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[–] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 3 points 25 minutes ago

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

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Poor guy has left reality.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 points 40 minutes ago

Poor everyone else because he hasn’t.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 32 points 2 hours ago (2 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 5 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

New America is your answer.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

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.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 hour ago

You get it. Too bad most don’t.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 48 points 3 hours ago (7 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.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 minutes ago

He's correct about The Culture being an amazing vision of how humanity's future could look like. He's absolutely off his rocker about how to get there

The Culture IS “fully automated luxury queer space communism”, that's just a straight-up summary of it. In The Culture:

  • everyone can “gland” drugs for pleasure, performance or to change their sex. How the fuck does that match Musk’s anti-trans shit?
  • diversity permeates everything; obviously internally, but also externally, as they try to get along with everyone who isn't a galactic imperialist threat. How the hell does that match Musk’s xenophobia?

It's weird how Musk seems to basically be a tankie: he wants to achieve communism by any means necessary …

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes 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.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 23 points 2 hours ago

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

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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 11 points 2 hours ago (1 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.

He can't go through the stages of grief when he's stuck in denial

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago (1 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.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I really don’t notice a difference between home grown or store bought. But I really think it depends on the store and season you’re buying from. If it’s actually in season, supplies are more local and fresh. If you’re buying a tomato in February, of course it is going to be awful, it’s being shipped thousands of miles. And you can’t grow your own tomatoes in February unless it’s in your house or a green house (which is a luxury I’ve never even met someone I knew had. You own a whole other building, on property? You own property in which you can fit another building?!)

Apples are the worst offenders, if you’re buying apples in spring, you’re buying last year’s harvest.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I grow my own tomatoes. In my area the difference between the homegrown and storebought is night and day (with the homegrown ones being way better). I understand how it could be regional though.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 minutes ago

yeah I can't believe someone has eaten a tomato fresh from the garden and is not like. WOW!

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 27 points 3 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 23 points 3 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.

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Here you go, don't blame me for having to listen to that idiot's brain diarrhea for an hour:

https://youtu.be/8TjK-s0468w

[–] sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 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 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes 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 20 points 4 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

greed is a disease of madness

[–] MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

+1 to the Economist for actually doing some intelligent interviewing

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

I think we should collectively bully this guy to suicide.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

See I was thinking we just need a brave hair/makeup person with a hidden blade to use while getting him ready for camera before one of these interviews.

Carve a swastika deep into his fucking throat.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

We were so close to doing that when he locked himself in his office because people booed him at the Dave Chappelle concert: https://pagesix.com/2023/11/08/celebrity-news/elon-musk-spiraled-after-being-booed-locked-himself-in-office/

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I suspect Musk lost it when people stopped treating him like a genius enough and pointing out his scam bullshit. He's a narcissist. With so many people turning against him, psychologically he has to rationalize that they are all garbage people.

[–] NessaSola@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Love to see people knowing what a narcissist is, beyond "self aggrandizing"

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Now now, he doesn't have to resort to suicide. After all this stress maybe he should just relax. Have a drink and some Ketamine and relax in a nice deep bath.

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