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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 220 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I don't understand. What's ironic about a socialist opening some city owned grocery stores?

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 165 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing in the slightest, Musk is just a dumbass with more money than any human should have.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He’s also got less sense than I thought a human was capable of, which is saying something, if he was smart he’d have fucked off after PayPal like Tom did when he sold MySpace

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, Tom is gone? He was a friend of mine!

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

Tom was and remains all of our friends, he left so it would be that way

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 58 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The irony is that Musk, self-proclaimed super genius, doesn't know what irony is while calling things ironic.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

he would like the days when children return to the precious stone mines in South africa.

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[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had to sink to the lowest level but I think the perceived irony is that a socialist is opening a store which some people think is inherently capitalist

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

In his empty head, there might be some connection to the Conservative Propaganda about people starving under Socialism, vs a Socialist opening grocery stores, and we're supposed to see that as "Irony," rather than popping a hole in their "Socialists Starve People" trope.

He's just not smart enough, or sober enough, to follow the mental path beyond "Har, har, look at this Socialist with food, har, har. Ironic, huh?"

[–] laserm@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

it apparently requires an ID for.. something..

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine when he learns about library cards.

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] TheMcG@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s been clarified that you won’t need an id to buy. It would be more akin to a loyalty card. Seems they want to use it to track usage patterns and cut off scalpers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-team-153800291.html

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Ah, I see. And he's saying it's ironic for them to require an ID when they are against people having to show their ID at the polls. Right?

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 104 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Remember when the World Food Program showed Musk he could solve world hunger for a mere fraction of his wealth andyet he's still here trying to dunk on people trying to put food on tables?

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think musk knows what irony means

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Listened to too much Alanis Morissette

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

He must mean the nutrients in the green leafy vegtables.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] notnowimbatin@fedinsfw.app 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's Alanis Morissette's version of irony

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[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Its a store and stores are only in capitalism.

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[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Musk is such a fucking waste of oxygen. This is how he tricks people into thinking he isn't as dumb as a lobotomized sunfish. He smugly says a bunch of bullshit just vague enough to fool other idiots into playing along because they want to feel smart too. There's nothing ironic about the news story he referenced. He's a fucking moronic narcissist who hears something and without even bothering to process the information immediately assumes he understands it on a level beyond everyone else. And if you press him on it even slightly he'll just say you have a tiny brain or call you a pedophile or some shit.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Stop engaging with Nazis on Nazi platforms.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 30 points 2 months ago

He is too thick to recognize that extreme measures like this are necessary in no small part due to his and his peers’ greed.

There’s another solution that doesn’t involve socialism, but they are forcing it upon us by their own actions. That’s what’s ironic.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The way Musk talks he makes me think he has more hands than amount of books hes read

[–] NewDark@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Idk he might have given mein kamphf a go

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[–] llama@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the irony? That he thinks the original plan was to give away food for free then they realized they have to charge something? I'm pretty sure charging something was always the plan just not with the intent of a for profit model.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've been trying to figure out,... my conclusion is that he doesn't know what irony means

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Elon Musk literally bragged that if anyone could prove $6B could end world hunger, he'd spend it. UN was, like, yeah. He, of course, dropped the conversation right then and there.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah but can you imagine the humiliation if it didn't work and he accidentally just saved millions of lives without getting rid of 100.0% of the problem?

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[–] liking625@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He sounds as he pretends to be smart, but he just shows as a scumbag

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I don't see the problem. I'd rather people be able to afford to eat and feed their families.

Anyone who has a problem with affordable groceries, in a period of time where the cost of living outweighs being able to afford groceries; can go fuck themselves with a rusty Trident.

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He's an idiot. He probably thinks it would be ironic if we were all made of iron.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

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 trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 13 points 2 months ago

Praying St Luigi

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you could ask Musk what is ironic about this situation, he couldn't tell you. Because he doesn't know the definition of "irony".

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Well I'm upset that Musk is still breathing.

[–] antiphon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we legally allowed to pray to St. Luigi in regards to Musk? I hope similar actions can happen.

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They set up a loyalty program like you would have for any grocery store, which helps with inventory control, and these people think it's an ID verification system.

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"How dare they undercut billionaires! And at such a vital time too! They were making more profits than ever"

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Former trillionaire. He's 'only' about three quarters of the way there now.

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