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Summary

Elon Musk sparked controversy by falsely claiming entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have "$700 billion" in fraud annually, vastly exaggerating the actual figure (~$10 billion/year).

Musk labeled Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" and spread conspiracies about immigrants exploiting the system.

Critics argue Musk’s ignorance and conspiracy-mongering threaten essential public programs and data privacy, while his inflammatory rhetoric—such as calling Senator Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and combat veteran, a "traitor"—reinforces demands for his immediate removal from government.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

No. I'm sick of ratcheting right, of normalizing the former Republican president's regime by half, of promising that maybe, eventually, long after my kids have died of old age, we'll get around to fixing what's broken. A return to normalcy will only legitimize this fucking bullshit. The climate is collapsing, there's microplastics in my brain and balls, the wealthy are actively trying to re-establish feudalism, and the level best the democrats can do is hold up signs and give me downvotes when I say they're not doing enough. There's evidence coming out that microplastics inhibit photosynthesis and cause crop failures, the shit's everywhere, and lol and fucking behold the UN can't even talk about it without getting drowned in a tsunami of lobbyists. Yes, hello, my name is Timothy Thompson, I'm with United Plastics, and I'm here to tell you about how single use plastics are good actually; can I offer you $5,000? I've recently come around to the idea that there's only around 10,000 very specific enormously wealthy, influential, or both people that we'd need to persuade to make the world a better, more livable place for everyone on the planet now and in the future, and right now, they aren't being effectively persuaded.

Friendship ended with centrist democrats. I am now friends with accelerationism.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

How many Luigi's do we need to persuade the rest of the 10,000?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

More than the one, it seems