Oh no! Elon lied? No one expected this, how is this possible? He’s such a reliable and honest man. /s
You deserve not being paid when you have your vote bought by a nazi scam artist for just $100. But you also shouldn’t deserve the right to vote when it can be bought, especially for just 100 bucks.
They sold their votes to a con man and are surprised they didn’t get paid?
Really?
Elon Musk: “hahaha, suckers”
Elon really hoping that he can skate by without legal consequences as long as he just pretends he didn’t actually bribe voters.
Think about it though, he didn’t pay them. He can easily spin a story about how he was ‘caught up in the moment’ and made an offer without thinking, that he was later advised would be illegal.
Idk, I feel like I’ve seen crazier legal turnarounds in my lifetime. Imagine he references the purchase of Twitter as a pattern of behavior making offers that he isn’t actually prepared to fulfill?
Who could have seen this coming???
Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤
Honestly that tracks. lol.
Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!
Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs… common mistake.
No. Fucking. Shit.
Honestly at this point the judge should rule against them for being idiots
“The court finds you contemptible.”
ai could never make this
Bleh.
The MS paint one unironically looks more esthetically pleasing
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.
It truly does
it got the number of tentacles wrong
Why do you think that?
😥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.
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
I can tell from some of the pixels…
“Still not tired of winning”
Yeah no shit.
Paying them would be illegal
Conning them isn’t.
Well, it’s still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty
Penalty?
It’s more like a processing fee :)
THIS COMMENT IS IN ALL CAPS
Who wants to tell them?
I volunteer as tribute!
HEY CHUMPS! Y’ALL GOT PLAYED BY A CONMAN! MUSK AND TRUMP DON’T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT ANY OF YOU! MAYBE THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS, HUH?
RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT GENEROUS. IF THEY WERE GENEROUS THEY WOULDN’T BE RICH PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF GENEROUS.
Isn’t it illegal to pay for voting and to be paid? Or, is it just illegal to pay for votes?
Not if you’re among the ultra-rich. Supreme Court has decided that rules are for the poors.
Not if you also pay all the people who would enforce that law
Isn’t it illegal to …
No one gives a shit anymore
Isn’t it illegal to …
The average American hasn’t yet realized the benefits, or consequences, of our newly instituted unfettered lawlessness.
I know the former is, but not sure if the recipient is on the hook or not.
That’s because he didn’t say he will pay them for voting. He said he would pay them to sign a petition that supported a certain candidate. I think that’s technically not illegal?
Wasn’t there a lottery of a million dollars or something? Pretty sure that was for votes. What I’m hearing is, he won’t be charged or prosecuted for anything, legal or not.
Nah the lottery wasn’t actually a lottery because it came out that the winners were already picked. Because apparently you’re not allowed to run a lottery whenever you want without asking the government.
That seems like “a dog ate my homework” kind of answer to that. So a better headline would be:
Elon Musk committed fraud in rigged lottery at illegal vote persuasion event
My answer was facetious.
But if he did something illegal and hasn’t been prosecuted for it that means it’s not illegal?
But if he did something illegal and hasn’t been prosecuted for it that means it’s not illegal?
Okay, lmao. That’s hilarious.
That’s my understanding as well. “Sleezy but not technically illegal” is pretty on-brand for Musk.
My understanding is that it potentially isn’t illegal, because you weren’t being paid to vote explicitly, and weren’t being paid to vote for a specific candidate for sure, but you were (supposed to be) paid to sign an agreement that you would vote, and I think it also said you support a certain candidate but I’m not totally sure on that.
Basically, he was paying for people to say they’d vote (maybe for a certain candidate) but legally that wasn’t actually required, so possibly barely skirts the law if a judge is being very generous to him.
I know right? Whatever would have given them the idea that he has ever done anything he’s promised? All the failed promises with Tesla? The boring company?
@[email protected] The spam ban on the OP of this post seems heavyhanded (at least from the outside). Can you review or offer additional context?
E: this seems to (maybe) be the reason for anyone else wondering https://lemmy.world/post/29949200/17158534
I can DM the mod who issued it.
Additional context: https://lemmy.world/comment/17158534
TL;DR is the account has a history of leaving spam-like posts in its wake. Instead of deleting posts, they edit the title and URL to gibberish and leave them up. The comment I linked above is me asking OP to not do that (at least in this community), so they have been warned. Looks like they left two more gibberish posts early this morning which is likely what triggered the other mod to issue the community ban.
Per the comment I linked, I’m assuming that is why OP has been banned from so many other communities.
See:
- Community Bans: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=13927378
- Removed Posts: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=13927378
Edit: Typo
That makes total sense. Tyvm for the transparency <3.
Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments
In Murica…?!
It usually is. In a democracy anyway
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.
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!”
