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[A thin boy in ragged clothing holds out a bowl to an overweight Elon Musk] Musk: Society needs billionaires, we keep you from starving. Boy: Please, I’m starving. Can you help me? Musk: Fuck you.
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why the downvotes? didn’t something very close to this actually happen?
I got into an argument a couple of days ago with someone with the exact same take (verbatim “billionaires are needed to stimulate the economy”), except they were arguing in favour of Chinese “socialism in a capitalist economy” (!). Funny how allegedly opposing viewpoint push the same opinions.
I like how he’s shaped like a CyberTruck 🤣
*cybercuck lol
Oh god my retinas! Quick hand me some bleach!
hope this lil guy will do
It really did.
body by Rob Liefeld
Not enough pouches.
Big Attack on Titan energy. Just add the crazy eyes and smile and you’ve got a titan alright.
Throw a NSFW tag on that bad boy!
“Not safe for woman”
He’s so weeeeeeeeeeeeirddddddddd
I can’t decide if the other kids in school beat him up too much or not enough.
Not enough.
Okay, but like real talk- why does he look like that…? Does he like, have a medical condition? Hes not really person shaped…
Probably just sucking in his gut cause he thinks it makes him look less fat.
Ketamine
He’s doing his best to hold in his giant belly, like an olde timey body builder. My fat brother does the same thing.
Human Growth Hormone is rumoured to extend longevity, and also causes oversized organs.
I hear Ozempic backfired on him. He might have a vest under maybe.
- This was before Ozempic.
- Ozempic doesn’t ‘backfire’ simply by making you fat again. It ‘backfires’ by doing what it does too much and makes your guts move too slowly to be healthy, or other similar side-effects.
Dunno, but hopefully it’s painful and fatal
It looks like a barrel chest, which can be a symptom of lung conditions like COPD, or just being old. Other rumours suggested it can happen because of steroid usage without appropriate accompanying exercise. Elon does seem like the kind of person who would use steroids without exercising.
Steroids don’t cause that. But growth hormone, which is often taken alongside steroids, can.
Human growth hormone
I think it’s like how The One Ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. This level of wealth, or the trappings that come with it, have mutated and perverted Elon into something that only echoes some scant memory of his former self.
See also: Bezos, Zuck, Trump, McConnel, etc etc etc
I thought McConnel was just surviving on unicorn blood thou
Subtle, even by her standards.
She really does just win arguments in her head and write them down.
He literally said he could solve world hunger, and then didn’t.
Live free or die!
Friendly reminder that over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.
You have to be truly mentally ill, or something less than human, to be this kind of evil.
Both. They’re definitely both.
over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.
They’re dying because we’ve ramped up arms exports to surrounding territories in the midst of a climate crisis.
The idea that countries like Sudan and Libya and Haiti need USAID is predicated on us ignoring why they’re impoverished and war torn to begin with
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
“Financial obesity” is a fucking weird phrase. You sound like an r/fatpeoplehate user who just discovered leftism.
TBF they also said billionaires should be euthanised through taxation, which is a wild sentence as well.
Wrong forum, dipshit
the tesla cybertruck chest
That was going to be my first comment too!
Cybertitties
awaiting PCC haters to find something to hate on this about.
Of curriosity is there much to hate on her, or is it just the normal right wing “comic is woke” and she charges for nudes?
most of what people already said is true, but there’s a strong incel factor as well.
It got so bad around here I made a bingo card that I’m too lazy to hunt down again.
Generally I’ve heard* she shuts down a lot of dissent and criticisms of her work (even legitimate “I don’t like this” type passive comments) on r/comics because so much of the sub is her content and she gets disproportionate vote because of it (and like 3 other people like HowlingElk).
A fairly legitimate complaint I’ve seen is the aforementioned meta fact that half the sub is her content and not much more so they have to constantly see her stuff even if they otherwise don’t mind the messaging.
There are a lot of popular webcomics on Reddit, and the only one that gets nearly as much hate is Ctrl Alt Del. And I dunno, I don’t think Pizza Cake is very much like CAD. I think it’s closer to Penny Arcade, which doesn’t get any hate as far as I’ve seen.
Vote botting, mass censorship, and a lot of misandrist posts of which I will provide no evidence of when sealions ask me about it but is pretty easy to go and search for. She has a kiwifarms page which I guess is a place where people come together to shame and harass people, not something I endorse, but if you’re truly interested then just go and read it to see her haters tell you exactly why they hate her.
Nope, nothing whatsoever real to hate about her. Everyone who hates her is just right of Hitler, only reason possible.
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
This should be repeated as often as possible.
I always wondered when capitalism deems everything is good enough. Like does it have a goal state? Because I’ve played games that don’t have one and those always end with having to put more coins in the machine.
The goal state is the same state of mind as that of the deranged cat lady who needlessly wants to own as many cats as possible and keep them all in her house.
It’s a mental illness where the person collecting money and wealth only understands collecting more and more endless amounts of wealth and power … more than they can ever realistically ever enjoy in one lifetime.
Think about it … it’s like wanting to horde bananas … the person keeps hording endless amounts of bananas until their banana pile is the size of Mount Everest and reaches into the clouds … but the person keeps wanting to add to the pile and not allow any else to touch their pile or take anything from it.
At the very least it belongs within the scope of gambling addiction. I lost a friend to gambling. Gambling is one of the worst fucking addictions, because they will gamble until there is nothing left and then they die, and they take everyone around them down with them, they destroy everything for everyone. Another part of it is that if money is success is morality, you even get respected for being a good gambler.
But I’d go even further and claim that it is a structural consequence of the rules of the system. It happens by necessity, because that is what the logical conclusion of running the game will inevitably produce.
It is unsustainable, demands more of less, the more everything is improved and the more wealth is being produced, the more we see diminishing returns, because it demands ever more energy of ever diminishing resources, and thus produce ever diminishing returns, until there is nothing left.
Thanks for listening to my podcast The End Is Nigh, good night.
Reminds me of that Simpsons skit, where Bart and Lisa got a massive pile of candy, and they’re so sick of candy because they ate so much, and Marge goes,
“kids! That pile is starting to smell. Are you gonna eat it?”
“nooooooh”.
“Then we’ll give it away to the neighborhood kids!”
“Nooooooh.”
I’m probably massacring that skit but you know the one. 😁
To be fair, he is visibly not starving.
Ok, idk why, this one checks out. Simple is good occasionaly.
I remember a bunch of movies where torches and pitchforks helped.
That wasn’t aimed at the billionaire. It was aimed at the billionaire’s monster, a misunderstood child-like creature abused into madness.
That’s a great drawing of Elon “Joker face” “HGH abdomen” Musk
A business is made, and is successful. WELL DONE.
Instead of a billion dollars going to the owner and, let’s say, 100K in salary to each worker… what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?
Is that communism?
To play devil’s advocate they would reply that without the owner there would be 0 salary for each worker.
And you have to be careful. CEO and owner most of the time isn’t the same person.
Of course, this argument is a pretty piss poor one when the example held up is Musk…
His first jolt was selling a website to a relatively clueless Compaq that did nothing with it except throw money at Elon. No idea if Elon’s site was any good or not, but it didn’t matter because the reality is that it folded without an enduring impact as part of the dot-com collapse. He used his winnings to try to make X.com the first time, and was a comparative failure next to Paypal, which, somehow, agreed to merge and put him in charge and he almost tanked it. Then ebay bought it out and Musk got maddening amount of money for doing nothing but screw it up.
Tesla is probably the first example of him not actively screwing it up, though his drama around “I wanna call myself a founder” was dumb. That said, any investor could have done it, so his ‘value’ was his lottery-like wins leading to that point.
There are others that are arguable, though recently had it happen where someone kept giving out names of impressive and seemingly valuable ‘billionaires’, and we kept checking and every last one were ‘only’ millionaires. So it seems like ‘billionaire’ remains a stupidly over the top concept that isn’t particularly redeemable, with the defensibly decent folks staying under a billion through not being super greedy and/or philanthropy.
“If you weren’t my slave then you’d have nothing to eat at all.”
what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?
The Raytheon Strategy.
Works great if you’re trying to bribe Nazi ex-pats into compliance while fighting a war of arms escalation.
Is that communism?
True Communism can only be achieved if we wipe all the current communists off the map, take their stuff, and impose “democracy” through an occupying military.
no, but its still bullshit
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