Elon Musk Is Committing a Crime—but It Doesn’t Matter Because He’s Rich

Like, seriously, are these people new here?

wage theft is always worth it for the boss
stealing from work never is worth it for the worker though
Best game ever.
- Tactics?
It's he even being fined, though?
- He is paying for lawyers to prevent him from ever seeing any consequences. That is a "fine"

Merrick Garland needs to be removed and replaced by someone who cares about the rule of law.

He ain’t it. He’s asleep at the wheel.

He’s so terrified of anything appearing to be “political“, he will absolutely do nothing as long as the criminal is in some way politically connected.
- He would have made a decent Supreme Court justice but he's just not cut out to be attorney-general.
Genuinely the most catastrophically idiotic appointment of the entire Biden administration.
Every time I see a picture of him he looks terrified

As outsider, following events happening in US, its never been more obvious that if you're rich/powerful you cant be touched.

Trump has made this so hard to refute, that many of his followers are literally embracing fascism. It's very bad news.
It really seems like not only can't they be touched, but everyone else is also so jaded by the situation that no one is even fucking trying.

There goes the trust in US institutions for even more people.

That's the point. If you make everything clearly shit enough, there will not be resistance to people saying "this is all shit let's rip it up and just make a mess", because that's how you make the most grotesque profits, because profit is made through exploitation.
How can I trust my government?
As a trans man, my state strips more rights from me everyday. I can be discriminated against in housing or employment. With a recent executive order, I could be arrested for having the “wrong” letter on my drivers license. The federal government is doing NOTHING to keep LGBT folks in southern states safe.
Fuck, in Oklahoma, a transgender child was murdered and the state government was allowed to cover it up! They can kill us and there will be no consequences.

Another confirmation that this is a plutocracy ... or an oligarchy

A plutocratic oligarchy
"Potato potatoe". Debating over whether it's an oligarchy, plutocracy, corporatocracy, kakistocracy, etc is splitting hairs. All that matters is the masses understand that voting does not equal democracy when who you can vote for — your choices — are predetermined entirely by wealth and campaign financing; that what we have is not "democracy".
I consider what we have to be a neo-feudalist fusion of all of them, so it's best to think of it like the Kings and Queens of old. There are always significant power plays amongst them, and the US election is merely one of many. The only major difference is that they've had to maintain the illusion of freedom and choice, and make a more educated peasant believe they have super-duper for realz democracy. They use to only have to indoctrinate everyone with religion, then associate the feudalists with the cult, saying they are "chosen to god".
What Trump and MAGA represent is a reversion to the religious level of indoctrination — the cult like indoctrination of China, Russia, or NK —where they can remove the entire system that would enable legitimate democracy (if our options weren't predetermined by wealth), while maintaining the belief of freedom™️ and democracy™️... with thunderous applause.

This is where a citizen's arrest would come in handy.

It generally only applies to active crimes that disturb the peace (violent crimes).
- That's a matter of time.

too bad the cops can't arrest him badly and tase him while he aready has a knee pressing down his neck and get a full gun unloaded at him after an acorn hits a cybertruck, setting it on fire.

And the cops execute the warrant at the wrong address, unloading all their rounds into him because he's wearing a hoodie while playing with a toy gun in a public park in Cleveland.
- he’s wearing a hoodie while playing with a toy gun in a public park in Cleveland.
  The weird thing is... this is something that I could see him doing.

Get the guillotine.

The guillotine was designed to minimize suffering.
I would like to posit a 275 kilo power hammer that goes off as many times as you have been "slammed" in headlines.
- Hung, drawn and quartered is quite effective at maximizing the suffering.
  Having your cock cut off and stuffing in your mouth while you're still alive is a pretty brutal final fuck you.

Let’s just pick a day. Everyone punches the richest person they can get their hands on.

Can it be every day?

Even though the federal Department for Justice has a standing policy against prosecuting election-related offences within two months of an election, there's still the possibility that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can prosecute him for offences committed under Pennsylvania's state election law.

The governor of Pennsylvania has expressed some openness to this happening.

So when you commit a crime, do they like, arrest your ass prompty and shove you in the legal system for potentially years or do they express some openness to it happening.
- Well, you see, that depends on whether you have a team of highly-paid defence lawyers that can get you off if the prosecution makes even the slightest mistake in their case.
- Only if you're not rich.

Land of the robber barons! What the founders would have intended.

I feel like this headline is like The Onions' "No Way To Prevent This"; they can just keep on reusing it.

Holy hyperbole batman

The feel of a battleground text spam is well crafted. By Elon. The subsequent Harris spam today was “meh” at best.

I’m already voting for Harris but this text spam from MAGA absolutely will hit chords with folks. The latest one made a claim then linked to an article that said as much. Sort of. But if you’re only reading the headline and the first line it’s a real gotcha. Theirs has pictures. Hers is a single run on sentence.

More “we’re not going back” would resonate better, but it’s just not there. And today was the first Harris text that didn’t ask for money.

If you are still being swayed, on October 28th, by MAGA spam texts, then you can fuck off.
Edit: Obviously, I could have been more clear: I meant "you" as in the person reading these texts. To be clear, I do not disagree with anything you said. I made this comment out of frustration of the idea that there are people out there who will get a text from Trump one week before the election, and have it sway them.
- They said they are voting for Harris, and are offering feedback that the Harris texts could be done differently to make them more effective. It's not the same as being "swayed"
- Read the post, don’t just skim over key words and react. They’re effective texts, probably, it’s an observation.

I’ll play the advocate here. What good would persecution do now? They wouldn’t stop him in time. All that would do is allow Trump and Musk to claim political persecution.

And if they did start an investigation, would it be complete before the election? What if they filed charges before? So what.

Smart play is to wait. Win. Prosecute with four years of time ahead.

Basically… maybe they will do something still?

There are three decisions a leader can make: Yes, no, not right now.

It would, bare minimum, let people know the equivalent of "if you come for the king you better not miss"
But getting an injunction for something as blatant as this would be a day or two in front of a judge, at most.

Yep. That's how the court system works in this country.

The nation is so close to being an anagram of the onion I almost didn't eat it.

So many people seem to forget Obama nominated him for the open Supreme Court seat because he hoped he was so the GOP wouldn't block his nomination.

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