Shut up, shut up, shut up please just shtfu already elon. How are people like him and bezos controlling the world? I swear we celebrate and praise mediocre morons in the US.

As a nation we have lost 30 years of progress because we give the loudest most idiotic people to ever live a platform to spew their collective nonsense. Take me back to 2010 where the internet was still fun and not just some massive propaganda machine for the uber wealthy and political nut jobs

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How are people like him and bezos controlling the world?

Capitalism

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But without capitalism we wouldn't have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My ancestors wouldnt have pushed at least one Southern plantation owner to suicide.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe this is what they call based

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

They werent John Brown style abolitionists, they just got pissed off by a business associate and took it about as far as you would expect from a family who still consider themselves American-Scots.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Which is now, very very obviously, not a system design to promote it's own fitness, a la Darwinism...

I wonder what happens to piles of sand placed in the path of high-flowing rivers?

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The United States has always been the best place for the mediocre white man.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

In trump's case, we praise exceptional morons

[–] fosho@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

He's never going to shut up. But people keep amplifying his pathetic voice by sharing what he says. There's a very large group of society that needs to stop sharing outrage fodder.