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      The irony is that Musk, self-proclaimed super genius, doesn’t know what irony is while calling things ironic.

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      I had to sink to the lowest level but I think the perceived irony is that a socialist is opening a store which some people think is inherently capitalist

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        Thank you, my brain was failing to understand even in theory what point he thought he was making…

        Even if it is dumb, I at least like to know the reason…

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      In his empty head, there might be some connection to the Conservative Propaganda about people starving under Socialism, vs a Socialist opening grocery stores, and we’re supposed to see that as “Irony,” rather than popping a hole in their “Socialists Starve People” trope.

      He’s just not smart enough, or sober enough, to follow the mental path beyond “Har, har, look at this Socialist with food, har, har. Ironic, huh?”

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      Gommonysm 100Trillion starbed hardyharharhar

      You need to dial down your intellect to the extend of a 12 yo, than you understand the mind of trillionaire.

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        The meme of communism being the root cause of the starvation in the USSR and China is infuriating to me because it stops people from seeing the valuable lesson that’s actually there: the destruction caused by ideology taking precedence over evidence and a system that cannot see or adapt to evidence that it’s made the wrong decision.

        A well run communist nation would have run optional trial programs to test lysenkoism. It would have slowly ramped it up, seeing if it actually produced results, all while promising those trying it that if it failed they’d be given food, and if it succeeded they’d be allowed to keep some of the surplus.

        No way to safely test the 5 pests campaign though. Gotta have people who understand agriculture and ecology make agricultural decisions to stop that.

        Regardless though, these problems aren’t innate to communism. Reaganism/Thatcherism are of the same nature. And fascists did it far more egregiously than anyone else, partly because their ideology is built on explicitly rejecting non ideological thought and all old ways of doing things. If communists call watering crops communism, fascists will build tents to keep their plants dry.

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          The USSR and China were and are not Communist countries. Just because they call themselves Communist, doesn’t mean they have anything to do with Marxism.

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          the destruction caused by ideology taking precedence over evidence and a system that cannot see or adapt to evidence that it’s made the wrong decision…Regardless though, these problems aren’t innate to communism.

          Absolutely correct. I’d go so far as to proclaiming it a base aspect of the human condition.

          Prehistoric survival strategy that hasn’t uniformly left the species/adapted to the modern world.

          Reaganism/Thatcherism are of the same nature. And fascists did it far more egregiously than anyone else, partly because their ideology is built on explicitly rejecting non ideological thought and all old ways of doing things.

          Also absolutely correct, and they know that.

          Even a moron like Musk, who I genuinely believe couldn’t correctly ID 10 pieces of irony even if they all floppily cockslapped his stupid face, is aware of why he peddles the drivel he does.

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    Remember when the World Food Program showed Musk he could solve world hunger for a mere fraction of his wealth andyet he’s still here trying to dunk on people trying to put food on tables?

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        Even fucking clankers know, yes.

        But next time, maybe click on the little bubbles at the end of each continent warming paragraph, and read the sources the clanker is supposedly using and determine truth yourself.

        Then come back here and share your direct understanding of that.

        That’s how fucking discussion works ffs, we can all go to Google and get forcefed AI overview whenever we want.

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    Musk is such a fucking waste of oxygen. This is how he tricks people into thinking he isn’t as dumb as a lobotomized sunfish. He smugly says a bunch of bullshit just vague enough to fool other idiots into playing along because they want to feel smart too. There’s nothing ironic about the news story he referenced. He’s a fucking moronic narcissist who hears something and without even bothering to process the information immediately assumes he understands it on a level beyond everyone else. And if you press him on it even slightly he’ll just say you have a tiny brain or call you a pedophile or some shit.

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      One would hope it would backfire. This statement seems absolutely so stupid that I can imagine people that would be inclined to side with him would still not understand how “ironic” applies to the screenshot. By virtue of blindly loving Musk or blindly hating Mamdani I can imagine some “yeah, you go!”, but never necessarily understanding why or thinking it mustu be really smart.

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    He’s one of the biggest douchebags on Earth. Once people stop buying from and listening to him, we’ll be so much better off.

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      Didn’t he change Twitter a while back so that all users got automatically signed up to his insane bullshit posts? idk I’ve never been

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    What is the irony? That he thinks the original plan was to give away food for free then they realized they have to charge something? I’m pretty sure charging something was always the plan just not with the intent of a for profit model.

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    Elon Musk literally bragged that if anyone could prove $6B could end world hunger, he’d spend it. UN was, like, yeah. He, of course, dropped the conversation right then and there.

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      Yeah but can you imagine the humiliation if it didn’t work and he accidentally just saved millions of lives without getting rid of 100.0% of the problem?

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      6b to him is fucking like me sending a mate $100 for their birthday. Absolute piece of shit.

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    I don’t see the problem. I’d rather people be able to afford to eat and feed their families.

    Anyone who has a problem with affordable groceries, in a period of time where the cost of living outweighs being able to afford groceries; can go fuck themselves with a rusty Trident.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    If you could ask Musk what is ironic about this situation, he couldn’t tell you. Because he doesn’t know the definition of “irony”.