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[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 152 points 2 weeks ago
[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not to mention the dozens of witnesses screaming at Chauvin to get off Floyd's neck because he couldn't breathe.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 weeks ago

Elon should be kind enough to give us a live demonstration. I'll believe him if he survives it.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Pet Marco Rubio 😂

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 weeks ago

That was the moment he got enough XP to change classes from Space Karen to Space Nazi.

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 58 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Still real sad. This is the Space Nazis I was promised. And instead we get ~gestures at the blob of putrid waste that is Musk~

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean......maybe we just shouldn't have nazis at all? I know my deceased purple heart WWII normandy beach storming grandfather would have prefered that outcome. In fact in the 90s, he was quite proud of the lack of nazis due to his and everyones combined efforts in the 1940s.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I take it you haven't seen the movie....

spoilerThe blonde on the pic was raised by Nazis on a moon base. She meets the black guy, realizes she's been indoctrinated into a terrible regime and helps kill the fuhrer

It's very much a tongue in cheek comedy movie mocking Nazis.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He doesn't have to have intended to kill the guy to be criminally liable for his death. He was grossly negligent in his sustained use of a restraint technique with lethal capacity and callously unrelenting in the force applied, which was deemed excessive, even as the danger Floyd was in was apparent, and even then after he went still and no longer had a pulse. Whatever his intent, he murdered that man by two different legal definitions as the justice system concluded.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 39 points 2 weeks ago

When you are in a running out of attention for a week tournament and your opponent is Elon:

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All these months later and I still can't believe someone Nazi saluted at the US presidential inauguration. Absolutely wild.

And then a few months after that the US gave him trillions of dollars. Just wow!

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My Right-Leaning ex-friends swear it was just a "My heart goes out to you" gesture, they can't even admit it was what it was.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Derek Chauvin himself pleaded guilty in federal court and admitted that he used excessive force.

Whatever the constitutionality or merits of his current effort to reduce or eliminate his federal sentence, that has absolutely nothing to do with his underlying murder conviction. Chauvin was convicted of murder in state court beyond a reasonable doubt, and he admitted his guilt. A subsequent challenge to his sentence does not erase, invalidate, or somehow put that conviction up for debate. Derek Chauvin is, and will remain, a convicted murderer.

And Elon Musk continues to prove, over and over again, that he may be the stupidest smart person I have ever seen in my life.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's not smart! Holy shit why do people think he is a genius? I just don't understand, he didn't invent anything, doesn't design anything engineers are currently talking about having to walk him back because he's deadset on something catastrophically stupid.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He’s not a dumb smart person, he’s a dumb person’s interpretation of a smart person. He was just born with too much money to fail. The guy is stupid as fuck.

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[–] joecitizen@piefed.ca 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jail all billionaires. You can't be that rich without being a thief. You've stolen wages from the people.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Derrière chaque grande fortune se cache un grand crime (Behind every great fortune lies a great crime).

-Honoré de Balzac

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[–] EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

why do we care about the space nazi? his views are bad every single time, its getting tiresome.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because the arsehole has the money to impose his views on others all over the world. Also hopefully making his name and associated companies dirt might actually start impacting his bottom line.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

^^^THIS RIGHT HERE! ^^^

It’s very hard to overstate how much power this asshole’s wealth gives him. People joke about it all the time, but he is effectively above the law. For some reason, people equate his wealth with intelligence, so they listen to him. When the disagree with anything he says, that wealth/intelligence pops up and they assume he knows something they don’t.

He is an incredibly dangerous person. Especially so, given his obvious fascist and racist tendencies.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because he's the richest man in the world and because his reckless shenanigans have caused massive loss of life.

It's a situation that really warrants help from a plumber's brother.

[–] EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

and some still think he is some kind of genius. he is just authoritarian and exploitative. thats it.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wealth is control, and people who have a lot of control and power should be closely monitored. ideally people should be prevented from having such exaggerated control, but you work with what you got i guess.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Can you imagine what his marketing team would create if given the chance? Instead of Space Nazi it'd be Sky Prophet.

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

'Kay smart guy: What do you call it when you suffocate someone to death with your knee on their neck?

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone shove a rocket up his ass and send him to mars already

[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bro's not even going anymore. The dude has got an apocalypse bunker and aristocract-breeding fetish he's putting his energy into now

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"the ants are unifying under the banner of socialism! Quick! Divide them racially again! Get them hating each other!!!"

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It has always worked before, if not race then sex, if not sex then nationality, if not nationality then religion, if not religion then age, if not age then social status, on and on ad naseum.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

No war but class war.

[–] paddy@piefed.social 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He continued to kneel on George's neck for several minutes after being told - by his fellow officers - that he had no pulse. He 100% intended for that man to die.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't some of the testimony include that they'd had beef since high school?

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

I distinctly remember when that video popped up on reddit.

My reaction was "i just watched a murder."

It was very clear in the moment, nothing has changed that.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago

Not a "space" Nazi. Just a very rich and powerful one.

What did we used to do to rich and powerful Nazis? Because keeping those around seems like a problem for everybody.

[–] Naive@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The father of all lies. I have seen no one that lies as much as him and these AI bros. They should be deported to Mars. They do not deserve to live on Earth

[–] Glaedr304@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Deported to mars without a space suit

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is slander to space. Elon has never been there, and probably never will be. He's not associated with it at all, and if asked, space has dozens of planets as witnesses willing to corroborate this.

He's not a Space Nazi. He's a Rocket Nazi. Not even the Rocket Nazi (that'd be Wernher von Braun); just a wannabe hack.

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it legal to wish someone to put a knee on his neck until this bastard passes out?

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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

The only non-murder I know is named Luigi

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

Wow. I bet he said that specifically because the assailant was white and the victim was black.

This reminds me very much of Donald Trump taking out an ad calling for capital punishment for the Central Park Five.

Too much power is bad for you, man.

[–] halezinflames@lemmus.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh boy, the Nazi that is now suing a US state over them trying to stop AI from generating CSAM has a bad take? Shocked.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Space Nazi" affords him even the dubious accolade of getting to or enabling space travel.

Just call him a Nepo Nazi, as he is. Highlights the only thing he's achieved: getting ahead based on being raised with "South African emerald mine" money.

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[–] gogonan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Elon Musk only had to shut the fuck up and mind his business and he could’ve been the happiest, most successful, piece of shit drain on society alive. Instead, he’s a miserable little bitch whining online about a murder committed by an officer 6 years ago. Christ.

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[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

If an expert says something, that means the opposite is true! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Why do people say such atrocious things” they wonder, as they endlessly reply, retweet, screenshot and spread to other social networks, etc

Engagement is engagement

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