| ▲ | _blk 6 hours ago |
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| ▲ | diamond559 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Guy is literally mask of white supremacist, why are you supporting this buddy? But yeah, the people that think his robot legions will solve world poverty and bring "sustainable abundance" for all are the sane ration thinking ones. |
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| ▲ | mattmaroon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| While I semi-agree, they both do plenty to encourage it. I mostly just wish Elon would stop using the R word. Not enough that I’m going to cancel my plan, but come on. |
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| ▲ | scottyah 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I get the fight to keep one word to remain non-offensive, instead of changing it every ~10yrs. It might be a locality thing too, when I was going to school the teachers used "special education" but now I've unintentionally offended with that as well. Google says it's "Intellectually Disabled" now. It's hard to keep up, and pretty annoying to constantly be tip-toeing around certain words. I leave it to others to fight that fight, but I'd take any word. | |
| ▲ | bigstrat2003 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm not certain what "the R word" is, but if you mean "retard" (and derivatives), then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that word. No reasonable person is offended by calling things retarded. | | |
| ▲ | _blk 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I agree that no person should be offended. Obviously that's not ground truth.. If we could all agree that life would be easier if people were offended less, then instead of only trying to get people to offend other people less by telling them what is acceptable to say we could also get people to try to not take offense as much when they hear what they don't want to hear we'd have solved the offense problem from both ends. TL;DR: Just be nice. Life's easier when you're nice even when people aren't nice to you but it does take effort. | | |
| ▲ | mattmaroon an hour ago | parent [-] | | I do get that certain people go way too far with the PC stuff, but I’m happy to increase the number of words I don’t use by 1 in this particular instance because it is reasonably offensive to some people. I just lump it in with racial slurs. And like I said, I’m not dropping my Starlink over it, I just think the world would be a tiny bit better if he didn’t use it. |
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| ▲ | buellerbueller 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I find the Nazi salutes more distasteful than the word. |
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| ▲ | shimman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | alex43578 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You don’t have any savings in the bank, right? That money you’re hoarding could be buying mosquito nets to save lives - you’re killing people by not donating everything you have. | | |
| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There is no moral requirement for me to impoverish myself in response to an idiot cutting government/public spending on critical assistance to those in need. There might be other moral imperatives which indicate that I ought to cash out the 401(k) and give it to people who need support, but this guy and his fucked up "DOGE" bullshit ain't it. | |
| ▲ | mrtesthah 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why is that money I'm hoarding currently being devalued by tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and bonuses paid out to ethnic cleanser shock troops? | |
| ▲ | shimman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Note the same, maybe if my bank account was equivalent to Elon Musk's it would be a fair argument but hardly the same to expect a shitposter to be equivalent to a man who is a billionaire. | | |
| ▲ | alex43578 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Totally the same. $1 is $1, and it can go to saving those very lives you’re talking about. Put your money where your mouth is - otherwise you just want to virtue signal with my tax dollars. | | |
| ▲ | matwood 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Put your money where your mouth is I do, through my tax dollars. And the amount of money that was DOGEd was literally couch cushion change on the scale of the federal budget. And not only did those cuts directly lead to deaths but weakened US soft power all around the world, letting China step in. | | |
| ▲ | alex43578 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | China’s soft power play yielded returns: ports, minerals, oil, factories, customers for their exports. The only Americans benefiting from the existing aid scheme are the network of lobbyists and NGOs. As I said upthread, if you’re that motivated, donate $500 to a high-impact charity and you’ll do far more good for people on the ground than what your taxes were doing at USAID. |
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| ▲ | scottyah 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How's that? Are you referring to his work on the DOGE team efforts that were simply recommendations? | | | |
| ▲ | rlt 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [citation needed] | | |
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