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Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right

disconnect.blog Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right

The billionaire wants to advance his political program while preserving his power and wealth

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If you didn't think this was the point of him buying twitter...

It was never about the money, its about growing and empowering a movement that the global oligarchy think they can control.
- It was never a clever ploy. He’s an idiot that said something he shouldn’t have it may ruin far more than Twitter before all is said and done.
  
  I didn't say it was clever, just that it was obvious. This was an opportunity for a foreign government (Saudis) to buy media/ narrative control over US media. A rightwing/ fascist government is easier for them to work on, so they do things that support its creation.
- Which is exactly the same plan as last time. Then, the ultra-rich were afraid of communism so they propped up nationalism. Now though, they are after democracy as such.
  
  What's the downside for them? They either win big or things stay roughly the same and they might pay some extra tax but not much. No one (of them) is losing their bulk of their wealth or their freedom. Might as well roll the dice.
- Why is giving people the right to communicate "elevating the extreme right"?
  
  Because anyone who isn't loyal to their tribe is an immediate enemy.
  
  We already had it. Musk took it away.
  
  What right were you looking for? The right to call certain people certain words?
this is what the .1% want - a full Corporatocracy where they, not elected leaders of governments, control countries and people.
- Might be time to move to the EU, so when we all become corporate citizens, I can at least be a citizen of Lego
You can remove the douche from the apartheid, but you can't remove the apartheid from the douche
- Okay but now I need to rewatch sausage party and repeat this.
  
  Happy to assist!
Elon Musk has trouble elevating his own rocket. He sure as hell isn't elevating anything in terms of political discourse..
- Watch as he continues to fail upwards. It's like no-one remembers Trump.
- I mean, he does have like 7^x log(ln) kids...
- I can't stand Musk, but SpaceX is going really well, so I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean... If you're referring to Starship, they didn't expect it to work 100% on the first few tries (unlike some media, who report on it as if they failed).
  
  This may be an unpopular opinion but corporate space flight is stupid at this point in humanity's history.
  
  Any efficiencies that can be pointed to come from skirting regulations in ways NASA can't or from stock assumptions that might lead to foreign sales and or monopoly, which should be a consideration no matter whose doing it... if it's illegal for NASA to sell space IP to another company, than it should be for any company.
  
  People say government doesn't work, but we have never had a chance to see it work with Republicans throwing albatrosses across it's neck and cutting at its heals and slashing their hamstrings at any chance they get.
because he can't elevates his dick anymore
- Really? Didn't he impregnate Grimes twice?
  
  In addition to having kids with like 3 other women?
  
  Say what you want about Musk, but there's no denying he's having a way easier time getting laid and spreading his genes than most of you.
  
  There's just something about money that even makes slimeballs like Musk irresistible to the opposite sex.
  
  Half of his kids were IVF.
If he were helping the extreme left, I assure you, that would be ok for the most people here...

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