r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Judah_Earl • 1d ago

President Elon says the quiet part out loud.

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u/MentokGL 1d ago

America first!

Americans last!

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u/Ok-Buffalo1273 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago

Employee owned companies largely do well...

Something about aligning incentives.

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u/advester 1d ago

They don't do well at making generational wealth for a couple families.

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u/TheThing_1982 1d ago

I like shopping at Winco over Walmart because Winco is employee owned.

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u/Johnnynoscope 1d ago

Couldn't*

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u/MetaFlight 1d ago

This is part of why the us is fucked. Even in the wildest dreams of many, the only solution that can be imagined is selling companies to other billionaires or the people who just so happen to work for the company at the time, as if it isn't the wealth of society that gives these particular companies essentially all of their value whatsoever.

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u/Johannes_Keppler 1d ago

That's... a remarkable concise and fitting description of the current day USA.

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u/doc_brietz 1d ago

Well, the bright side is this gives them someone to look down on, even if they make less than them. That is what matters.

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u/penguincheerleader 1d ago

America next.

At least I think that is the Rusian translation.

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u/LurkyLurks04982 1d ago

American corporate profits first!

Americans are tools!

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u/HyperionSaber 1d ago

Stick em in the factory

Forward to the past!

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u/waltwalt 1d ago

American corporations first.

The corporation's will import the best from around the world to run their business in America. The actual peasant workers can be from wherever as long as the executives don't have to see them.

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u/MentokGL 1d ago

The bet must be that they think the savings from labor costs will more than offset the loss in consumer spending.

Plus there's no republican downside, they'll just make scapegoats out of a different shed of brown people

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u/Kitchen_Row6532 1d ago

He's setting up a "problem" to "fix." He'll "fix it" by offering people who are being deported an indentured servitude type deal. 

MMW

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u/MentokGL 1d ago

Domestic work visa? Damn that's just stupid and evil enough to be the actual plan.