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I understand why folks are disengaged, but to change it, you need to engage with it, telling yourself anything else is just fairy-stories.
"Deserve" is the tricky word in all that. No one "deserves" the ****ed up politics we have got, but under the current system unless people vote for some sort of change - making a big assumption that it exists - then we will keep going round this stupid spiral.
Of course, a revolution/heads on spikes is a form of engaging with the system.
Of course, a revolution/heads on spikes is a form of engaging with the system.
Gets my vote
TBH it does feel like the forces of evil are appearing much more sooner than expectedly just before an election.
Just feels like a full on attack that’s getting worse,started with the Farage Riots and now we are getting down to the latest narrative of hordes of specific furriners with rape/abuse gangs roaming the streets of the U.K. and the great cover up of it.
Makes me sick how quick they are to use the victims TBH.
Has this been posted?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/elon-musk-going-mad-warns-34439131
"I legitimately believe Elon Musk may be going mad. I'm a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years—and given that he's admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell," .
I said elsewhere a few days ago that we could well be witnessing a man going into ketamine psychosis in real time.
The first thing that dictators do is control the news.
X is the news to a lot of people.
Musk controls it (or at least, his army of AI robots does). It's blindingly obvious now why he wanted to buy it, and it had fork all to do with free speech.
In ye olden days, we had Murdoch with the gutter press, the kingmaker in so many countries.
Now, we have this scumbag with X. He wants to be the new Murdoch, the new kingmaker across the globe, not just the US. And he owns the firehose of propaganda - the one that covers most of the US & Europe. And he's looking less and less healthy by the day. I can't see him stopping with Trump getting in.
Of course, a revolution/heads on spikes is a form of engaging with the system.
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Gets my vote
Careful. Those who might resort to violence can be incited to remove the heads of judges, doctors, writers and academics far easier than getting them to go after those making insane amounts of money from them. And when UK politicians are attacked, and even killed, it tends to be those working hard for their community, not those working hard for themselves.
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!!!
In other news, Elon Musk says bears shit in the woods.
Bullshitter gets bad news out of the way early and reveals he is, in fact, largely a bullshitter - shocka.
He's beneath contempt.
I think it’s because populism seems based on a principle of behavioural economics – loss aversion is more powerful in individuals than the opportunity to gain. Make people scared that they’ll lose out or aren’t getting their ‘fair’ share and you’ll get a large share of the attention so much easier than by presenting a solution where we all gain sufficiently and those who need the most support get it. At that basic level socialism must be a much tougher proposal than conservative capitalism. Which is daft really because I believe more of us lose out vs where we could be under capitalism, at least the way it is currently.
When a riding pal says I'm a "Champagne Socialist", I remind him he's a "Poor Capitalist".
And add on that unlike him I could actually afford to live in the capitalist world he dreams of, but he'd struggle (especially if anything went wrong - job, health etc).
When a riding pal says I’m a “Champagne Socialist”, I remind him he’s a “Poor Capitalist”.
And add on that unlike him I could actually afford to live in the capitalist world he dreams of, but he’d struggle (especially if anything went wrong – job, health etc).
You should then say that should such an eventuality arise (job, health) you would, of course, offer to help him out. But that, because of his principles, he'd be honour bound to refuse your help.
Then call him a **** for good measure.
🙂
Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports
Why exactly are we not responding to this in the most robust terms, given that it's someone with a role in the incoming US administration? And can you imagine the Reformist screaming if this was happening in the EU rather than in the US?
At the very least we should be looking at why e.g. Tesla is receiving UK governmental subsidy.
he’d be honour bound to refuse your help.
The patron saint of libertarian nutters Ayn Rand managed to overcome her principles about accepting state aid in later life.
Why exactly are we not responding to this in the most robust terms, given that it’s someone with a role in the incoming US administration?
with my tinfoil hat fully on, could musk be helping to cause bond markets to turn on the government?
Didn't he float the plan that currency should be based crypto/blockchain based (whatever the correct term is).
At what point does he get branded a destabilising extremist and an arrest warrant gets put out for him?
At what point does he get branded a destabilising extremist and an arrest warrant gets put out for him?
Be interesting if he and his associates were unable to get UK visas.
Call me a loon but I can see him interfering with England on a economic scale to dump pressure on starmer.
The patron saint of libertarian nutters Ayn Rand managed to overcome her principles about accepting state aid in later life.
But that would make her, shock... horror... a hypocrite. 🙂
At what point does he get branded a destabilising extremist and an arrest warrant gets put out for him?
Well this is kind of why, perhaps, someone should have considered doing something about him before now. I wasn't being entirely serious when I was talking about reminding him of his vulnerability to nation states with special forces, but I wasn't entirely joking either.
At what point does he get branded a destabilising extremist and an arrest warrant gets put out for him?
Trump got in a second time, right? There's the example that's been set.
Be interesting if he and his associates were unable to get UK visas.
I would absolutely expect Elon Musk to be denied a visa on the grounds that his presence in the UK would not be conducive to the public good.
I present to you the world's most powerful man . In a onesie rolling a splif
"I have been expecting you Mr Bond"
Musk’s support for the AfD is about to very publicly ramp up. Depressing times.
Musk’s support for the AfD is about to very publicly ramp up.
It's his own bed, allow him to make it up because before long it is going to backfire spectacularly.
As he attacks Muslims, I think countries like ****stan,Iran etc should ban twitter. Maybe even Britain and Europe too. Hit him hard in the pocket
I think Musk thinks he's the next Steve Jobs, but he doesn't have a Steve Wozniak to back him up.
Well if Musk keeps taking Ket he'll be more interested in finding where the nearest toilet is to pee in than trying to find a new PM for the UK. His 'addiction' is also likely to be a cause of his delirious outporings and disconnection from reality.
Musk awkwardly mentioned something about memories of Nazism, before trailing off, but Weidel jumped in, saying that she wanted to "shed some light".
Her argument was, remarkably, that Adolf Hitler was not actually a far right dictator after all but instead "a socialist, communist guy" who had exploited "the envy against Jewish people".
"We are a libertarian, conservative party, but we are wrongly framed all the time," Weidel said.
She blamed Angela Merkel for wasteful green legislation and a flawed energy policy, for ushering in a period of high migration that she linked to criminality on the streets. "The crime rate is rocketing," she said.
She also claimed Germany had a "wokeish, liberal education system and all children learn is gender studies". Ah, replied Musk, "so the woke mind virus has infected Germany quite badly".
- Musk and the leader of the AfD via Sky News.
Claim that Hitler was misunderstood, check.
Blame immigrants for crime rates rather than poverty or lack of opportunity, check.
Criticise education and attack minorities, check.
Musk had the opportunity to challenge this clearly fascist politician but didn't, quite the opposite, they agreed overall. I don't care how lightly someone brushes up against fascist views in public, saying stuff like this .. you're not wrongly framed. We know how you think.
Ffs, obviously he was a commie, the party name has SOCIALIST in it!
Don't forget all those ethnic Germans that were murdered before Hitler liberated Poland.
Yes. People out there actually believe that. History is being rewritten.
Germany’s an odd one. I’ve had some scary experiences in places where the government has dumped immigrants under Merkel’s asylum arrangements. Places like Konigswinter just south Bonn, a beautiful Spa/Therme town that’s been utterly buggered by unplanned immigration. I’d never been into a Rewe where the cashiers hid behind hastily installed armoured Perspex shields, nor been told by a 5 star hotel that if my vehicle didn’t fit into the hotel car park then I would be best advised to empty everything out of it or it’d be emptied by thieves overnight. Neither had I ever previously seen rubbish thrown out of a German apartment building into the street below.
They’ve a real problem and nobody from traditional parties has the confidence to fix it, as a result scummy knackers like AFD are ready to step up with hideous solutions.
He's getting novochocked well before 2028.
You could probably get him to Novochock himself if you start a whispering campaign on twitter that it gives as good a hit as Ket but with no side effects
Pretty sure there’s all sorts of things could be mixed with ket to give Elonia an ‘interesting’ hotshot…
Not that I’m suggesting for one second that something untoward should happen to America’s new First Lady, I mean, heaven forbid Dementia Don takes charge without one of his main enablers pulling the strings…
I thought this from Private Eye was perceptive. Musk has unwittingly built a rabbit hole machine, which targets himself above all others. No wonder he's getting radicalised! He's paying people to specifically target him!
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesbloodworth.bsky.social/post/3lfhm5kcf722d
So Bannon has come out against Musk - seemingly because he's too racist. He illustrates this with examples around immigration policy that seem to suggest that he isn't in fact racist enough for Bannon's tastes. And also anyway - basically all rich white South Africans are the same and should get sent back to where they came from.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist
Send in the Lolocopters
Imagine being as wealthy as Musk yet spending all of your time getting angry and going on social media to 'vent'.
What a sad ****.
And unoriginal to boot.
It just proves that the stuff he’s “created” has actually been thought of and realised by other people. He’s no Wozniak, Bayliss or even Dyson (spit).
Apparently spends a lot of time on computer games as well. To the extent either he is getting someone to do the boring gaming for him or he really aint as dedicated to all his companies as he claims he is. Especially with his arse kissing of trump getting in the way as well.
As for Bannon. Hands up who is surprised that Trump is already letting down the maga crowd and pleasing the people who can hand over the cash?
Elon Musk's face is the face of a man who's wearing a Halloween face mask of Elon Musk's face.
- Jonathan Pie.
Brilliant.
Now, even if you put to one side that Tesla is over-valued largely by the ElMo cultists, this is a good example to follow. Apparently he hates the idea of not being the wealthiest person on the planet…
https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lfl5kpxjec27
He is, and (AIUI) Tesla’s sales are plummeting. However, there are a couple of factors at play - firstly it makes its money selling carbon credits to e.g. Stellantis rather than making cars, and secondly, he share price is puffed up based on thinks Musk has promised rather than delivery (there’s no way Tesla should be worth more than e.g. Toyota). But if major investors are selling, will that not depress the share price?
But if major investors are selling, will that not depress the share price?
It would, but $500 million is not a major investor. If 100 big funds all dumped Tesla shares, that would start to hurt, but one fund by itself won't make any difference.