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Darkard 285 points a year ago

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cygnus 143 points a year ago

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fullsquare 18 points a year ago

ai could never make this

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NikkiDimes -2 points a year ago

Bleh.

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trashgirlfriend 10 points a year ago

The MS paint one unironically looks more esthetically pleasing

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iAvicenna 1 point a year ago

it got the number of tentacles wrong

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Honytawk -7 points a year ago

Why do you think that?

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ZILtoid1991 22 points a year ago

😥Bro, we are so close to artificial general intelligence, it will be just like JARVIS from Iron Man, and will crack really funny jokes while being a personal assistant to you. All you need bro is to let it ruin your politics, your arts, your human connections, and your environment. Bro, it'll be so smart it'll undo all the environmental and political harm the moment it starts existing. Bro, it'll take us to fucking Mars.

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fullsquare 8 points a year ago

ai can't generate anything that is not averaged dogshit made by grinding every political cartoon to pixels and compressing it to paste. it categorically can't generate caricatures, for example. it also shows a degree of creativity and familiarity with literature unlikely in average propmptfan. and also text is legible

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Chef_Boyardee 5 points a year ago

I can tell from some of the pixels...

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iAvicenna 10 points a year ago

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LanguageIsCool 1 point a year ago

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admiralpatrick 172 points a year ago

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billiam0202 130 points a year ago

I volunteer as tribute!

HEY CHUMPS! Y'ALL GOT PLAYED BY A CONMAN! MUSK AND TRUMP DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT ANY OF YOU! MAYBE THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS, HUH?

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ceenote 90 points a year ago

RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT GENEROUS. IF THEY WERE GENEROUS THEY WOULDN'T BE RICH PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF GENEROUS.

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pelespirit 33 points a year ago

Isn't it illegal to pay for voting and to be paid? Or, is it just illegal to pay for votes?

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BBQuicktime 20 points a year ago

Not if you're among the ultra-rich. Supreme Court has decided that rules are for the poors.

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admiralpatrick 11 points a year ago

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mrbubblesort 8 points a year ago

Isn’t it illegal to ...

No one gives a shit anymore

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rayyy 4 points a year ago

Isn’t it illegal to …

The average American hasn't yet realized the benefits, or consequences, of our newly instituted unfettered lawlessness.

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Kirp123 6 points a year ago

That's because he didn't say he will pay them for voting. He said he would pay them to sign a petition that supported a certain candidate. I think that's technically not illegal?

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pelespirit 5 points a year ago

Wasn't there a lottery of a million dollars or something? Pretty sure that was for votes. What I'm hearing is, he won't be charged or prosecuted for anything, legal or not.

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Kirp123 13 points a year ago

Nah the lottery wasn't actually a lottery because it came out that the winners were already picked. Because apparently you're not allowed to run a lottery whenever you want without asking the government.

https://www.reuters.com/...

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atzanteol 4 points a year ago

That's my understanding as well. "Sleezy but not technically illegal" is pretty on-brand for Musk.

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ExtantHuman 5 points a year ago

Not if you also pay all the people who would enforce that law

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Cethin 3 points a year ago

My understanding is that it potentially isn't illegal, because you weren't being paid to vote explicitly, and weren't being paid to vote for a specific candidate for sure, but you were (supposed to be) paid to sign an agreement that you would vote, and I think it also said you support a certain candidate but I'm not totally sure on that.

Basically, he was paying for people to say they'd vote (maybe for a certain candidate) but legally that wasn't actually required, so possibly barely skirts the law if a judge is being very generous to him.

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Eldritch 23 points a year ago

I know right? Whatever would have given them the idea that he has ever done anything he's promised? All the failed promises with Tesla? The boring company?

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dgdft 2 points a year ago

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admiralpatrick 5 points a year ago

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dgdft 6 points a year ago

That makes total sense. Tyvm for the transparency <3.

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blinfabian 119 points a year ago

100 dollars? yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?

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mienshao 89 points a year ago

It’s one democracy, Michael, what could it cost? 100 dollars?

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Tja 6 points a year ago

If you don't pay it's actually 0 dollars!

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ImADifferentBird 41 points a year ago

And didn't even get the money up front.

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UnderpantsWeevil 6 points a year ago

yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?

Consider that Trump had something like a 47% approval rating on the day of the election.

Also, yes. People are broke af, hate their neighborhood, hate their country, and hate everyone who has governed it since JFK. If someone offered you $100 for a pile of shit, you'd take the deal, too.

The joke of it all is that they believed a career con-artist would pay out, not that they gleefully pawned the broke down jalopy of a nation-state at the first opportunity.

Do not think for a second that they won't try to do it again.

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Zacpod 15 points a year ago

To be fair, I'd hate my life, too, if I lived next to a bunch of MAGA morons.

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el_bhm 2 points a year ago

Buddy. That is like 5 BJs.

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LonstedBrowryBased 96 points a year ago

Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments

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GeeDubHayduke 37 points a year ago

In Murica..?!

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tomi000 8 points a year ago

It usually is. In a democracy anyway

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Uranus_Hz 86 points a year ago

Yeah no shit.

Paying them would be illegal

Conning them isn’t.

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Fredthefishlord 37 points a year ago

Well, it's still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty

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zipzoopaboop 13 points a year ago

Penalty?

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TheOakTree 17 points a year ago

It's more like a processing fee :)

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SSNs4evr 74 points a year ago

Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤

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altphoto 21 points a year ago

Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!

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CaptPretentious 13 points a year ago

Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs... common mistake.

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QuarterSwede 2 points a year ago

Honestly that tracks. lol.

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some_guy 69 points a year ago

The guy whose companies don't pay debts didn't pay debts? Who could have seen this coming?!

Edit: changed from singular to plural.

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hansolo 12 points a year ago

The guy's not a Lannister. I mean, he probably would fuck his sister, but still...

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Tja 3 points a year ago

*daughter

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j_elgato 60 points a year ago

Screwed over by the world's richest man?

Yeah, well so was the rest of the nation...

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Pnut 46 points a year ago

No. Fucking. Shit.

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EpicMuch 45 points a year ago

No one has ever become a billionaire by paying people what they’re owed

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brygphilomena 16 points a year ago

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pyre 39 points a year ago

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davidagain 36 points a year ago

When one of the two biggest black holes for cash on the entire planet promise to make things better for you if you just do this thing they want to happen, you shouldn't be surprised if at the end of the process you have less money and they have more money. Elon Musk is expert at making money move from you to him. So is Jeff Besos. It doesn't have to be direct from you to them via a payment, just know that they are sucking up the money, and if you ever, ever, ever do something they want you to do, you can be 100% sure it's because after they're done, you have less money and they have more.

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melsaskca 29 points a year ago

It only makes sense that you could buy a presidency in an uber capitalistic country.

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Default_Defect 28 points a year ago

Who could have seen this coming???

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Suavevillain 27 points a year ago

That crowd loves grifters and con-men. That Trump crowd acts like peasants just to get close to the proximity of wealth.

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RymrgandsDaughter 27 points a year ago

Honestly at this point the judge should rule against them for being idiots

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Brandonazz 17 points a year ago

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ricardoharvin 26 points a year ago

@dwazou can't get prosecuted for buying votes if you never pay

[insert smirks and taps forehead meme]

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masterofn001 8 points a year ago

Then it's fraud.

But also, conspiracy to commit.

An act doesn't have to be committed for it to be a crime.

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ininewcrow 22 points a year ago

It goes to show how dumb people are

All you have to do is wave some money around in their face and make promises to them

.... and they'll do whatever you ask them to do .... then when all is said and done, you can just walk away and never give anyone anything.

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Flamekebab 14 points a year ago

Maurice: 'To my right, heh, to everyone's right in fact, we have congressman Alex Shrub; the youngest state congressman to ever be elected by Vice City and now a respected man in the capital. Mr. Shrub got elected because he has great hair and says things that make you nod your head. His campaign appealed to the wealthy because he set all of us at ease by confirming, "It's okay to be rich, as long as you say you care about the children." Mr. Shrub, welcome!'

Alex: 'That's not entirely true, Maurice. My campaign also appealed to the poor... who were too stupid to understand what I'm saying, so I held up pretty pictures and then I gave out candy bars to appeal to their most base insticts.'

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thefartographer 5 points a year ago

💰 This could be yours!

I believe you owe me some money

No, I checked. Turns out it was mine, not yours.

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alekwithak 4 points a year ago

Then they'll fall for it again in a couple of years 😭

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Donjuanme 2 points a year ago

They would if there were elections again.

But they'll probably just make the enemies list to be silenced sooner than the rest of us.

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TomMasz 18 points a year ago

Sometimes, news is surprising.

This is not one of those times.

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Ceruleum 15 points a year ago

He can pay them back in burning cybertrucks.

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clutchtwopointzero 15 points a year ago

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Freshparsnip 14 points a year ago

THIS COMMENT IS IN ALL CAPS

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smeenz 14 points a year ago

Putting aside the fact that musk is an asshole, the value of $100 to him is probably less than what 1 cent is worth to most other people, and I can imagine that if most people owed someone 1c, they would probably never get around to paying it.

It's a different world for the ultra rich, and even more so for the ultra ultra ultra ultra richest.

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matlag 6 points a year ago

That's because you don't have a billionaire's brain. They're somewhere between "I don't give a damn about these people" and "LOL! Look how I stiffed these losers!"

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Red_October 14 points a year ago

Elon really hoping that he can skate by without legal consequences as long as he just pretends he didn't actually bribe voters.

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Jax 2 points a year ago

Think about it though, he didn't pay them. He can easily spin a story about how he was 'caught up in the moment' and made an offer without thinking, that he was later advised would be illegal.

Idk, I feel like I've seen crazier legal turnarounds in my lifetime. Imagine he references the purchase of Twitter as a pattern of behavior making offers that he isn't actually prepared to fulfill?

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RedditIsDeddit 13 points a year ago

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WatDabney 13 points a year ago

So the only question really is whether it's more the case that he's not paying because there's a chance that he could be prosecuted for buying votes or if he's not paying just because he's a lying sack of shit who doesn't keep promises.

Or both.

I'm thinking both.

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NotMyOldRedditName 6 points a year ago

Wouldn't offering payment and not paying it also be criminal in someway?

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WatDabney 3 points a year ago

IANAL, but I don't think so, unless they managed to make a charge of fraud stick, which would require proving that he never had any intention of paying them.

Without something like that, his failure to pay up is a civil matter rather than a criminal one.

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Hobbes_Dent 12 points a year ago

Sold your country to a guy Tesla wants to pay 58b a year to so he can tank it for $100 and he doesn’t pay.

Cool.

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d00phy 12 points a year ago

GTFOutta here! Seriously!? I am shocked.

SHOCKED!

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Jenpocalypse 11 points a year ago

They sold their votes to a con man and are surprised they didn't get paid?

Really?

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alphahowler 10 points a year ago

Living by the Christian values of “promise” 😂😂😂

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Voroxpete 9 points a year ago

Because of course he wouldn't pay up. The man could literally afford to take more money than any one person could ever spend in their life, put it in a pile and set it on fire, and not be any more than a fraction of a percent poorer, but he's still such an unfathomably awful cunt that he just has to stiff people anyway.

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Linktank 8 points a year ago

No shit.

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cm0002 8 points a year ago

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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DickFiasco 6 points a year ago

shocked-pikachu.gif

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leadore 6 points a year ago

To all the comments and replies asking Isn't this or that aspect of what he did illegal?: Yes of course, for us it would be illegal, but it doesn't matter. For oligarchs the legality of anything they do is irrelevant. They do whatever they want and get away with it. Sometimes it costs them a small fee, but they don't notice that.

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Nualkris 6 points a year ago

Surprise?

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thefartographer 4 points a year ago

I hope Musk accuses them in court of entrapment. I wanna see the rich moron try to outsmart the poor morons. Everyone will lose, but it'll being some levity to our death-knell.

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blakenong 3 points a year ago

It’s never gonna see a court room, unfortunately

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Shootingstarrz17 3 points a year ago

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LordWiggle 2 points a year ago

Oh no! Elon lied? No one expected this, how is this possible? He's such a reliable and honest man. /s

You deserve not being paid when you have your vote bought by a nazi scam artist for just $100. But you also shouldn't deserve the right to vote when it can be bought, especially for just 100 bucks.

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Pumasuedeblue 1 point a year ago

This is hardly the first presidency that was bought.

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CtrlAltDefeat 0 points a year ago

He can't afford it

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