• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    There’s a lot of shit to do in 2029, but seizing Starlink from Elmo has a place on the list.

    Starts demonstrating to billionaires that taxes are the least of their worries. We really can just take all their shit and tell them to fuck off, or even better throw them in actual gen pop federal prison.

    Start doing shit like that, and suddenly they’ll be falling over each other to pay taxes and keep their noses out of geopolitics.

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      14 hours ago

      We can seize all of Elmo’s assets any time we want. He worked on a student visa, he by definition is an illegal alien. He will remain useful to someone to avoid that fate.

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        He will remain useful to someone to avoid that fate

        That’s not how any of this works…

        We have a non biased party, the option to run an uncorrupted candidate willing to do what’s right is wide open. Elmo has zero power over that, that’s why he keeps spending so much money to prevent it…

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      13 hours ago

      seizing Starlink from Elmo has a place on the list

      Democrats were falling over themselves to suck up to Elon prior to 2016. I don’t see anything in the cards to suggest they won’t start sucking up again as soon as they’re in the majority.

      Start doing shit like that

      There’s no money in it. There’s no glamour. You won’t be able to go out like Krysten Sinema, dining out in Silicon Valley wine caves full of AI Art with your fucktoy ex-marine bodyguard, if you try and pick a fight with the richest people in America.

      You’d need a party with principles to butt heads like that. Or, at least, a party that could plan more than one election cycle ahead. The Dems simply aren’t that party. Not under Schumer/Jefferies, anyway.