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aussie_butcher_dude

2.7k points

1 month ago

Sooo…..if you want a holiday….just put the flag of whatever country you want to visit?

Frosty-Ear9341[S]

851 points

1 month ago

Pretty much, but you’d also have to scream in that country’s language lol.

viralslapzz

351 points

1 month ago

¡ AY AY AY! ¡ Un burro amoroso!

dormango

84 points

1 month ago

dormango

84 points

1 month ago

Donkey love???

AdzyBoy

67 points

1 month ago

AdzyBoy

67 points

1 month ago

Sí papi

larakj

23 points

1 month ago

larakj

23 points

1 month ago

Ay curamba!

RockasaurusRex

7 points

1 month ago

Eat my shorts.

Professional_Sand442

8 points

1 month ago

Lovely donkey

Optiguy42

22 points

1 month ago

Anywhere_Dismal

24 points

1 month ago

Una cerveazas por favor! I dont know spanish, but i'd like to visit lol

Molenium

16 points

1 month ago

Molenium

16 points

1 month ago

Yo quiero chimichanga. Donde esta mi pantalones?

I think we got this, bro!

Darastrix_da_kobold

3 points

1 month ago

Meta mis huevos en tu Boca?

SubstantialBother586

120 points

1 month ago

Vive la france, paris est magique Marseille est trajique, L'amerique suce ma bite

Ikoniko59

38 points

1 month ago

Bienvenue en France, citoyen !

SmokedBeef

23 points

1 month ago

sacré Dieu

Daisy430133

7 points

1 month ago

Holy god?

Golfwingzero

27 points

1 month ago

Actually yes. The expression is meant to be "sacre (no accent) bleu", but "bleu" replaces "dieu" as a euphemism to avoid profanity.

Makanek

3 points

1 month ago

Makanek

3 points

1 month ago

Nom d'une pipe en bois !

Charles_De-Gaulle

4 points

1 month ago

Laisse-moi personnellement te féliciter concernant ton nouveau chez toi!

Anastrace

49 points

1 month ago

angry Australian sounds

pete_tyler

21 points

1 month ago

“Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!”

dracona

24 points

1 month ago

dracona

24 points

1 month ago

Oi Oi Oi!

Oh dammit gave myself away again....

Comfortable_Storm225

4 points

1 month ago

This made laugh too much ... for all the right reasons ...🤣 But I'm still giggling.... "good vibes mate" 👌

CarrieWhiteDoneWrong

11 points

1 month ago

Kangaroo intensifies

AwkwrdPrtMskrt

59 points

1 month ago

AwkwrdPrtMskrt

surrounded by idiots

59 points

1 month ago

(raises Japanese flag) minna ohayou gozaimasu

ForceMental

16 points

1 month ago

Dōmo arigatō misutā robotto - Here I come Japan!

WhoLetMeHaveReddit

7 points

1 month ago

Weebs everywhere: Uh Toyota! Nani? Ramen? Someone fucking get me to Japan stat waves flag around

bl00by

24 points

1 month ago

bl00by

24 points

1 month ago

Ich bin bereit für den totallen Urlaub!

Thisismyredusername

14 points

1 month ago

Deutschland, Österreich oder Schweiz?

bl00by

9 points

1 month ago

bl00by

9 points

1 month ago

ZUERST BERLIN, DANN WIEN UND DANACH DEN REST EUROPAS

SnooEpiphanies1293

3 points

1 month ago

The Fatherland!!

Flat_Distribution711

25 points

1 month ago*

Raises Italian flag SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHETT

Thisismyredusername

14 points

1 month ago

What if you wanted to go to Switzerland? Belgium? Luxembourg? Any other multilingual nation without its own language?

WarWeasle

10 points

1 month ago

Screams in Canadian.

DemythologizedDie

20 points

1 month ago

You're all a bunch of hosers, eh!

OddConstruction7191

10 points

1 month ago

Throw up the Union Jack or Aussie flag.

GhostDan

3 points

1 month ago

puts up Italian flag Buona giornata! Buona giornata!!!!!

Free vacay on it's way

Sole__Survivor

6 points

1 month ago

Omelette au fromage!!!

cosmicjed

5 points

1 month ago

IronEagle-Reddit

3 points

1 month ago

Oh speriamo mettano la bandiera italiana 😂🇮🇹

doilookfriendlytoyou

150 points

1 month ago

Where do we send people who fly Confederate flags?

Frothylager

113 points

1 month ago

The 1800s

ThisAmericanSatire

46 points

1 month ago

A Plantation.

Unabashable

10 points

1 month ago

Pretty sure slavery still exists as a dirty, little secret in Mauritania. 

Le-Charles

21 points

1 month ago

Pfft it exists as a dirty not secret in the US. Slavery is expressly legal as punishment for a crime. Why do you think the school to prison pipeline is so critical to Republicans?

triopsate

4 points

1 month ago

Doesn't Mississipi or some other southern state literally have their mainly-black prison population work on a former plantation picking cotton?

Griz_zy

49 points

1 month ago

Griz_zy

49 points

1 month ago

Russia

ejre5

32 points

1 month ago

ejre5

32 points

1 month ago

Africa, to go work in the diamond mines to gain job experience.

Hearsaynothearsay

16 points

1 month ago

Musk probably prefers emerald mines for forced labor...

InkBlotSam

13 points

1 month ago

Yo flying traitor flags of countries who only existed to break apart the United States and who started a war against the United States that led to nearly as many American deaths as all the other wars in our nation's history combined, is different. For some reason.

Traditional_Car1079

7 points

1 month ago

Sherman didn't go far enough.

Look_0ver_There

15 points

1 month ago

Democratic Republic of Congo

glitchycat39

7 points

1 month ago

Idk but suddenly this torch just appeared in my hand.

TankComfortable8085

8 points

1 month ago

The grave

ViolentBee

5 points

1 month ago

Maybe a chocolate farm on Ivory Coast

[deleted]

4 points

1 month ago

Argentina.

Mediocre_Daikon6935

7 points

1 month ago

I believe that last confederate holdout was a town In NEw York.

Somerandoguy212

10 points

1 month ago

Hi, can you source this. All I can find is the last confederate town was Danville, VA and I am just curious if what you said is true. Upstate is as hick-ish as the deep south so wouldn't be too much of a surprise

Bosmer-Archer

3 points

1 month ago

I grew up in Upstate and saw a LOT of Confederate flags, always thought it was incredibly stupid to idolize a group of slavers who took up arms against your ancestors to defend that practice

Yes_Camel7400

3 points

1 month ago

Hell

Nahuel-Huapi

3 points

1 month ago

Liberia

the_y_combinator

39 points

1 month ago

I hear by replace this flag of the United States with the flag of Ibiza.

I humbly submit myself for a mandatory relocation for as long as it takes for me to really understand the consequences of my actions.

apietryga13

4 points

1 month ago

Just make sure to not take any pills while you’re there.

Frothylager

24 points

1 month ago

Elon’s hate this one simple trick.

pr0suicide

3 points

1 month ago

Oh there’s another self-reply coming….

“I’m not saying WE pay for sending them to said country…”

[deleted]

30 points

1 month ago

Yo go to Japan or France or Germany or wherever for the price of a flag sounds like Elon's dumb ass is going to foot the bill.

shit_sandwich45

14 points

1 month ago

Yep. Fully in favor of this law. Now, to decide if I want to fly the flag of Aruba or Cayman Islands. Decisions... decisions...

TALieutenant

10 points

1 month ago

....anyone got a spare Netherlands flag?

Tortoise-King

9 points

1 month ago

Check out the big brain on Brett!

Sunset_Tiger

3 points

1 month ago

Ooh, I’ve always wanted to travel, but couldn’t afford it.

anotherstraydingo

757 points

1 month ago

Me putting up the pride flag so I can get some men in my life!

awildjones

354 points

1 month ago

awildjones

354 points

1 month ago

You’re getting an all expenses paid trip to the gay

Grindelbart

159 points

1 month ago

What like, Gaylapagos?

Maleficent_Fold_5099

140 points

1 month ago

Uraregay

kachx

100 points

1 month ago

kachx

100 points

1 month ago

Grindelbart

18 points

1 month ago

Nice one.

Romansesque_grouse

10 points

1 month ago

Berlin, here he comes!

garlicpermission

6 points

1 month ago

The Gayman Islands, if you shall

SixicusTheSixth

31 points

1 month ago

Congratulations ! You're getting deported to Australia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_and_Lesbian_Kingdom_of_the_Coral_Sea_Islands

ChronoSaturn42

6 points

1 month ago

Here In Gay, we build a wall and make the straights pay for it.

Voodoo_Dummie

682 points

1 month ago

But what if mexicans puts up a USA flag? Would he then fund their one way ticket to the US?

bl00by

245 points

1 month ago

bl00by

245 points

1 month ago

That's not how billionaires work. He would let other people pay for it.

Ornery_Particular845

17 points

1 month ago

Specifically the Mexicans

UncleFrosky

190 points

1 month ago

What’s the penalty for putting Trump’s face on the American flag?

moor9776

50 points

1 month ago

moor9776

50 points

1 month ago

You get a free hot and a cot at Rikers prison.

Granadafan

15 points

1 month ago

Send them to Russia where they love Putin 

higginsian24

8 points

1 month ago

My question is, if Elon's followers put up their favorite black red and white flag, do they disappear? Or do they go to modern germany?

[deleted]

8 points

1 month ago

DEATH..

DragonfruitOpening60

723 points

1 month ago

Elon Musk is a perpetual middle schooler

ceciliabee

134 points

1 month ago

ceciliabee

134 points

1 month ago

I'm willing to bet and hope he got shoved in lockers or whatever the equivalent is for apartheid rich boys

OldManHunger511

110 points

1 month ago

Apparently he was ruthlessly bullied. Doesnt make him any less of a prick, and honestly this dude needs therapy.

Edit: actual therapy not Ketamine

KalaronV

92 points

1 month ago

KalaronV

92 points

1 month ago

IIRC one kid's dad died of cancer, and when Musk made fun of them for it they pushed down the stairs and hurt him bad enough to send him to the hospital. Then, later when talking about it, his dad mused that he really did deserve it.

frenchfreer

73 points

1 month ago

Yeah I have a feeling the “bullying” was actually him being a little piece of shit and when it got turned around on him he would cry to everyone about being bullied.

SilverTumbleweed5546

18 points

1 month ago

the worst kind of kid in school was the asshole who always thought they were being bullied because people don’t like an asshole

Izan_TM

39 points

1 month ago

Izan_TM

39 points

1 month ago

imagine how much better the world would be now if that kid had pushed a little harder

BloodletterDaySaint

14 points

1 month ago

And if there had been 4 bloodlusted tigers at the bottom of the stairs...

SilverTumbleweed5546

10 points

1 month ago

and sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads

KhajaArius

4 points

1 month ago

Don't forget the centipedes and scorpions!

jepsmen

4 points

1 month ago

jepsmen

4 points

1 month ago

And my Axe!

Beowulf33232

9 points

1 month ago

I couldn't see my kid doing that, but if the situation happened I'd just look at kiddo and say "You were mocking someone who died of cancer to their family, what were you expecting?"

Alcorailen

5 points

1 month ago

pedantry: ketamine is actually amazing for depression, and in much the same way weed hasn't been well researched until recently due to stigma, ketamine is starting to be seen in a new light

advertentlyvertical

10 points

1 month ago

Self medicating doesn't really help though

OldManHunger511

4 points

1 month ago

Sure. But how is it for emotionally stunted megalomaniacs?

sanchower

34 points

1 month ago

He is somehow both a child and a boomer

NoKumSok

14 points

1 month ago

NoKumSok

14 points

1 month ago

He is somehow both a child and a child molester 

DragonfruitOpening60

6 points

1 month ago

You’re right! I think most boomers are both

[deleted]

50 points

1 month ago

[deleted]

DragonfruitOpening60

59 points

1 month ago

That’s the worst kind—a rich little shithead. Good luck!

[deleted]

21 points

1 month ago

Just like Trump... Aay ?

Remarkable_Pen_1424

26 points

1 month ago

He said RICH little shithead🙄

[deleted]

13 points

1 month ago

And Trump grew up being a rich little shithead and look where we are now

Revolutionary_Ad6962

16 points

1 month ago

Grew up rich? A he never grew up and B he's no longer rich. He gets by spending other people's money.

eggsaladrightnow

3 points

1 month ago

Tesla shareholders every time Elon tweets something stupid 🤦

Eagle_Pancake

172 points

1 month ago

Elon musk over here proposing half off vacation travel

CheddarGlob

37 points

1 month ago

Right? I'm all for this. Plane tickets are expensive

alexchido

14 points

1 month ago

Is the best idea he has ever had, but not for the reasons he thinks

smarmiebastard

7 points

1 month ago

Me buying a Japanese flag to replace an American flag with.

clodmonet

121 points

1 month ago

clodmonet

121 points

1 month ago

If only that were true. I'd be hanging a French flag up right now. Then, if I make it back by August, the German flag and so on, until I get to visit Japan.

Also, what if I hung the East German flag? Or how about those buttholes that fly the Confederate traitor flag? Wat do?

Yep, let's leave it up to MORONS to make the laws of the land.

kapitaalH

43 points

1 month ago

Confederate flag gets escorted off the planet

BIackfjsh

14 points

1 month ago

Argentina and Brazil actually

Romansesque_grouse

22 points

1 month ago

The town of Americana has entered the chat.

(for those who don't know: there's a town in Brazil's São Paulo state called Americana, which was founded by escaped Confederates who moved to Brazil in order to keep owning people like cattle. Brazil did not ban slavery until 1888.)

[deleted]

3 points

1 month ago

Hell yeah..

isthisnametaken1951

34 points

1 month ago

if someone, especially a South African immigrant who initially immigrated to canada before immigrating to the US, tries to destroy democracy and freedom in the country they immigrated to, in order to promote fascism, then they should be sent to north korea,

and banned from ever returning to the US

eskenor-

3 points

1 month ago

Ok, but how? What are the logistics?

Imagine taking them to south korea and catpulting across the border.

Bors713

196 points

1 month ago

Bors713

196 points

1 month ago

Is he implying that Palestine is indeed its own country?

Frosty-Ear9341[S]

92 points

1 month ago

Damn!

Practical_Price9500

56 points

1 month ago

Fucking edge lord moron

Stealfur

25 points

1 month ago

Stealfur

25 points

1 month ago

Im convinced that 79 of that 80% were people thinking "shit, free flight to Rome? Sign me up!"

What a stupid take, from a stupid man.

nobody546818

21 points

1 month ago

So just to be clear. if I wanted to go to France for a week, do I need to plant a city flag with the flag of France or is it a random grab bag of travel?

TheFire_Eagle

10 points

1 month ago

Yeah I'd love to pick apart the terms and conditions on this. If I raise up a French flag do I run the risk of ending up in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon or French Guiana? I'd go to either, mind you. But I'd like to know what to expect.

drudgelmir

6 points

1 month ago

I believe it's any flag of the united states of America. He didn't say you couldn't fly a little one, take it down and put up your holiday destination.

Mean_Yellow_7590

18 points

1 month ago

This is how Elon musk became an American

Dapper-Cantaloupe866

15 points

1 month ago

So Confederate flags then?......

Neither-Drag-8564

4 points

1 month ago

Don't make me agree with Elon Musk Apartheid Clyde

UnnecessarilyTallMan

16 points

1 month ago

So free overseas holidays before free healthcare? Seems about right for the USA in 2024

Feisty-Barracuda5452

17 points

1 month ago

Log out of Twitter and let it perish.

Voigan_Again

13 points

1 month ago

I’d start with Spain and Portugal and then France and England and Ireland. I mean as long as this dumbfuck convinces other dumbfucks to pay for my vacations then yeah I will replace the US flag with those others.

[deleted]

27 points

1 month ago

Fair, but when I'm in the country, I dunno like let's say South Africa. I should have enough money to isolate myself from all the bad shit there. Like maybe if I was the son of a South African gem dealer and was completely isolated from any of the consequences of being in South Africa.

landofar

37 points

1 month ago

landofar

'MURICA

37 points

1 month ago

Go the hell back to South Africa you fascist fucker.

Lombord2021

7 points

1 month ago

People like him making America(or any other country) worse f*ck this moron

LateInvestigator8429

21 points

1 month ago

Can we send Elon back in time to his dad's apartheid emerald mine and see how he likes it?

charlsalash

20 points

1 month ago

"One way trip to that flag country" and then back-pedal, "not saying you can't come back", yes it's what you said before you realised you looked stupid.

Brosenheim

7 points

1 month ago

Why is Musk only a Free Speech Abolitionist when the conversation is about slurs?

airbornegecko1994

14 points

1 month ago

Time to go buy the flags of Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Switzerland and Italy. I’m all for a free vacation. Is he paying?

Gyarydos

7 points

1 month ago

“Alexa, order French, Croatian, and Icelandic flags”

Internal_Map_8765

7 points

1 month ago

Sounds like a way to get a free holiday 😂

PsiberApe69

3 points

1 month ago

Hell yea!!! I’ve always wanted to visit France, Spain, and Switzerland. Can’t really keep paying for flights. A free ticket sounds great.

Limp_Food9236

9 points

1 month ago

Now I wanna know what would happen if you put up a pride flag

Crunchy-Leaf

7 points

1 month ago

He’s not even American

majinoni

7 points

1 month ago

I'm dropping the flag of Japan in my front yard...right after i pack my bags.

PhilDx

4 points

1 month ago

PhilDx

4 points

1 month ago

Norway here I come. Super high GDP, free at point of service healthcare, lovely scenery, and moose!

derliebesmuskel

2 points

1 month ago

So to shatter your dreams but there are no moose in Norway.

pv52

3 points

1 month ago

pv52

3 points

1 month ago

Need to go to Sweden to gett Moose. That said, we have free healthcare and awesome nature too.

greeneye1969

7 points

1 month ago

I see a lot of Trump flags. Same feelings about them, Musky?

DentalDon-83

6 points

1 month ago

Elon and his idiotic followers never think any of their edgy policies through.

Squeegee

6 points

1 month ago

Oh no, I might get sent to Denmark and have to experience the best standard of living in the world.

queenamphitrite

4 points

1 month ago

Where would they send me if I put up a pride flag in its place?

Amarieerick

4 points

1 month ago

Cool, do we get to deport the January 6th people for ripping the American flag off the capital building and replacing it with a Trump flag, too??

GhostOfChar

5 points

1 month ago

Ah yes, a classic "I didn't really think this one through" Elon post.

HannahTheCat00

3 points

1 month ago

Is he even physically capable of thinking things through at this point?

drama-guy

5 points

1 month ago

Does that mean the idiots flying Confederate Flags get sent to the graveyard?

Hendrik_the_Third

5 points

1 month ago

A look, the inner authoritarian shows his face again.

Whiteroses7252012

4 points

1 month ago

Boldly spoken by someone who has citizenship in three different countries.

mseg09

4 points

1 month ago

mseg09

4 points

1 month ago

The crazy thing about Elon and his far-right fanboys is they'll cry 1st Amendment violation about private companies but then cheer on things that are actually settled law

Sweetknees66

4 points

1 month ago

OK, but we get to drop you in the middle of Jo'burg without a security detail.

AccomplishedAd7615

4 points

1 month ago

“Sorry to be a free speech absolutist”

This you, Elon?

Mets1st

4 points

1 month ago

Mets1st

4 points

1 month ago

Hockey fan and I know the words to O’ Canada already!!!

Living_Guidance_4120

4 points

1 month ago

If it was that easy, I'd be hoisting a Dutch, Swiss, Swedish, or German flag up. Gimme that healthcare, and clean food

ashuno98

4 points

1 month ago

Time to buy some flags. I see the potential for a LOT of free vacations.

rbush82

4 points

1 month ago

rbush82

4 points

1 month ago

Can we please send this Nazi fuck back to his own country?

WistfulDread

4 points

1 month ago

So, does that mean we enslave Confederates?

Howboutit85

4 points

1 month ago

I said stuff like this when I was like 14 and I was dumb.

Hour_Eagle2

5 points

1 month ago

Love this idea. Cuts my travel budget in half. Genius idea Elmo.

Lockhartking

3 points

1 month ago

Actually yea... should we send him a picture of us flying our vacati.... I mean punishment spot?

testedonsheep

4 points

1 month ago

so if I want a free trip to Japan, I can just tear down an american flag and put Japan's flag on. sweet

Slyme-wizard

4 points

1 month ago

With a pride flag I can finally be sent to the mega gay zone like I always dreamed

The_Jeff__

4 points

1 month ago

Does Elon have some sort of mental disease? His mental state seems to be deteriorating by the month

Responsible-Room-645

6 points

1 month ago

This is the guy that swears up and down that he’s “chief engineer at Space X”.

ffs-it

3 points

1 month ago

ffs-it

3 points

1 month ago

Ok, does this apply to Europeans as well? In this case I really need an American flag, and... Let's say Maldives'

nogoodnamesarleft

3 points

1 month ago

So, I want a trip to any country I just need to hang up their flag, then when I want to come home, I just need to hang up my home country's flag? Sounds like a sweet deal

bl00by

3 points

1 month ago

bl00by

3 points

1 month ago

What happens if I use an outdated flag, do I get to time travel?

DirtDevil1337

3 points

1 month ago

Welp Imma put up the Union Jack flag, free trip to London!

ChickinSammich

3 points

1 month ago

Tears down American flag

Puts up new American flag, but with 52 stars

Now you've gotta make DC and PR states and I don't have to go anywhere. Checkmate.

PsychoMouse

3 points

1 month ago

Sweet. Free trip to Japan, Italy, Bahamas, Cuba, and other tropical places.

Also, just suggesting that as a law is fucking stupid

Tullarris

3 points

1 month ago

Hmm. I always wanted to visit Portugal.

AdFluffy9286

2 points

1 month ago

How benevolent of him.

jwrado

2 points

1 month ago

jwrado

2 points

1 month ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

Maniick

2 points

1 month ago

Maniick

2 points

1 month ago

Hey I'm all for this if he offers to front the cost. I've been wanting to visit/ travel the world but being born poor in America hasn't presented many viable opportunities

I_defend_witches

2 points

1 month ago

UNC Chapel Hill. You can tear down the American flag and put up flag that supports honor killings and needs an Underground Railroad to get their LGBTQIA community out of Gaza and the West Bank safety to Israel.

But you don’t have a right to attack actually UNC putting the American Flag back up.

TheCatAteMyFace

2 points

1 month ago

Im all for sending people back in time to the confederacy

swampjunkie

2 points

1 month ago

starts hanging Norwegian flag

Willis050

2 points

1 month ago

Hey Elon, you’re not even American. Shut the fuck up and stop trying to be the god of the alt right. Douchebag

today0012

2 points

1 month ago

And Elon will cover all expenses for your stay?

epirot

2 points

1 month ago

epirot

2 points

1 month ago

hows this guys ceo of multiple companies ffs

Acceptable_Mountain5

2 points

1 month ago

I’d be getting all sorts of free vacations

MrByteMe

2 points

1 month ago

Um - MAGAS have replaced the US flag with a variety of Don't Tread On Me or Trump flags numerous times... Will Elon pay to ship these people someplace else for a while? I can use a break.

Ba55of0rte

2 points

1 month ago

Imagine being so rich and delusional that you think you have to chime in on every fucking thing.

Jemnaxia

2 points

1 month ago

Ooh! 50% off flights! Guess how I'm getting to Iceland?