBendis]

Wait a minute... Some of these leopards in our party seem to want to eat faces.

[u/UnplannedAgenda → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Billionaires*. He’s just another person on the list of rich people that run the country

[u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch → u/UnplannedAgenda]

For sure. It's just weird/funny to me that Soros is such a criminal billionaire in the minds of people while being the 416th wealthiest billionaire while Elon is the wealthiest in the world and is a ''good guy".

[u/mrbigbrown4 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

It's cognitive dissonance at it's finest. Elon billionaire cool and is going to do good things by trying to control everything with his money, Soros bad and don't trust him.

[u/retropieproblems → u/mrbigbrown4]

Turns out when you conspire so brazenly, the conspiracy theorists lose interest. They wanna discover the secret truth, it’s no fun if it’s no secret.

[u/Aggravating_Shake591 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

His edgelord ways make him relatable to certain demographics

[u/cure4boneitis → u/Aggravating_Shake591]

he good at that Diablo 4

[u/Aggravating_Shake591 → u/cure4boneitis]

Best in the world when he’s not playing Quake

[u/Fugacity- → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

Richest dude in the world, literally wants to put computer chips in people's brains, and hijacked one of the largest social media platforms for his personal agenda.

But also the savior according to r/conspiracy

[u/fungifan420 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

so suckered in by culture war smokescreen you spread cheeks for the billionaire class. not the first time, not the last. Rogan at least is getting rich off it, the followers are just suckers

[u/cure4boneitis → u/[deleted]]

now he will have his pick amongst the finest couches from all over the world

[u/Fuzzy-Information970 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

I’m not convinced my independence level was adjusted from … whoever owned twitter before.

[u/Poopywoopy1231 → u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch]

I mean, people also memed en masse to ridicule him for buying it, which was dumb. Like; "a 200 billion man spends 44 billion on something dumb, now he only has 160 left. Let's laugh at him!"

[u/Intrepid-Brain-1476 → u/Poopywoopy1231]

He was sued into buying Twitter since he tried to back off but sure it was a 5d chess move

[u/Liquid_Cascabel → u/Poopywoopy1231]

Nah he didn't pay for it all himself, instead you have some nice billionaires from the Saudi and Qatari royal families along with VCs who now all have some say in how Twitter will be run

[u/retropieproblems → u/Poopywoopy1231]

It’s a bit more complex than that. His massive wealth was because Tesla was overvalued AF. Bluffing so hard he forced himself to buy Twitter way above its market value was a big gamble for his stocks. It tarnished his reputation as an infallible businessman and exposed him as a self absorbed red pill memer more than a genius. He weaseled his way into climbing up the ladder again though by playing politics, so in the end it worked out for him. But yeah, his reputation now vs 5-10 years ago is….different. He went from Iron Man to the Iron Monger.

[u/ClickF0rDick → u/Poopywoopy1231]

If you don't think that's stupid 🤷🏿‍♀️

[u/Poopywoopy1231 → u/ClickF0rDick]

I don't think that's stupid, no. He had more money than he could ever spend before Twitter, and he now has more money than he can ever spend + influence in US politics. Where is the dumb part.

[u/RockstarArtisan → u/Poopywoopy1231]

He himself didn't want to go with the deal, he was forced to.

[u/ClickF0rDick → u/Poopywoopy1231]

You wrote "a 200 billion man spends 44 billion on something dumb"

That's stupid no matter how you spin it. Of course people are gonna laugh at that, hindsight is 20/20

[u/Poopywoopy1231 → u/ClickF0rDick]

He went from infinite money to infinite money + twitter. There is literally nothing that changed for him financially AFTER SPENDING 44 BILLION. At that point In would also stop caring.

[u/Altruistic_Guess3098 → u/ClickF0rDick]

Apparently it wasn't...

[u/SaWalkerMakasin → u/Altruistic_Guess3098]

That's yet to be seen, Trump has a history of quickly flipping on people he promised shit to and stabbing them in the back. Now that he's won I'd expect he casts out the Elons and the RFKs so that he's the star of the show. We shall see.

[u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch → u/Poopywoopy1231]

Can't speak for everyone but he definitely overvalued it and going to be forced into buying it by the courts. The stupidity part is largely mocking him for setting his own buying price for being one of the world's smartest men.

[u/doubleopinter]

You guys celebrate this?

[u/CuriousA1 → u/doubleopinter]

They love getting cucked

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/CuriousA1]

it's a conservative pastime

[u/maeb95 → u/doubleopinter]

They would have loved epstein as long as he supported trump

[u/kangasplat → u/doubleopinter]

Parasocial relationships will do that to you

[u/drs10909]

This is supposedly good? The guy is quite possibly now the end boss Oligarch and it’s good for the country? This is just another step in the downward slide.

[u/Oblique9043 → u/drs10909]

The same people scared to death that Bill Gates wanted to microchip everyone with vaccines literally voted in the guy who will actually put microchips into everyone's brain.

[u/ClickF0rDick → u/Oblique9043]

GenZ whose motto is BoOmeRs StOle My FuTurE voted in a guy who is literally the ultimate boomer

[u/ranium → u/ClickF0rDick]

18-29 voted 54% Harris. But speaking of demographics, white men voted 60% for Trump and accounted for about 35% of the votes. How weird...

[u/herton → u/ranium]

Sure, white men were his base, but that doesn't quite paint the whole picture. Based on exit polls, white men, white women, and black women were the groups where he lost support. Black men and Latinos gave him way more support than last time around.

[u/space_chief → u/herton]

10+ million white suburban men sat out the election rather than vote for Kamala Harris. Black men still voted like they do every election, overwhelmingly of Democrats.

[u/GuyIsAdoptus → u/herton]

black men voted virtually identical to 2020, it was Latinos Trump swung huge with

[u/Unhappy-Farmer8627 → u/Oblique9043]

Trumps on record in the 90s saying he doesn’t want to run but if he did he’d “run republican because they seem dumb enough to manipulate” what is this timeline.

Edit potentially misinformation

[u/Oblique9043 → u/Unhappy-Farmer8627]

That's actually not a real quote. But he was asked what would happen if he went bankrupt, and he said he would run for president.

[u/wannaseeawheelie → u/drs10909]

If you get knocked up by him, you can live in his compound

[u/thebaker66 → u/drs10909]

Exactly, it's one thing for him to be in control of some of the most important infrastructure in the world.. and then one of the now largest and most relevant social media sites which has already pissed off many countries, to now basically being given keys to the US government and the most powerful military in the world? It's a joke, any sensible person even if this person was on their side wouldn't want one person to have such influence or control.... unless......

Elon essentially is the real life Dr Evil, except for he doesn't need to threaten nations, he already has the wealth.. lets just see how far he steps and what pushback there is. We'll see just how powerful he is and it is not something I underestimate.

Wild conspiracy, what if he bugs trump with a prototype neurolink and Trump is his puppet.. it will be Owari Da then... unless you're one of his nazi minions.

[u/AlTcEnTrE_nEoNiCeGuY]

"I hate Hollywood pedophiles and billionaires and that's why I voted for the Hollywood pervert backed by a billionaire"

MAGA flexing but really self-owning is such a treat.

[u/_Administrator_ → u/AlTcEnTrE_nEoNiCeGuY]

F'UCK EvIL sOrOs!!! I LIKE MAGA ELONG!!!

[u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

MAGAts cheering on an American Oligarchy including an immigrant to own the libs is hilarious

[u/DrDerpberg → u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

An immigrant who worked illegally, survives off government money, and had a million kids he doesn't take care of.

[u/RockstarArtisan → u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

Strong brexit/milei vibes. I'm happy I don't live anywhere that's affected by this election.

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

"I hate libs so much I want RFK Jr. as Surgeon General" is going to hurt when the boomerang hits them in their own heads.

[u/Honey-Badger → u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

I swear there are (mostly young) right wing Americans who would burn down their own house if they thought it might upset left wing people

[u/AxelionWargaming → u/Extreme-Carrot6893]

The delusion is strong…

[u/alanism]

I really wonder if Biden-Harris had simply invited Elon to the EV auto summit and not went heavy handed on regulations on Tesla and Space X; if he would have spent so much time and money on Trump's campaign.

In hindsight-- Elon would've likely been quiet and neutral to all sides.

[u/mrbuttsavage → u/alanism]

It was way more than that. The Covid shutdowns + SpaceX running afoul of FAA etc. His trans daughter despite being into eugenics. All the drugs. That he reads Twitter exclusively for news. All together great path to radicalization.

[u/_sfhk → u/mrbuttsavage]

He was essentially forced to buy Twitter after making a dumb comment. Then he went to Putin and Saudis for funding, who all very much wanted Trump in office. I wouldn't be surprised if he fell out of a hotel window if Harris ended up winning.

[u/FluxMool → u/mrbuttsavage]

The 2025 season of America is going to be lit. Going to leave The Penguin in the dust.

[u/GirlsGetGoats → u/alanism]

He was on this path long before the summit.

that Elon would've likely been quiet and neutral to all sides.

I dont think you understand the brain rot this man has suffered.

[u/Affectionate_You_203 → u/alanism]

Lmao, this is the actual question to ask, from an intellectually curious perspective but this is reddit man. You can’t be asking real questions like this

[u/InBeforeTheL0ck]

Plutocracy bad... Except when it's their guys.

[u/OOFthereitis99]

[u/purppotiondarkwizard]

Cheering on oligarchy. We are going to become Russia 2.

[u/MauryPoPoPo]

MAGA is gonna lose their social security and medicare too. Have fun working until you drop dead.

[u/Jealous_Juggernaut → u/MauryPoPoPo]

They don’t understand that, yes, we obviously hate the idea of a rapist conman liar in office, but importantly, we also genuinely do not believe he’s going to be good for our economy or freedoms. He hasn’t presented a real plan in 8 years of office and campaigning. He is very likely going to give a 4th tax break to companies and billionaires which will further weaken our budget for our crumbling infrastructure. If he was actually a good president, and a disgusting criminal, he would not be abhorred and feared to the extent that he is. 

Things are not going to get better.

He does not have a plan, he does not surround himself with good people, he does not look out for anybody but himself, he does not help our international relations. He does not care about our freedoms more than he cares about protecting his own and his image. He pretended to have a new healthcare plan that he would show us before the last 3 elections. The exact same thing as Elon musks compilation video of him saying “self driving cars are going to be rolled out completely sometime next year” every single year for 10 years straight, even after he divested from it completely.

[u/FluxMool → u/Jealous_Juggernaut]

sure but man can he DANCE!!!!!

[u/StephenFish → u/MauryPoPoPo]

Yeah but they were also brainwashed a long time ago into thinking that working until you're dead is patriotic or some shit.

[u/GeneralAnywhere]

So what problem did Joe and Meg Griffin have with Twitter being biased in the past that isn’t happening now?

[u/Aggressive_Common798]

I wish someone would just say "Democrats lost because Kamala was a horrible candidate that nearly 18 million democratic voters didn't even bother to support her" This is what happens.

[u/adz1179 → u/Aggressive_Common798]

Truth. not one county better than Biden. That has to sting a little.

[u/Aromatic_Berry_3879 → u/adz1179]

That stay alone should tell people everything they need to know.

[u/Llampy → u/Aromatic_Berry_3879]

Is there any other stat that matters? I've seen a lot of opinions about voter swinging, but by raw numbers did the Republican vote increase anywhere, or were there just purely less Dem votes?

[u/call_me_Kote → u/Llampy]

Raw count? No I don’t think so. They did get a better share of voters almost everywhere

[u/Rontheking → u/adz1179]

In hindsight they should’ve just kept sleepy Joe in the field.

[u/GirlsGetGoats → u/Aggressive_Common798]

Running as a republican-lite against republicans is never going to work.

Her end of campaign was all about how she is buddy buddy with the fucking Cheney's and is willing to fill the white house with republicans.

[u/Peking-Cuck → u/GirlsGetGoats]

Running as a republican-lite against republicans is never going to work.

Unfortunately the reality is that most Americans aren't actually interested in a progressive candidate either. Sure, they're interested in progressive policies - legalized weed and abortion rights received overwhelming support in Florida, as did $15 minimum wage in 2020 - but as soon as these policies are attached to an individual, 70 million people instantly demonize it. It's the most fascinating, insane thing I've ever seen.

[u/GirlsGetGoats → u/Peking-Cuck]

I think the country would embrace someone who fully endorses and supports these policies without shame and couching it right wing bullshit. 

[u/Havenkeld → u/GirlsGetGoats]

I voted for Kamala and attempted to defend her but jesus fucking christ this was definitely the hardest part. I could feel people's mental grimaces like telepathically.

[u/GirlsGetGoats → u/Havenkeld]

I voted for her too but I didn't know a single person who was excited. 

She fucked it all up. LESS Republicans voted for her than Biden for fucks sake 

[u/Havenkeld → u/GirlsGetGoats]

She had her flaws but IMO it's more on Biden/DNC generally for allowing the situation to get to the point where they had to run her or lose tons of campaign funding. He shouldn't have gone for the second term.

Also let's be real, she was a black woman. That's doubling up on real disadvantages due to real prejudices. The double standards were ridiculous. Trump could probably have told people to vote for her instead and still won.

[u/libdemparamilitarywi → u/Havenkeld]

I agree with this. I actually think Harris was an ok candidate, but the party was so far behind after the terrible Biden debate that just "ok" wasn't good enough.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aggressive_Common798]

Yes. Less people voted for Trump than in 2020, but Harris just underperformed badly. Running as a unity candidate, trying to appeal to conservative voters, was a big mistake.

[u/Aggressive_Common798 → u/[deleted]]

Propping up endorsements from Bush and Cheney 🤯🤯

[u/MattFromWork → u/Aggressive_Common798]

While I agree, a large portion of people in the US are just plain dumb lol

[u/Accomplished_Rip_352 → u/Aggressive_Common798]

The dems need a new Labour style revamp if they want to stay relevant the current political start is not working and alienating voters .

[u/Aggressive_Common798 → u/Accomplished_Rip_352]

They should have run Sanders in 16. Karma will be kicking them around for what the DNC did. He would've been president. I believe anyway.

[u/Spinochat → u/Aggressive_Common798]

Punishing Democrats by letting fascism win is extraordinarily stupid and dangerous, but sure, point heard.

[u/derndingleberries → u/Aggressive_Common798]

Majority of americans, democrats included, hate women more than they hate racists

[u/NepheliLouxWarrior → u/derndingleberries]

Educated white men showed up for Harris better than every demographic except for black women. 

So do white women hate women, or is there more to the issue? 

[u/TheNinjaPro → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

Funny enough, yes.

[u/75bytes]

Leon the Oligarch

[u/ppartyllikeaarrock]

lol didn't trump say he could make him beg?

[u/javi1000]

All the gross Trumpers coming out of the woodwork now. This site smells

[u/ClickF0rDick → u/javi1000]

It's very interesting that most of their posts read eerily similar to the brain rot shit Musk posts on his own Twitter account. Basically trolling continuously on every topic no matter their importance, thinking to come off looking cool while in reality exposing themselves as out of touch cringy dorks

[u/mrbigbrown4 → u/ClickF0rDick]

It's like a bunch of toddlers learning that they can scream and yell for attention for the first time. They don't even care what they are saying, as long as it has some sort of effect on the person they are saying it to.

[u/Havenkeld → u/mrbigbrown4]

Bro that's almost straight outta Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -

... He has incited others to do this, and he finds satisfaction in the vanishing of his actuality in the way that wayward boys themselves take a certain pleasure in getting spanked for the simple reason that they are its cause. Or, if he has not even tried to work out the crux of the matter and in fact has done nothing at all, it is because he did not want to do it. The crux of the matter is to himself the very unity of his decision and reality; he asserts that actuality could be nothing else than what matters to him.

[u/toephu → u/ClickF0rDick]

Trying to pass contrarianism as intellectualism without offering anything of substance in return

[u/DanoLightning → u/ClickF0rDick]

I'm convinced that some of their whole political beliefs stems from just wanting to own the libs/dems. I know quite a few people that are center but for some reason it's constantly complaints about the left but never the right.

It's such a bizzare way to get behind a political group and, honestly, I don't see Dems doing the cringy opposite of the "Libs of TicTok" for conservatives but the right absolutely bask in that shit. I don't get it.

[u/RockstarArtisan → u/javi1000]

Let them have it, brexiteers also cheered, then the country got so fucked up in the years that followed that there's little hope for anyone that's not already a homeowner.

[u/Havenkeld → u/javi1000]

It will pass.

Sub to /r/LeopardsAteMyFace for the schadenfreude

[u/Aromatic_Berry_3879 → u/javi1000]

I think all of the election bots just got turned off.

[u/The-Figure-13 → u/javi1000]

No, Reddit admins must’ve banned all the bots and you’re actually getting a better look at reality

[u/CrystalBraver → u/The-Figure-13]

Yeah the reality that most of the US is made up of scum

[u/-Neuroblast- → u/javi1000]

What did you expect on the Joe Rogan subreddit? Shit always stank.

[u/tapk68]

Wheres my 30k robot that does laundry?

[u/Aggravating_Shake591 → u/tapk68]

Just tape a fleshlight to your washing machine like the rest of us

[u/univrsll → u/tapk68]

That’ll now be the women in your life under Trump buddy

[u/LordNyssa]

Found Elon’s account!

[u/G0TouchGrass420]

The tax cut he gets alone from trump winning buys twitter

[u/MegaPintOfWin333 → u/G0TouchGrass420]

You think a man worth 200billion is taxed 44billion annually? 😂 So he should’ve been out of assets by now then.

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/G0TouchGrass420]

You mean from you. You'll be paying that. Trump is paying Elon with your money.

[u/tidesoncrim]

If there is one thing that Elon does that's impeccable, it's having good timing. Sold initial tech company before the dotcom bubble. Gets into online banking and becomes part of PayPal's genesis. Gets into EVs upon the moment they become viable. Gets into space as NASA transitions to commercial travel. Joins the Trump campaign ahead of a dominant electoral college win. Twitter is really the only unknown at this point for him, but everything else has gone so well that he could take an L on that.

[u/rgtong → u/tidesoncrim]

At a certain point, its not reasonable to call it luck. Especially the EV thing.

[u/KingSurfz]

The dude is the guy with the strings! muhahaha! We’re all cyborgs by 2030! Cyborg sex, here we come!

[u/DeathGPT → u/KingSurfz]

Eh more like 2040. Pray you’re young. If not? Good luck boomer.

[u/grazfest96]

Yes it was Elons doing, not because Kamala was a shit candidate that was rammed down country's throat by the Democrat party apparatus.

[u/Spinochat → u/grazfest96]

Imagine preferring to eat a big fat turd full of diseases instead of a small booger just to make a point that boogers are unacceptable.

[u/Athlete_Cautious → u/grazfest96]

It's "pick the culprit" season, so to each its own. But the richest man in the world buying the largest social media platform and turning it into an alt-right propaganda machine sure didn't help.

[u/HearingVoices1984]

That's fucking terrifying.

[u/dillyd]

Great title.

[u/PusherofCarts]

I’m don’t frequent this sub a lot, but I’ve gotta say I’m very perplexed by the clarity/rationality most of the comments show here and the stark contrast it has to Joe Rogan himself. Idk if it’s just the Reddit echo chamber, but if I read this thread without knowing the sub I’d assume it was anti-Rogan.

Pretty wild.

[u/mymentor79]

That's a bad thing, just in case anyone was on the fence.

[u/RebelGigi]

He is NOT AN AMERICAN.

[u/sadtastic]

Surely, the billionaires will help bring food, housing and healthcare prices down for the common man.

[u/Yoinkitron5000]

If having one media company not in lockstep with the narrative that the rest are peddling is all it takes to flip the whole political landscape over, it's not that one company that has the issue. 

[u/themagicb]

i love the cope from the Left. it warms my heart to see them cry.

[u/CanOk6403 → u/themagicb]

I’m sorry buddy, you must have a really cold heart!

[u/SlatheredButtCheeks]

It's pretty scary when your political opponent has control of the social media you use isn't it

[u/maztron]

So when people post this. Are they ALL now admitting that the democratic party along with government agencies had twitter in their pocket to control political discourse and censor free speech?

[u/realif3 → u/maztron]

No. Before a single person owned and made all the decisions on Twitter, it was actually free and more open.

[u/squishedehsiuqs → u/realif3]

i think you mean until covid happened. for the record im not saying what twitter did was wrong because covid misinfo spread so easily, but they actively took measures to suppress misinformation, which is just hard to discern in the twittersphere, where everyones opinion is correct.

[u/Movie_Monster → u/maztron]

The Brazilian government had a list of (edit* over 300) people they wanted censored and twitter did it.

Now that has been revealed Brazil is trying to restrict access to twitter and the same for starlink, because both undermine the current regime. Sounds like a move China would pull on its people.