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loe spoon 4d ago

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

Cairo Braga 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou link the source, tho: https://x.com/ronsterd89/status/2069636788172226584

Ron wright (@ronsterd89) on X

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter

X (formerly Twitter)

Kid Mania 4d ago

@cairobraga @RonSupportsYou

❝If you’re still on Twitter/X does that mean you’re a fascist?
No, of course not.
It just means fascism isn’t a deal breaker for you.❞
- Aral Balkan
@aral

@RonSupportsYou @cairobraga @clintruin @aral It just means you’re a “collabo”, which isn’t much better!

@WastelandWandrr @RonSupportsYou @cairobraga @clintruin @aral My grandfather was a card carrying fascist, directly from Il Duce's ranks. He was human i.e. had somewhat low cognitive power to understand that his late hatred of militarism was at the very core of fascism, but he died still saying he believed in fascism as at an earlier stage or something. Anyway, people are just somewhat dumb but still needing care. There are more ways to help than just getting out of reach... as long as they hear.

Cairo Braga 4d ago

@clintruin @RonSupportsYou @aral I haven't been on Xitter for 2,5 years, tho. I literally searched for an excerpt of the OP using my SearXNG instance and found the post on Xitter because I wanted to know where it came from.

☭ Father Hardstone 4d ago

@clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral

Ridiculous argument, would you consider the likes of Francesca Albanese, Susan Abul Hawa as fascist collaborators or what (cos they are still active on X) ?! 🙄

Many of us in the #globalsouth have been using #twitter before 'Muskian takeover' happened and are still using it cos it's still used by majority of the activists in places like #pakistan #india #bangladesh #southasia and leaving X would turn it into something like TruthSocial or Bsky

@harib_murshidi @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral turning it into Truth Social would be actually good thing, making it niche and irrelevant. And maybe world would finally see what it is, without hiding rot in more pretty veil, and stop feeding and keeping alive this nazi-machine.

☭ Father Hardstone 3d ago

@madargon @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral

As I said earlier, people who are not Neo-Naziz or white supremacists are still there, here in #Pakistan the govt banned #X not because it had issues with Musk but dissident voices against the meddling of military in the elections, jailing people over trumped up charges !

Local activists, etc cannot just dump twitter on a whim when they don't have the local audience on that platform, and most of us here don't even have paid X accounts

Netzblockierer 2d ago

@harib_murshidi @madargon @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral that is a fallacy that'll only make said activists vulnerable to governmental crackdown.

But that then again we've to admit that maybe tuey don't understandbthe fundamentals of OpSec, ComSec, InfoSec & ITsec at all…
- Or docthese people also believe the marketing lies that 'WhatsApp has E2EE'?

#OpSec #InfoSec #ComSec #ITsec #AntisocialMedia #Resilience #Organization

☭ Father Hardstone 2d ago

@Netzblockierer @madargon @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral

They are only vulnerable if X or any other platform hands over their data to the govt(s) of any country. Proton handed data to the Swiss govt when an official request came in, X is like a 📢 and the people I am talking about are already under govt crackdown and only "mainstream social media platforms" has worked for them

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/25/18857533.php

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Hosts to Protect their Users : Indybay

Last May, Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.

Indybay

Tin Woodman 4d ago

The same can be said about those who still drive Tesla cars... Especially when there are plenty of alternatives out there...)

MidgePhoto 4d ago

@Tin777
Service?
Repair?
Make?

Fit used Tesla drive trains etc to classic British cars to update them?

Make tyres that fit Teslas?

My EV, not a Tesla, is rather nice.

Netzblockierer 2d ago

@Tin777 certainly it apllies to EVERY SINGLE CyberTruck OWNER!

They don't buy or drive it in spite of but BECAUSE OF MUSK…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO510dyVI

#Tesla #CyberTruck #Musk

2025 Tesla Cybertruck: Regular Car Reviews

YouTube

Juho Mäntysalo 3d ago

@clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral

TBF, it's very hard to consume ethically under capitalism, even in one subcategory. It's impossible if you don't have a time to make it a hobby/lifestyle.

For example, you can replace X with Mastodon, ofc, but not if you're into following political accounts. Then the alternatives are all commercial, and they're all fascist-adjacent.

Netzblockierer 2d ago

@iju @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral "Consumotion" is always unethical per design.

I don't consider Socializing, Grocieries, etc. as "consumption", but survival…

https://tech.lgbt/@Netzblockierer/116820922809428302

Netzblockierer (@[email protected])

@[email protected] certainly it apllies to *EVERY SINGLE CyberTruck OWNER*! They don't buy or drive it *in spite of* but *BECAUSE OF MUSK*… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO510dyVI #Tesla #CyberTruck #Musk

LGBTQIA+ and Tech

Juho Mäntysalo 2d ago

@Netzblockierer @clintruin @cairobraga @RonSupportsYou @aral

I'm not in a situation where I can argue for any standardised meaning of a foreign word. In the context of my previous post, "consumption" includes any resource used, including food.

swggrkllr3rd 3d ago

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/116812794368701349

@cairobraga @RonSupportsYou musk sold spacex Just in time, and now it lost $USB 600. https://mastodon.world/@Powerfromspace[email protected]/116812794536521906

@cairobraga @RonSupportsYou xcancel link for those who avoid X like plague: https://xcancel.com/ronsterd89/status/2069636788172226584

Rowan Tommins 2d ago

@cairobraga @RonSupportsYou To be honest, more useful would be a source verifying or fact-checking the claim. That link just goes to a bunch of people insulting each other, not any kind of useful context.

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈4d ago

@RonSupportsYou

This one tale, if completely true, tells us literally everything anyone needs to know about that shithead.

@RonSupportsYou except when your neighbor is that immigrant

@utf_7 @RonSupportsYou Nah, they’re cool. Unlike the twitter fascist.

@ryanroberts @RonSupportsYou

huh? with "that immigrant" i meant the twitler

@utf_7 @RonSupportsYou Ooooh. I see 🤦‍♂️

Cailean Gallimore 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou
He's the third richest man in the world.
He's never been the richest.

@CaileanGallimore

As if that changed anything about the point in question.

@RonSupportsYou

Cailean Gallimore 4d ago

@kommaKucken @RonSupportsYou
Are you upset?

RonSupportsYou 4d ago

@kommaKucken I agree with you. Someone else tried to make a big issue about a small point.

@RonSupportsYou

Wanted to be fed as well. But I know how to mute a troll. 😎

RonSupportsYou 4d ago

@kommaKucken 😀

Cailean Gallimore 4d ago

@kommaKucken @RonSupportsYou
"Troll" is a silly word.

HumanBeing 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou May he choke on tesla (mr. Tesla, that is) and pass the choke gene on to all his family.

Hot Dog Water, Zero Fux 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou

Elon can't come-up with $15 to pay for his own candy-favored kiddie coffee. He lives inside the world's biggest balloon animal. Probably looks like a dog taking a shit.
Pop, boy! Pop!

@RonSupportsYou No one can stop world hunger bro.

Craig Stewart 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou I remember this. It's worse than that. When he asked how much it would cost he also offered to pay for it if it was less than some number of billions. I forget the exact figure. The WHO costed it at below that cost. Musk then got very quiet on the topic. _Then_ he bought twitter. And tried to welch on that deal having refused to do due diligence, and was sued into honouring the contract he agreed too.

@RonSupportsYou

People like him should not exist…

@RonSupportsYou

Some background, which seems credible. In German, but you'll all manage.

https://www.mz.de/panorama/elon-musk-versucht-die-welt-zu-retten-unter-einer-bedingung-3271599

Elon Musk und David Beasley: Spende gegen Welt-Hunger unter einer Bedingung

Halle (Saale)/DUR/acs - Tesla-Gründer Elon Musk hat ein Vermögen von 300 Milliarden Dollar auf dem Konto. Mit dem Geld könnte er die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen und sogar den weltweiten Hunger besiegen. Jedoch gibt Musk sein Geld lieber für Raketenentwicklung und Weltraumurlaube aus. Die...

mz.de

katalogeur 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou

1) The 'genius' of Mr. Musk belongs to the people he's hired.
2) Mr. Musk is likely to say whatever comes to his mind, especially if he thinks it will sell something. E.g. his 'Mars Colony' idea is *impossible* to realize in many, many ways ... whether he knew that or not it didn't matter to him.

🌿NOUR_GAZA_S2🌿4d ago

@RonSupportsYou

"If he had a shred of mercy and humanity in his heart, he would have contributed to ending the famine... but he is miles away from being human.

RonSupportsYou 4d ago

@NOUR_GAZA_s2 I agree with you about that.

@NOUR_GAZA_s2 @RonSupportsYou he wasn’t looking for advice on ending famine, he was looking for an excuse not to.

A. DeMarco 4d ago

@RonSupportsYou elon is the devil incarnate. He Is lucifer.

@Smashie603 @RonSupportsYou no, lucifer fills a useful role in taking away evil people. free will, their own damnation, not satans fault. lucifer is pretty much god's janitor.

elon though.

elon is evil.

@RonSupportsYou
We suffer because of immigrants ❌
we suffer because of one asshole immigrant from south africa ☑️

Incident Creator ❎2d ago

@RonSupportsYou
Bear in mind this number doesn't take into account the US Government investing $90 billion in disrupting the world's energy and fertilizer supplies.

@RonSupportsYou THIS - ALL OF THIS!

#BanBillionaires - NOW!!!

TC Won't Give In To Lies 1d ago

@RonSupportsYou

Tapping the sign...

Phracker 1d ago

@RonSupportsYou
Now we know why he got mad and called the other guy a pedo when that guy was charged with the cave rescue instead of him... It was always about ego and never about actually helping.