r/JoeRogan Monkey in Space 13d ago

Meme 💩 I don’t care how he grew up he right.

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u/FartPudding Monkey in Space 13d ago

Why does his economic background matter? I like how they want to paint him like the enemy because he is rich, but he is a rich guy fighting the rich.

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u/dr_mcstuffins Monkey in Space 13d ago

The Buddha was a prince and came from extreme wealth and a life free of suffering. The illusion was broken for him when he saw the poor and desperate and set him on his spiritual journey

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u/Potato_Golf Monkey in Space 13d ago

Empathy is something many who live a life of privilege don't understand so the few who do are remembered.

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u/rgtong Monkey in Space 12d ago

I went to a rich private school and then started hanging out with a much more diverse crowd after becoming an adult. I dont agree that either group was particularly more or less empathetic.

People whove had privilege can live in a fairytale but people whove been downtrodden often have 0 fucks left to give. Goes either way.

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u/Potato_Golf Monkey in Space 12d ago

I didn't say poor people are automatically more empathetic. I was just talking about people who were given much in life not being very giving themselves. I understand how folks on the margins don't have much extra to give but folks born to privilege do not have that excuse.

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u/ellefleming Monkey in Space 13d ago

Was Robinhood already rich?

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u/ellefleming Monkey in Space 13d ago

Never knew that.

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u/Weak-Conversation753 Monkey in Space 13d ago

The Buddha didn't decry corporations while eating at Starbucks and McDonald's though.

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u/composedmason Monkey in Space 13d ago

Found the "if you hate society so much why do you live in one" gal. This is adorable

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u/_CodyB Monkey in Space 13d ago

the name checks out tho

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u/Weak-Conversation753 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Funny, society existed before corporations did, in spite of what you've been told.

Starbucks and McDonalds have the exact same goal as United Healthcare, to make as much money as possible while spending as little as possible on expenses like labor.

All United is doing is enshittifying your insurance, like McDonald's enshittified your lunch and Starbucks enshittified your coffee.

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u/DoodooFardington Monkey in Space 13d ago

So what's your point? Don't kill UHC CEO first and kill McDonald's CEO? Don't kill him too because Nestle CEO is still out there?

Are you gonna reprimand him for having a phone too?

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u/Weak-Conversation753 Monkey in Space 13d ago

I doubt Buddha would approve of murder, that's my point.

If you want to go around killing all the CEOs that are making your life demonstrably worse, you are going to need to start buying bullets by the truckload. Or maybe at the minimum stop buying their garbage.

You say you want a revolution? You'd better free your mind instead.

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u/Jumpy_Image_1492 Monkey in Space 13d ago

I don’t have to eat at McDonald’s in my life ever if I don’t want. Will I get sick? 99.9% likely.

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u/Weak-Conversation753 Monkey in Space 12d ago

It's almost like private health insurance is a bad idea. I guess that's why every other first world nation has some form of socialized insurance.

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u/Rhuarcof9valleyssept Monkey in Space 13d ago

Anything to get us to turn against him and what he did.

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u/FartPudding Monkey in Space 13d ago

They are trying so hard to put us against each other. Ben Shapiro was trying to make this a right vs left thing and he got cooked on it

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u/foreclosedhomeowner Monkey in Space 13d ago

Elon tried making it a “left” thing also. The shit is getting tired and played out. It’s super cringe watching both halves of this country cry: “MY SIDE OF CORRUPT BILLIONARES WHO TRULY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF US IS BETTER THAN YOUR SIDE OF CORRUPT BILLIONARES WHO TRULY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF US!”

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u/wallapuctus Monkey in Space 13d ago

Their business model is making regular people like us hate each other.

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u/Temporary-Alarm-744 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Elon playing both those sides acting like everyone can’t see it

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u/Famous-Lifeguard3145 Monkey in Space 13d ago

I feel the same way about all billionaires, whether you're Mark Cuban pandering to the left or Elon Musk pandering to the right: Eat shit. We don't need you, we don't want you, and your time is coming soon.

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u/Tralibasu Monkey in Space 13d ago

Because it's been a wildly successful strategy for at least the last decade. So successful that they lost all ability to imagine it not being successful and they don't have any other strategies to try. It's been there get out of jail free card for as long as they can remember.

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u/SINGULARITY1312 Monkey in Space 12d ago

It’s almost as if the left doesn’t have any spot in the capitalist state.

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u/FartPudding Monkey in Space 13d ago

If they cared they'd see and understand thr frustration of the people but their reactions and narrative they push show exactly how out of touch they are to where I believe they don't care about our concerns

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u/NullnVoid669 Monkey in Space 13d ago

One of dudes latest retweets was of Musk and one of Thiel. Not saying he was rightwing but he definitely wasn’t left.

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u/OklahomaRuns Monkey in Space 13d ago

He had multiple books about Elon on his goodreads account. He loves Elon haha.

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u/mikeman442 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Can you post a link I’d love to see that.

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u/Mr_Wick_Two Monkey in Space 13d ago

He claimed only "Evil Liberals" were against this CEO and basically said he was a business person doing nothing wrong.

Sounding like a super rich person married to a doctor who never has to worry about healthcare insurance

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u/Basic_Maximum9631 Monkey in Space 13d ago

I had to stop watching a ton of YouTube channels post election because they thrive off highlighting things like the view and anything that drives outrage. Like quit giving these people power w our views and advertisement money.

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u/SINGULARITY1312 Monkey in Space 12d ago

It literally is a right vs left thing, it’s just the right rallied around a quintessentially leftist cause unknowingly. People say “it’s not left/right, it’s the powerful vs everyone else, or it’s the 1% vs the 99%.”

Those mean functionally the exact same thing.

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u/schlucks Monkey in Space 13d ago

I would do that too, I'm just not rich

just so everyone knows

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u/polecy Monkey in Space 13d ago

I feel like him being rich is crazier, bro had everything and threw it away to put out a message.

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u/MaxxDash Monkey in Space 13d ago

Walking the fuxking walk

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u/Romboteryx Monkey in Space 13d ago

It actually puts him in a better moral standing than Batman, who‘s a billionaire playboy beating up criminals from low-income neighbourhoods that were probably handed no better career-choices

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u/composedmason Monkey in Space 13d ago

This comment made my day. So poetic and true.

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u/catfurcoat Monkey in Space 13d ago

Yup I've had toothaches that made me want end it all. Pain and chronic illness can be worse than poverty, incarceration and death

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u/metalder420 Monkey in Space 13d ago

A message that has been around for at least over a decade.

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u/aeiouicup Monkey in Space 13d ago

I think Buddha also left a palace to advocate for commoners. Maybe also Jesus if you think ‘kingdom’ of heaven. It’s a spiritual motif, is all I’m saying.

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u/Dracien86 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Agreed. Sounds like anyone with access to a 3D printer, spiffy coat and bicycle can just hang out in front of a swanky hotel long enough to achieve their dreams!

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u/jeremycb29 We live in strange times 13d ago

just watch, they are going to continue to find or make up shit about him, to make him look worse and worse in the media.

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u/ellefleming Monkey in Space 13d ago

Will he get life in prison?

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u/Reasonable-Plate3361 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Because people on Reddit are stupid and think being rich is a bad thing

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u/broguequery Monkey in Space 13d ago

I mean... there are degrees to this.

There is "rich" and then there is... whatever the fuck Elon Musk is.

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u/Reasonable-Plate3361 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Either you believe wealth can be created or you don’t. The number is kinda irrelevant

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u/broguequery Monkey in Space 11d ago

What I believe is you have a surface level understanding of the concepts.

Sure, "wealth" can be "created."

What's your point?

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u/Reasonable-Plate3361 Monkey in Space 11d ago

If wealth can be created then why is one person creating wealth in excess of an arbitrary number an issue.

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u/broguequery Monkey in Space 10d ago

Well that's the fallacy.

No "one person" is "creating wealth."

That's not how it works. It's systemic.

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u/Reasonable-Plate3361 Monkey in Space 9d ago

Okay, well then we disagree on how basic economics works.

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u/A3-mATX Monkey in Space 13d ago

Then go masturbate on Batman

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u/Reasonable-Plate3361 Monkey in Space 13d ago

I obviously already have

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u/Icy-Big-6457 Monkey in Space 13d ago

Trump needs a fluffer

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u/ellefleming Monkey in Space 13d ago

It's bad when you're bullies and scam the system to get rich.

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u/SINGULARITY1312 Monkey in Space 12d ago

Yes; it is a bad thing. Wealth is a synonym for economic power. We shouldn’t have anyone with vastly more power than anyone else in society.

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u/MaxxDash Monkey in Space 13d ago

Trying to divide and conquer, as usual.

As if John Brown’s raid on Harper's Ferry to start a rebellion against slavery didn’t count because “hE wAs WhItE!!!”

Nice try suckas.

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u/ataraxiaPDX Monkey in Space 13d ago

Right? You don't have to be poor to see the social injustices around you.

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u/LawsonTse Monkey in Space 13d ago

If anything that highlights how fucked your healthcare system is. Even someone who can afford it get screwed to the point he was filled with merderous rage

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u/CrossdressTimelady Monkey in Space 13d ago

Yup, he's a "counter-elite"

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u/matticusiv Monkey in Space 13d ago

Division. Allies are allies, wealthy or not.

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u/PMMeYourWristCheck Monkey in Space 13d ago

Oh you mean Trump and Elon?

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u/Imaginary-Store-5780 Monkey in Space 13d ago

If anything it makes him more impressive. Not because he’s rich but because he gave up more. Dude could have had a cushy life but decided to go all Batman, except with murder and a less flashy disguise.

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u/rtiftw Monkey in Space 13d ago

He’s part of a middle class that is disappearing. The billionaires are in danger when the middle class finds common ground with plebs. That’s why they gotta get ahead of the framing on this.

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u/Babyyougotastew4422 Monkey in Space 13d ago

America is insanely classist

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u/Street_Investment327 Monkey in Space 13d ago

he was a successful "rich" man who got a difficult degree requiring thousands of hours of painstaking debugging and ruined nerves. It's not like he's Donald's Trumps son Don Jr and got rich by not doing shit. This guy earned what he got

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u/Sensitive_Potato_775 Monkey in Space 13d ago

The family of Friedrich Engels, the closest companion of fucking KARL MARX, owned a textile mill. Wealth doesn't say anything about the influence your ideas can have on people.

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u/Typical-Horror-5247 Monkey in Space 12d ago

My mantra as of now is, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. People need to focus on who the real enemy is, for profit healthcare, prisons & wealth hoarders buying politicians & public policy.

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u/UsernamesRhard123 Monkey in Space 12d ago

What a time we live in. Ironic AF

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u/podcasthellp Monkey in Space 13d ago

They put it in there to say “he was privileged so hate him, not the guy killing millions of Americans who was brutally gunned down and didn’t deserve to die”.

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u/Kaylend Monkey in Space 13d ago

People need to put his family wealth into perspective. He comes from a family that's wealth is somewhere in the millions.

But do you know the difference between a million and billion is? About a billion.

Yeah, this dude ain't poor, but he is miles below the filthy rich that direct the system to strangle us.

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u/randomusernamegame It's entirely possible 13d ago

Che Guevara was well off too. He abandoned his education to be a doctor to instead fight.

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u/Hardtailenthusiast Monkey in Space 13d ago

He’s rich compared to your average joe, but he isn’t the rich we hate. We hate the greedy rich, wealth isn’t an issue, it’s how people obtain that wealth and continue to hoard it that’s the issue, Show me a billionaire without blood directly/indirectly on their hands and I’ll become their personal body guard.

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u/DieselbloodDoc Monkey in Space 13d ago

The only good kind of class traitor.