• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I remember when Ford blocked Tesla from using the name “Model E” and elon was visibly upset, like the mental 6 year old he is, that the best he could do was S3XY. I chuckle about that pretty much every time I see a model 3.

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      He is certainly stuck in a teenage mindset. Like trump wanting Greenland because he didn’t get his Nobel peace prize.

      Seems to be a billionaire trait of being a wounded child and never getting over it.

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        In the case of Greenland, I suspect Miller and Thiel want it for their own purposes and Trump is so far gone they’re just telling him something that will stick in his demented brain.

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          This is absolutely correct. Billionaires stroking the ego of a fucking narcissistic racist dipshit president to amass more is definitely going on.

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          Miller probably wants to build a gulag system with non-citizen and, let’s face it, probably a sprinkling of black and brown citizens as well, to do some slave labor resource extraction. Somebody read the One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and took it as a handbook and not a warning.

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        People stop growing once they gain enough power or ability to avoid it. Elon seems to really resonate with the people who don’t have friends and live in their parents’ basement because both have an adulthood defined by not needing to mature as an adult and not having the internal drive to do it anyways. Nobody can make him feel ashamed for acting like an 18 year old because even if we shame him he can look at his wealth and justify why he’s better than us.

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        It is at least why the model Y and the model 3 got their names. I think the model S was named by Tesla’s founders and the X may be just because musk has been obsessed with naming things that since PayPal (if not before).

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    This is almost worse than people with Monster Energy logos on their chest. Almost.

    I cannot fathom why anyone would want to put corporate slop on their body. What a way to show everyone around you that you lack any sort of clue.

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    About ten years ago I was going to get that one One Piece tattoo with a very close friend because we had bonded over the show and wanted to be close for life. It was a simple “X” on the forearm.

    He kept laughing it off when I tried to actually coordinate getting it done, then one day he showed up and had it done alone because “he didn’t think I would do it”. Clearly didn’t want me to follow suit either.

    It’s probably for the best because now it would make people think I simp for twitter and Musk. Also that guy turned out to be a real piece of shit and we no longer speak.

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    branded for life

    This is so weird, they’re not livestock[1], are they?


    1. I’d just like to clarify that branding animals is a disgusting practice that should be banned ↩︎

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      I’d just like to clarify that branding animals is a disgusting practice that should be banned

      There’s cold branding. It’s painless.

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          when done right it is, bolt straight to the brain killing them instantly.

          like come the fuck on, why would you complain about the slaughtering process rather than the abjectly miserable conditions the animals are kept in? They spend their entire lives in agony, and you think the moment they’re finally granted the mercy of death is the problem?

          No, this stinks of either stroking your own ego or outright being astroturfing.

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    Ew.

    Can’t decide if this is better or worse than matching swastikas.

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      Worse. Swastikas were legitimately used by some people. It may be acceptable for a buddhist living under a rock to tattoo a swastika

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        No one’s that ignorant. I think you’d be surprised not about how people outside of Europe and the Americas just don’t care, which is fair enough I suppose, but how often Indians in particular will just straight up praise Hitler.

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    Please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake

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    Those are certainly some permanent life choices. I bet they can forget about those tattoos if they take enough ketamine.

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    Hey ladies, if you’re not doing anything with your uterus, Elon could use another baby mama.