TripleTom 🛞🎸💻🥋📻Mar 30, 2025
Jonathan

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders • 2d
We must demand that the extremely
wealthy pay their fair share. Period.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 2d
I keep forgetting that you're still alive

ChongsCalls @ChongsCalls
The richest person in the world
shitting on the nicest person in the
world is capitalism summed up in two
tweets.

Mar 30, 2025 at 5:11pmWeb
Show threadViolaMar 30, 2025

@jmcrookston
You need to tell Elon Musk that The swamp soliders need help.

Last Time He tried to be a useful billionaires in a helpless situation went wrong again or? Didn't it I can't remember.

Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Mar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston
I'm in general not a fan of violence, but the day an angry mob gets hold of Musk, I'll cheer them on, and with gusto.
@Remittancegirl
Show threadMaki 🔻 🌹Mar 30, 2025
@Eetschrijver @jmcrookston @Remittancegirl I won't say something bad should happen to him and his ilk, but I won't shed a tear for them if it ever does. My tears are reserved for his victims.
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Mar 30, 2025
@RandamuMaki
Receiving you loud and clear.
@jmcrookston @Remittancegirl
Show threadHuub RuijtersMar 30, 2025
@RandamuMaki @Eetschrijver @jmcrookston @Remittancegirl like Elvis Costello sang “when they finally put you in the ground, I’ll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down”.
Show threadPeter BrownMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston yes, I am gradually coming to the conclusion that the ethos of capitalism is a lack of empathy (as Musk says) and an excess of selfishness.
In other words, capitalism is just a euphemism for selfishness.
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Mar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston Elmo is one of the most destructive people to ever live. He is pulling down humanity.
Show threadEducated RodentMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston Elon’s profile pic sure makes it look like he’s compensating for something.
Show threadAngus McIntyreMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston @cstross I think the correct response from Bernie would be “I keep regretting that you are” but maybe he’s too nice to say it.
Show threadJordiMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston @cstross and that piece of shit has the balls to call other people ‘evil’
Show threadxs4me2Mar 30, 2025

@jmcrookston

Such an asshole…

Show threadAlien software, human hardwareMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston if only i could say, i forgot that musk is still alive.
Show threadj5vMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston "Mr. Musk, you're looking a little tired."
Show threada fish named dog ✡️♾️Mar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston i'm sorry but my pedantic brain refuses this. sanders is above-average nice but by sheer numbers the odds are ~60 percent that the nicest person in the world is in asia, for instance.
Show threadJonathanMar 30, 2025
@FishNamedDog Statistically perhaps accurate, but it's taking the comment literally. If you are going to do that you could just say you are relatively sure Bernie is NOT the nicest person on the planet and be on more solid ground.
Show threadAuntie MameMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston One could probably be a capitalist without being a shameless asshole.
Show threadurbanaidMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston tax the rich #taxtherich
Show threadRejZoRMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston Funny, how old is that message from Elon? Older than the video of Elon Musk sobbing like a fucking twat on TV how no one likes him and how people are shitting on him and how his companies are suffering because of it? Elon really has self awareness of a fucking unripe avocado.
Show threadTorf und SchneeMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston I am afraid that progressive taxation is a minor issue now, when your country (which used to "teach" everybody democracy) falls into a plain authoritarian dictatorship in unbelievably fast way.
Show threadDemonMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston When. Chong gets involved you know you messed up
Show threadDavid SabineMar 30, 2025

@jmcrookston Elon Musk paid over $11 billion in taxes for 2021. It's estimated he paid between $3.3 and $15 billion in 2022. And over $10 billion in taxes in 2024.

I'm starting to wonder what's Bernie's definition of "fair share" ?

Show threadSable Shade🇦🇺🍉🗝🇵🇸🇺🇦Mar 31, 2025
@davidsabine @jmcrookston
elonia muks businesses have been awarded $38 Billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits since 2003
And counting...
Show threadJonathanMar 31, 2025

@davidsabine now you need to list his capital gain income to attract that level of tax.

(I'll assume as you say that he paid those amounts.)

Show threadJonathanMar 31, 2025
@davidsabine A quick search revealed in 2021 he exercised options worth about $100 billion and that's what resulted in the $11 billion of taxes. That's a tax rate of about ten percent, which is lower than the average worker (about 14%).
Show threadCluster FckuMar 31, 2025
@davidsabine @jmcrookston first comes the question whether legal means fair, and it doesn't, when you consider legal loopholes and legal subsidies only available to the very few for who these laws are created. Second, whether a society is fair when few have all the say, which it is not when an individual can extract exceptional wealth with which they can buy exceptional powers over others in that society. So this is not about dizzying numbers, but about perverted $ rules and perverted $ power.
Show threadDavid SabineMar 31, 2025
@clusterfcku @jmcrookston, if you're concerned about perverted $ rules and perverted $ power… just wait until I tell you about GOVERNMENT.
Show threadCluster FckuMar 31, 2025
@davidsabine @jmcrookston you're missing the point entirely; musk bought himself a lot of government
Show threadPaul HealeyMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston Elon thinks and acts like Cleon from Asimov’s Foundation series. Call him Dclon, as he doesn’t just believe in the ownership and control of capital, he actually steals and destroys all Nations capital by helping to finance an insane arms race! #Dclon #Cleon #NaziSpaceSharon #Fuckednations #EmpiresFall
Show threadPowerPathMar 30, 2025
@jmcrookston bernie is the best, sweden/Scandinavia/Japan etc are capitalist countries, so it's not the capitalism. It's the corruption of democracy, musk should be in jail
Show threadmaffischerMar 31, 2025
@jmcrookston abosloutely disgusting, deserves the worst possible punishment
Show threadJohnnieMacMar 31, 2025
@jmcrookston disgusting oligarch
Show threadSable Shade🇦🇺🍉🗝🇵🇸🇺🇦Mar 31, 2025
@jmcrookston
❤️Chong ❤️Sanders ☮️✌️
Show threadpr06lefsMar 31, 2025
@jmcrookston Is that a death threat? Kinda of sounds a little death threat-ish
Show threadCallistoApr 6, 2025
@jmcrookston Nothing personal, Musk doesn't believe anybody but himself is real.
Show threadJonathanApr 6, 2025
@callisto actually all of biological life is just a bootloader for digital artificial intelligence according to Mr. Apartheid