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Elon Musk claimed Sunday that electing former President Donald Trump in November is the “only way” to save the country from the tyranny of Democrats and illegal migrants.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a “one-party state.”


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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i don't understand why he is doing this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

He radicalized himself with his own algorithm. He's literally rotted his own brain.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Money.

His twitter money is from Russia, they make him say this shit to destabilise the election

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If that's true, it's more than money. If you take money from the mafia and don't deliver, it's about your life. That could be one of the many reasons he tried to back away from the purchase. I don't get why CIA isn't all over this.

And it's not just about the election. They're trying to destabilize everything in the west.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, every single right-wing party gaining traction in Europe, every single one, has connections to Russia. Im the case of Germany, left- and right-wing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The only person you can trust with your car is the same person that tried to steal it from you.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

Says the emerald mine nepo-baby from Apartheidland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What elon is saying that if you elect trump it will be the last election and he is fine with that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Elon getting so insane that if you simply do the opposite of what he says you will make the world better.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I remember the whole cave rescue and calling the rescue guy a pedophile. I feel like that was the moment people realized he was insane and not some real life Tony Stark

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think before then he had a good PR team. That was the moment when he thought 'What am I paying these guys for, I could do this just fine myself.'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yup I feel the same way, like that was the moment he snapped or the crazy finally came out. Before I was a big fan, but it went downhill from there pretty fast. Though I've heard him on the Lex Friedman podcast like a year ago, and then he came across pretty sane - he just acts insane a lot of other times as well.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This right here. This was the turning point for me.

I used to view him as a slightly eccentric billionaire using his funds towards positive progress... Boy howdy was I wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking same goddamnit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That was the moment I realized he was either going to be Tony Stark or Lex Luther.

And then he goes and proves me wrong by being worse than ever imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, Lex Luthor is smart..

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What part of democracy is under threat by Kamala that Trump is going to protect?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's not a statement, it's a threat

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago

"no u" declares world's most mature man.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When all else fails, just tell flat out lies. It's the Republican Way!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

When all else fails, just tell flat out lies.

It's the Roy Cohen way. He "educated" the weak, weird, old orange felon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I honestly can't figure out if he's drinking the kool aid or trying to pour it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

He's in profile pretending to pour it in his mouth like a sloppy sleight-of-hand artist, but it's very clearly spilling all over his shoulder down his pants into his socks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pouring it into his own mouth, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
~~George Orwell, 1984~~ Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you still bought a Tesla after Musk has shown his true self you are as much of a fascist as he is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking muskrats

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for qualifying this. I bought one 6 years ago, back when he said he voted for Hillary and was a dick but not maliciously evil yet. I have the car and will never buy another from him. I never thought it would end up like this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America.

There are some other eye opening parts but this one jumped out at me. He really does see the world from only his viewpoint. He thinks California changed for the worse but he could leave to Texas and still influence California using money even though people chose a different form of government than what he wanted.

For him, the collective choosing to change the system is very dangerous and it has to be forever in a status quo so rich people can play both sides.

I honestly wish he was smarter than this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He made bank on California subsidies for tech and federal money for ev and space development by democrats and now he thinks they're evil once he has enough money...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hah, enough money!

He just can't wring them for more, that's why he left.

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