Human Shield

You know that kid did kind of show up out of nowhere in the past couple of months.
I've never seen him with any of his kids before.
And if you think about it, he's definitely a heartless bastard to do this.
And now I'm wondering about a lot of wealthy elites I've seen with their kids lately. Many of whom I had no idea they had kids that were so strikingly young.
- Imagine being this kid and growing up and realizing one day the only reason dad ever suddenly started giving a shit about you was because he was using you as a meat shield because some guy named Luigi killed another rich guy. I'd be devastated
  
  The chance of that kid not becoming an entitled piece of shit is really low, but I hope he can beat the odds.
- The man has 12 children. Why have i never seen any photos of him with his kids until now? Sus. Very sus.
  
  Could be that they don't want thier kids to be as impacted by thier fame so keep them away from photographers... Nah they're probably just more worried they'd be easier to kidnap and might have to pay a ransom if they're more widly known.
- Using innocents, especially the wounded and children, as shields are a staple of terrorists everywhere. There's a reason why Hamas was posting up in hospitals and schools constantly like it mattered much to Israel in the end.
  All it takes for Elon is someone with better aim though. Aim small miss small.
  
  Or someone who is happy to take out the king and the heir in one go.
  
  Yeah it mattered so much to them that they never bombed a single school or hospital to avoid casualities! Man what humane people /s
- Parkrose Permaculture did an excellent analysis of that in about ten minutes on yt.

- Bro has no idea how resilient babies are to the squish lol.
- All fun and games until they start taking shits.
- I don't even wanna know what that guy smells like.

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- Do not judge the kid before they are responsible for their actions.
  Most of Elons children turn against him.
  
  Don't go for the head, too small. Probably useless also. All his vitals are just sitting there unprotected even by his "meatshield"
  
  Vivian seems pretty cool. You shouldn't assume they're going to follow after their dad. Especially if they realize he used them as a meat shield
  
  ...do you people even hear yourselves?
  I completely understand hating Elon, but wanting to shoot him and being ok with his innocent child being collateral is fucking insane.
  The fact you felt ok commenting it and at least 35 other people upvoted that is crazy to me.
  
  Have you ever heard about hydra? The whole "cut one head and two will grow" shtick? I hate Elon and I want him to die as soon as possible but he's nothing but an avatar.
  
  Only here on Lemmy, people advocating for taking a sniper shot and potentially murdering an infant.
  This from the party of love and empathy, advocating for the rights of the working man, wondering why people think they are unhinged when outside their echo chambers
  Details at six
- Ohhhh. So that's why he's on the shoulders. Blocking that headshot through the window.
  
  Those windows can take sustained .50cal fire. That kid would only count as concealment against anything deployed effectively against those windows.
- Thanks, I was wondering what they were talking about 😂
- Unintentional, facelifted, duckface.

In The Dead Zone Stephen King predicted society would turn on a politician who used a child to shield themselves from an assassin.
I no longer think that is true, at least for members or associates of one party.

Well, yes, obviously, he probably never even saw the kid before that. I dare some ballsy journalist to ask him, what's the kids name.
- It would be ridiculously easy to frame that as just making small talk too.
  "And who's this little guy?"
  "Y'know, Elon, I've only ever actually seen his name written down; if you don't mind me asking, how do you pronounce it?"
- He would know the kids name because it's the same as any other musk endeavour. He's not very creative.
  
  His name is X?
- Like... are we 100% sure that's even his kid?
  
  I am sure he bought it fair and square.

Ah, so that's why he is so insistent on having so many children.
- I wonder if he's already working on the next one for when this one ages-out.
  
  Maybe he will just pay people to borrow children.

So he is literally Hamas! Where is the world's most moral army when you need them! Come on IDF, drop a few hundred 2000 lb bombs!
- No matter the collateral damage I presume?
  
  The IDF, the world's most humane and civilized army, has a zero percent collateral damage rate! Everyone killed by them is Hamas! Children, the mentally disabled, the physically disabled, people who are unaware, mothers. All are Hamas if they die!
  
  Dear IDF soldier reading this: I fully support the Palestinian resistance. Please, whatever you do, do not bomb Elon Musk while he is next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It would make me very sad.

By the way, what's this one barcode, "X4t-2-y34rs-4g0"?

That’s how kids become Batman
- Batman was kinda a piece of shit, only really hurt /killed the henchmen. Never stopped the parade of evil villains who just turnstiled thru the jail/asylums.
  
  Batman isn't real and nothing happened the writers didn't command. How the hell are you judging a fictional character's personality because the writers wanted to have consistent baddies for people to cheer for/against?
  Lmao homie

Meh it's an heir anyway.

That's probably to stop somebody shooting him in head.

I swear we are watching the origin story of Batman unfold.

Only here on Lemmy, people advocating for taking a sniper shot and potentially murdering an infant.
This from the party of love and empathy, advocating for the rights of the working man, wondering why people think they are unhinged when outside their echo chambers
Details at six
- Lemmy isn't a political party, its a decentralized platform for communities and peoples of all kinds. Theres a left leaning bias for people who like unions and stuff but youll find plenty of communities for the far right and everything between.
  The real reason you see this only here on lemmy because you're actually free to give such a hot take without being instantly banned by a centralized authority. Maybe you're so used to supressed and sanitized corporate run discussion fourms you forgot what people are actually like when they are free to express themselves. This is just the darker side of humanity unmasked. The suffering common people wishing death on their ruling aristocracy who just sees them as cattle and not caring if their bloodlines die with them has been around pretty much forever.
- This is like a trolley problem: how many infant are you willing to run over in order to kill Elon? And how many children are dying just by the fact that piece of garbage is alive?
  Details at seven
- I always find tge "only on x" comments to be an incredibly stupid form as hyperbole. Either you're an idiot who doesn't realize people will say the same type of stuff on discords, forums, Twitter, Facebook, whatsapp, texts/dms, and a plethora of other places, or you do know and you just ignore it to criticize the platform for whatever reason.
  Since you're attacking (as others pointed out) a decentralized platform that anyone can spin up (including Nazis and the like) by trying to make us a monolith, I'm leaning more to the first, but I guess you could just be a troll.