r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Judah_Earl • 19h ago
President Elon says the quiet part out loud.
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u/looonatick 19h ago
Is this fucking moron really trying to (bad) logic his way out of this with maga folks?
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u/ProbRePost 19h ago
He owns the largest right wing social media platform on the planet. Tomorrow MAGA spokespeople will be on Fox News talking about how great replacing unmotivated Americans with foreign workers will be for the economy.
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u/Jimmyg100 19h ago
Bringing in foreigners to take jobs from Americans while bragging about how good the economy is to people who don’t feel like it’s good… I swear I’ve heard this mentioned before by republicans. What was the context though?
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u/sonorakit11 18h ago
While kicking out the people that are already doing the jobs
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u/falcopilot 18h ago
Kicking out the people doing low-income jobs so Americans can have them, bringing in skilled labor, taking the jobs Americans might actually want because he can pay them less.
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u/Jimmyg100 18h ago
But you see this way we can use everyone around the globe to their best abilities.
We can be globe-ableists.
Glableists.
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u/AnarZak 18h ago
foreign workers tukkarjarbs will surely bring down the price of eggs? no?
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u/HoochieKoochieMan 18h ago
Ironically, Musk is the underqualified immigrant that the incoming president has subcontracted the job to.
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u/69bonobos 19h ago
I don't think I can do this anymore...
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u/Time_Stand2422 19h ago
The end game is Oligarchy and ‘strong man’ rule. I know this sounds like hyperbole, but it’s not. These assholes love Victor Oban, and we have failed over and over again to understand that the GOP and MAGAts don’t want American democracy.
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u/Any-Pea712 19h ago
They love talking about how it's not a Democracy, but a Republic.
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u/Sheepdog44 19h ago
As if there is a functional difference.
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u/ThreeCraftPee 18h ago
They are beyond dumb, when they say that I ask them - do you also say "that's not a dog it's a labrador retriever!"
That usually shuts them up. They aren't the brightest bunch.
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u/Guy954 18h ago
I think you’re full of it (jk, kind of), they don’t ever shut up no matter how much sense you make or evidence you present.
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u/MindlessRip5915 18h ago
There is, but only in the sense that a democracy is a type of political system (where power is vested in the people either directly or via elected representatives) and a republic is a type of state (where the head of state is an elected official rather than a monarch or other hereditary role).
The two words aren’t interchangeable because they describe two different things. Here are a few examples of why they can’t be used interchangeably:
- United States of America: Presidential republic, federal democracy.
- Australia: Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy, federal democracy.
- United Kingdom: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy.
- People’s Republic of China: Unitary one-party socialist state.
- Republic of Korea: Presidential republic, unitary democracy.
- Myanmar: Military junta.
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Totalitarian dictatorship.
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u/Sheepdog44 18h ago
I understand the technical difference. But conservatives usually deploy this argument as an excuse to ignore the will of voters or generally ignore votes that were cast for something they don’t like.
My point is that neither system functions without votes being cast, counted, and respected. Neither a democracy or a republic will stay as such if the will of the voters is consistently ignored or reversed.
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u/AGreasyPorkSandwich 18h ago
Peter Theil, the other asshole right-wing tech billionaire (who bankrolled JD Vance), very plainly stated that freedom and democracy cannot coexist.
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u/beanmosheen 16h ago edited 14h ago
That dipshit thinks we should have CEOs instead of a government.
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u/MinimumBuy1601 18h ago
Nope, you speak truth. I've been calling Trump "Baby Augusto", as in Augusto Pinochet of Chile. It's what makes them hard.
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u/llamawolf 18h ago
I know this can’t be the same “they took our jobs!!!” crowd. FFS.
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u/RottenPingu1 19h ago
We are seeing this already as suddenly "productivity" becomes the new metric with which to buzz word.
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u/Count_Bacon 19h ago
Even though wages have increased way slower than productivity. Fact is Americans are more productive than ever but being paid Jack shit compared to pre Reagan, just so the rich can hoard it all
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u/RottenPingu1 19h ago
"this Christmas I'm only giving gifts to the rich children so gifts can trickle down to the poor ones."
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u/dirschau 19h ago
You see, these aren't "immigunts thut gun terk er jerbs", these are "skilled workers brought in by daddy elon because Americans are too woke and liberal to work"
Never underestimate the ability of a cult member to excuse the cult leader
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u/notaprime 19h ago
Bad logic seems to work wonders with maga folk tbf.
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u/Phantastiz 19h ago
To an extent only. They have some hard boundaries, like "migrants bad". Even Trump received some backlash when he tried to tell them that COVID vaccines are actually a good idea, which goes against their idea of "vaccines bad".
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u/ijuinkun 19h ago
We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
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u/The_River_Is_Still 19h ago
Yep. He could say I like when Donald shits in my mouth and MAGA would wear shirts and hats with that image unironically. It's really that bad.
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u/ComprehensiveHavoc 19h ago
But now the message is “investing in Americans is a waste of time and effort” as opposed to “I love you and will give you cheap eggs 🍳 !” They might notice that Apartheid Clyde isn’t one of them.
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u/The_River_Is_Still 19h ago
"We're gonna lower prices of everything!!1!"
After the election.....
"Lowering prices is really, really hard..."
Fuck off, Republicans.
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u/mdp300 18h ago
"I want to help stop companies from price gouging you on groceries."
Republicans: "That's communism!"
"I'll lower your prices!"
Republicans "BE OUR KING"
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u/AlexCoventry 18h ago
They can be influenced by bad logic because their conclusions aren't logically motivated, they're motivated by emotional reactivity and self-interest. Any logic will do, to justify self interest and personal comfort.
If Musk treads too blatantly on that self interest, there will be a backlash, no matter how good his reasoning is.
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u/KP_Wrath 19h ago
They all think he’s talking about someone else.
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u/ljr55555 18h ago
That's the saddest part -- they'll think he means to bring in foreign workers to replace *other* people's jobs. Computer Science folks / IT staff. Manufacturing. Obviously not my job /s
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u/seriousbangs 19h ago
He's not used to being told no. To them he's a God-King. So he can't imagine them every disagreeing with him. Divine Command Theory and all that.
Thing is there's one thing and only one thing more ingrained in people than God: Jobs.
I'm pretty happy to see this fucker screwing up this badly. Lots of people are just now realizing Musk & Trump aren't on their side.
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u/Ok_Twist_1687 19h ago
Too bad it’s too late.
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u/StockingDummy 18h ago
Not necessarily, but saying the alternative out loud would violate reddit's ToS.
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u/dirschau 19h ago
Screwing up would mean he isn't getting what he wants.
And what he wants is to control the laws that govern him. He's doing exactly that.
He's not even an elected politician, so he couldn't give less of a shit what magas think even if he actually had to pretend.
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u/B133d_4_u 19h ago
Yup. He's literally not beholden to anyone. At least Trump, in theory, has to keep his constituents happy enough to avoid losing his party the next election (ignore the fact that they're looking to remove the voting process over the next four years). Musk, however, just needs to buy the next guy, regardless of the outcome for this term. How do you stop a puppeteer with infinite strings? We got a glimpse of that a couple weeks ago.
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u/mishma2005 19h ago
Laura Loomer and Mike Cenovich have already dragged him. They are NOT happy about his stance on this.
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u/misterpickles69 19h ago
MAGA: “Do something about all these immigrants!”
Elon: “Ok, we’ll bring more in. They’re absolutely taking your jobs.”
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u/Mendozena 18h ago
It’s not hard to fool them. My dad thinks tariffs are the way to go. I’m on a cruise and sent him a video of a yacht with a smaller boat behind it and said in the video “tax the rich”
To him: “If we tax the rich they’ll raise prices. INFLATION!”
Moron doesn’t know how inflation works. Of course the billionaire wants tariffs. It means they buy product at cost and pass the tax straight to us. The wealthy will LOVE these tariffs. They’ll make record profits…again.
I said in the 20s we taxed the rich at 90% and you still had fuckin Rockefellers. MORON!
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u/psychulating 18h ago
Billionaires actually don’t want tariffs. Idk what elons deal is but they are a market inefficiency. Even if you pass the cost on, people have limited budgets and will buy less.
It’s possible that the 10% tariff can be offset with dereg and tax cuts, but I don’t understand what purpose it serves since that wouldn’t change the cost equation to manufacture locally, it would be a wash + retaliatory tariffs. The rich are largely ignoring his tariff threats on Canada and Mexico because they are non sensical and self sabotaging in every way.
a minority of billionaires would be for it(perhaps they are in an industry that’s slated to be heavily protected, like aluminum) but majority (billionaire shareholders in every company that uses aluminum, like Boeing and other large manufacturers) would be against it. Those that have diversified portfolios would be against it.
On Bloomberg they treat it like trump being trump. Even bill ackman, a pro Trump hedge fund manager, suggests that it’s a negotiation tactic because it’s so gd stupid
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u/kandoras 19h ago
They've been indoctrinated for decades that being educated is a bad thing.
"Your kid's education is a bad investment" is a lesson most of them already believe.
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u/TitusTesla117 19h ago
I like that he tweeted this on Christmas too
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u/Own-Cupcake7586 19h ago
Merry Christmas, MAGA! Your carrot-brained god-king and his immigrant puppeteer don’t need your support anymore. Get ready for every policy that benefits you to die a painful death. Welcome to the “find out” portion of your voting decision.
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u/ColumnK 19h ago
What else is he going to do? Spend time with his kids?
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u/prof_the_doom 19h ago
I think there's still one that doesn't have a restraining order out against him.
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u/DickwadVonClownstick 19h ago
The one Elmo's been using as a human shield ever since Luigi did the funny?
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u/StarintheShadows 18h ago
That would be the one! He’s too young to file a restraining order. Poor kid.
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u/ukexpat 18h ago
His mother could file for one on his behalf though…
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u/Great_Consequence_10 13h ago
She has been trying to get help from LE to return the child and nothing. Pretty sad situation, actually.
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u/Willyr0 19h ago
Where the fuck are those ghosts
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u/seahawk1977 18h ago
Well, one "ghost" did visit Brian Thompson. Now we just need three more to visit other CEOs.
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u/Risky_Bizniss 19h ago
Still better than the "May they rot in hell. Again, Merry Christmas!" VP Trump proclamation lol
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u/ghostpicnic 19h ago
Mr. Anti-woke family values when he has no family to spend the Christian holiday he pretends to believe in with:
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u/LWN729 18h ago
Reading his tweet made me laugh out loud. Not that the lack of American investment in its own future’s development is a laughing matter. I’m sure MAGATs will be mad, but they don’t realize that it’s republicans’ decades long sabotage of public education and the fostering of a disdain and distrust of higher education is what makes most Americans less competitive, and now they voted for the same republicans who sabotaged them thus far to literally look at them and tell them “you’re not good enough and it’s not worth the money to make you better, so we’re going to bring in foreigners to do jobs, in opposition to what we told you.”
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u/winterbird 19h ago
Oh, so immigrants are OK then.
I almost don't want to say this because it might sound bad... just keep in mind that this mindset is not in line with my beliefs. But imagine the societal hilarity of immigrants doing better paying jobs like IT and medical, while the back breaking lower paying jobs go to Americans because "low skill" immigrants got deported. Is maga OK with their kids being laborers who serve well off immigrants? They're a step behind in the thought process of even their own degenerate ideas.
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u/coffeebetterthannone 19h ago
That’s the future American conservatism has been fighting for since 1980.
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u/thatirishguyyyyy 18h ago edited 11h ago
As my partner's boomer father likes to say, "At least Americans would all have jobs. You might not like your job, but you'll have one." Of course he wouldn't have to work those jobs because he is 62 and used to have money so, yeah, reasons. He also sees himself as only temporarily poor.
But its really about labor market dynamics though. Agriculture, construction, food services. Studies have consistently shown that undocumented workers fill roles US-born workers often avoid due to the nature of the work. Even during labor shortages, the jobs remain difficult to fill due to very low pay, seasonal employment, and physical demands.
With the current unemployment rate around 3.8%, this would lead to a sharp spike in unemployment, even if many workers can actually work the jobs immigrants would leave vacant.
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u/NEIGHBORHOOD_DAD_ORG 18h ago
At least Americans would all have jobs. You might not like your job, but you'll have one
How is this not literally the same concept as in the USSR lmao.
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u/StatementWilling9936 17h ago
This is so funny because the anti-communism arguments would typically fall into "but then you're stuck doing a soulless job you don't love just to keep society moving". And now we are here without communism.
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u/SS1989 19h ago
Surprise, assholes! Nothing will get cheaper and you will still have to press 1 for English!
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u/Golden_Hour1 18h ago
The press 1 for English sent me
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u/Critical-Weird-3391 18h ago
按 1 选普通话
Presione 2 para español
нажмите 3 для русского
Pindutin ang 4 para sa Tagalog
Press 5 for English
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u/HereAgainWeGoAgain 17h ago
That's a lot of Google translate you did there
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u/Critical-Weird-3391 16h ago
Welcome to...almost 2025. Comments will be in 15 languages, and it won't matter, because AI will think for us.
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u/NEIGHBORHOOD_DAD_ORG 18h ago
And you'll get someone who speaks something possibly based on English!
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u/-Codiak- 19h ago
Dude spent 2 months around a bunch of conservatives and now realizes that "Oh, the American's I'm surrounding myself might be stupid, I'll need to import smart people and convince them it's a good thing"
Also, love the "Fraction of the cost" being the main selling point. Let me sell your job off for 1/3 of the price and thank me for it!
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u/sean0883 19h ago
hash tag this is capitalism
It's always been that way. Idiots just think that anyone with a billion dollars is a smart person, and not just a ruthlessly unfeeling person that would kill you for a nickel if it cost them nothing to do it and get away with it.
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u/HothMonster 19h ago
They would kill you for a nickel if it cost them four cents.
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u/splashist 19h ago
we're calling it...INsourcing...we bring the overseas to YOU!!
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u/BasvanS 19h ago
The anti immigrant crowd will love that. They’re getting even more than they’ve been asking for.
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u/splashist 19h ago
i really look forward to pissed-off MAGAs
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u/der_innkeeper 19h ago
MAGA: "They"re taking our jobs!"
MAGA Oligarchs: "well, yeah. You're dumb, expensive, and i can't hold a visa over your head to motivate you."
MAGA: "but, we did vote for this!"
MO: "i already said you're dumb. You don't have to repeat it."
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 19h ago
God forbid this asshole pay American workers a bit better.
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u/teddybrr 19h ago
Well he wanted to pay himself $56 billion instead of raising workers wages :) or pay the correct amount of money for people to want to work at for you and don't disregard safety for the people in the factories. The workers are the ones doing the job. They stop everything falls apart. They have the power all they need to do is work together.
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u/Bigfamei 18h ago
He had a company full of talented hard workers. But fired 90% but kept the immigrant labor.
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u/JinxyCat007 19h ago
Cutting education, then needing to import the educated… fucking hell.
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u/Teamerchant 19h ago
He’s literally advocating offshoring raising productive adults. He is saying to every single American have more kids no matter what (based on his other quotes) then saying but those kids will grow up in a society that does not care about them, support them, or invest in them.
This is beyond an insane take.
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u/Confident-Weird-4202 19h ago
In other words, he wants to replace Americans, which, just a few months ago he was saying liberals and Jews wanted to do this. The mental gymnastics is just exhausting with these idiots.
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u/Amelaclya1 18h ago
He wants to replace current immigrants in the fields with homegrown Americans, and then replace middle class Americans with immigrants that are easier to control
Literally trying to move us towards serfdom. Where everyone born here will go straight towards menial labor and poverty with no hope of advancement.
This actually makes a lot of sense with what he and Peter Thiel support - breaking up the country into a bunch of tiny territories each ruled over by an "elite male tech bro".
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u/Confident-Weird-4202 17h ago
This is also why they’re so big into crypto as well - a currency they control rather than a government.
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u/Hosidax 19h ago edited 19h ago
Basically it's tactic to "offload" the cost of education to other countries.
It's weird because they rely on the idea that America is still a desirable place to immigrate to all while doing everything they can to provide less opportunity and make it harder to prosper here.
For instance: USDA butchers moved back to Mexico
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u/Amelaclya1 18h ago edited 13h ago
Yeah will immigrants want to move here if there are no long term job prospects for their children? Because that's essentially what is being proposed here. Skilled workers have options, and will will want to settle where they can have long term stability for themselves and their family.
A lot of countries import skilled labor, but they do it for actual labor shortages, not* just so they can pay their native workforce less.
As always, Republicans are just so fucking short-sighted.
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u/Rakatango 18h ago
You’ve heard of thinking with your dick, this is thinking with your portfolio. Both result in really bad logic.
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u/spikernum1 19h ago
You don't want the voters educated. Bring in smart people to work, but don't let them vote
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u/LaLa_LaSportiva 19h ago edited 15h ago
This has everything to do with exploiting the educated-desperate for cheap labor by dangling the U.S. at the end of a stick. You just need to indenture yourself for 100+ hour work-weeks and sharing a 2 bedroom apartment with nine others for a TBD time period. And this MFer has zero intentions of ever allowing them to succeed.
Ed for clarification.
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u/OffalSmorgasbord 18h ago
The Education Department works with US industry to understand their future skills needs 10, 15 , 20 years out. They pull this data and publish it with curriculum recommendations so states and counties can consume it and plan for the future.
The reality of it is that it is largely ignored in the US as education budgets have been slashed and curriculums have been politicized. "Some idiot in Washington DC doesn't know what my kid needs to learn!" type shit.
Guess who does read those reports and follow the guidance! Foreign countries. Because they want the work and the Us Dollars that come with it, whether through offshoring or visa employees that send cash back home.
We are a stupid country.
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u/obolobolobo 19h ago
Um… so immigration is good. MAGA’s now scratching their heads, frantically passing the brain cell around.
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u/tenor1trpt 19h ago
Within 24 hours they’ll already be babbling about how they never meant the jobs would stay in America and be given to Americans. They knew allllll along the jobs would still be shipped overseas. It may have already begun happening.
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u/UnitSmall2200 19h ago
I guess they'll tell you that it's good when immigrants steal jobs of the college educated liberal elite and no longer the jobs they qualify for.
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u/MentokGL 19h ago
America first!
Americans last!
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u/Ok-Buffalo1273 19h ago edited 17h ago
If I were president in 2029, I’d use my unitary executive rights and official acts to take Tesla, spacex, x, and starlink and sell them to American born billionaires, or turn them into employee owned Co-ops.
This dude couldn’t give a fuck about America. It’s just a layover for him, he doesn’t care if the country fails, so long as he gets richer.
Edit: changed could to couldn’t.
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u/null640 18h ago
Employee owned companies largely do well...
Something about aligning incentives.
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u/sf-keto 19h ago
Oohh how does MAGA feel about "replacement theory" now?
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u/UnitSmall2200 19h ago
The immigrants Elon wants to bring are going to replace the college educated liberal elite and not them real Americans /s
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u/Portlander_in_Texas 17h ago
Jump on over to r/conservative, it's strange how those sheep are quiet about this.
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u/The_Fox_Confessor 19h ago
He could have wrote
"Investing in Americans is actually hard. Really hard. It costs money time and effort to make a person productive. It's a short term loss. So I'm planning to cancel student debt and create teams of advisors to help graduates into employment and advise employers on getting the best from them"
But no he has to be a douche.
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u/smallcoder 18h ago
The chance of anyone in the MAGA camp saying anything close to that sensible is 100 times less likely than my cat starting to shit gold 💩
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u/KououinHyouma 18h ago
This is the asshole that just got done telling the country that we all need to be ready to accept temporary economic loss.
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u/mkvgtired 17h ago
Why would a guy who grew up on daddies emerald mine money know anything about struggle. I saw a clip of his mom talking about how they struggled to move up from a one bedroom apartment to a two bedroom apartment and how hard her husband worked.
You know, the rags to riches story of a family scraping by to make ends meet that somehow got an emerald mine, exotic cars, and large houses that nobody mentions.
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u/Harminarnar 19h ago
So an immigrant who wants more immigration, and says “fuck the American people, they’re not worth it.”
This guy can only think of himself.
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u/zedroj 18h ago
yes, so Trump and Elon are gonna volcano at some point, that level of narcissism can only be spread so thinly before it violently snaps and erupts
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u/Flotack 19h ago
This man is the single biggest cancer in the world right now. I’ve never hated a person I don’t know more than him (other than every Nazi ever, of which I include him).
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u/flipflopsnpolos 19h ago
He’s the richest person in the world, and what good has he done for humanity? He could be funding the cure to cancer, but instead he bought the Presidency so he can get tax breaks and use the government to knock down his business enemies. He’s evil.
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u/Captain_Mazhar 15h ago
Jimmy Carter has done more for America AFTER his presidency than this illegal dweeb has done in his entire life.
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u/CappinPeanut 19h ago
I mean, normally, yes. But this stunt is actually kinda funny. Turns out the “dey took are jawbs!” crowd are a bunch of uneducated rednecks and you can’t hire them to work at a tech company or a space company.
I’m loving this turn, it’s hilarious.
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u/MarsupialMadness 17h ago
Not only are they uneducated, they're resistant to it.
They're the assholes who lament that all the coal jobs are gone, but won't accept an all-expenses-paid training program to put them into a different field that could use them better.
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u/ElecMechTech 18h ago
He actually exceeded Trump, Cruz and DeSantis for me to hit #1. Cruz and DeSantis have two of the most p*nchable faces in the United States and Elon managed to climb over them. No easy feat.
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u/HyperionsDad 19h ago
These are the Christmas musings he decided to tweet out to millions?
At least it wasn’t as unhinged as Trump’s holiday message.
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u/user888666777 18h ago
Did either of these clowns push the "Only 6% of federal workers work from the office" statistic? Cause that's all I've been hearing about all week. Not only did that number not pass the smell test but how that number came to be is complete hogwash.
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u/Building_Everything 19h ago
Stupid entitled American wanting job security and pay, don’t they know there’s starving kids in Indonesia who’ll do their same job at 10% of the quality for 5% of the price? That’s a net profit!
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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 19h ago
I worked for a large company that deliberately pursued that strategy. They paid less than a third for offshore programmers (either in Mumbai or Chennai), and they expected everything would have to be developed from scratch twice, so still significant savings on labor, even bigger if they happened to get it right the first time.
Oh my lord, no. Just no.
Like Rocky said to Bullwinkle when he said he'd pull a rabbit out of a hat, "That trick never works."
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u/Building_Everything 19h ago
As the saying goes, “I hope the people who voted for them get exactly what they voted for”
My empathy meter is at the bottom of the
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u/Tsobe_RK 19h ago
offshore until its broken enough, then bring it inhouse to fix it, you can guess whats third step
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u/Independent-Stay-593 19h ago
Boy, oh boy! He's telling the fellas who thought he would be the savior why he thinks they are worthless and how he prefers foreigners he can exploit over entitled American white boys. The rest of us already knew this truth of how the world works. Let's see how it goes over seeing it bluntly and directly from the horse's mouth.
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u/DrIvoPingasnik 19h ago
It costs money
WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH YOU GREEDY BASTARD?!
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u/Oknataliegirl 19h ago
Fucking this. My GOD! When is it ever enough?
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u/madmaxGMR 18h ago
Never. Its not about hitting a mark, or a number. Is about going to the next mark, or number, and the next, and the next. On a finite planet. Its madness.
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u/EddySea 19h ago
Going to deport millions and import millions.
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u/UnitSmall2200 19h ago
Republican voters might love this. Finally the immigrants that steal the jobs they qualify for will be deported, and instead the hated college educated liberal elite will be replaced by immigrants, who will work as slaves for the American people.
They will definitely come up with bunch of explanations why this is good and why it will own the libs.
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u/nothosauridea 19h ago
In other words he wants to reintroduce slavery.
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u/docowen 19h ago
What he is describing is not slavery. It's indentured servitude and it's already been introduced.
But yes, he also wants to reintroduce slavery.
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u/SmolishPPman 19h ago
That just sounds like slavery with extra steps
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u/GovernmentOpening254 19h ago
We should just focus on automating these jobs instead of dealing with messy people
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u/Senor707 19h ago
You don't think they paid a fair wage to those shirtless buggers who were digging emeralds in their mines do you?
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u/ImaginaryAnimal7169 19h ago
hey - according to florida, the slaves learned valuable skills, so maga should be happy it's a career path for their kids.
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u/Impossible_Penalty13 19h ago
At the very least, the gilded age where immigrants were taken advantage of by predatory industries.
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u/Danominator 19h ago
Capitalism naturally gravitates towards slavery
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u/Jondoe34671 19h ago
Slavery was never abolished it just got shifted to prisoners. This is one of the reasons the USA has one of if not the highest percentages of incarceration.
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u/JamCliche 19h ago
Fun fact! Slavery is still legal in the United States. You just have to be incarcerated, and then the government can legally own your labor and your body.
And the pro-police party just won! 🎉
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u/AdFlat1014 19h ago
sooo mass deportation and then mass inportation??? how the fuck is possible to be this dumb?
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u/Senor707 19h ago
This is what the MAGAs voted for. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that Trump would be listening to Musk.
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u/whatproblems 19h ago
haha all you useless americans he’s going to bring in… immigrants.. lol
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u/TBB09 19h ago
“To make a person productive” is the problem. Just let us live our damn lives
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u/martapap 19h ago edited 19h ago
I don't see this on his twitter.
ETA: nevermind I see where he did actually tweet and delete this
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u/TheNextAnnan 19h ago
As an immigrant himself, he should be grateful that Paypal took a chance on him
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u/i_thinktoomuch 19h ago
The foreigner in the highest parts of our government in terms of influence advocating for more immigration is fucking hilarious.
I thought immigrants were the enemy, immigrant? 🤡
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u/lizardk101 19h ago
I’m sure the “Great Replacement” folks are absolutely overjoyed with their pick…
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u/Tsobe_RK 19h ago
I'm glad this fucker is a loud mouth, more and more people can see how fucking stupid he actually is.
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u/Teamerchant 19h ago
I’m speechless.
Follow the logic to its conclusion on this if acted upon. Follow what this means is the priority of life. What this means for future generations Americans. What he think your quality of life should be, and where he wants to downgrade it to.
This statement should make him an enemy to every working class American.
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u/BorderNo9796 19h ago
Seriously, what the fuck?
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u/peachesandthevoid 18h ago edited 18h ago
That’s all I can say these days. The last decade has been a brutal, ongoing lesson regarding the pitfalls of humanity when isolated, distracted, exploited, and ignorant in an increasingly complicated world.
Realities have become completely stratified between those who have some baseline ability to think critically and those who can be possessed by grifters at a scale that has never been seen before.
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u/Professional-End2722 19h ago
MAGA realising they’ve been duped in five, four, three….
Any moment now. No? Too stupid to see the con? Ah, morons have been played.
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u/Nail_Biterr 19h ago
yes.. underpaying people is more profitable... good work. this is the 'real life iron man' brain we are supposed to be in awe over?
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u/No_Seaworthiness_200 19h ago
American workers are expensive because we are the only country stupid and greedy enough to tie healthcare to employment.
Our oligarchy keeps making everything in this country horrible, and then they turn around and wonder why everything sucks so much.
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u/W0666007 19h ago
“Work for a fraction of the cost” is all you need to know. He isn’t trying to import skilled people, he’s trying to import cheap labor.
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u/StevenMC19 19h ago
It costs money and time and effort.
Yes. Things which you have...THE MOST of. He has the capability of handing everyone in America $1,000 at the same time and STILL have over 100 billion dollars in his account. But that's not what's being asked for. What is really needed are things like universally free school lunches, healthcare reform, clean energy, farming subsidies for things besides just corn and soybeans, and fair wages...oh, and proper taxation of the ultra wealthy. The latter can easily handle the formers.
It's a short term net loss.
There goes Mr. Business Brain here trying to incorporate privatized ideals on a non-corporatized entity. The American people are not commodities to be traded on the stock exchange.
It's easier to bring in skilled workers who...will work for a fraction of the cost...
So indentured servitude? Outsourcing labor to cheaper countries? Prisoner labor? All are more or less different ways to say slavery or wage slavery.
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u/Mushroom_Tip 19h ago
Not surprising. He once called Americans lazy for not living in the factories:
“I think there will be some very strong companies coming out of China," he said during his remarks at the autos conference. "There [are] just a lot of supertalented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing."
"They won’t just be burning the midnight oil," Musk added, "they will be burning the 3am oil, they won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”
He' really hates American workers.
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u/qualityvote2 19h ago edited 17h ago
u/Judah_Earl, your post does fit the subreddit!