Elon Musk

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875934421507039302?t=i7j2QagPBlpceyrHZb2Hwg&s=19

 

Musk beginning to publicly  politically flirt with Reform MP  Rupert Lowe as being the replacement of Farage as Reform Party leader. 

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57 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Farage personally doesn’t like Tommy Robinson and the whole vibe he represents so I can’t imagine he would u turn just for Musk’s money. At the heart of it Farage would love to win all long term Tory leaning seats but any Robinson backing would be very toxic there. 

No politician with an ounce of common sense would want anything to do with Robinson, his appeal is mainly to thuggish Neanderthal cretins and incel types, in other words the exact type of rabble the political far right is desperate to distance itself from 

[The Old Crem 3,708]

36 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875934421507039302?t=i7j2QagPBlpceyrHZb2Hwg&s=19

 

Musk beginning to publicly  politically flirt with Reform MP  Rupert Lowe as being the replacement of Farage as Reform Party leader. 

Rupert Lowe is now is a tricky position. 

[Windsor 2,277]

What I find concerning is how the hard-right is being pushed on to us.

 

Twitter is particularly bad for it. I’m not sure how the algorithms work but they are pushing content on me which I wholly disagree with (although admittedly I don’t do myself a favour by reading it).

 

I’m getting so concerned with the content being pushed - particularly the amount of anti-state propaganda which has no factual origin - that I’m beginning to think the social media age should be brought to an end. Making us all publishers is clearly a failed experiment. 

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8 hours ago, Windsor said:

What I find concerning is how the hard-right is being pushed on to us.

 

Twitter is particularly bad for it. I’m not sure how the algorithms work but they are pushing content on me which I wholly disagree with (although admittedly I don’t do myself a favour by reading it).

 

I’m getting so concerned with the content being pushed - particularly the amount of anti-state propaganda which has no factual origin - that I’m beginning to think the social media age should be brought to an end. Making us all publishers is clearly a failed experiment. 

Another reason I could never be arsed with it 

[The Old Crem 3,708]

I get the feeling it is all going to build to some dramatic.peak for Musk at some this year. He is getting more and more bizarre in his need for attention and causing drama despite about to be starting a major job. 

[Brad252 861]

If he keeps this up post-inauguration he will cause a flurry of diplomatic incidents. It's troublesome enough behaving like this as an influential billionaire. But as a member of a government telling the governments of [supposed] allies how to run their country is a recipe for trouble.

[The Old Crem 3,708]

Musk has already dominated headlines. Starmer gives a major speech about the NHS no news alerts but then when he condemns Musk during the question and answer part of it all the media give a news alert just about that.

[YoungWillz 21,524]

Ooh, look a very very rich man has something to say. So let us all listen!

 

A man fascinated by big vehicles and rockets - well, this kind of person is compensating for something, I guess.

 

I've never seen the importance of listening to very well off people like Trump, Murdoch or Musk. They are allowed their opinions too, of course, but is that more important just because of their bank balance? I say no, but feel free to disagree. It's just another person pissing in the wind. Another bag of bones and fluids awaiting death, like the rest of us.

 

All those celebs with bags of cash in the bank insisting that it is you - the workers, the hoi polloi - who should donate to charity. Those privileged buggers with three properties minimum who insist that it is you who should work for nothing or volunteer for things to do good for your community - they may even give you a medal for it, but that medal is essentially worthless when they are handed out to the people telling you to do all these things.

 

I mean, it might be worth listening to folk who lead by example. But not some arse playing video games and tweeting on the bog about how you aren't doing enough.

 

Anyway, deep breath, carry on chaps! 

[The Old Crem 3,708]

 

He does seem either increasingly unwell or completely out of it. 

[tomarse 85]

100% he’ll fall out with Trump at some point. That’ll be box office viewing 

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One of the best Trump posts of all time.

Their falling out is going to be amazing.

[Sod's Law 494]

I wish someone would take his phone off him and lock away his pills and powder for twenty four hours, then with any luck he may snap out of his social media daze and go back to being a semi-lucid human being again.

[alt obits guy 3,407]

Elon Musk is the definition of someone who is borderline genius/madman. A visionary at best, tyrannical at worst. And with a voracious need to procreate. Twelve kids by three different partners and possibly not done in the baby making department.

[RoverAndOut 4,771]

He's the closest thing I've seen to the stereotypical Bond villain in real life. Ludicrously rich, dripping in technological know-how and seemingly borderline insane. He has a long history of using Twitter (which is what it is still called Elon, whatever you say) as his own bully pulpit to post a series of misinformation and disinformation, amplifying dangerous conspiracy theories and false narratives. I feel really sorry for Jess Phillips, how do you combat a man like that? Today he's agreed with a post that suggested Europe had declared war on him and intended to arrest him. He's a mess and his shareholders will let him crack on with it so long as it doesn't hurt their profit margins. "Yes Mr Musk, no Mr Musk, three bags full Mr Musk."

[Ulitzer95 13,065]

11 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

He's the closest thing I've seen to the stereotypical Bond villain in real life. Ludicrously rich, dripping in technological know-how and seemingly borderline insane. He has a long history of using Twitter (which is what it is still called Elon, whatever you say) as his own bully pulpit to post a series of misinformation and disinformation, amplifying dangerous conspiracy theories and false narratives. I feel really sorry for Jess Phillips, how do you combat a man like that? Today he's agreed with a post that suggested Europe had declared war on him and intended to arrest him. He's a mess and his shareholders will let him crack on with it so long as it doesn't hurt their profit margins. "Yes Mr Musk, no Mr Musk, three bags full Mr Musk."

You had me until “I feel sorry for Jess Phillips”.

 

Shoukd try meeting her in real life. Total cow.

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51 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

A visionary at best

In my view, he's just an idiot with too much money and too big of an ego. He didn't create Telsa, he bought it and under his leadership the company has been outdone by many of it's competitors in terms of price and reliability. He was kicked out of his leadership role at paypal that he 'co-founded' after less than a year. SpaceX has been, until quite recently, an overambitious failure on most fronts. He has absolutely decimated Twitter's market value. Most of his promises about technological innovations and space travel have either been lies or total hypotheticals that would take decades to be realised.

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28 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

You had me until “I feel sorry for Jess Phillips”.

 

Should try meeting her in real life. Total cow.

 

Never met her so can't comment. But it doesn't surprise me she's hard nosed. And there's no denying her commitment to issues around violence against women. Having the world's richest man launch a personal vendetta against you can't be pleasant either.