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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 217 points 5 days ago (19 children)

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

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 162 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 42 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 57 points 5 days ago (11 children)

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

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[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days 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 4 days 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?"

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days 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.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 82 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't think musk knows what irony means

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

He must mean the nutrients in the green leafy vegtables.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Listened to too much Alanis Morissette

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 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.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hope they also use that to limit the quantity of food you can buy each month. Like max 5 liters of oil or so, to avoid people that bought to resell.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It's in Musk's use of that word when he clearly doesn't know what it means.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They've been complaining about voter ID and being dunked on for making the argument that you need ID to buy groceries and now the Mamdani grocery stores require a membership ID

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[–] llama@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 103 points 5 days 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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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 24 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who the fuck downvoted THIS???

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[–] bluetoofs@piefed.social 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He’s one of the biggest douchebags on Earth. Once people stop buying from and listening to him, we’ll be so much better off.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 5 days ago (5 children)

That's the thing though. No one does buy anything from him and he's still a trillionaire because it's all theoretical. If he was forced to actually come up with the money he couldn't.

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[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] notnowimbatin@fedinsfw.app 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's Alanis Morissette's version of irony

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[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] liking625@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 30 points 5 days 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.

[–] antiphon@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Religion has often been banned throughout history when it challenges an authoritys place of power.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

Stop engaging with Nazis on Nazi platforms.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Well I'm upset that Musk is still breathing.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 13 points 4 days ago

Praying St Luigi

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If their kids get plump they can be used as human shields

Musk, probably

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 12 points 4 days ago

Not probably. Do you remember Musk around his family?

Sure you do. There's a bunch where he's with his little boy. . When? Oh, right after Luigi happened.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The irony is that this administration is actually implementing centrally managed economy (government purchasing shares of private companies, telling directly what they can and cannot do) like in communism, with the difference that communism at least pretended to be there for the people. Now the government is just there for the Epstein class.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, poor will not starve, but at what cost? Stakeholders will not see much profit and the US won't become white ethnostate.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

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

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