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[–] LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

"I don't care [if people loathe me]" who do you think you're foolin' lol

[–] updn@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

Holy shit he has no idea what real life even is

[–] Doug@piefed.social 4 points 4 hours ago

“Credit where it’s due,” shut the fuck up you fucking fascist piece of shit. Goddamn I hate this man. This man can kick rocks and push daisies.

[–] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 46 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

this bitchass can just lie, or say anything he wants, nothing happens. no repercussions, nothing. why does he even struggle?

just say whatever is expedient for you. we hate you. and wosh you a slow death by cancer regardless of what u say

eugenic loving nazi queen

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

We're only about halfway through Act 2. We're still in the middle of the story, and there is a lot yet to be written.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 79 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

How is that mediocre nazi cunt still getting media coverage when he should be treated like he's never existed?Men like that don't coil when they're hated. They melt when they're ignored.

[–] lemmelemmy@feddit.org 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

New America is your answer.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Thats just celebrity culture. Thats global. We all pay too much attention to ppl who ultimately dont matter/dont deserve it

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Thats just celebrity culture.

What kind of weak shit is this. We're talking about Nazis and eugenics and you come up with 'boys will be boys it's our fault for not looking away'

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Caring what one the richest people in the world wants/says is only partially celebrity culture.

He is directly responsible for significant portions of our country's space program and has personally altered our government's structure and spending, resulting in at least thousands of deaths, so far.

Pretending his thinking is as inconsequential and ignorable as any other moronic Nazi on Twitter is about as dumb as worshipping him.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

600-750,000 Deaths alone are due to his dismantling of USAid.

“has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,”

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 hours ago

Hundreds of thousands through the destruction of usaid alone

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 91 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

Musk insisted backyard tomatoes weren’t as good as those you can buy from the store, but people still do it anyway.

Spoken like a man who has never grown tomatoes at home.

I hated tomatoes until I ate a home grown Black Krim sandwich. Now there's the added benefit that I know it's not covered in salmonella or diarrhea parasites.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 6 hours ago

Can bet he doesn't even knows how the inside of a store looks like, neither how a stores tomato tates like. His personal chef must source them from an specialty farm or even grow them itself without Musk even knowing about.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 hours ago

I could never get my sandwiches to flower

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 29 points 13 hours ago

Because everything he says, no matter how trivial, is wrong. The man is incapable of being correct about anything.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 39 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My neice apparently "hated" tomatos until she tried a cherry from my greenhouse. She ate six of them and every time she came over patted the outside of the greenhouse singing "mato mato mato please"

Most store sold tomatoes aren't allowed to ripen on their own and their flavours are totally messed up as a result

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Most store sold tomatoes aren’t allowed to ripen on their own and their flavours are totally messed up as a result

This is what many people need to learn and it spies to many varieties of fruit. Most fruits can't ripen after being picked. They just soften and rot.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, home grown actually have flavour. The shit you buy in supermarkets mostly just tastes of water because it's been harvested too early and shipped halfway round the world. I got some really yummy orange cherry plants going at the mo, can't remember the variety but I've finally learned to get blight resistant varieties.

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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 27 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Just to bring some facts in here:

Musk, in a post on X on Sunday, claimed those who say DOGE’s USAID cuts resulted in deaths “cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the ‘millions’ they falsely claim have died. Not a single name!” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who last year identified specific people he says died after USAID-backed services were disrupted, quickly responded with the names of four he said died because of the cuts, including an 8-year-old girl, and suggested the world’s richest person travel to Africa with him to “talk to these moms and dads, and you’ll see the dying children themselves.” In another post late on Monday, responding to a separate response from Kristof, Musk called Kristof “an utter piece of s— and a liar.”

A study published in March 2025 found the loss of aid funding for children facing malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries would cut off 1 million children from treatment, potentially resulting in 163,000 child deaths each year. Another study published in the Lancet in July 2025 found the funding cuts could cause the deaths of more than 4.5 million children and more than 14 million total deaths by 2030. Kristof, citing data from the Center for Global Development, found that more than 1.6 million people could die within a year without American foreign aid for HIV prevention and treatment. A tracker co-created by Boston University professor Brooke Nichols projected more than 780,000 deaths caused by the cuts, roughly 518,000 of which are children, after cuts to treatment for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and pneumonia, among others.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/07/01/musk-escalates-unproven-usaid-claims-in-fiery-posts-as-studies-link-doge-cuts-to-child-deaths/

So he knows the names of some people he is responsible for their death. And studies show that his action will kill several hundred thousand people.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

In another post late on Monday, responding to a separate response from Kristof, Musk called Kristof “an utter piece of s— and a liar.”

Surprised he didn't jump straight to calling him a pedo. Everything is projection with them.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Poor guy has left reality.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Poor everyone else because he hasn’t.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I know what you mean, but he wouldn't leave reality in thst sense, so to do that you would have to do some Hightech voodoo which we don't know how yet.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 40 points 16 hours ago

Narrator: "But he did care. He cared a lot. In fact, he was desperate for people to love him, and proclaim him the best person in the history of humanity, in any field of endeavour. Desperate".

[–] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 36 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When he was asked about Muslims he said "If people are coming to a country with anitethical views, I am against that."

Lol, like him supporting far-right European parties? Their views surely are anitethical to democracy and not spying for foreign entities.

Also, I can't find the whole interview only larger snippets on Youtube.

[–] sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

His ideas aren't contradictory, they make perfect sense. He's a Nazi, in the most literal sense of the word. He wants socialism for White people, endless abundance for the chosen few and endless suffering for anyone else.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He grew up in a society where this shit was the norm. His shitty Nazi family moved to South Africa from Canada so they could relish living in a white ethno-state.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Musk said he wanted a Star Trek version of the future

Oh cool! So like a place where we make a conscious effort to learn and understand people and cultures we don't know anything about? And we try to treat them all with respect and let them have a seat at the table? That's so awes... What? That's not what he meant?

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[–] amos@slrpnk.net 34 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

I think we should collectively, the whole society, bully this guy to suicide.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

He suggested that everyone read Iain Banks for a vision of the future, and Beddoes pointed out that Banks was a socialist. Musk insisted he wasn’t.

Criticizing a thing as socialism when it's actually capitalism. Describing a socialist utopia and insisting it's not socialism. This isn't a thing unique to Musk. Why are people like this?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago

People like Musk are so high from huffing their own farts, they can't even conceive of the possibility that they might be wrong.

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[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social 203 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

“There are more people that die in Europe from heat deaths than people that die from gun deaths in America. Why aren’t you writing an article about air conditioning?” asked Musk.

“Well, we’ve done several on air conditioning, and we had on our cover last week a whole long piece about…” said Beddoes.

“Pro-air conditioning?” Musk asked sheepishly.

“Very pro-air conditioning,” she responded. “You should read us sometime.”

It’s kind of the perfect moment. Musk throws out some meaningless gotcha and then asks why the media isn’t talking about something that he’s become hyperfocused on. In his ignorance, he demonstrates they actually are writing about the thing he cares about. And he just looks like an idiot.

I especially liked this part. The video of this exchange is even better! He thinks he's sooooo smart with these middle school level retorts...

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"He thinks he's sooooo smart with these middle school level retorts..."

Given all that, HuffPost asked the White House: Who picked Budapest?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded minutes later with: “Your mom did.”

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung after a minute added the far more succinct: “Your mom.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-wild-response-to-huffpost-question_n_68f26217e4b0ee732e24eb66

[–] mracton@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago

The reporter fact checked that their mother in fact did not choose Budapest as the location. /lh(?)

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Just goes to show that billionaires have no taste. Whether it is home-grown versus store bought tomatoes or gluing gold spray-painted plastic to the walls, their lack of aesthetic is showing.

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