I posted this earlier today in the tech lemmy instance, but, they have no sense of humor and deleted it. I’m trying here.
Musk has burnt through $44 Billion. I’m sure even the government could have spent it better than he has
You overestimate governments. But a blind dog could’ve spent it much better.
… he said in a post on a worldwide network whose creation the US government originally funded.
Not for the purpose of giving it to the people.
They only said the government were capable of doing it, not that they would be motivated by pure benevolence
To be fair, of the 44B, they’d use 30b to blow up children’s hospitals, give 13b to some rich fucks, 800m would disappear and the rest would fund something nice
Have you ever looked at US federal spending? 27% goes to healthcare, 21% goes to social security, 13% to income security, 13% to defense, then the rest is split between education, veterans benefits, transportation, and regional development/other.
I know people like to meme the government spending, but the majority goes to healthcare, elder care, and veterans.
I can’t wait until Snowden resurfaces and shows us how much of that 27% healthcare actually goes to healthcare and how much is skimmed to line people’s pockets.
Yeah that also sounds likely
It was in reference to the government being capable of spending money better than Musk. The US government is 32 trillion dollars in debt.
Plenty of government employees wanted that very thing.
Including that Al Gore guy.
Via the same agency that created Agent Orange.
Fritz Haber invented synthetic fertilizers he also developed chemical weapons during ww1. Whats your fucking point? Lots of good things were created by terrible people and lots of terrible things were created by good people.
Hello, you called?
Who is this blind dog, and how can we make him president?! 🐕🦺
They would have spent it on bombs and missiles, not on useful stuff.
Hey they would have bought a kid or two a book. Maybe.
But bombs and missiles “Made in USA”, that’s how the trickle down works, right? 💦🚽
On a wrench.
They spelled ‘eat’ wrong.
AXE THE RICH
Yes! Bombard them with body spray!!
Dear god its a highschool boys locker room!
My noses! They die!
Bro how many noses do you have
None anymore
Damn big L
Ze goggles, zey do nothink!
Delete the rich
Extinguish the rich
Yeah but then you couldn’t get that timely ‘X’ in there.
Let me introduce you to him: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/1700891 🤣
We hungry!
Execute?
The techie guys are also the ones with verified Twitter accounts and Elon Musk balls on their mouths in my experience so i can’t say i’m surprised if they deleted your post :/
A lot of us sadly are, but there are also ones like me with a strong affinity for open source and such. And we collectively join in the Elon hate.
Looks fake. Probably why. Lighting is all fucked. Ground not consistent with massive sign lit up. 🚩
we can’t effort the rich anymore.
But, doesn’t light always go only up?
Yeah, otherwise it would be called “heavy”.
Yeah, it’s hot. Heat rises. Therefore, vis a vis, indubitably, light goes up.
Smog. You get used to it after a while.
I can tell by the pixels
They spelled EAT wrong.
Nope, T A X is an acceptable alternative spelling for E A T.
Nah, for them, taxes would just be another small hurdle to squash
Make it a tiered hurdle: top tier, above $1M, 98% income taxes.
The joke is that Twitter put a giant X Sign on the roof of their building so the edit needs to include an X
¿Por que no los dos?
Taxing the rich, and then eating them. What could possibly go wrong?
Honestly, just taxing the rich is one of the most milquetoast and obvious takes ever. Should not even be radical imo since it just makes sense
And yet here we are.
BuT iT dOeSnT wOrK lIkE tHaT
A resident should display a glowing Mastodon logo through their window
The band, or the social network?
Why not both?
The social network is actually named after the band so… technical it’s always both. 🐘
🤯 TIL
Why not just project it onto the side of the building?
I agree with the idea, but where is the humor in this?
That’s X sign on Twitter building in the end of tax
Ah that explains everything. Thank you.
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Taxes are capitalist
Yes! Tax the capitalists! I’m glad you agree.
Oh yes, an ideology defined by private ownership and small government intervention is also somehow responsible for the basis of government intervention - taxes.
They don’t actually believe in small government intervention at all - they want the goverment to enforce private property rights and then just tax a little back, below the profits from owning that property.
The big lie is that private property is natural, and thus its enforcement is small.
(Edit: clarity)
A government which only enforces private property rights is still significantly smaller than most alternatives.
Enforcement of private property rights is a part of virtually all governments, and then you pile all other stuff on top of that hence making the government bigger.
And ofc the taxes will be below the profits, no sane person would make any investments in anything if it was above the profits.
Edit: and to add, many hardcore capitalists, like minarchists, libertarians, or anarcho capitalists, propose that you don’t even need a government to enforce private property rights. They’d rather solve that issue privately.
But I’m comparing against socialism, not against most capitalist countries. We don’t need to encourage investment where the factors of production are owned by the workers themselves.
The ancaps illustrate my point - it’s absolute monarchy that they falsely claim is anarchy.
I don’t think I follow your reasoning tbh. What exactly are you comparing? You said that capitalists favour intervening governments, which is simply not true. Not in any general sense anyway.
Anarcho capitalism is probably as far into anarchy you can go. They want to completely abolish the state and enforce property rights privately.
Or are you saying that such a society will fall into some kind of feudalism? At the core of anarcho capitalism is the NAP which is not really compatible with feudalism. In feudalism you have a hierarchy not based on voluntarism, and that would therefore not be anarcho capitalist.
Do you imply that we need a strong state with a monopoly on violence to keep us in check, otherwise we would descend into chaos? Thats a pretty bleak and pessimistic view of mankind.
It would definitely fit that instance too, it’s also some quality shitpost and could fit in political communities as well so kind of a universal one if you ask me!
Why did they delete it? Is it even a real picture?
You’re looking at it. It’s as real as this text you’re reading!
All I see is blonde, brunette, red head…
Truly, an unexpected Matrix reference.
I guess some users of tech lemmy might have felt concerned by this.
“Make the rich pay” is smarter.
There’s no “x” in your sentence.
The sign was a huge, dumb “x”, using that X, the new, ah, forget it.
I don’t care. Tax the rich is stupid.
Teach me more things! so I’s can be a smart likes you
Well, look who can’t adapt to new info, or just info at this point…
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I’m thinking from the neck up?
