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Elon and Trump make the worst possible argument for nuclear power I have ever heard:

"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they are full cities again," the multibillionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X said.

"That's great, that's great," Mr Trump responded.

"It is not as scary as people think, basically," Mr Musk added.

They joked about nuclear power facing a “branding problem”.

“We will have to rebrand it,” the former president told Mr Musk. “We will name it after you or something.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Cool story Elon. Tell us, how bad would it be if a Fat Man bomb was detonated over your house? Pretty bad? Yeah now STFU.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

The World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists, but they built a new one. Not as scary as you think.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok, so now that's Japan, EU, UK and Brazil that hate elon's guts. He's gonna start to run out of democracies to fuck with, will he move on to dictators or is that friendly fire?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a nation of one, one of my foreign policy agendas is the eradication of everything Elon Musk stands for. All my cells voted in favor of this, we are not a house divided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah, yeah, there are people of all kinds in these places, but know that if he attacks your institutions, he is not on your side. Governments have taken notice and are starting to act on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

He will not mess with dictators. Because in those countries he can get anything he wants just by bribing a few people. Not so in democracies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's associate a nuclear power plant with Elon's record of dumping mercury in waterways and not giving a shit about safety.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If Elon musk goes into nuclear energy I guarantee you, the plant he would make will have a meltdown that would make Fukushima and Chernobyl look tame by comparison.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Somebody should let these geniuses know that nuclear weapons are now a thousand times stronger, and there are thousands of times as many spread all over the world.

Plus they’re doing the old people thing where they pretend the past was all great. Plus there’s probably some kind of bigoted/xenophobic undertone, because after all it didn’t happen to the people that matter to them. (Which is very few people honestly)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be really fun to punch him in the face for like 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The internet has come full circle!

There used to be a game in the 90's where you punch Bill Gates in the face.

Like this:
https://github.com/Martysh12/punch-bill-gates

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember an early 2000 game called Who wants to Beat Up a Millionaire

Which was a quiz and if you got the right answer, you get to beat up your millionaire opponents until they aren't millionaires any more. Even getting some weapons.

Ah, good times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just needs updated to billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Can people stop trying Musk like he is some sort of "cool bro" idol?

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