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        If that’s true, it’s more than money. If you take money from the mafia and don’t deliver, it’s about your life. That could be one of the many reasons he tried to back away from the purchase. I don’t get why CIA isn’t all over this.

        And it’s not just about the election. They’re trying to destablisize everything in the west.

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          Yep, every single right-wing party gaining traction in Europe, every single one, has connections to Russia. Im the case of Germany, left- and right-wing.

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    The only person you can trust with your car is the same person that tried to steal it from you.

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    Elon getting so insane that if you simply do the opposite of what he says you will make the world better.

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      I remember the whole cave rescue and calling the rescue guy a pedophile. I feel like that was the moment people realized he was insane and not some real life Tony Stark

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        I think before then he had a good PR team. That was the moment when he thought ‘What am I paying these guys for, I could do this just fine myself.’

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        Yup I feel the same way, like that was the moment he snapped or the crazy finally came out. Before I was a big fan, but it went downhill from there pretty fast. Though I’ve heard him on the Lex Friedman podcast like a year ago, and then he came across pretty sane - he just acts insane a lot of other times as well.

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        This right here. This was the turning point for me.

        I used to view him as a slightly eccentric billionaire using his funds towards positive progress… Boy howdy was I wrong.

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        That was the moment I realized he was either going to be Tony Stark or Lex Luther.

        And then he goes and proves me wrong by being worse than ever imaginable.

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      When all else fails, just tell flat out lies.

      It’s the Roy Cohen way. He “educated” the weak, weird, old orange felon.

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    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.
    Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
    George Orwell, 1984 Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump

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      Thank you for qualifying this. I bought one 6 years ago, back when he said he voted for Hillary and was a dick but not maliciously evil yet. I have the car and will never buy another from him. I never thought it would end up like this.

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    This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

    The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America.

    There are some other eye opening parts but this one jumped out at me. He really does see the world from only his viewpoint. He thinks California changed for the worse but he could leave to Texas and still influence California using money even though people chose a different form of government than what he wanted.

    For him, the collective choosing to change the system is very dangerous and it has to be forever in a status quo so rich people can play both sides.

    I honestly wish he was smarter than this.

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      He made bank on California subsidies for tech and federal money for ev and space development by democrats and now he thinks they’re evil once he has enough money…

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    funny. he also said if he wins there wont be anymore elections. so in the vision of the maga tards no more elections. did the simpsons have that?

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    We all know that social media can encourage extremism in some people, but it’s surprising when it happens to the richest guy in the world

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      He has all the time in the world to be on X as opposed to running his other companies straight into the ground. He’s basically a lolcow at this point, and he has the pull and capital to drive the world into ruin.

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      I honestly think thats why Trump acts like he dose. His demented peanut brain could not handle the unfiltered power of the internet.

      He’s spinelessly pandering to the loudest voice he hears and latching onto the first thing that draws attention. Extremist follow him as he’s saying what they like. He say more extreme shit to get more cheers, more Nazis show up and cheer him into another extreme statement. Trump can’t form a coherent view on his own and goes with the crowd, he just attracted a horde of monsters smelling second hand power.

      Musk sees a weak old man that can easily be swayed with a little bit of dick sucking and donations.

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    This is a prime example of how big business can cozy up to authoritarianism. Of course in the name of offering a service to the nation or saving something precious to all, I guess it’s “democracy” in this instance. Deep down I think it’s about asking a simple question: which regime will be most accommodating to fulfilling my ambitions, i.e. sustaining and growing my business empire with the least amount of oversight or regulation? Who is more likely to be anti-union? Who is more likely to employ migrants without granting them political rights? Who is less likely to tax the rich? Who is more likely to give me more power to influence public opinion and public policy? Elon is, in some respects, correctly betting on Trump. Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other. It would probably be wiser of Musk to stay out of the limelight and play Democrats against Republicans whenever and however it suits him. But I guess he can’t help himself. To be honest I don’t even know whether it’s possible for a major business figure to remain neutral in a country where perhaps the best predictor of a presidential candidate’s success is the amount of donations their campaign receives.

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      Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other

      Someone didn’t learn from history, every fascist government to date, be it the Nazis, the Fascisti or even Franco have shown that the capitalist and the fascist work well together, after all the standard corporate structure already shares a model with fascist power structures (surprising how many people fail to realize that a top-down authoritarian structure with stark consequences for disobedience and that cultivate collective ignorance as to what you are doing and how it impacts people, that you systematically dehumanize), not just because the fascist power structure was literary built on the idea of the company structure of the time

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    Man eel on musk is just so far down the rabbit hole these days it’s insane. It’d be fascinating to watch if it weren’t for the faxt that he runs Twitter and is trying to use it to swing the election to Trump.