• @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    1661 month ago

    You know that kid did kind of show up out of nowhere in the past couple of months.

    I’ve never seen him with any of his kids before.

    And if you think about it, he’s definitely a heartless bastard to do this.

    And now I’m wondering about a lot of wealthy elites I’ve seen with their kids lately. Many of whom I had no idea they had kids that were so strikingly young.

    • @Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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      471 month ago

      Imagine being this kid and growing up and realizing one day the only reason dad ever suddenly started giving a shit about you was because he was using you as a meat shield because some guy named Luigi killed another rich guy. I’d be devastated

      • @Venator@lemmy.nz
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        11 month ago

        Could be that they don’t want thier kids to be as impacted by thier fame so keep them away from photographers… Nah they’re probably just more worried they’d be easier to kidnap and might have to pay a ransom if they’re more widly known.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      231 month ago

      Using innocents, especially the wounded and children, as shields are a staple of terrorists everywhere. There’s a reason why Hamas was posting up in hospitals and schools constantly like it mattered much to Israel in the end.

      All it takes for Elon is someone with better aim though. Aim small miss small.

      • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        301 month ago

        Don’t go for the head, too small. Probably useless also. All his vitals are just sitting there unprotected even by his “meatshield”

      • @Draces@lemmy.world
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        141 month ago

        Vivian seems pretty cool. You shouldn’t assume they’re going to follow after their dad. Especially if they realize he used them as a meat shield

      • Majorllama
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        81 month ago

        …do you people even hear yourselves?

        I completely understand hating Elon, but wanting to shoot him and being ok with his innocent child being collateral is fucking insane.

        The fact you felt ok commenting it and at least 35 other people upvoted that is crazy to me.

          • Majorllama
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            41 month ago

            I don’t care who it pisses off, but I will never hold children accountable for the actions of their parents. If they grow up and continue their parents shitty actions that’s a different conversation, but preemptively assuming someone will turn out a certain way is disgusting.

        • @Auli@lemmy.ca
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          11 month ago

          Does any of the oligarchy care about who they hurt? Do most people care who they hurt. We have rampant capitalism and people get hurt over it but nobody cares.

          • Majorllama
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            -11 month ago

            We are talking about direct intentional murder of an innocent child vs layers of societal failures due to an economic structure of government.

            Not exactly 1 to 1.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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        21 month ago

        Have you ever heard about hydra? The whole “cut one head and two will grow” shtick? I hate Elon and I want him to die as soon as possible but he’s nothing but an avatar.

      • @Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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        -201 month ago

        Only here on Lemmy, people advocating for taking a sniper shot and potentially murdering an infant.

        This from the party of love and empathy, advocating for the rights of the working man, wondering why people think they are unhinged when outside their echo chambers

        Details at six

        • @LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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          51 month ago

          And when thousands die (including children, infants, and babies all) because Mump (Musk/Trump) cut what little social help they have, it’s just fine and dandy.

          Unfortunately, sometimes this type of thing just needs to be done for the greater good. Two lives for the price of thousands who can barely afford to live as is.

          • Majorllama
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            01 month ago

            Doubling down and saying “eh his kid might just have to die for the greater good” is fucking wild.

            • @LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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              11 month ago

              Again, there are thousands of other kids who will die thanks to Musk and Trump. It sounds wild to you, and it is definitely not something I would ever prefer, but that is where we are at right now, realistically.

              • Majorllama
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                -11 month ago

                No. It’s where you are at right now.

                The rest of the normal people wouldn’t even entertain the idea of killing an innocent child just to take out one guy they didn’t like.

                You people all desperately need help.

                Your moral compasses don’t even have cardinal directions anymore.

        • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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          1 month ago

          This is the party of pure, unadulterated class hate and trying to shoot Elon through reinforced glass that could sustain .50 in rounds is stupid. It’s way better to take him out in the open when he gets out of his jet.

        • @Auli@lemmy.ca
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          11 month ago

          I love online that is not an infant so people even know what words mean. Imhe would be a toddler.

      • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        Those windows can take sustained .50cal fire. That kid would only count as concealment against anything deployed effectively against those windows.

  • snooggums
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    1 month ago

    In The Dead Zone Stephen King predicted society would turn on a politician who used a child to shield themselves from an assassin.

    I no longer think that is true, at least for members or associates of one party.

  • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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    351 month ago

    Well, yes, obviously, he probably never even saw the kid before that. I dare some ballsy journalist to ask him, what’s the kids name.

  • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    181 month ago

    So he is literally Hamas! Where is the world’s most moral army when you need them! Come on IDF, drop a few hundred 2000 lb bombs!

      • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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        81 month ago

        The IDF, the world’s most humane and civilized army, has a zero percent collateral damage rate! Everyone killed by them is Hamas! Children, the mentally disabled, the physically disabled, people who are unaware, mothers. All are Hamas if they die!

      • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        Dear IDF soldier reading this: I fully support the Palestinian resistance. Please, whatever you do, do not bomb Elon Musk while he is next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It would make me very sad.

  • 🏴Akuji
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    91 month ago

    By the way, what’s this one barcode, “X4t-2-y34rs-4g0”?

  • @Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    -371 month ago

    Only here on Lemmy, people advocating for taking a sniper shot and potentially murdering an infant.

    This from the party of love and empathy, advocating for the rights of the working man, wondering why people think they are unhinged when outside their echo chambers

    Details at six

    • SmokeyDope
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      311 month ago

      Lemmy isn’t a political party, its a decentralized platform for communities and peoples of all kinds. Theres a left leaning bias for people who like unions and stuff but youll find plenty of communities for the far right and everything between.

      The real reason you see this only here on lemmy because you’re actually free to give such a hot take without being instantly banned by a centralized authority. Maybe you’re so used to supressed and sanitized corporate run discussion fourms you forgot what people are actually like when they are free to express themselves. This is just the darker side of humanity unmasked. The suffering common people wishing death on their ruling aristocracy who just sees them as cattle and not caring if their bloodlines die with them has been around pretty much forever.

    • @pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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      151 month ago

      This is like a trolley problem: how many infant are you willing to run over in order to kill Elon? And how many children are dying just by the fact that piece of garbage is alive?

      Details at seven

    • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      71 month ago

      I always find tge “only on x” comments to be an incredibly stupid form as hyperbole. Either you’re an idiot who doesn’t realize people will say the same type of stuff on discords, forums, Twitter, Facebook, whatsapp, texts/dms, and a plethora of other places, or you do know and you just ignore it to criticize the platform for whatever reason.

      Since you’re attacking (as others pointed out) a decentralized platform that anyone can spin up (including Nazis and the like) by trying to make us a monolith, I’m leaning more to the first, but I guess you could just be a troll.