• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    My bins weren’t collected last week, now we’ve got snow in them and all the cardboard’s all wet and soggy. If that is not evidence of a tyrannical dictatorship, then I don’t know what is.

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    7 days ago

    Brit here. What a complete wankpuffin. He should focus on liberating himself from his own stupidity.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    Imagine that! Wannabe dictator asking whether or not they should invade a sovereign country! He’s truly a good person because he asked his people if they should invade instead of flat out invading!

    /s

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      6 days ago

      And we can trust the reliability of the data, given the sterling reputation of Twitter and Musk himself, of course.

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      I’m also positive that the pole was representative of the US population as a whole and not just his idiot supporters.

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        i can personally guarantee that none of the votes were artificial or meddl-

        You have run out of ChatGPT 3.0 credits! Please visit your control panel to purchase additional credits.

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    Non American , and non brit here. Why is this waste of energy so interested in the UK and Europe now ? I know there will be plenty of cynical takes which I will probably endorse however I’m interested in what his actual motivation might be. Does he just want parties in power in the given country that he has influence over for the sake of legislative advantage for his businesses? Or is it trollconomics for sake of driving signups to his failing social network I forget the name of?

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      Musk is under Putin’s thumb and Britain is one of the leading supporters of Ukraine.

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        Yep also China has a hold on musk economically. And supports Russia.

        Russia has managed to gain a hold on the US again. (Reminding folks about his illegal holding of Ukraine funds last time)

        The UK is by far the next most vocal supporter.

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      7 days ago

      it’s all a big ploy to give the US bargaining chips when negotiating with the UK for trade agreements.

      “well we’re going to tariff the shit out of you unless we can sell chlorine washed chickens in your country”

      “oh also fuck your publicly owned railways and roads, you’ll sell them to us at a discount or you’ll be sorry.”

      “by the way we’re still going to endorse and fund far right parties and destabilise your democracy - that’s just what allies do, right?”

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          The labour gov is pretty much planning to nationalise rail again.

          All contracts as they expire will be replaced with co ops or a new nationalised company. By 2027 apparently.

          So yep public owned rail again.

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              True.

              But as much as I hated privatisation.

              If owning the trains was required. Then sort term contracts would be impossible.

              Making what labour is doing now, as expensive as the more right wing keep falsely claiming.

              So we sorta have some gratitude that the tories never required the same companies to own the rolling stock as run it. But instead sold it to banks requiring them to rent it.

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      He wants to be king of the world, it’s as simple as that. He already has the most money (not that that’ll stop him from wanting more), now he just needs to have the most power, and actively supporting the rise of fascism around the world (which he has been doing for long before he let his mask start to slip and now completely come off) is his way of getting it.

      The fact that you think he bought twitter, or is running it the way he is as some sort of troll, rather than a very real, and very effective, way of manipulating the public as well as politics as a whole, shows how well it works.

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      Trump could be soliciting bribes by threatening people as well, but musk is the one giving him directions.

      “Oh yeah, Canada will pay up just yell some shit about invading.”

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    I’m a Dane living in the UK. This is beginner level Trump/musk idiocy. Denmark is currently wrestling with the US demanding a piece of their kingdom (and yes, Denmark is a democracy, so using the word kingdom may seem a bit anachronistic, but in this case we are talking about Greenland, which is an autonomous region of the Danish commonwealth, so the official term is “kingdom”)

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    Let’s do an internet poll about invading another country.

    If it was a 13 year old kid I could understand it, but this is musk

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    Maybe Putin Musk should launch a special military operation in Ukraine Britain to de-nazify de-tyrranize them. How kind and noble that would be.

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    Can’t tell if this guy’s finally lost it or I just have a very different sense of humor from him

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    Excited to see Elon Musk start paling around with King Charlies and talking about a return to Absolute Monarchy in a few weeks.