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Brazil's first lady insults Elon Musk at G20 social event
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|u/cmaia1503 - 6 hours
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|> Brazil’s first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, swore at billionaire Elon
|Musk during a G20 social event on Saturday at which she spoke about the
|need to regulate social media to rein in misinformation.  > A ship’s
|horn sounded as she spoke and she joked, “I think it’s Elon Musk,”
|before adding, “I’m not afraid of you, fuck you, Elon Musk.”


  |u/beklog - 6 hours
  |
  |expect his attack dog Trump to put some tariffs on Brazil then


    |u/themontajew - 6 hours
    |
    |Last trade war with china ended up with Brazilian soy beans in china
    |and american farmers that still haven’t recovered.


      |u/R_W0bz - 6 hours
      |
      |I can’t believe Biden would do this.


        |u/shadow247 - 6 hours
        |
        |Thanks Carter....


          |u/angrygnome18d - 5 hours
          |
          |Why would Clinton’s blowjob do this!


            |u/VidE27 - 2 hours
            |
            |You know what, i actually blame that one on the fucked up
            |situation we are in right now


              |u/whitejaguar - 2 hours
              |
              |We lost it when Obama put his foot on the desk.


                |u/Lazy_meatPop - 1 hour
                |
                |That Tan suit was the real deal.


                  |u/Jjhend - 1 hour
                  |
                  |That was the day democracy fell


                  |u/naijaboiler - 1 hour
                  |
                  |Obama started racial tension in America when he said
                  |"I imagine Trayvion Martin could be my own son"


              |u/speculatrix - 1 hour
              |
              |They used Hunter Biden's laptop to cause that situation


          |u/polrxpress - 5 hours
          |
          |Thank you, Jesus


            |u/Scarbane - 4 hours
            |
            |de nada


          |u/correcthorsestapler - 4 hours
          |
          |Way to go, William Harry Harrison.


            |u/wutthefvckjushapen - 3 hours
            |
            |It was probably those Van Buren boys


              |u/Direlion - 2 hours
              |
              |Flash 'em [the sign](https://preview.redd.it/lpyicz4vgs9a1
              |.jpg?width=396&auto=webp&s=fe6350477001c67a3d61fcfaf527bcb
              |bcafcb867)!


            |u/Bob-Ross-Barber - 5 minutes
            |
            |He died in 30 days!


          |u/Ferelar - 5 hours
          |
          |Typical Communist FDR strikes yet again!!!


          |u/Wasparado - 4 hours
          |
          |Damnit, Obama!!!


          |u/hell2pay - 4 hours
          |
          |FDR really blew this one


        |u/Successful-Sand686 - 4 hours
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        |If the economy wasn’t so good I would’ve voted for the felon!


        |u/kaisadilla_ - 48 minutes
        |
        |Remember when Trump pulled out of Afghanistan, but scheduled
        |that one whole year later so it'd happen during Biden's term,
        |because he knew it would be a disaster?


        |u/rez_3 - 51 seconds
        |
        |Biden is going to be VICIOUS next term. I can't believe he's
        |going to be responsible for all that shit.


        |u/NA_0_10_never_forget - 1 hour
        |
        |It would've been worse under Kamala!! or something


        |u/CalendarFar6124 - 39 minutes
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        |Lol


      |u/Desert-Noir - 4 hours
      |
      |Those farmers stupidly voted for Trump again so they can fucking
      |suffer.


        |u/everyshart - 2 minutes
        |
        |What sucks is theyll never know it.   I mean, maybe they see
        |more hardship from it, but theyll just go beg for more welfare
        |and end up helped by big government communism. It will be just
        |the latest of God Trump's miracles. The reason shit went bad was
        |not the tariffs, it was The Enemy that is out o destroy them.
        |I'd bet anything for this one The Enemy they go with is
        |literally "welfare and big government communism" - the literal
        |thing that saved them yeeet again.


        |u/YouAreSoul - 4 hours
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        |I wouldn't be surprised if Trump taxes your group hard (whatever
        |your group is) and gives your tax money to farmers to compensate
        |them for his tariffs and to thank them for their vote.


          |u/pVom - 3 hours
          |
          |Lol he's not gonna thank shit for their vote. Why would he? He
          |already got what he wants


          |u/weeman0890 - 3 hours
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          |Bold of you to assume the tariffs won't be funnelled into
          |trumps own pocket


            |u/WigglestonTheFourth - 2 hours
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            |Of course they won't. The funds will go to the US treasury
            |and then the treasury will declare TrumpCoin the official US
            |digital currency and they'll seed a trillion or so into it.
            |Bing bong boing. It's not corruption if I ignore it.
            |Freedom.


          |u/cire1184 - 3 hours
          |
          |Like exactly what he did last time?   https://en.m.wikipedia.o
          |rg/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts  Deficit
          |shmeficit. We spending like trump building casinos in AC!


          |u/derangedfriend - 2 hours
          |
          |He’s not running again, why would he care about perception?


          |u/Desert-Noir - 2 hours
          |
          |Not my group, I’m not American.


            |u/YouAreSoul - 1 hour
            |
            |Me either but the thing is, those farmers won't suffer.
            |Others will.


          |u/echoe1988 - 3 hours
          |
          |Trump only gives money to his friends like Elonia Musk and
          |this poor guy's Koch brothers


          |u/kelldricked - 48 minutes
          |
          |Lol you clearly lack a lot of knowledge about politics,
          |economics and taxes.


          |u/MRukov - 3 hours
          |
          |Bold prediction to make in a thread specifically about how he
          |fucked them over the first time...


      |u/sb84mit - 3 hours
      |
      |Also the same with pig meat. It was a blessing for the EU farmers.


      |u/Surturiel - 5 hours
      |
      |Which itself was the main contributor for the devastation of the
      |southern Amazon rainforest to open up land (illegally, I might
      |add) for soy farms.


        |u/Picasso5 - 5 hours
        |
        |That’s thoroughly depressing


        |u/Other_Waffer - 1 hour
        |
        |No. It is wood extraction and cattle. Soy farms are not in the
        |Amazon area


        |u/themontajew - 5 hours
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        |If that how they owned the libs? certainly not with farmers
        |suffering 


          |u/outlawsix - 5 hours
          |
          |They would feed their own shit to their children if they
          |thought it would upset a liberal


            |u/cire1184 - 3 hours
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            |"I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfas!"  You eat
            |pieces of shit?


            |u/reachisown - 1 hour
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            |This is a big part of it sadly, there is very little they
            |wouldn't tolerate it meant they beat the propaganda fuelled
            |enemy.


        |u/VasectoMyspace - 54 minutes
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        |Soy does better further south though. Further north they cut
        |down forests for grazing land.


        |u/GondorfTheG - 1 hour
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        |No it isn't, it's using land for cattle farming. Don't spread
        |misinformation to further your point, it makes you look like a
        |fucking tool.  Side note, if you give a shit about the planet,
        |go vegan.


      |u/CaptainObv1ous - 3 hours
      |
      |https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-
      |tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/  Just some
      |background for anyone interested in the effects of Trumps tariffs
      |from the last time.


      |u/niteman555 - 3 hours
      |
      |We're not in a post-Obama economic boom anymore either. We're
      |stuck a soft landing and avoided a recession without a chance for
      |big economic growth. It's very possible that another 4 years of
      |radical policy could send us spiraling back into a recession.
      |Recall that the United States went into its Covid 19 recession
      |weeks before the first lockdowns in March of 2020.


        |u/caylem00 - 2 hours
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        |Stock market's already spooking cuz of his cabinet picks. Hope
        |it stabilises, if only for all those people whose pensions and
        |savings are tied into stocks.


        |u/SomaforIndra - 27 minutes
        |
        |yes it will, tank the economy, but it's by design. They want
        |people desperate and poor.


        |u/kaisadilla_ - 46 minutes
        |
        |I doubt so. Biden's economic policies have actually been pretty
        |sound and, if you look at what many economists say, they claimed
        |(before the election) that whoever won it would inherit a good
        |economy.


        |u/Illcmys3lf0ut - 2 hours
        |
        |Just wait. We're gonna crash and burn. And people will act
        |surprised....


        |u/peepopowitz67 - 1 hour
        |
        |*depression 


      |u/Pizza_Low - 2 hours
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      |And most likely never will. Look at the history of cotton and the
      |northern naval blockade on the south during the US civil war. That
      |triggered massive increase in cotton production in India and
      |Egypt. Here we are almost approaching almost 200 years later, and
      |US cotton is only about 15% - 20% of global production.   China
      |gained a friendly ally in the Americas, an alternate source of
      |corn/soy/sorghum and other ag products once Trump freed them of
      |attempting to maintain some level of trade balance. It was a gift
      |opportunity for China and Trump gave it to them.


      |u/wrongm3 - 2 hours
      |
      |how many dead farmers voted for trump?


        |u/moocowsia - 1 hour
        |
        |Quite a few ones that were brain dead.


        |u/retro-embarassment - 2 hours
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        |It's OK they are gonna be replaced by Handmade Tale babys.


      |u/201-inch-rectum - 2 hours
      |
      |as a Californian, the less of our water being used to grow
      |soybeans for China, the better


        |u/Skratt79 - 49 minutes
        |
        |What?  California does not even break the top 10 in soybean
        |production, and more than half of the production comes from four
        |states in the Midwest.  Save your outrage for the tree nut
        |sector.  And either: you are really not a Californian, or are a
        |Californian who has no idea of what our ag. industry produces.


          |u/201-inch-rectum - 10 minutes
          |
          |what? we literally have [the most soybean farmers in all of
          |the US](https://www.usfarmdata.com/usfarmdata-soybeansfarmers-
          |state.aspx?state=ca)  are you purposefully being ignorant?


      |u/whiskeytown2 - 2 hours
      |
      |Can’t wait till the sequel


      |u/shkarada - 1 hour
      |
      |Good for Brazil.


      |u/VasectoMyspace - 56 minutes
      |
      |I used to interpret for Brazilian agronomy concerns when they had
      |foreign visitors, and soybeans in Brazil are all-but 100% owned by
      |China now. Maize still has some European interests, but soy is
      |controlled by China.


      |u/SarahEpsteinKellen - 52 minutes
      |
      |Soybeans should be export controlled because they have potential
      |military applications - they could be made into soysauce, soy milk
      |& tofu which could potentially be used  to feed soldiers. 😱


    |u/cuntmong - 3 hours
    |
    |we need to make "President Musk" a thing to drive a wedge between
    |them


      |u/rorykoehler - 1 hour
      |
      |New US President Elon Musk? What about him?


        |u/KnifeFed - 7 minutes
        |
        |You mean the real US president, Elon Musk? Everyone knows this.


    |u/RecipeSpecialist2745 - 5 hours
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    |Brazil makes billions off China! I don’t think they have to worry.
    |They can afford a US loss, but can the US afford to disenfranchise
    |another trading partners ? https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile
    |/en/Country/BRA/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/by-country/Produc
    |t/Total#:~:text=Brazil%20Product%20Exports%20by%20country&text=In%20
    |2022%2C%20the%20top%20partner,%2C%20Argentina%2C%20Netherlands%20and
    |%20Spain.


    |u/OutrageousAd4420 - 6 hours
    |
    |Trump will rather see it as a weakness of musk. Why would Trump
    |protect anybody but his own interests?


    |u/drumdogmillionaire - 4 hours
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    |Musk won’t last a mooch.


      |u/eldonte - 4 hours
      |
      |In and out in a moochi minute


    |u/LaurenMille - 2 hours
    |
    |You mean Elon's personal little pet, Donald Trump?  Many people are
    |saying that Trump is just Elon's little errand boy. Lots of people
    |saying it.


      |u/Aware-Chipmunk4344 - 42 minutes
      |
      |I thought they are both Putin's pets.


    |u/DR_van_N0strand - 3 hours
    |
    |lol. Trump is going to throw Elon to the wolves. He sees Elon as a
    |threat. He’s going to fuck Elon over so hard and make sure he knows
    |his place.   This will probably be the only thing Trump does in his
    |entire life I’ll support.


      |u/URPissingMeOff - 1 hour
      |
      |I'll have a lot of respect for him when he cheeseburgers himself
      |into the next life.


        |u/--MxM-- - 44 minutes
        |
        |*hamberders


    |u/usemyfaceasaurinal - 5 hours
    |
    |I mean is there anyone not targeted by Trump’s tariff at this point?


      |u/kent_eh - 4 hours
      |
      |Until he's in power and actually does it, there's no way to know
      |who will be targeted, or how much the rate will be.  He has too
      |much of a history of saying one thing then doing another, then
      |saying something different and contradictory to the first thing...


      |u/yarnster65 - 4 hours
      |
      |Only probably were the imports don't hurt Americans business,


    |u/blacksideblue - 4 hours
    |
    |Probably the soybeans again...


    |u/Snoo_69677 - 3 hours
    |
    |Trump’s massive ego would never take orders from Elon


      |u/URPissingMeOff - 1 hour
      |
      |He only takes orders from Putin


    |u/kaisadilla_ - 49 minutes
    |
    |The absolute shitshow that will be when both Trump and Musk use
    |their political positions to funnel money right into their companies
    |will be fun to see, at least for us non-Americans.  I will never not
    |be amazed that the people who want to "drain the swamp" keep voting
    |guys that do corruption in broad daylight without any shame.


    |u/cvr24 - 4 hours
    |
    |Brazil already has tariffs galore


    |u/Sufficient-Comment - 3 hours
    |
    |“That nasty woman said very mean things about my Bo.. my friend,
    |dear star lord”


    |u/BaconPit - 1 hour
    |
    |Oh no, tariffs that'll only hurt Americans will surely make Trump
    |pause and think about his actions.  Lmao I'm just kidding, that
    |bitch doesn't think.


      |u/J_Bishop - 35 minutes
      |
      |Someone doesn't understand the weave. He's a beautiful thinker,
      |the best even, no one thinks like him. Just when you believe you
      |slightly understand the wonderful weave, BAM: fellatio on stage to
      |a microphone. Beautiful. You're just jealous.


  |u/Youngadultcrusade - 5 hours
  |
  |What’s the joke about him sounding like a ship? Going over my head.


    |u/Cavalish - 3 hours
    |
    |She’s saying he’s a blowhard. Loud and abrasive and interruptive
    |like a ship’s horn.  It’s a pretty low level burn but Leon has paper
    |thin skin so he’s probably grinding his teeth to stumps right now.


    |u/MumGoesToCollege - 2 hours
    |
    |Think about what she's talking about. A ship horn interrupts her
    |whilst talking about regulating social media. It's Elon blowing the
    |horn because he doesn't want social media to be regulated.


    |u/HNL2BOS - 3 hours
    |
    |It's because Musk is a fucking blowhard.


    |u/19is_ - 5 hours
    |
    |There was a Simpsons bit, where Bart says ..  SAY, I HEAR A FOGHORN.
    |( imitating foghorn ): BOOOOR-ING.


    |u/kynthrus - 3 hours
    |
    |He's a blow hard. He talks loudly for everyone to hear with nothing
    |substantial to actually say. etc etc.


    |u/TotalWalrus - 5 hours
    |
    |I assume she thought Elon Musk played a ship horns noise while she
    |was talking?


      |u/Lunarath - 3 hours
      |
      |Media literacy is dead.


      |u/tholovar - 3 hours
      |
      |i just thought it was because both are loud, obnoxious and
      |designed to force people to pay attention to them.


      |u/Youngadultcrusade - 5 hours
      |
      |Oh okay I thought there was some more specific reference to him
      |building ships or something haha, I’m over thinking it.


      |u/Picasso5 - 4 hours
      |
      |Like, in a video that he posted on Xitter?


      |u/jigsaw_faust - 3 hours
      |
      |How? How would he get horns played at an event like that? Through
      |what influence and logicistics? Jesus.


        |u/Junkererer - 1 hour
        |
        |It's a simple joke, you don't have to take it literally. She was
        |talking about him and a horn played, almost as if he could hear
        |her. I haven't even seen the interview, I don't even speak
        |Portuguese, but it's not hard to understand


      |u/Thorrrrrrr - 4 hours
      |
      |I assume because billionaires are ordinarily most associated with
      |Yachts, so a ship horn interrupting her meeting she turned into a
      |quick and satisfying fuck you Elon Musk but maybe I'm missing
      |something


  |u/chellybeanery - 5 hours
  |
  |Oh, I like this lady's style 😎


  |u/Lakridspibe - 2 hours
  |
  |> A ship’s horn sounded as she spoke and she joked, “I think it’s Elon
  |Musk,” before adding, “I’m not afraid of you, fuck you, Elon Musk.”
  |Arhahaha!   I mean, free speech is important, right?   Fuck your
  |feelings, Leon Skum


  |u/Picasso5 - 5 hours
  |
  |Holy shit.  That’s fucking awesome.


    |u/DaPumpman - 3 hours
    |
    |"regulate social media" sounds a lot like regulate free speech


      |u/kynthrus - 3 hours
      |
      |Except X doesn't allow free speech. Elon just makes that excuse
      |when people ask why he lets so many Nazis take over the platform
      |(because he is one) It's just a white nationalist nazi propaganda
      |machine at this point.


      |u/Creepy-Masterpiece99 - 2 hours
      |
      |You mean the same stuff that gets "regulated" on twitter right
      |now?


  |u/kirsion - 2 hours
  |
  |Caralho


  |u/BearBL - 49 minutes
  |
  |Hmm. I dont know this lady but I like her now lol


  |u/freshgeardude - 6 hours
  |
  |They never say who is the misinformation police will be (the
  |government) 


    |u/b3tth0l3 - 6 hours
    |
    |Russia and China want you to question your own government, don't
    |forget this.


      |u/Spam-r1 - 5 hours
      |
      |And you should question your own government regardless  If people
      |can't think for themselves they don't deserve democracy.


        |u/b3tth0l3 - 5 hours
        |
        |Without a doubt, question everything. But definitely question
        |Russia and China wanting you to question your own government.


          |u/Silicon_Folly - 2 hours
          |
          |Ok. Now what


          |u/1337papaz - 2 hours
          |
          |Wait...what's the question?


          |u/SinAndPoems - 2 hours
          |
          |Not very good reasoning... Anyone/anything's enemy wants you
          |to question the thing it's against, so what? This is just
          |repackaged "anti-patriotism" hysteria. Literally any country
          |can say this about another country it opposes


      |u/GoodTeletubby - 6 hours
      |
      |No, they don't. They want you to believe what *they* say about
      |your own government. The last thing they want is you actually
      |thinking and questioning anything.


        |u/badillustrations - 6 hours
        |
        |They're saying Russia and China want Western people to question
        |their respective governments. 


          |u/Ariliescbk - 5 hours
          |
          |I mean, everyone should always question their government. But
          |why the fuck would I take advice from dictatorial regimes?


            |u/TsubasaSaito - 5 hours
            |
            |Because the way they handle it, you'll never know it comes
            |from them.  Seeding doubt into those that already don't
            |trust their government much is easy, especially when it's
            |confirming what they believed themselves to be true, even
            |though it isn't.


              |u/Picasso5 - 4 hours
              |
              |Job well done, China and Russia.


          |u/GoodTeletubby - 5 hours
          |
          |I know. And like I said, they don't. What Russia and China
          |want are Western people accepting what Russian and Chinese
          |propaganda programs tell them they should believe about
          |Western governments.


        |u/DaBrokenMeta - 4 hours
        |
        |I like turtles!


      |u/Drew1231 - 6 hours
      |
      |Russia and China are reliant on people not being able to question
      |their government.  Shut up, authoritarian.


      |u/Goodtoolorganizer - 2 hours
      |
      |Just left China yesterday... It's pretty fucking surreal with how
      |much surveillance is there. British people complaining about
      |cameras in London have no concept of how nuts Beijing is.   No one
      |ever asks why most of the internet is inaccessible, but they
      |always know how to get around the great firewall.  Also, nothing
      |happened between the Qing dynasty and 1949. A full century just
      |missing and no one talks about it.  I installed a friend's sim
      |card and zero apps, yet something was uploading 4g data for 3 days
      |nonstop.  Question all Western governments though, just never
      |question the dictators.


        |u/b3tth0l3 - 40 minutes
        |
        |Exactly, thank you. Living in Western countries and having the
        |freedom to speak out, criticize, and not be overtly surveilled
        |really makes people take these things for granted at home. I
        |wish they would visit those countries and see what it's like
        |before they open their mouths to parrot the same dictators'
        |agenda at home.


      |u/paappa - 1 hour
      |
      |True, just like US wants chinese and russian people to question
      |their governments. Probably the same with any government with
      |opposing views on things.


        |u/b3tth0l3 - 43 minutes
        |
        |In case you can't put 2 and 2 together, there's a stark
        |difference between systems which allow criticism and those that
        |stamp it out at every turn. Regardless of governmental
        |involvement, which kind of system do you think is more likely to
        |lead to strife and suffering?


    |u/squish042 - 5 hours
    |
    |There doesn’t need to be a misinformation police. The algorithms
    |need to be regulated so misinformation can’t be abused in the first
    |place.


      |u/Cualkiera67 - 17 minutes
      |
      |So just "regulate the algorithms" so they silence any criticism of
      |the current govt


    |u/Choppers-Top-Hat - 1 hour
    |
    |At least a government is accountable to its people. Nepo Baby Elon
    |is accountable to no one. I'll pick the first option.


    |u/MoreCommoner - 6 hours
    |
    |No, Russia and China.


      |u/Additional-Duty-5399 - 6 hours
      |
      |Already are to be fair.


    |u/horatiobanz - 4 hours
    |
    |The same people who are actively flooding reddit with misinformation
    |of course.  They just want the other side censored.  Imagine
    |attacking twitter for misinformation when it has the only mechanism
    |I know of to actively and fairly combat misinformation with their
    |community notes. . . .  Where are the people policing misinformation
    |on reddit???  Cause they should be fired.


  |u/diMario - 4 hours
  |
  |It's funny, because there is a rather large community of Japanese
  |~~ex-pats~~ immigrants living in Brasil, and the name "Musk" is
  |pronounced *musuku* in Japanese.  But in an obscure language spoken by
  |only a handful of rainforest tribes, also in Brasil, *musuku* means
  |"He who tries to make loud noises but fails".  Cue the ship's horn,
  |which succeeds in doing so.  In the words of the unsurpassed footbal
  |philosopher Johan Cruijff: the circle is round.


    |u/KarnotKarnage - 4 hours
    |
    |Wtf kind of fake fact did I just read?


      |u/Lakridspibe - 2 hours
      |
      |The fun kind. Hahaha!   That's my feeling, at least.


      |u/diMario - 2 hours
      |
      |If they can do it, I can do it.


      |u/pygmy - 14 minutes
      |
      |It's true that the largest Japanese diaspora lives in Brazil. Not
      |sure about the rest though
      |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilians


    |u/karakater - 3 hours
    |
    |Hm, this is very interesting, I will make sure to remember this
    |factual information and pass it on, thank you.


    |u/oh-shit-oh-fuck - 3 hours
    |
    |? Just making things up for fun lol, everything past the part about
    |Brasil having a notable Japanese population is bullshit


      |u/diMario - 2 hours
      |
      |If they can do it, I can do it.  Also, the ship's horn wasn't
      |bullshit.


    |u/El_Falk - 2 hours
    |
    |> and the name "Musk" is pronounced musuku in Japanese.  Lol, no?
    |Wtf are you on about? It's マスク, masuku (pronounced masku), the same
    |as the wasei eigo for "mask".


  |u/journeymanreddit - 5 hours
  |
  |I thought they were on the same team. 😅


  |u/darkspardaxxxx - 4 hours
  |
  |Lula was convicted for actual corruption. This lady is corrupt ad fuck
  |and likely to be stealing public founds as she made this speech.


    |u/Infinite_Register678 - 4 hours
    |
    |>Lula was convicted for actual corruption.   He was, the case was
    |then thrown out on appeal and all his convictions were annulled. The
    |Supreme Court found the judge in his case was biased.


      |u/canteloupy - 2 hours
      |
      |As far as I could tell this was politically motivated like much of
      |the Bolsonaro crime family's doings.


    |u/LewisLightning - 4 hours
    |
    |So you're saying they're like Trump, but not as bad?


  |u/Wakandamnation - 5 hours
  |
  |Brasileiras my friend, have some temper.


|u/N0tlikeThI5 - 4 hours
|
|Its the two first ladies fighting each other. I can respect that


  |u/RobottoRisotto - 4 hours
  |
  |Elania?


    |u/Much-Payment6224 - 3 hours
    |
    |Melon Tusk


      |u/likamuka - 2 hours
      |
      |Melon Husk


        |u/SparrowValentinus - 1 hour
        |
        |Melon Busk


          |u/Sea_Appointment8408 - 18 minutes
          |
          |Egregious Mollusk


      |u/seeyousoon-29 - 1 hour
      |
      |Leon Skum


    |u/madmaxGMR - 3 hours
    |
    |Melanie.


    |u/maders23 - 1 hour
    |
    |Melonia.   I still don’t get why people don’t go for melonia, it’s
    |right there.


    |u/junglingforlifee - 1 hour
    |
    |Brilliant


  |u/Spiritual_Navigator - 4 hours
  |
  |And even so there is only one bitch in this bitch-fight


  |u/lurk779 - 3 hours
  |
  |IDK, one of them clearly has balls. And it's not Musk.


  |u/KoalainaComa - 41 minutes
  |
  |First lady cat fight


    |u/CosmoKram3r - 28 minutes
    |
    |[Ye-ye-catfight](https://y.yarn.co/27519700-638c-4eb6-be9e-aa9a40e3f
    |102_text.gif)!


  |u/unruly_pubic_hair - 1 minute
  |
  |Lmao I really really really hope he finds out he's been called first
  |lady everywhere, and drives him absolutely nuts (well, even more)


|u/OppositeRock4217 - 5 hours
|
|Seeing the beef between Elon Musk and the current Brazilian government
|under Lula, I guess Elon now really wants Bolsonaro to be president of
|Brazil seeing he’s definitely going to be friendly towards him


  |u/ActiveImpression6326 - 4 hours
  |
  |Unlike the U.S., corrupt fuckers like Trump and his Brazilian
  |counterpart (Bolsonaro) get handled correctly by scotus down there.
  |Bolsonaro can’t run until after 2030 and he’s probably going to be
  |dead by then with his health issues. His cult movement, like MAGAts,
  |isn’t dead but unlikely to be taken over.  If Elon tries to screw with
  |things and drive false information like he did here, scotus down in
  |Brazil will handle him too. That’s why he’s impotent and mad, every
  |country other than the US will do what’s needed with Elon.  That’s
  |also why Vance is now making threats to countries that regulate
  |Twitter or Elon’s attempted bullshit.


    |u/Vulpinox - 3 hours
    |
    |>scotus down in Brazil  what would the supreme court of the United
    |States be doing down in Brazil? 🤔


      |u/Somepotato - 3 hours
      |
      |Well our justices keep getting bribes to go on vacation so it
      |wouldn't be that much of a surprise


        |u/lyerhis - 28 minutes
        |
        |They're clearly not going to Brazil, though. Brazil has higher
        |standards.


      |u/HumbleEngineer - 1 hour
      |
      |He's dumbing down for you. Given the election results in the US
      |that's a given.


      |u/LightningRaven - 1 hour
      |
      |Hopefully learning not being fascists pieces of shit.  We have
      |issues with our current ministers here, but they did their fucking
      |jobs holding Democracy together. Even one of the worst ministers
      |ever appointed (Gilmar Mendes).


      |u/SarahEpsteinKellen - 48 minutes
      |
      |You mean scotus's scrotus?


    |u/josh_bourne - 6 minutes
    |
    |Are you Brazilian?!    Next election will be extreme right and it
    |will happen exactly what's going on in USA now


  |u/TellJust680 - 1 hour
  |
  |probably bring x back


  |u/NoPasaran2024 - 56 minutes
  |
  |Y'all acting like the US doesn't have a long history of putting
  |fascist dictators in place of left-wing leaders in Latin America.  The
  |US f-ing supported the military regime Bolsonaro fans wants to return
  |to. Brazilians know who they are dealing with, regardless of who's in
  |the White House.  Stop pretending all the bad shit was invented by
  |MAGAs and would end with Dems. Just fascism-dumb and fascism-lite, and
  |especially for the rest of the world the difference is barely
  |noticeable.


    |u/Kommye - 18 minutes
    |
    |As an argentinisn, it is really noticeable. Dems suck, sure. But
    |republicans are worse, and all the shit they are doing in the US,
    |their local allies are doing the same.


|u/stonk_fish - 6 hours
|
|You know I thought Trump was a total degenerate embarrassment to the US
|on the global political stage but Elon is just hoarding the gold,
|silver, bronze and the participation trophy.  It’s wild how an idiot who
|has no official ties to the US government is acting like he’s the
|president. Got the popcorn ready for when Trump takes power and Elon
|pisses him off with his constant grand standing as co-president and
|trump just nukes him.   Fuck you Leon. Fuck you.


  |u/retro808 - 5 hours
  |
  |Exactly, there is no room for both their egos to coexist, I bet Skum
  |is already getting on Trump's nerves constantly hanging around Mar a
  |Lago, joining in on phone calls with world leaders, and steering
  |cabinet picks


    |u/chellybeanery - 4 hours
    |
    |Lawrence O'Donnell did a piece this week about reports that the fat
    |orange shitstain's team are *very* over Musk because of his self-
    |insertion and insistence that he knows better than they do. Trump
    |also joked that Musk "won't go home".  I'd actually be surprised if
    |he made it to January, but the idiot might keep him around simply to
    |leech off of him since he is *actually* wealthy.


      |u/toadfan64 - 4 hours
      |
      |> Trump also joked that Musk "won't go home".  That's pretty funny


      |u/BlackOcelotStudio - 3 hours
      |
      |I mean, it's pretty obvious he's there because he literally paid
      |for that. Pretty high price, too.  They tolerate him like one
      |tolerates an annoying kid with a wealthy father; I'm sure as soon
      |as his favor with them runs out, lelon can simply buy more, until
      |he grows bored with this specific toy and goes back to chimpanzee-
      |killing brain implants.


      |u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard - 29 minutes
      |
      |That may change fairly quickly.  Twitter is going downhill at an
      |increasingly rapid rate since the election, with people
      |deactivating accounts in droves.  That may require Musk to sell
      |some shares of Tesla in order to keep Twitter alive for a bit
      |longer, which might start a downhill spiral on Tesla.  Not
      |certain, but I think the possibility is there, even if low.


  |u/Simba7 - 6 hours
  |
  |Oh my god I can't wait for the eventual twitter flame war when they
  |have their falling out. Do you think Trump'll get banned from twitter
  |again?


    |u/drumdogmillionaire - 4 hours
    |
    |A man can dream.


      |u/JayMo15 - 4 hours
      |
      |That’s a wet dream


    |u/choren64 - 3 hours
    |
    |They might have to go to couples therapy.


    |u/RadiantReason2063 - 2 hours
    |
    |Hopefully there will still be real people on Twitter to witness it


  |u/Yousoggyyojimbo - 5 hours
  |
  |His walking around acting like he's untouchable while also actively
  |fucking with and attempting to piss off powerful people is why I
  |wouldn't find it remotely surprising if somebody eventually puts a hit
  |on him.   The guy only knows how to escalate things and we are hitting
  |the point where he's just actively picking fights with people and
  |governments that normally don't put up with this sort of shit for
  |long.


    |u/Picasso5 - 4 hours
    |
    |He’s a total legend, dude.  Elon is so Alpha!  Sorry I have to add
    |this: /s


      |u/volcanologistirl - 3 hours
      |
      |> Elon is so Alpha!  Unstable, erratic, and probably best not yet
      |released to the public?


        |u/Ocbard - 2 hours
        |
        |Not feature complete.


        |u/Hestian_wife - 1 hour
        |
        |Also full of bugs?


          |u/volcanologistirl - 1 hour
          |
          |That’s RFK Jr.


    |u/64557175 - 3 hours
    |
    |He's like Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems


      |u/thisusedtobemorefun - 3 hours
      |
      |This is such an underrated comment. A perfect analogy - blood
      |~~emeralds~~ diamonds and all.


    |u/Ocbard - 2 hours
    |
    |Hey, he paid good money for that government, and now you are going
    |to pretend he doesn't own it.


    |u/Wolvenmoon - 3 hours
    |
    |Oooooh. IThat might catalyze a new French revolution. That'd be fun.
    |:D


    |u/SomaforIndra - 23 minutes
    |
    |oh pls oh pls oh pls


  |u/Zieprus_ - 5 hours
  |
  |The world is not big enough for all their egos. It will crash.


  |u/WhyAreYallFascists - 6 hours
  |
  |He’s like a Bond villain, but one that my five year old would laugh at
  |and then push while he tries to do one of those X jumps that make him
  |appear to have no penis.


    |u/blacksideblue - 4 hours
    |
    |he's knockoff Hugo Drax!


  |u/Picasso5 - 4 hours
  |
  |You say that, but Trump is definitely inviting him to be on calls and
  |even meet foreign leaders.


  |u/Crazyblue09 - 6 hours
  |
  |He will probably make a joke like Dwight, assistant manager. Or
  |assistant president.


    |u/AngryYowie - 3 hours
    |
    |Assistant to the president.


  |u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie - 4 hours
  |
  |Wonder if he could be the first American to fall out of a window


  |u/blacksideblue - 4 hours
  |
  |Space force nationalizes SpaceX.  Not because they should've done so 6
  |years ago but because Trump said "Screw ~~Bezos~~ Musk" this time.


|u/OldMcFart - 1 hour
|
|Elon and Trump will hate each other in a couple of months if not weeks.
|Trump does not share power.


  |u/Odys - 1 hour
  |
  |There are several forces that will start to compete now. It's a bunch
  |of hungry rats. My bet is on Elon.


    |u/OldMcFart - 36 minutes
    |
    |Elon is a power player who’s made actual money, but Trump is the
    |uniting force behind the MAGA cult. I’d argue Musk lacks the public
    |appeal.


      |u/Odys - 32 minutes
      |
      |> I’d argue Musk lacks the public appeal.  Why would you need
      |public appeal if you have power?


|u/arkezxa - 5 hours
|
|I find it extremely refreshing to see a leader stand up to a bully.  My
|sensitive ears have survived the bold language.   Good on her.


  |u/TheRufmeisterGeneral - 4 hours
  |
  |Is she a leader though? I know the US is obsessed with the spouse of
  |their president, but if the wife of the Dutch Prime Minister (out
  |equivalent) would have some opinion, nobody would care. As well as
  |such a person not having any kind of "title" like "first lady".  So it
  |would be interesting to see which model Brasil uses.


    |u/RelativisticTowel - 1 hour
    |
    |We usually ignore president spouses completely, she's the highest
    |profile one I can recall. She has a background in public service
    |herself, and took a major role in his latest campaign: Lula is
    |frankly not the charisma powerhouse he once was, so they made the
    |wise move of putting her in the spotlight and she absolutely killed
    |it. I've seen her compared to Evita Perón, and it's not a bad
    |analogy.  She was also famously in charge of his inauguration.
    |Bolsonaro was throwing a tantrum somewhere in Florida at this point,
    |and refused to hand over the presidential sash(?) as is protocol. So
    |she had a bunch of regular people from all walks of life escort Lula
    |to the stage, and the sash was placed on his shoulders by a *black
    |female trash picker*. Which is a really touching representation of
    |how he was elected (poor people have always overwhelmingly voted for
    |him), but also a fuck you to Bolsonaro, so 10/10 as far as I'm
    |concerned.  Tl;dr we don't usually care about the spouses, but she's
    |earned it


    |u/LightningRaven - 1 hour
    |
    |Sadly, the wife of our president is more qualified for the job than
    |him.  In recent years, the first lady/man job started to gain more
    |influence, but it hasn't always been like that.


  |u/SwayNoir - 2 hours
  |
  |> see a leader stand up to a bully  Lol what 'leader'.


  |u/ClassicAreas444 - 6 minutes
  |
  |Leader? Lol.


  |u/DaPumpman - 3 hours
  |
  |> leader stand up to a bully.  corrupt brazilian leader "sticks it" to
  |elon musk, because she wants to regulate what people say on social
  |media... deranged


    |u/nmrdnmrd - 2 hours
    |
    |She's no leader and she doesn't regulate anything...  Elmo tho very
    |obviously regulated what people are allowed to say in social media.
    |So I don't really get what you're trying to say?


      |u/StaunchVegan - 2 hours
      |
      |> Elmo tho very obviously regulated what people are allowed to say
      |in social media.  Did he? When? Be specific.


        |u/wqzu - 1 hour
        |
        |Look at your daddy's [own
        |words](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841)


          |u/StaunchVegan - 1 hour
          |
          |https://x.com/search?q=cis&src=typed_query&f=live  Seems
          |contrary to what you're saying.


            |u/wqzu - 1 hour
            |
            |You're just a couple more synapse connections away from
            |getting it, I believe in you


              |u/StaunchVegan - 1 hour
              |
              |Your original claim is that "Elmo" wants to regulate what
              |people are allowed to say on social media.  You then
              |linked a Tweet where Elon Musk said that "cis" was
              |considered a slur.  The intuitive way to interpret your
              |response is that you're claiming "cis" is a regulated word
              |on Twitter.  I reply by showing you people using the word
              |freely on Twitter, right now, in real time, thus the
              |original claim that "Elmo" is regulating it and therefore,
              |what people are allowed to say on social media, isn't
              |correct.  Feel free to point out where this discussion
              |went wrong. Be specific, use quotes and
              |facts/evidence/logic as you see fit.


    |u/TotalWalrus - 5 hours
    |
    |Yeah about that platform... Kinda weird how he bans whoever he wants


      |u/Super-Admiral - 3 hours
      |
      |fReE sPeEcH!!


    |u/No_Fee_161 - 5 hours
    |
    |Lol. You can't even say "cisgender" on Twitter.   Free speech
    |platform my ass.


        |u/JayMo15 - 4 hours
        |
        |Apply the same fun mental gymnastics to Twitter when Elon holds
        |a cabinet position. Go on…


          |u/No_Fee_161 - 3 hours
          |
          |Right on.   Trump just announced that Elon and Vivek will head
          |the new Department of Government Efficiency.


        |u/Somepotato - 3 hours
        |
        |Brazil doesn't have to obey the US constitution. They deemed it
        |better to restrict how extremists can operate, unlike the US who
        |elected one it's leader.


            |u/Somepotato - 2 hours
            |
            |Germany seems to be doing a good enough job


    |u/SwagtimusPrime - 5 hours
    |
    |>running the biggest free speech platform.  You mean biggest
    |misinformation platform. Actually it goes beyond misinformation -
    |it's a nursery for fascists these days.


      |u/horatiobanz - 4 hours
      |
      |Imagine posting this comment on reddit of all places. . .


          |u/Somepotato - 3 hours
          |
          |Banning fascists from a platform doesn't make you a fascist.
          |Being against banning fascists kinda does.


    |u/intelminer - 5 hours
    |
    |>biggest free speech platform  #cisgender  EDIT: lmao this loser
    |unironically calls it "X". Everything he says can be safely ignored


      |u/smp476 - 4 hours
      |
      |Don't scare off the guy with a sl*r!!


        |u/intelminer - 3 hours
        |
        |Weirdly /u/mrasif has chosen to ignore my comment! I guess he
        |did not enjoy my frozen peaches


    |u/jwrose - 5 hours
    |
    |Ah, just gulping down that “disinformation is free speech”
    |narrative, are we? So fkn manipulated


      |u/WTFnoAvailableNames - 4 hours
      |
      |>“disinformation is free speech”   I hate Elon, Trump and X but...
      |yes?


        |u/zth25 - 3 hours
        |
        |There is no freedom without responsibility and consequences.
        |Misinformation must have consequences. It does not on platforms
        |like Twitter. So it's not free speech.


          |u/WTFnoAvailableNames - 42 minutes
          |
          |>There is no freedom without responsibility and consequences.
          |That's just something you made up just now. There is no law of
          |physics that state misinformation must have consequences
          |(legally). Justified or not, it would be an infringement on
          |free speech.


        |u/jwrose - 5 hours
        |
        |>guy running the biggest free speech platform  >”misinformation”
        |Those are the views of yours I know, and those are the ones I’m
        |referring to. It’s not complicated. You’re not playing 4d chess.
        |You’re repeating the latest trumpian talking point, that
        |misinformation is free speech. And glazing Elon while you do it.


          |u/BiggieMediums - 4 hours
          |
          |Misinformation, or lying, are both ABSOLUTELY free speech.
          |What the fuck is happening to this place?


        |u/zth25 - 3 hours
        |
        |You spew misinformation and promote other spreaders of
        |misinformation.   You think Brazil has a conservative
        |government? You claim to advocate for free speech, but as soon
        |as the first lady of Brazil tells Elon to get fucked, you call
        |that censorship.  Free speech works both ways, snowflake.


            |u/zth25 - 3 hours
            |
            |Telling someone to get fucked is free speech. Stop trying to
            |censor her, snowflake.   You do know that Elon censors
            |Twitter and bans people and opinions he doesn't like, right?
            |And a quick reminder - I know, not *every* Elon supporter is
            |a fascist - but who do the actual outspoken swastika
            |wearing, militia larping fascists support? And why do these
            |free speech advocates always keep agreeing with the likes of
            |Trump, Elon and Putin? That's the company you keep. And it
            |smells.


    |u/Rashlyn1284 - 4 hours
    |
    |>get mad at the guy running the biggest free speech platform  Musk
    |doesn't run reddit.


      |u/horatiobanz - 4 hours
      |
      |The amount of delusional you need to be to think Reddit is a free
      |speech platform.


    |u/Ishuun - 5 hours
    |
    |"free speech means I can call people slurs and not get in trouble"
    |Twitter is a cesspool filled with parasites sucking the blood out of
    |America.  And the farthest thing from the "biggest free speech"
    |platform.


        |u/Ishuun - 5 hours
        |
        |Can't expect a right winger to understand context or nuance.
        |That's my bad.


    |u/Mushrooming247 - 4 hours
    |
    |“Free speech platform” where you can say the N-word all you want,
    |but you can’t identify yourself as a “cis-gendered” individual,
    |because Leon thinks that’s “hate speech”.


        |u/intelminer - 3 hours
        |
        |#cisgender


    |u/Asticot-gadget - 4 hours
    |
    |X is a propaganda platform, nothing more.


        |u/Asticot-gadget - 4 hours
        |
        |Oh there's a ton of propaganda here too. But Elon Musk purchased
        |Twitter specifically with the goal to make it easier for his AI
        |bots to push propaganda and disinformation without any
        |restrictions. Anyone who still uses this cancer of a website is
        |just asking for it at this point.


          |u/Divine_Porpoise - 3 hours
          |
          |And bots, as strings of code, don't have their right to free
          |speech. The end result of allowing bots to shape  democratic
          |discourse is that the power of people's speech is diminished
          |in yet another aspect of their lives and that discourse is
          |subverted and put in the hands of those with the privileged
          |position of having the means to abuse it.


            |u/BenjaminDanklin1776 - 2 hours
            |
            |This right here. Bots should not have the right to freedom
            |of speech.


    |u/ReverseCarry - 4 hours
    |
    |Any particular reason why you think Lula is a conservative?? You
    |realize Bolsonaro hasn’t been in office for a while now, right?
    |Also, go on that “free speech platform” and tweet out cisgender btw,
    |let me know how that goes. Elon also worked with Trump to bury the
    |JD Vance vetting document on X, blocked links to it, and suspended
    |Ken Klippenstein from Twitter. Solid freeze peach advocate for sure


        |u/Divine_Porpoise - 3 hours
        |
        |>It doesn’t matter who is trying to regulate your speech they
        |shouldn’t have the right to  And the issue being discussed is
        |the world's richest person who's about to be part of the
        |government doing just that while flooding political discourse
        |with entities which as non-persons don't have a right to free
        |speech.


    |u/Infinite_Register678 - 4 hours
    |
    |>Yeah it’s so refreshing to see a country that’s run by a
    |conservative government   Brazil is not run by a conservative
    |government?  >You people on reddit have no idea what you’re
    |advocating for lol.  You literally have no idea what you are talking
    |about.


        |u/Infinite_Register678 - 4 hours
        |
        |> For example what if a party got in control that was against
        |vaccines and made it “misinformation” to say good things about
        |vaccines?  This is a slippery slope argument, they are
        |inherently bad and you can make them for almost anything.  "you
        |shouldn't have an army, imagine if the army decided to just take
        |over the country"  Has the exact same logic (and military
        |dictatorships have occurred many times) the answer to this issue
        |isn't to not have an army it's to have strong institutions and
        |protections to prevent this from occurring.  Similarly free
        |speech doesn't mean letting people yell "fire!"in crowded
        |theaters or "vaccines case autism" on twitter, it means having
        |strong institutional and legal protections to prevent those laws
        |being abused.  >For example what if a party got in control that
        |was against vaccines and made it “misinformation” to say good
        |things about vaccines?  That theoretical government could do
        |that anyway by simply passing it as law.


            |u/intelminer - 3 hours
            |
            |Fascinating argument, however:  #cisgender


                |u/intelminer - 3 hours
                |
                |>I agree that should be an allowed term on X  You mean
                |twitter


    |u/ZaMr0 - 4 hours
    |
    |Right wing controlled spaces are the most censored places on the
    |internet. Even on this platform, have you seen the conservative sub?
    |If you're not sucking Trumps dick you get an immediate ban.   I
    |tried to discuss gun regulation after a school shooting years back
    |and was immediately banned.


    |u/Super-Admiral - 3 hours
    |
    |Elon Musk dick rider detected.   Only billionaires should control
    |speech! That's how God intended! We get it.  Edit: I made my case
    |and I'm the owner of the truth. Everyone else is inferior because
    |they don't ride billionaires dick and they don't know what they are
    |doing.  Amen.


    |u/Kevsbar123 - 4 hours
    |
    |It’s a disinformation network. If I could choose between his
    |accomplishments and him never having existed, I would have made the
    |world a better place.


    |u/honk_incident - 5 hours
    |
    |https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/02/08/trump-white-house-
    |pressed-twitter-to-remove-chrissy-teigen-insult-ex-exec-testifies/
    |https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/media/trump-elon-musk-x-hack-
    |materials/index.html


    |u/bekaradmi - 3 hours
    |
    |Chutiyay


|u/Beavers225 - 6 hours
|
|FUCK YEAH BRAZIL!!! Fuck Elon!


  |u/MoreCommoner - 6 hours
  |
  |FEM: Fuck Elon Musk


  |u/niceguykyle - 6 hours
  |
  |Fuck president Leon


    |u/Everyone_Is_Saying - 5 hours
    |
    |Leon Skum


      |u/PM_ME_BUSTY_REDHEADS - 5 hours
      |
      |fElon Skum


|u/Firesate - 4 hours
|
|Should read " Brazil's First Lady insults US's First Lady"


|u/angry-democrat - 6 hours
|
|I feel like more women should treat him this way. Boycott Musk and
|Twitter and Tesla.


  |u/chellybeanery - 4 hours
  |
  |Done and done. I also used to work for Tesla until early this year and
  |am thrilled to not have to make money for that sack of balls anymore.
  |I love Tesla as an idea, but working for this man made my stomach
  |twist.


  |u/Simba7 - 6 hours
  |
  |I'm a decade ahead of you.


|u/theKoboldkingdonkus - 1 hour
|
|Please more of world leaders just insulting these clowns


  |u/ClassicAreas444 - 6 minutes
  |
  |What does she lead?


|u/aliris_ - 6 hours
|
|It's not an insult if it's true.


  |u/radome9 - 2 hours
  |
  |It's a BETTER insult if it's true.


  |u/FloatingFaintly - 5 hours
  |
  |That's not true.  *Edit: To all you morons down voting me, I have no
  |idea why.  Something can be true AND insulting.  How fucking stupid
  |are you people?  If there is an objectively ugly little 12 year old
  |girl in line for some ice cream, and some douche-fuck like all you
  |down voters comes up to her and says "Hey, little girl, did you know
  |you are very ugly"?.... Is that not insulting just because it's true?
  |"It's not an insult if it's true" is the calling card of an asshole.
  |My comment has nothing to do with Musk, it's simply pointing out some
  |smooth brain logic of how insults work.


    |u/diabloman8890 - 4 hours
    |
    |Hey, that's insulting


    |u/Dannypan - 3 hours
    |
    |You need a glass of water to dilute all that salt in your system.


|u/MohSilas - 3 hours
|
|Tomorrow’s headline: “starlink service shutdown in Brazil”


  |u/WitchQween - 2 hours
  |
  |Twitter was banned there for a little over a month until Musk finally
  |paid the $5mil USD fine in October. They already have beef because of
  |that.


  |u/Fuckmepotato - 2 hours
  |
  |In other News China gives Brazil quantium network, new high speed
  |trains , and state of the art ports.


  |u/S4ikou - 32 minutes
  |
  |That would really benefit us, Starlink is mainly used by illegal
  |miners in the Amazon forest and Elon refuses to cooperate with our
  |government to help find those people.


|u/Mr_NotParticipating - 2 hours
|
|Dunno who she is but I like her now.


  |u/ClassicAreas444 - 5 minutes
  |
  |She married a bad person who won an election. That’s who she is.


|u/chockedup - 1 hour
|
|As in the headline, we're concentrating on Janja's comment rather than
|Musk's reply, "They are going to lose the next election."  How would
|Musk know they are going to lose?


  |u/Odys - 1 hour
  |
  |> How would Musk know they are going to lose?  300 billion goes a long
  |way in achieving whatever you want.


  |u/brezhnervous - 38 minutes
  |
  |When you're planning on 2024 being the last 'real' actual election


  |u/GeneReddit123 - 18 minutes
  |
  |It's the "if you want a job done right, do it yourself" kind of
  |knowledge.


  |u/oholandesvoador - 11 minutes
  |
  |Different from the US, in Brazil you can't buy votes, Elon.


|u/iPon3 - 5 hours
|
|The first ladies are fightinggggg


|u/Boudicas_Cat - 6 hours
|
|Hilarious. One of my best friends is Brazilian- culturally, seems like
|the women just tend to tell it like it is. 😆


|u/PistolCowboy - 6 hours
|
|I bet the people at space x and Twitter love that this guy has been
|distracted by his new toy.


|u/acdameli - 4 hours
|
|more people should insult Elon Musk in my opinion.


|u/FUThead2016 - 3 hours
|
|Next thing you know, he will put on a hat and jump and clap for her at
|her next fundraiser.


|u/Reasonable_Low_4633 - 2 hours
|
|"She is not afraid" ... why would she be? lol...


|u/PrudentFinger1749 - 3 hours
|
|US is going to alienate itself in coming years.


|u/Happy-go-lucky-37 - 3 hours
|
|It’s getting to the point where all the headlines are about fElon or
|Donold, and my brain is just mixing them up. Trump/Musk.


|u/gunner_4_ferrari - 1 hour
|
|Musky boi getting clowned upon... You love to see it..


|u/Select_Eggplant_9911 - 5 hours
|
|I hate Elons guts, he’s a puke factory let’s be real.  However is it a
|good idea if governments can control what’s considered misinformation?
|Look at the Trump administration, this is something we need to be
|worried about.


  |u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie - 4 hours
  |
  |If you have a government with trustworthy institutions its a lot
  |better than any private interest. Government can be good, its only bad
  |when the people running it are treating it like a tool for them, or
  |trying to run a government like a business


    |u/BiggieMediums - 4 hours
    |
    |Yeah but that government has to remain forever trustworthy, any
    |regime change can erase that trust.   At least when it’s a private
    |entity or interest, you can pack up and go to another platform
    |instead of *going to jail*.


      |u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie - 4 hours
      |
      |All the more reason to preserve what one has, keep it good and
      |fight authouritarianism in all its forms, especially fascism. It
      |wasnt the CDC that was convincing people to take horse dewormer as
      |a covid remedy. That was private interests.


        |u/StaunchVegan - 2 hours
        |
        |> horse dewormer  You do yourself no favors when you refer to
        |Ivermectin as a horse dewormer: regardless of your opinion on
        |its utility re: COVID-19, it has many clinical uses for humans.


      |u/Kommye - 5 minutes
      |
      |Thing is, a healthy society needs the government to be trustworthy
      |no matter what. Misinformation control or not, doesn't change
      |that. It is the DUTY of the people to not elect untrustworthy
      |people and to protect their democracy.  Because the people who
      |would abuse that kind of power can just do it even if that power
      |wasn't allowed. Fascists don't give a fuck about laws.  The US
      |population failed to perform their civic duties. They failed to
      |protest to improve things. They failed to call out enemies of
      |democracy. They even failed to mail a vote.


  |u/Infinite_Register678 - 4 hours
  |
  |> However is it a good idea if governments can control what’s
  |considered misinformation?  That is always ultimately the case, the
  |courts (and thus the state) get to decide what is truth for example in
  |defamation cases and in free speech cases.  For example in the
  |foundational case of establishing free speech limitations the SC
  |pointed out that it is not free speech to yell "fire!" in a crowded
  |theater, that is a crime, obviously it is not a crime if it is true
  |though.   Personally I don't think "fire!" in a crowded theater and
  |"vaccines cause autism" deserve different treatment under the law.


  |u/gachiweeb - 4 hours
  |
  |Yea I totally get it when people hate Elon, but suddenly everyone
  |loves Brazil's leadership who wanted to censor social media just
  |because they cussed at Elon? lmfao


    |u/Shot_Traffic4759 - 3 hours
    |
    |They’ve never wanted to censor social media. Just posts like threats
    |to police officers’ families.


      |u/StaunchVegan - 2 hours
      |
      |In November 2022, Brazil's Supreme Elections Court ordered the
      |suspension of the Twitter accounts of two far-right congressmen,
      |Nikolas Ferreira and Marcos Cintra, for demanding explanations
      |from the court for supposed voting fraud in that year's
      |elections.[65][66]


    |u/cpthornman - 1 hour
    |
    |Kind of like how everyone is for big pharma now because of RFKJr.
    |You could say oxygen is good and these people would suffocate to
    |death to try to prove you wrong.


  |u/porcomaster - 4 hours
  |
  |I am brazilian, and i have so much to talk about freedom of speech in
  |brazil, but sincerely, I don't, I am honestly afraid of the government
  |that we have today.


    |u/yahmack - 2 hours
    |
    |Se fuder nerdola kkkkkkk


  |u/Hudell - 2 hours
  |
  |Brazil has been handling this sort of stuff pretty well in general.


|u/Kubrick_Fan - 5 hours
|
|Oh, I like her


|u/LaunchGap - 3 hours
|
|it fucking sucks to have to navigate this geo political situation where
|the world's richest man has entered his influence so blatantly. politics
|have become about who can yell the loudest and jump up and down the
|highest/most.


|u/soulstryker66 - 2 hours
|
|Whatever they call him, they are probably right in some aspect.


|u/PokeBawls2020 - 22 minutes
|
|Who else remembers the days when we, or many of us, thought elon was a
|genius?


  |u/oholandesvoador - 13 minutes
  |
  |He fooled us


|u/FloppySlapper - 7 minutes
|
|She has more balls than all the men do.


  |u/giocondasmiles - 4 minutes
  |
  |She has more balls than half of American voters.


|u/thatzwhatido_1 - 5 hours
|
|Why would anyone care what she thinks


  |u/bellatimoor - 3 hours
  |
  |Whenever anyone says anything bad about him its gonna be front page on
  |Reddit and they gonna be jerking to it for weeks.  Several weeks ago
  |someone posted a fake link to a non-existing article about "elon
  |bad"-type of news, and it immediately got 100s of upvotes. Without
  |anyone even verifying the content lol (which led to a 404 error page.


  |u/Solid_Bake4577 - 2 hours
  |
  |Because most people outside of half of America have an appreciation of
  |global politics and the fact that Brazil represents a huge potential
  |trade market.  With your shitty attitude you should apply to Trump for
  |a job - you’d be an absolute shoe-in.


  |u/Sweetieandlittleman - 5 hours
  |
  |I just found out about her and she has a brand new fan!


  |u/Cleveland_Grackle - 5 hours
  |
  |A fragile ego like Musk certainly would.


  |u/grizznuggets - 4 hours
  |
  |Well she’s a First Lady for starters, that’s kind of a big deal.


    |u/vorpvorpvorp - 2 hours
    |
    |Ooh scary ooh shiver me timbers


|u/bmc1969 - 3 hours
|
|Damn! Good for her.


|u/snobule - 2 hours
|
|How does he get to be there?


|u/Witty_Ticket_4101 - 1 hour
|
|Love to see the drama unfold! The G20 just got a lot more spicy. 🍿


|u/Ghal_Maraz - 6 hours
|
|I insult Elon Musk everyday, it’s really quite easy


|u/bokkser - 4 hours
|
|Elon Musk is literally going to be the co-president with Donald Trump


  |u/008Zulu - 3 hours
  |
  |There is only one Lord of the GOP. Only one who can bend it to his
  |will. And he does not share power!


|u/kheeshbabab - 5 hours
|
|More leaders need to have balls of steel and insult the imbecile on his
|face.


|u/Elidien1 - 3 hours
|
|As she should. Fuck Muskrat.


|u/Super-Admiral - 3 hours
|
|Yes, I agree. Fuck you Elon Musk.


|u/strato1981 - 4 hours
|
|Ah yes, the beloved ruling family of Brazil


|u/conh3 - 5 hours
|
|Yeh all this is showboating from Leon who thinks his backing from Trump
|is a free pass for him to sell his junk cars or social platform to
|everyone.. it’s a popcorn moment.. he is losing worldwide market. X is
|failing even in US. Sure Tesla can corner the market in US but let’s see
|how he falters when facing the EU or China.


|u/HoneybucketDJ - 6 hours
|
|I didn't know she was out of prison.


|u/Xaerith - 5 hours
|
|Queen behaviour. More people should tell him to fuck off.


|u/BoobsBrah - 3 hours
|
|We should regulate misinformation on social media, starting with Reddit.
|This place is a cesspool.


  |u/Pexkokingcru - 2 hours
  |
  |This place might be worse than a lot of other places.


    |u/BoobsBrah - 2 hours
    |
    |What makes this place worse is how the people who use this site act
    |all high-and-mighty as if they are some sophisticated intellectuals


      |u/Lunivar - 2 hours
      |
      |Then leave.


|u/im_a_worriedpig - 4 hours
|
|I always found the name "Elon" extremely douchey


|u/MS_Fume - 3 hours
|
|It’s Felon Husk…


|u/jmtocali - 6 hours
|
|Why saying the truth is labeled as an insult?


|u/lilybat-gm - 5 hours
|
|More!


|u/Vanye111 - 4 hours
|
|I have a new hero.


|u/MDA1912 - 4 hours
|
|Good for her!


|u/PoignantPoint22 - 5 hours
|
|Did she calling him a dancing dipshit too?


|u/wildflowersummer - 5 hours
|
|For real though. Fuck Elon Musk the little flat faced weasel


|u/Reality_Suit - 6 hours
|
|Elon is not smart. He comes from money. He bought whatever title he has,
|not earned it.


    |u/grizznuggets - 4 hours
    |
    |He is a terrible businessman. Exhibit A: Twitter


      |u/bellatimoor - 4 hours
      |
      |His $44B investment in Twitter has arguably helped win the
      |election, which in turn doubled his net worth.   Pretty good ROI
      |if you ask me.


      |u/bake_day - 3 hours
      |
      |the fascists bought twitter so they have a propaganda platform
      |putin, saudi arabia, china - none of these care how much twitter
      |is worth or how much they lost. 40 billion is pocket change for
      |these people.  exhibit a: list of funders  exhibit b: fuck them
      |advertisers


    |u/Reality_Suit - 4 hours
    |
    |No, he has not earned anything. He's an opportunist who exploited
    |electric cars. He's a shit businessman who has enough money to keep
    |making mistakes. He knows how to exploit, not conduct business.


      |u/rednoodles - 2 hours
      |
      |I'm not going to defend Elon's views since I disagree with a lot
      |of what he's said, but he did create his first company zip2 with
      |his brother and friend, programmed it entirely on his own. Then
      |created a financial services company that merged with another
      |company to create paypal. To call that a shit businessman is
      |blatant ignorance, his first billion was through his own merit and
      |work. I disagree with you since the proof is absolutely easy to
      |read. It's also really disingenuous to say he's an opportunist who
      |exploited electric cars. I suppose if you're young and weren't
      |around in the early 2000s you wouldn't understand that no one else
      |was doing them. And Tesla + Ford were the only car companies that
      |didn't file for bankruptcy in 2008/2009, requiring government
      |bailouts.


|u/Prexxus - 3 hours
|
|Brazil should maybe look at their own corruption before anything else.
|One of the largest poluters of the ozone.   Actively destroying the rain
|forest.   High amounts of criminal activity all over the country.


  |u/Solid_Bake4577 - 1 hour
  |
  |There’s nothing that you’ve said that doesn’t apply directly to the US
  |and Canada, so sit down, shut up and brace yourself:  While the US
  |doesn’t have a rainforest it is happily trashing its own natural
  |resources and millions of people don’t have clean water to drink.
  |https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/access-to-clean-
  |water-by-country  In the meantime Canada is wreaking havoc in the
  |environment with the “Tar Sands”, what the National Geographic call
  |the world’s biggest climate disaster - oopsie!
  |https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21112021/tar-sands-canada-oil/  The
  |US is the second largest emitter of CO2 behind China - Brazil is 14th,
  |and (horror of horrors) your Canada is 11th. Oopsie…
  |https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/access-to-clean-
  |water-by-country  As for corruption in the US - whatever it is now is
  |likely to be much less than what it will be in the next couple of
  |years and you only have to look at Musk having a job for which he is
  |eminently unqualified to back that up. And I’m fairly sure Mr Trudeau
  |loves a brown envelope from the oil companies as much as any other
  |politician.


|u/Aggravating_Law_1335 - 1 hour
|
|my kind of girl


|u/Fun_Performer_5170 - 1 hour
|
|Well done


|u/PastFact4950 - 1 hour
|
|Sorry but how can this shit even be labeled as "news"


|u/MagusSeven - 35 minutes
|
|He also pretty much just called Selenskyj a clown. He is like a Discord
|Mod on a power trip who thinks he's a god or something.


|u/fallharvest9000 - 34 minutes
|
|How that rain forest Brazil?


|u/6I6AM6 - 33 minutes
|
|Leon Muskellunge


|u/OpalescentAardvark - 17 minutes
|
|Also kind of fuck Reuters for not letting me read the site in a privacy
|browser.


|u/NamelessForce - 3 hours
|
|Fuck Lula, literally the most corrupt leader in Brazilian history, and
|that's saying something. Elon is no saint, but regulating social media
|so only "the correct" message is allowed to be spoken is not the way a
|democracy is meant to operate.   Censorship is always one of the first
|steps to fascism, fuck Lula.


|u/bluecheese2040 - 1 hour
|
|First lady....First men (in countries with them).. Who the fuck cares
|what they think? They just married the leader...it gives them zero
|qualification to pontificate.   If I'm married to a doctor, do you wanna
|hear from the doctor on medical issues or from me?... Exactly.  These
|people are just the people that stand by them. They aren't elected, and
|tbh no one apart from gossip folk.care about them at all.


|u/VastlyVainVanity - 1 hour
|
|FYI she is almost universally despised in Brazil.


|u/GiveMeAChanceMedium - 4 hours
|
|Breaking news: Brazil just found oil and started developing WMDs


|u/ratmanbland - 4 hours
|
|this lady calls them as she see's them.


|u/charleovb - 3 hours
|
|… anyway …


|u/Independent-Slide-79 - 3 hours
|
|Awesome 👋


|u/dhoomk2 - 2 hours
|
|Aww crybaby


|u/LemonTM - 1 hour
|
|She seems nice.


|u/abody8 - 1 hour
|
|That is hilarious


|u/ttbnz - 5 hours
|
|I like her.


|u/LifeIsRadInCBad - 6 hours
|
|much edge


  |u/narsichris - 6 hours
  |
  |Right? She’ll never be as edgy as the edgy meme-lord himself. Still
  |slapping my knee and cackling like a ghoul about how funny “dark MAGA”
  |was.


    |u/jrb2524 - 6 hours
    |
    |Not just dark maga ultra dark Gothic maga.


|u/jrb2524 - 6 hours
|
|She probably just called him Leon the paper skinned.


|u/Fuckmepotato - 4 hours
|
|You go girl. Should be person of the year contender.


  |u/Nimmy_the_Jim - 3 hours
  |
  |🤦‍♂️ 


|u/PossibilityRough6424 - 2 hours
|
|The ex prisoner wife ?


  |u/Moloko_Drencron - 2 hours
  |
  |The wife of a victim of lawfare


|u/LMurch13 - 6 hours
|
|Why would she say that about president Musk? So rude.


|u/Sweetieandlittleman - 5 hours
|
|Oooh, I like this woman. This is the kind of honesty we on the American
|left need to emulate!


|u/reddit_pleb42069 - 3 hours
|
|No way really Im so glad I know this now I cant even imagine how my life
|would be without me knowing this I wonder what people are gonna do about
|this wow...


|u/TrunkCat - 48 minutes
|
|Ouch, damn, it must  sting being insulted by someone as prestigious as
|the *first lady of Brazil*, queen of the favelas  [Here's the
|"corruption and scandals" portion of the Brazilian president ](https://e
|n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva#Corruption_scandals_
|and_controversy)


|u/namethatsavailable - 6 hours
|
|Lula is a communist criminal, no surprise his wife is a foul-mouthed
|brute.  AFUERA!!


  |u/OppositeRock4217 - 5 hours
  |
  |Remember he was supposed to be in prison on corruption charges


  |u/mxosborn - 3 hours
  |
  |Randomly throws the word "communist" = never read a book in life.


  |u/Channing1986 - 6 hours
  |
  |My brother in law is Brazilian now lives in Canada and he hates Lula.


    |u/pedrao157 - 3 hours
    |
    |you're only going to find people on reddit who support them, in real
    |life the majority is against them


    |u/Rawrist - 6 hours
    |
    |Lol


|u/Quiet-Ad-7989 - 1 hour
|
|What a classless non-statesmen like woman. This kind of language doesn’t
|belong in the political discourse. She should be ashamed.


|u/griii2 - 1 hour
|
|I see, political vulgarity is a good thing when my side does it.


|u/its_glep_o_clock - 51 minutes
|
|I’m expecting Melania in a Brazilian designers clothes in the next
|couple days to throw shade.


|u/Kuro2712 - 3 hours
|
|Why is this cheered upon? What happened to diplomacy and not causing a
|diplomatic incident?


  |u/Imaginary_Axis - 2 hours
  |
  |Tribalism behaviour.


|u/ChrimsonRed - 6 hours
|
|Brazil should ban all external social media and create a state moderated
|social media platform like Weibo.


|u/OzyDave - 3 hours
|
|Which ballot was Musk on?


|u/IamYOVO - 2 hours
|
|Imagine your only credential is that you married some guy. Of course
|she's not afraid of Musk; she has zero authority and zero
|responsibility.  I am absolutely no fan of Musk, but who cares what she
|thinks?


|u/Outrageous_Box5741 - 4 hours
|
|What has she done with her life.


|u/Homo_s4piens - 5 hours
|
|Karen Lula da Silva


|u/LostStage - 48 minutes
|
|Ah yes, the first lady of a drug lord shithole known for its... *checks
|notes* squalor and kicking a ball?   I thought back in peal 2016
|everyone on Reddit was lined up to suck off Elon, now Elon bad.


  |u/KamelRedz0r - 6 minutes
  |
  |Don't forget destroying the largest rainforest on Earth while
  |displacing native tribes who inhabited the land. Real winners on the
  |world stage.