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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Jesus. Who are the numbnut 62% who chose Yes?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

The people still remaining on X will skew numbnut.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Adrian Binnmann will be straight over as soon as you let that nice billionaire run the country.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

"wankpuffin" going to have to use that one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I have heard a hypothesis that his ketamine habit has burned through a bit too much frontal lobe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

He never had it

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why do I feel like we're about to do a whole Third Reich thing?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

This one will be the Fourth Reich.

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

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

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

I mean.......they started it.....

🤣

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe Elon musk managed to destroy twitter so much they lead to four separate twitter's for each political quadrant!

Twitter for the right, Twitter for the left, Twitter for the libertarian, Twitter for Linux users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's twitter for the right, Lemmy for the left, bluesky for the libertarians and Linux users have joined either us, or gone back to trusty bulletin boards

Source: no idea

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're welcome to Luton, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If he sees Bradford he'll probably have an aneurysm.

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

Oi! That's the UK City of Culture 2025 you're talking about!

"Even reading the local newspaper, some of the headlines can be very upbeat, and beneath it are just loads of comments that, 'This is a disaster, it'll just never work, Bradford is doomed'."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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?”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Publicly owned railway? Hold on there Thatcher!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Can we turn all the lights off and pretend nobody's home when they come knocking? We'll definitely hear them coming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Maybe willingly telling the guy steamrolling towards the 1984 timeline exactly who is against him isn't the best idea?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The best thing I can say about Musk is that watching him spiral even further into madness will be fun.

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

Yup, even better since he's buddies with Trump right now, when the shit hits the fan it will be better than reality tv.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

!stopmuskspam

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

US here, we need to worry about our own government right now, and many of us wish Musk would drive his own Cyber truck to test dummy it's 'features' personally. As a US citizen I am sorry the oligarchy is a pain for you as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It'll be worse for you guys though. Trade sanctions cut both ways and the thing is the UK has the rest of the world to trade from, but the US will impose sanctions on everyone and shoot themselves in the foot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Nah, you are OK, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Elon Musk should jam soup cans up his ass till they come out his mouth.

✅ Yes 99%

⏹️ No 1%

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Elon Musk should shove cactuses up his ass utill he cant fit any more.

✅ Yes 100%

❌ No 0%

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No he should be spitroasted by soup cans til they burst out his barrel gut

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Just kill the riotseeker, for fucks sake

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