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dwazou@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world ·
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Swing state voters promised $100 by Musk say they weren’t paid what they were promised

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Swing state voters promised $100 by Musk say they weren’t paid what they were promised

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Elon Musk is being sued for allegedly not paying swing state voters the $100 he promised them to sign a petition
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The lawsuit’s plaintiffs said more than 100 potential class members are collectively owed $5 million by Musk and his America PAC.
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    Elon Musk: “hahaha, suckers”

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    Elon really hoping that he can skate by without legal consequences as long as he just pretends he didn’t actually bribe voters.

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    Who could have seen this coming???

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    THIS COMMENT IS IN ALL CAPS

  • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Honestly at this point the judge should rule against them for being idiots

    • Brandonazz@lemmy.world
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      “The court finds you contemptible.”

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    Putting aside the fact that musk is an asshole, the value of $100 to him is probably less than what 1 cent is worth to most other people, and I can imagine that if most people owed someone 1c, they would probably never get around to paying it.

    It’s a different world for the ultra rich, and even more so for the ultra ultra ultra ultra richest.

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      That’s because you don’t have a billionaire’s brain. They’re somewhere between “I don’t give a damn about these people” and “LOL! Look how I stiffed these losers!”

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    He can pay them back in burning cybertrucks.

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    No. Fucking. Shit.

  • SSNs4evr@leminal.space
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    Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤

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      Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!

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        Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs… common mistake.

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    It only makes sense that you could buy a presidency in an uber capitalistic country.

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    Yeah no shit.

    Paying them would be illegal

    Conning them isn’t.

    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Well, it’s still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty

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        Penalty?

        • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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          It’s more like a processing fee :)

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    I am not surprised at all

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    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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      “Still not tired of winning”

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        ai could never make this

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          Bleh.

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            The MS paint one unironically looks more esthetically pleasing

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              But also the vibes are totally different. In the original there’s a palpable eldritch terror despite the absurdity, helped along by the difference in scale and the unknowable malice in Ribbonthulhu’s expression. In the ai generated version it just looks like a phoned in political cartoon with a shocked Pikachu MAGA looking mildly alarmed at a rather underwhelming baby Cthulhu with ribbons attached.

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              It truly does

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            it got the number of tentacles wrong

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          Why do you think that?

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            😥Bro, we are so close to artificial general intelligence, it will be just like JARVIS from Iron Man, and will crack really funny jokes while being a personal assistant to you. All you need bro is to let it ruin your politics, your arts, your human connections, and your environment. Bro, it’ll be so smart it’ll undo all the environmental and political harm the moment it starts existing. Bro, it’ll take us to fucking Mars.

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            ai can’t generate anything that is not averaged dogshit made by grinding every political cartoon to pixels and compressing it to paste. it categorically can’t generate caricatures, for example. it also shows a degree of creativity and familiarity with literature unlikely in average propmptfan. and also text is legible

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            I can tell from some of the pixels…

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    Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments

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      It usually is. In a democracy anyway

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      In Murica…?!

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