The funny thing is the right is always so anti-ACLU, and yet the ACLU will defend the right's legal rights if they ever get violated, and have done that in the past. Just like the separation of church and state...they talk about that being a terrible thing, and yet religious freedom is better for it.
The ACLU is a broken organization for this very reason. They invest a great deal of their time and energy in trying to look nonpartisan by backing some of the most vile and irredeemable people in the country.
On the flip side, Democrats steer wide of the organization whenever it comes time to run candidates or appoint cabinet positions.
You'll never see the head of the ACLU appointed to the DOJ or granted a federal judgeship. No more than a regional leader of Planned Parenthood gets to run for Senate in a bright blue state. They aren't feeders to high office like the Federalist Society or the Heritage Foundation. All they are good for is fundraising from unhappy liberals.
The core premise of a right is that it applies regardless of who you are.
It's not "the right to free speech unless we don't like what you say", it's not "the right to due process unless the crime you're accused of is really bad", etc.
Protecting the rights of bad people equally with good ones is what they stand for. Rights aren't conditional.
Sounds like the Dems are broken in this case for not pulling from the ACLU?
Let's make Musk a Healthcare CEO, please
Are you confusing insurance company for healthcare? An easy way to remember this is that the word care is in healthcare.
Large hospital corporations are arguably worse than insurance, or at least as bad. The two work together to create the circumstances where they get rich and we get ripped off.
Granted, I'm not crazy about political assassinations, I'm not saying ceos should be killed by random adventurists. In a country so desensitized to mindless violence, where our kids grew up with active shooter drills, I find the murder of the CEO very funny, but it isn't a solution or a fix to insurance or healthcare. The problem is capitalism, and it will take more than a dead CEO to change anything about our pathetic, disgusting healthcare system.
Some of them aren't much better- wouldn't surprised if all of these clowns start showing up with armed escorts
Sadly Musk has over 20 bodyguards that always clear the area for him before he goes in. If you are in a place where Elon Musk wants to be, they will usher you out and check the place for traps and bugs (listening devices, not insects. If they did for the latter then Musk himself would not be allowed in!).
If I've learned anything from Ukraine, no one is too hard to reach with a little hardware.
If they did for the latter then Musk himself would not be allowed in!
no they just have to make sure there are no bugs before he goes in. no capitalist can stand competition, you see
I really don't think we should talk about assassinating anyone. For example, a drone with explosives would be a bad thing.
Don't insult bugs, they are critical to human society.
So refuse to leave and we keep the trash out?
Yeah defund all of their government funding which would reduce their funding by….. exactly $0. Musk is a fucking idiot. His supporters are even bigger, gullible idiots.
Thanks, I thought I was taking crazy pills for a second there. How is he gonna defund an NGO? lol
Exactly what I came to say... The ACLU isn't funded by the US Government you absolute fucking knob.
People who agree with defunding the ACLU probably don't contribute to the ACLU anyway, so they have no power to defund it. It receives no government money. I'm no psychologist but at this point Musk really seems like he's in the late stages of some tragic mental syndrome, which is really a shame - he had the potential to accomplish so much - but I just wish he would STFU and stop sucking oxygen out of the room.
he had the potential to accomplish so much
No, not really. Everything he promises is either overhyped and underbaked, "ready in 3 years" every year, only viable in fiction, or some combination of all of them.
The people he pays had and still have the potential to do so much, though.
Experts in drug use and addiction told Business Insider, however, that taking some of the specific hard drugs mentioned in the Journal story would be risky for someone of Musk's age, particularly if they have undiagnosed bipolar disorder, as he has previously suggested he does.
The Journal reported that the 52-year-old had taken cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, and magic mushrooms over the years, including at parties, citing unnamed sources who said they'd witnessed his behavior or had knowledge of it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-use-ketamine-microdosing-risks-2024-1?op=1
Late stages? You weren’t thinking this like eight years ago when started with the pedo tweets?
I mean... Who hasn't tried to undermine actual professionals saving real lives by making up hypothetical solutions and when they do it successfully, call them a pedophile for weeks on end and get real butthurt?
He's just a typical billionaire. Trump has normalized being a horrible person so now they're comfortable being themselves
Lead poisoning is a bitch. I'm grateful that my parents managed to keep me away from the worst of it in the early '80s. Musk is almost a decade older than me, so he's still a prime victim of lead poisoning. His parents didn't avoid large cities.
Being around his Mum and Dad in apartheid south Africa is what did most of the damage.
The lead thing is mostly in America. Most places banned it LONG before the US did. So no, it is highly unlikely that Elon Musk, born and raised outside the US, has been exposed to lead as a child.
Elon is such a giant piece of shit
I know. Let's hope he's next.
Lowkey, I'd buy booze and weed and have a party.
I donated today just to spite him. Thanks for the reminder Elon!
He doesn't even say why--just defund it. Then again, if you actually trust that shitheel you probably aren't looking for any better explanation than "thing bad, stop thing"
Been a monthly donor for years. Still not stopping.
He needs to be UHC'd and I'm pretty real sure the perp will get a parade in their honor
Isn't this guy CEO of several companies? I'm just saying.
Edit for clarity using his own words: "It's like nobody is even trying to kill her"
Elonia that is.
What am I missing here? Isn't the ACLU a private nonprofit?
They still get funded. Just not by the government.
This is like saying "Stop donating to PBS!" I'm not sure that's what Musk intends, though. He probably believes they are funded by tax dollars, because he suffers from the stupid.
When will we rise up and rid ourselves of these pesky billionaires?
No greater confirmation of how much power you have then to have a billionaire threaten you
The ACLU have always been fighting and I don't think they'll stop any time soon.
I have never had my long running, monthly ACLU donation feel so good or be so validated. I can always count on being on the right side of something if Elon is against it. Get fucked Elon, we don't need your funds, and never did.
This sub is ironically just another source of Musk spam.
But that's the point. It's supposed to keep the spam out of other communities. But it doesn't completely work.
It's called enough musk spam.
Wat?
This is the freeze peach.
The absolute freedom of speech for those like him, not like us.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defund your right to say it."
I read this as "Defend" at first and was very confused, considering it is Elon Musk.
This is officially one of my favorite Lemmy-Community
I know. Let's hope he's next.
