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    Ilhan Omar has lived in America longer than Elon Musk.

    We could complain about large groups of South Africans voting for Musk, except no one ever voted for that shithead for anything.

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      More people than you know are voting for him with their dollar. I live in California and I’ll bet 30% of every vehicle I see daily are Tesla. I’d bet 5% of those are cyber trucks.

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        1. Elon Musk did not found Tesla. It existed before him. Even after he bought the company, a lot of those vehicles were purchased before his politics were widely known.

        2. Electric vehicles had tons of government subsidies that Tesla famously leaned on for years. So even if you want to count purchases as votes, a lot of those “votes” were directly from the federal government rather than the people.

        3. It’s incredibly hard to get solid data on cyber truck sales, but reports everywhere indicate that it is not doing well. The cybertruck is a highly unique and notable vehicle. For a while I too thought that they were getting more and more popular near me, until one got a unique scratch. I soon realized the truck I saw at the mall was the same one I saw at the grocery store, and also the same one I regularly saw parked near a cafe. The F-150’s, Rams, Tundras, and everything else mostly blends together into a sea of generic traffic, but the cybertruck stands out.

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        I’m in Florida. I see less than 10% of vehicles being Teslas. Still more than I like to see. Only a couple of cyber trucks in the area, though.

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          What’s funny is I was seeing tons of cyber trucks last year daily but as of recent I haven’t seen as many. Might also have to do with my commute changing when I moved but I like to think maybe people realized their shame was showing.

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    Dude, you’re from South Africa and you were literally giving out millions of dollars to bribe people into voting for Trump

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    Conservatives just say things. They say whatever they think will get the result they want. They are bad people.

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      Fascists use language as a weapon to manipulate and control, not to convey understanding or meaning. They can only communicate in bad faith because they cannot value the freedom and wellbeing necessary for a rational dialectic.

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    Ever since my traumatic brain injury three years ago, I have thought like a psychopath. I’m also on the spectrum, so basically, these days I’m like Elon…in that I am an autistic psychopath.

    Trust me, Elon doesn’t think any of you are real and that he is the main character in the simulation. But I think y’all already knew that, lmao. By the way, DUDE, this guy is planning some BAD shit, psychopaths are all about having layers upon layers of deception

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        lmao…but i meant that i get the autistic empathy-free train of thought he’s always on. i vibe with that. btw elon does so many drugs because psychopaths all crave drugs. we’re all perpetually understimulated, so drugs make us feel things

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    DEAR REPUBLICANS -

    PLEASE EVACUATE MINNESOTA IMMEDIATELY. THE STATE IS ALL SOMALIS NOW. I REPEAT IT IS ALL SOMALIS NOW. YOU ARE NOT SAFE. YOU SHOULD ABANDON YOUR HOMES. JUST LEAVE THE KEY IN THE MAILBOX, ITS FINE. ALSO, PLEASE ABANDON ANY RETAIL SHOPS, CAR DEALERSHIPS, APARTMENTS YOU MIGHT BE COLLECTING RENT ON, UNIVERSITY TENURED POSITIONS, AND ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES IN THE STATE.

    THERE IS NO TIME FOR YOU TO CONFIRM THE ACCURACY OF THIS STATEMENT. TENS OF MILLIONS OF YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD OR DYING. FLEE TO NEIGHBORING SOUTH DAKOTA AS SOON AS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE.

    THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM YOUR TRUSTED FRIEND AND CONFIDENT WHO IS ALSO A TRILLIONAIRE SO YOU KNOW YOU CAN TRUST IT.

    SINCERELY,

    WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS?! RUN BITCH RUN!

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    even if this was accurate, “she was elected by her community to represent their interests in the government” isn’t a flaw in the system to be corrected, it’s the literal definition of representative democracy

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      He is literally saying voters who are from Somalia should not be allowed to vote.

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    Time to put a gag and a straight jacket on this mother fucken imbecile , I wanna vomit every time I see his fucken face

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      I was just wondering that myself, interesting choice lol, it’s like Darth Vader wearing a I <3 Jedis button.