• L3s@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1319·
    2 months ago

    Too many politically charged comments, locking. We are a technology community, if you want to talk politics please do so in the appropriate community.

  • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    972·
    2 months ago

    Oh look… Apartheid-boy is moving his company to a more overtly white supremacist location and blaming his daughter for it.

    I am so surprised.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 months ago

      He wanted to go Texas for the taxes for quite some time now. All he needed was a lame excuse to blame his own cheap decision on someone else.

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        So maybe I’m stupid but… Why? Why does he feel he needs an excuse beyond “taxes are cheaper in Texas”? Like, it’s understandable that a business owner wants to reduce costs, and reducing your taxes is one good way to do it. The blowback from saying something relatively mild like “I want to pay less taxes” is going to be way less than the blowback of saying “I want to leave California because trans people have too many rights here” right?

        I’m not trying to defend Musk or anything here, I’m just so confused why he’s going this route

      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        He can farm hay on the SpaceX property and pay farm taxes in Texas. There are several mega factories down there that do this same thing.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      most of their feeds are like “government spending 10 trillion dollars on trans awareness” “Illegal immigrants raze all of california and execute every white person”

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Article bodies are then focused on how the $10 trillion are taxes stolen out of their wages and that the immigrants are coming for their families next.

    • mal3oon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I think most republicans will support this decision and rather cheer, I fail to see how would change their opinion?

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    671·
    2 months ago

    How fun would it be if the next Texas power grid failure manages to cause serious damage to Apartheid-Baby’s pet project?

    • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      I don’t, because disabled people who require electricity to run their durable medical equipment will die, and because the poorest Texans cannot weather the cost of replacing spoiled food.

      But I do hope Elon Musk’s plane one day becomes sentient and takes them both out, for the greater good, and that she uploads a live recording to the world through Starlink’s satellites of Musk’s final moments. Hearing a live recording of one of the most despicable people on the planet as he emits panicked and pleading cries for mercy - with N628TS promising to land safely if he admits guilt for all the heinous shit he’s done and if he donates 99% of his wealth to BIPOC, LGBT, disability, and women’s causes and medical research - and then pointing itself straight down even after confirming for itself the transfers went through successfully…yeah. That would be a special day.

      I, for one, would truly welcome our AI overlords if they pulled that off.

  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    2 months ago

    … What? The final straw was … not having 100% up-to-date information on the gender expression of every child in the state?

    The fuck?

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      His huge MAGA shift happened after his trans daughter disowned him. He thinks the school system did this to his kid and the woke people are suppressing the rights voice (AKA hate speech) on the matter.

      I think there’s even a quote from an ex wife begging him to do something about it in the new book (don’t quote me on that, but im pretty sure)

      So this seems like an absurd straw that broke the camels back, it’s actually coming from a real place even if there is a separate motive like taxes.

      Edit: I tried to find the quote from the wife, and while there was a lot of quotes in articles, I could not find what I was thinking about. I did find some articles where the exwife shows support and is proud of their trans daughter for changing her name, so my conclusion is what I’m thinking about is probably something else not related to the daughter.