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dwazou@lemm.eeBanned from community to News@lemmy.world ·
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Swing state voters promised $100 by Musk say they weren’t paid what they were promised

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Swing state voters promised $100 by Musk say they weren’t paid what they were promised

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dwazou@lemm.eeBanned from community to News@lemmy.world ·
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Elon Musk is being sued for allegedly not paying swing state voters the $100 he promised them to sign a petition
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The lawsuit’s plaintiffs said more than 100 potential class members are collectively owed $5 million by Musk and his America PAC.
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    Elon Musk: “hahaha, suckers”

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    Who could have seen this coming???

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    Musk meant $100 credit, towards the purchase of a cybertruck. 🫤

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      Or a brand new, top of the line toy Yoda!

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        Maybe it was supposed to be 100 doll hairs… common mistake.

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      Honestly that tracks. lol.

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    Honestly at this point the judge should rule against them for being idiots

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      “The court finds you contemptible.”

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    No. Fucking. Shit.

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    Yeah no shit.

    Paying them would be illegal

    Conning them isn’t.

    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Well, it’s still illegal. Just with a considerably smaller penalty

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        Penalty?

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          It’s more like a processing fee :)

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    THIS COMMENT IS IN ALL CAPS

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    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.

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      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!”

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    He can pay them back in burning cybertrucks.

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    It only makes sense that you could buy a presidency in an uber capitalistic country.

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    Paying people to vote a certain way should be one of the worst crimes in a democracy punishable by the harshest of punishments

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      It usually is. In a democracy anyway

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      In Murica…?!

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    100 dollars? yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?

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      And didn’t even get the money up front.

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      Buddy. That is like 5 BJs.

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      yall sold the usa for 100 dollars?

      Consider that Trump had something like a 47% approval rating on the day of the election.

      Also, yes. People are broke af, hate their neighborhood, hate their country, and hate everyone who has governed it since JFK. If someone offered you $100 for a pile of shit, you’d take the deal, too.

      The joke of it all is that they believed a career con-artist would pay out, not that they gleefully pawned the broke down jalopy of a nation-state at the first opportunity.

      Do not think for a second that they won’t try to do it again.

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        To be fair, I’d hate my life, too, if I lived next to a bunch of MAGA morons.

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      It’s one democracy, Michael, what could it cost? 100 dollars?

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        If you don’t pay it’s actually 0 dollars!

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    Screwed over by the world’s richest man?

    Yeah, well so was the rest of the nation…

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    The guy whose companies don’t pay debts didn’t pay debts? Who could have seen this coming?!

    Edit: changed from singular to plural.

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      The guy’s not a Lannister. I mean, he probably would fuck his sister, but still…

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        *daughter

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