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Elon Musk demands Trump send US troops to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops to San Francisco, claiming in a gung-ho post that it is “the only solution” to the city’s drug problem.

Musk, who spearheaded mass layoffs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency before he exited the White House in May, said downtown San Francisco is “a drug zombie apocalypse.”

His remarks follow his departure from the Trump administration following a public feud with Donald Trump and allegations that Musk himself was using drugs when he was funneling millions into the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign. He denied the allegations and said they were “lies.”

Elon Musk demands Trump send US troops to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-san-francisco-trump-national-guard-b2844494.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
lemmy.world

Isn't he a big drug user? Does he really mean "war on poor people?"

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That's pretty much what the "war on (some) drugs" always was. Well, that and anyone else they wanted to go after - gays, Blacks, liberals, etc...with things like the cocaine vs. crack treatment really highlighting the hypocrisy. Not to mention statements made by key people like Ehrlichman...

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I wish he would start the war on X: the world would be a better place.

Hell, he's already started the war on Tesla...

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We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

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lemmy.world

JFC, what an asshole. This is the guy that uses ketamine, shrooms, ecstasy and who knows what else?

I love how the rules don't apply to any of these assholes, but the full force of the law should come down like a ton of bricks of anyone that's not at least a centimillionaire...

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Tolookahreply
discuss.tchncs.de

I think you mean hecto millionaire. (Centi sounds wrong to me for 100 million, more like centimeter)

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lemmy.world

They are synonyms. Centimillionaire and hectomillionaire mean the same thing.

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That might be, but my brain thought it was 10,000 dollars, or 0.01 million. I blame the language

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Is this moron still alive? We had been blessed with not hearing about him for some time.... I guess the ket is wearing off.

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He was just lurking in the shadows practicing his Nazi salute in the bathroom. He never went away.

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altphotoreply
lemmy.today

Back in the nineties.... D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs! Scruff McCruff Chicago Illinois 60612?

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My daughter always complained that no one had ever offered her free drugs to try to get her hooked. I spent a day walking around a farmers market with a pocket full of canamels handing them out to anyone who wanted them. On the way home I said, "Honey, I'm the guy they warned you about." She said, "Cannabis it's not addictive."

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  1. I'm sad that this jingle is still in my head but so many other things I have forgotten.
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The important thing is it's making the investors in police and military equipment and the people who run private professions wealthy and disproportionately harming minorities

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I'm willing to believe that Elon Musk is addicted to snorting the ashes of homeless people.

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aussie.zone

Because DOGE was such a roaring success under his watch, I'm sure they're all still listening to him.

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Almaccareply
aussie.zone

Not when they're having to rehire a bunch of people at presumably great expense, never mind all the incoming lawsuits.

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They don't care, it's not their money since they don't pay their fair share of taxes.

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Bitch can end world hunger and US poverty over 3 times with his money but wants a military invasion and more federal funding for his own companies to get even richer.

Elon, you can go fuck yourself. It's the only way.

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Goddamn, it was a nice couple of months there where he just shut the fuck up and laid low for a while.

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When you think of Elon panting for Trump's attention, who in turn is acting out of unresolved need for his daddy's attention, it could be argued our entire democracy is being dismantled to please the dead Fred Trump.

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lemmy.world

He wants all the ketamine for himself. DOGE will confiscate it all and then mysteriously disappear from a storage warehouse.

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E.g. send them to Stamford, Connecticut and go after Purdue Pharma?

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Plot twist, it was a san franciscan that stiffed him once with some bad k

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Wait so billionaire piece of shit who is constantly tripping all day demands war on drugs… against the people who stopped buying his trash vehicles is somehow correct?

I guess the regime isn’t imprisoning enough minorities fast enough for his puppeteers.

Daily reminder:

During a news conference with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump said, "They rigged the election, and I became president."

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San Francisco was fine until the tech bros came in and priced everyone out. Poverty creates mental illness and that fuels addiction. Might get better if these tech bros paid taxes at a 90% rate like they would have in the 1950’s and we used that to fund universal healthcare but they seem to be pushing for a genocide instead. Who would have guessed that giving hundreds of billions of dollars to racist/sexist apartheid South Africans would be bad for America? /s

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lemmy.ca

Stick to cars buddy. Leave the sociology to those who at least care about humanity.

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He’s a nepo baby who’s good at failing upward, in a society that caters to such people

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Just had dinner in North Beach. Out on the side walk. Had a lovely time as always. What the fuck are these people on? There are seedy streets in the city. Sure. But overall San Francisco is peaceful.

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slrpnk.net

I hope I'm wrong but I fully believe a crackdown on cannabis is coming.

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Look at the "medical cannabis" industry in Florida... That's where it's going. They will eliminate the farm bill and introduce more shitty moldy corporate weed that costs an arm and a leg with no taxes.

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The streets of San Francisco are fine. There’s no need for any of this shit. If billionaires are scared. Maybe use their money to better the neighborhoods they are scared of.

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lemmy.world

What are they going to do shoot dying homeless people in the streets?

1/3 of those vagrants die every winter from the cold. They just keep flooding in so you’d never notice.

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That's a weird way to say you hate poor people Jesus fucking Christ

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