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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Lookit y'all acting like a few of those tags wouldn't be super helpful on these forums, or in this here thread. If Lottery of Babylon doesn't need tags, nobody does!
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Hellblazer187 posted:lmao this has to be a joke.  /j /lh
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Mar 1, 2021 14:27
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Haha I gave that Taliban guy some poo poo the other day because of that tweet and he's blocked me.
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God, Oberlin has been making GBS threads the bed really loving hard over the last five years (loving over unions, anti-semitism and racism, closing student co-ops) but this is just beautifully stupid.
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https://twitter.com/TribalRage/status/1366400894061797377?s=20 This is a promoted Tweet. Elon's not gonna gently caress you, my guy.
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I DEMAND A SEAT ON ELON'S BIG BRAIN gently caress YACHT!
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Elon's going to prison, not Mars. He's been colluding with loving coke cartels, that's too big a scandal for just a rich nerd to survive unscathed I think.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:02
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Biplane posted:Elon's going to prison, not Mars. He's been colluding with loving coke cartels, that's too big a scandal for just a rich nerd to survive unscathed I think.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:04
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Hellblazer187 posted:lmao this has to be a joke. from what I remember, most of the "liberal blue checks" I saw were for Warren/Kamala/Pete. Doesn't mean they wouldn't get behind Biden, just that he wasn't their like, first through third choice. Everyone was like "ugh not Biden, please" and then they got into their snake/rat emoji wars as Warren and Pete were floundering.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:07
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Tiggum posted:The literal richest person in the world? He could murder someone on live TV and not go to prison. Well yeah I guess, but drug crime is like the one thing that everybody is supposed to hate. I'm under no illusions that politicians aren't coked up to their eyeballs, but to the huddled masses, conspiring with drug traffickers to ship probably tons and tons of cocaine into the US is a big no-no. gently caress me, as I'm typing this I realise that you, Tiggum, are most likely right on this. Mods?
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Biplane posted:Well yeah I guess, but drug crime is like the one thing that everybody is supposed to hate. I'm under no illusions that politicians aren't coked up to their eyeballs, but to the huddled masses, conspiring with drug traffickers to ship probably tons and tons of cocaine into the US is a big no-no. gently caress me, as I'm typing this I realise that you, Tiggum, are most likely right on this. Mods? You don't think banks are colluding with drug cartels constantly? The elite only care about drug crimes when they're a tool to opress the poor, especially BIPoc poor.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:13
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U.S. banks handled trillions of dollars in "suspicious" transactions, report saysquote:A congressional investigation into the 2016 U.S. presidential election has unearthed evidence that major banks processed $2 trillion in transactions despite suspecting they were connected to illegal activity.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:14
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Lol if you think there are laws that apply to the richest people on earth
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Mar 1, 2021 17:15
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I recognize my idiocy and will leave the post up as a testament to my sad, pathetic naivety.
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Tiggum posted:The literal richest person in the world? He could murder someone on live TV and not go to prison. If they can tie his fabulous wealth into drug crimes activity then america's civil forfeiture laws provide a big incentive to go after him. They have a precedent of stealing your poo poo and making you prove it wasn't crime related to get it back, you don't even have to be convicted of anything. "Known illegal drug user" becomes "known drug kingpin" pretty easily.
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Facebook Aunt posted:If they can tie his fabulous wealth into drug crimes activity then america's civil forfeiture laws provide a big incentive to go after him. They have a precedent of stealing your poo poo and making you prove it wasn't crime related to get it back, you don't even have to be convicted of anything. Yeah, but again, they only do that to poor people and minorities.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:22
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Biplane posted:Elon's going to prison, not Mars. He's been colluding with loving coke cartels, that's too big a scandal for just a rich nerd to survive unscathed I think. I keep hearing about this but see nothing newer than allegations made 3 or 4 years ago. Someone want to fill us dumb dumbs in?
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Mar 1, 2021 17:33
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Scratch Monkey posted:I keep hearing about this but see nothing newer than allegations made 3 or 4 years ago. Someone want to fill us dumb dumbs in? Elon is working with drug cartels to gently caress over third world nations and destabilize their workers/governments so he can extract lithium or whatever from their land to build his full-sized exploding RC cars. Nothing will happen because he's rich.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:39
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Pththya-lyi posted:https://twitter.com/TribalRage/status/1366400894061797377?s=20 You don't know that, Elon Musk fucks lots of people!
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Mar 1, 2021 17:47
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Scratch Monkey posted:I keep hearing about this but see nothing newer than allegations made 3 or 4 years ago. Someone want to fill us dumb dumbs in? His name came up in connection with Emma Coronel Aispuro, El Chapo’s wife, in recent court documents. Edit to add: my recollection was that it was very tangential, like “FBI sources say that Coronel has been in contact with Musk,” but people will run with whatever. AlbieQuirky has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 17:47
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AlbieQuirky posted:His name came up in connection with Emma Coronel Aispuro, El Chapo’s wife, in recent court documents. There was an actual SEC complaint by a whistleblower who said he was directly involved in smuggling cocaine my guy, lmao.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:55
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Captain Monkey posted:There was an actual SEC complaint by a whistleblower who said he was directly involved in smuggling cocaine my guy, lmao. Cause the SEC is famous for actual punishment, and we always listen to whistle-blowers and don't name and shame them immediately when it involves someone rich and powerful.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:58
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The SEC takes a while to come around to actual enforcement but if you piss them off enough it's not going to end well for you.
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There was a post in the pyf tweet thread? Maybe? About Musk and the cartel. I of course don't have the link because I am a moron, and didn't save it. But there were a lot of documents
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Betazoid posted:Idiots on Social Media: Americans can have a bit of fascism, as a treat IOSM: Americans can have little a fascism, as a treat. <  >
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Mar 1, 2021 18:22
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Captain Monkey posted:There was an actual SEC complaint by a whistleblower who said he was directly involved in smuggling cocaine my guy, lmao. I didn’t see that! Do you have a link? Because wow. I was familiar with this but not that. Edit to add: Googling “Elon Musk” + cocaine is not bringing me anything helpful. 
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AlbieQuirky posted:I didn’t see that! Do you have a link? Because wow. I was familiar with this but not that. https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/08/sec-complaint-tesla-drugs-theft/ I admit I'm not that up on it, I'm just tangentially aware of the fact that it exists. I was just rolling my eyes at you characterizing it as people making poo poo up.
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Captain Monkey posted:https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/08/sec-complaint-tesla-drugs-theft/ I wasn’t characterizing it as people making poo poo up, though? If you look at what I linked, I think my characterization of what’s in those court documents as tangential is accurate. I believe that Musk is capable of any crime imaginable, but the question was about what’s come up recently, which is the connection to the recently arrested Coronel.
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Mar 1, 2021 18:56
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https://twitter.com/passthebeano/status/1196452219375112192?lang=en Elon Musk + El Chapo gets what you want
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AlbieQuirky posted:I wasn’t characterizing it as people making poo poo up, though? If you look at what I linked, I think my characterization of what’s in those court documents as tangential is accurate. You know "Coronel" is her middle name and not her rank, right?
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jackofarcades posted:from what I remember, most of the "liberal blue checks" I saw were for Warren/Kamala/Pete. Doesn't mean they wouldn't get behind Biden, just that he wasn't their like, first through third choice. Everyone was like "ugh not Biden, please" and then they got into their snake/rat emoji wars as Warren and Pete were floundering. No, I'm not disputing the timeline. Biden getting the nomination should have been obvious. All the other centrists had no traction among us regular plebe voters, because they were all manufactured empty suits or boring nerds. Regular people either liked Bernie or Biden. Say what you will about Biden, but he comes off way more like an actual human than the other center lane candidates did. Once the powers that be realized the only two who could ever possibly win were Biden or Bernie, they obviously consolidated behind Biden. At least, that's how I remember it and how I interpretted it at the time. The part of the tweet that feels like a joke is the idea that anyone at all ever cared about liberal blue check mark elites? Like wake up call for what? That check marks aren't kingmakers? Did anybody actually think this?
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Hellblazer187 posted:The part of the tweet that feels like a joke is the idea that anyone at all ever cared about liberal blue check mark elites? Like wake up call for what? That check marks aren't kingmakers? Did anybody actually think this? Noted bluecheck haver Nate Silver absolutely does
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Hellblazer187 posted:Say what you will about Biden, but he comes off way more like an actual human than the other center lane candidates did. No he didn't. People just knew who he was, because he was the previous VP, and the general liberal public associates the Obama era as a modern golden age in politics. He didn't come off as more human than Pete Buttigieg; he came off as a safe haven for returning to the pre-Trump status quo, someone who wouldn't hurt any important's bottom line and could pretend to represent good ol' boy Americana.
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Takoluka posted:He didn't come off as more human than Pete Buttigieg; He sure did to me! Biden's whole thing for the majority of his career was putting his foot in his mouth, which is not good but it's more human than having every word focus group tested.
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Mar 1, 2021 19:51
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I mean the whole strategy for Biden was mitigating risk by not letting the people see him at all especially with his clearly weakening mental state
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I mean, it's not rocket science. Generally affable + Obama's Sidekick + Personal Tragedies + "Big loving deal" (the one gaff that non-politically engaged people are likely to remember) + Onion TransAm Biden. They kept him hidden so the shine wouldn't wear off those. That's a lot more human than "Literally a walking talking Resume" Buttman. He was not establishment choice, but the establishment was notably split between Harris (most of the Clinton wing), Klob (the intelligencia wing), Butt (a grab-bag of parts of the Clinton wing, the last bits of the old Kennedy wing and some of the intelligencia) and Warren (not-Bernie compromisers made up of a bunch of different people). Klob never got anywhere, Butt has no appeal to the black coalition of the Dem party, Harris's campaign imploded spectacularly and the Warren people were never serious about Warren so they abandoned her as soon as she wasn't a necessary foil. Leaving Biden. He wasn't anyone's first pick but the establishment was fine making him be the nom.
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