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A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Why elon musk doesn't just leave? he have money, he can be doing anything, he can be learning how to bake, or, improving his gaming skills without the media eye

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

No, no, no.

I live in Finland and that is too close.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If his story ends in defenestration I would be tickled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Assuming the feud is real (I'm still suspicious, as when they announced him leaving no one believed musk was truly leaving) I would imagine musk would try to get trump removed and after failing I really wouldn't be surprised we would see some assassination attempts.

BTW I'm not on Twitter, but when he says that trump wouldn't win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I think what another important thing he did is he spoiled the place for the democrat-leaning public that started to see less and less content\traction\support there than they did before, but saw swarms of bots, elonposting, weakening factcheck and moderation instead. Twitter launched a lot of #movements, even those localized in the internet, due to it's turbulent nature. But on X many felt disengaged, lonely and not pumped up enough to do anything, even vote.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This is fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don't submit to authority.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SpaceX is probably similar

Tesla is a publicly-traded company. There is no reason to believe SpaceX, which is still privately held, should be similar.

A 2023 Wall Street Journal article (linked here in archive form) claims Musk controls 42% of its equity has 79% voting control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it's a smart move by Russia if a Russian official sides with Musk at this point. Not saying it's not a perfect match though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

That would not end well.

He should do it.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

The guy in the White House already gave it to them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I'm sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there's nothing we can do about it.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago

Like he hasn't already given Russia the data.

[–] [email protected] 165 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

I'd rather punish him here

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

I mean Putin already has his ear. Guess they want the rest of him.

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