• Formfiller@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    He’s only for the taxpayers funding all of his grifts while using our money to bribe politicians to subjugate us as a thank you

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Confusing utilitarianism with socialism. God damn this guy has to be the stupidest “smart” person I have ever seen.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    8·
    20 hours ago

    World’s richest capitalist, turning the most popular “town square” for the exchange of ideas, collaboration and unfiltered world news into a nazi haven and hate machine, crushing unions, buying his way into controlling politicians and government resources, siphoning public funds into his pocket, privatizing that which used to be publically held and regulated into black boxes of cutting quality with cost and exploiting human labor and dignity, and contributing nothing of value to society from his own mind or body except the occasional laugh like: “I’m actually a socialist.”

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Read his tweet again and you can see that he thinks socialism means that you push money towards the “most productive”. Then you just gotta think about what he means by that and suddenly it makes perfect sense that he’s happy using public money to enrich himself because he, while in reality less than useless, believes himself to be a valuable super genius.

    • brisk@aussie.zone
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I remember this one, and it’s pretty old, pre twitter takeover. I think it was around the time he called an emergency responder a pedo for bruising Musk’s ego, maybe just before

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Or that people who have the most wealth are more “productive”. I’m not sure inheriting millions of dollars makes you more productive than someone working two jobs.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      You could make the argument for a difference in value from a purely amoral standpoint, but even that argument for nonassistance to the needing falls apart under the reality that providing a basic standard of living to those who need it comes at such a small proportional cost to the ‘productive’ population that refusing it borders on absurdity, considering the social and economic costs of refusing to do so.

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        providing a basic standard of living to those who need it comes at such a small proportional cost to the ‘productive’ population

        Not to mention that in the vast majority, providing that support allows these people to find work in the first place, or to get a better job. This in turn results in more income and sales tax revenue, meaning that the initial investment is repaid.

        This has been proven out over several different social assistance schemes, not just blanket UBI - though UBI is still the best option.

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
        7·
        24 hours ago

        I’ve said for a long time, you can either fund education and social services or you can fund police and prisons, but one way or another the disadvantaged will cost something to be dealt with.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        2 days ago

        Another great example of this in the specific context of Elmo is his antagonistic stance towards all public transportation. Building out more is an economic value add but it’s a threat to his business model so he’ll always actively attempt to hinder it.

        He’s the one guy everyone knew growing up whose dad “works for Nintendo” that somehow actually became successful; all of it built on a mountain of bullshit.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          He’s the one guy everyone knew growing up whose dad “works for Nintendo”

          Everyone did not grow up knowing someone who lied about (or claimed to) “work for Nintendo”.

    • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      So, he’s talking genetics and societal roulette! Survival of the fittest* whites.

      *fittest != healthwise
      (prolly equates instead to $$)

  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    2 days ago

    He is exactly that type of socialist.

    The type that transfers from the most productive to the most exploitative.

    National socialism.

    • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 days ago

      It’s of great importance that we have an AI that will tell people lied about “white genocide” and we should obviously shift all resources to that from useless stuff like “affordable healthcare”.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
    23·
    2 days ago

    Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.

    • Hitler

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

    https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2529-1923-interview-with-adolf-hitler

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Socialism understands that people are more important than productivity — something that no billionaire will ever understand.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.

    Socialism is an ancient Aryan, American institution. Our American ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.

    We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.

    — Elon Musk