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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wrong answer

The correct answer is: "Don't fucking touch social security asshole!"

The entire time they've weighed people down with fact checking they've already moved on to the 10th lie in order to persuade hapless saps to go along with whatever horrific scheme they've concocted to take more from the poor and give the richest even more money

Stop playing their game

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I looked up the link to Big Balls from AC/DC on Youtube, I could not believe how many idiots in the comments I saw cheering fElon's dogebags on.

These people are either very, very, very wealthy or still just have no idea how fucked they are going to be.

You have to be a very special kind of idiot to cheer on leopards eating your own face, but here we are...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I often wonder how many of them are real, I can see basic laymen getting caught up in the flood of pro-Elon bots

Basic NPC types only have one philosophy: go with the flow