Cool so a third liberal party
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Maybe that's the only way US will ever get a third party. I'm not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That's true "checks and balances".
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At least give it a cool name like The (John) Galt Party or something so it has a better change of splitting the right. I guess the nazi party was already taken?
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Oh, can "aliens" start political parties in the USA?
Imma start a "British Colony" party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.
Political parties are independent entities, not part of the government, so yes anyone can make one.
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So, another copy of the Libertarian Party?
But even more barefacedly just "republicans who don't want to pay their taxes"
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Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea...
Presumably the other headline that read '50% of voters' were in favour of this party, should have read '50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party'
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US (and in fact all 'Western') media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.
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America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I'm not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don't engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.
The entire Democrat demographic hates him for kissing Trumps ass.
The entire Trump demogaphic hates him for going against Trump.
And the Republican demographic have never liked him as far as I'm aware.
So.... who are his voters? Probably just a convenient way to shuffle money around.
This isn’t about money. It’s about Elon Musk‘s ego and will to power.
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The American Billionaires Party?
If they manage to steal half the GOPs votes, we have reason to thank him.
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Perfect timing. Just when everyone hates musk he wants votes.
Yea, that gonna be fun to cringewatch
What's it called again ? Please let it be an AnCap one, it would make sense for him to do just that
Their logo needs to be a muskrat. Doesn't matter what they name it.
are they hiring? i have many expensive ideas with zero guarantees of success
Who do you think you are, an oligarch?
I am but a simple man looking to profit off the vanity of a complete moron with more money than God.
Just in: Elon Musk can fuck off. Preferably to Mars, permanently.
Fuck him and his political party.
The funniest thing about stuff like this is that there are already a hundred political parties in the US. Every time someone says “we need a third party,” it reminds me of that xkcd comic about standards and protocols.
When people say that they want a third part I doubt they mean it literally, as in they believe there are literally only two parties, but rather I suspect they mean that they want a third party which is large and influencial.
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The Let That Sink In party?
I'll just point out the risk of what I'll call "Joe Roganing" here. Elon pretends he hates both parties while there's no election coming up. Then when the election arrives he "makes up his mind" and endorses Republicans. This allows him to 1) attract people fed up with both parties just to hand them to Republicans, and 2) have a credible that that forces Republicans to do his bidding.
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Honestly, I am tentatively very excited about this. Not because I support that nazi in any way whatsoever. I am excited because he stands to be a significant spoiler for the GOPs elections.
I highly doubt it. GOP is a person cult centred around Trump. They liked Musk as long as Trump liked him, but they all hate him now.
He will pull a Joe Rogan and endorse Trump last minute.
Doubtful that the Musk party is going to swap in Hillary. But it is her turn.
Do they even really like him? I thought pretty much any Republican support for Elon came from his support/association with Trump
I'm a secret leftist amongst a bunch of low information MAGA voters (the ones that voted for Trump more because they're stupid and easily duped than being giant racists) in a few different circles. All they know is I own guns and answer "oh fuck no" when asked if I'm a liberal, so they assume I'm a non-MAGA conservative*. Hehehe.
Without exception, they adore Elno. They don't realize it but they're prosperity gospel types (because stupid), so they assume he must be a good and intelligent guy, otherwise Jebus wouldn't have made him successful.
*Side note: I have one all hot and bothered about seizing the means of production, just using different terms.
I learned "libertarian municipalist" as a code word for anarchist from Robert Evans. You don't have to lie and all they hear is libertarian.
hah ! love my new title
I will agree with this.
on one hand, harder to defeat them in a vote because they'd be way more visibly in touch with the incel crackhead core of their voting block. on the other, dude is at least environmentally concerned enough to try avoiding climate and technology crisis as long as the solution benefits/involves him. which is a low fucking bar but still an improvement.