• positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
      901·
      2 months ago

      Nothing says liberty like the Republican party, where you can’t be yourself, love who you love or have control over your own body.

        • daddy32@lemmy.world
          91·
          2 months ago

          I believe that’s a so called neo-liberalism, mostly synonymous with “laissez-fare” approaching to economy. While classical liberalism seeks for personal freedoms, neo-liberalism seeks for freedoms of fake, legal persons.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            4·
            2 months ago

            The book I linked is an academic work that details how the major liberal philosophers dealt with the contradiction between freedom of the bourgeoisie and freedom of the exploited classes. It’s not a long read, and does the important work of contextualizing their philosophies.

            Liberal education has a tendency to present liberalism as if someone just got the idea for everyone to be equal and free, and then the people democratically embraced capitalism because that’s the most freedom and equal system, and history ended.

            • daddy32@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              Guess what I was trying to say is that that changes over time - and not in a good way. But maybe if you read the book, you can tell us more :)

              Edit: looks like the author posits it has “always” been shit in mostly “liberties for me but bot thee” ways.

              • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
                22·
                2 months ago

                I understood what you’re saying, and I’m telling you it’s historically inaccurate, I just gave you a book explaining how your classical liberals practiced and argued about slavery and other “freedoms” of the bourgeoisie.

      • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I had the same reaction. Dude looks terrible. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    951·
    2 months ago

    Even better was the r/photoshopbattles version of them dancing:

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    901·
    2 months ago

    Elon: “I have a dad now!”

    Trump: “Somebody call security on this freak!”

    Edit: Maybe Trump is downplaying his weirdness by using Elon as a sideshow freak.

  • Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Trump: “Jump!”
    Musk: “How high?”
    Trump: “Get as high as you can!”
    Musk: “I am already as high as I can, I wanted to know how high I should jump!”

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      241·
      2 months ago

      Sadly, I think it’s Musk doing the commanding. Knowing as much as I do about Musk’s philosophy, that’s not a good thing. If Trump wasn’t fascist enough, Musk certainly isn’t going to help.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        2 months ago

        I have no doubt they are empowering each other in a sick feedback loop.

        I had a friend that was always into guns but was normal about it. Then he started hanging out with this other gun guy. Within a couple years they were both psycho gun nuts. He started sleeping with a loaded the gun under his pillow. Even though he had a five year old son. To quote “He isn’t strong enough to cycle the slide so it’s ok …”

        I noped out of the friendship after that.

        • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 months ago

          One my old friends became a cop. He would leave his service Glock in it’s holster on his belt, hanging from his computer chair. While his then 7 year old daughter and 9 year old son ran wild, with no supervision.

          “They know not to touch it.”

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
            10·
            2 months ago

            Did he forget that kids will go out of their way to touch it. I remember when I was a little shit, I did a lot of things I wasnt supposed to do. I only got caught for the worst ones.

            • P00ptart@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 months ago

              Shit, I only got caught on the lamest shit I did lol. If my parents knew 20% of the shit I did…

                • P00ptart@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I’ve cause numerous fires. Never a dumpster though. Back in the day, when my uncle was in HS he accidentally caught his hs library on fire after breaking in to smoke pot and return a book. So he’s got me beat by quite a lot. But my mother was a neglectful narcissist, so I became a master of illusion.

                  Edit: honestly, most of the times I fucked up was when I was trying to be helpful. Parents had a wall they started to paint and let go for 2 weeks, they went out one night when I was like 13. So I finished it as a surprise while they were out. Got paint all over the carpet. Bonehead shit but otherwise innocent. Other than the porn, that’s all I was ever caught with. I’ve ran from the cops too many times to count from ~14-24. Never anything real bad that harmed anyone, just general mischief.

        • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          2 months ago

          Sleeping with a loaded gun under the pillow. If somebody wants to kill you, and is in your bedroom while you’re sleeping, then you’re going to wake up to a bullet going through your brain, before you go back to sleep permanently. A gun under the pillow doesn’t even make sense in the gun nuts paranoid delusions.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    511·
    2 months ago

    Elon Musk is what happens when that middle school kid that says shit like “How fortuitous” gets money.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    402·
    2 months ago

    is that old lesbian growing a beard?

    who the fuck is that?

    edit: just saw where I am. Jesus, he’s really let himself go…

    • DancingBear@midwest.social
      61·
      2 months ago

      When I first saw the photo that’s exactly what I thought, I was looking on the edges of the photo for secret service agents running to tackle him