Elon Musk bought Twitter.

[PornDog]

But enough people may believe it.

This has to be coming from Farage's Team

It's coming from his sincere dislike of Keir Starmer. That's the only reason he's bothering with Nigel Farage. Doesn't even have business interests in the UK to exploit.

He's a very petty individual.

Narcissism 101

[Biffer]

But enough people may believe it.

This has to be coming from Farage's Team

It's coming from his sincere dislike of Keir Starmer. That's the only reason he's bothering with Nigel Farage. Doesn't even have business interests in the UK to exploit.

He's a very petty individual.

So why is he backing AfD in Germany?

Sincere is not a word I'd use about Musk in any context.

[I like neeps]

This has to be coming from Farage's Team

It's coming from his sincere dislike of Keir Starmer. That's the only reason he's bothering with Nigel Farage. Doesn't even have business interests in the UK to exploit.

He's a very petty individual.

So why is he backing AfD in Germany?

Sincere is not a word I'd use about Musk in any context.

Don't follow him or pay enough attention to him to know. I did see his perceived snub by Starmer and then relentless negative tweets about him.

To credit Farage with anything Musk does is giving him too much credit. And I think this support of AfD shows it further that it's more likely Musk is just a far right chancer as the rest of the rich are.

[Hugo]

Bill Ackman is piling on too. The faux sincerity is actually disgusting because the likes of him and Elon are not making any substantive or constructive points it's just troll level stuff. You can't convince me that venture capitalists give a single flying fuck about working class people half the world away.

That said, heads should roll all the way to the very top. The Labour party fed working class people to wolves.

[Uncle fester]

37 year old active duty special ops soldier with gunshot wound to head is the dead guy.
8 month old daughter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86wnx174q8o

[tabascoboy]

37 year old active duty special ops soldier with gunshot wound to head is the dead guy.
8 month old daughter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86wnx174q8o

With the news that the driver had a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head, there are some pretty far out theories flying around on Twitter to add to the usual conspiracy loon stuff. A team from Tesla will attempt to recover in-cabin video footage from the Cybertruck, so maybe we can learn some more about this

[fishfoodie]

Tesla just announced their first ever decline in annual vehicle deliveries !

They've already fulfilled all the orders for the mobile Urinal, & production has been mostly shutdown, & massive discounting has started, & they've no new models planned to perk up sales, & an absentee CEO, so maybe the Market is going to finally call this fraud for what it is ?

Seeing as almost all his theoretical worth is tied up in Tesla stock, he might not be the richest man for much longer

[I like neeps]

Tesla just announced their first ever decline in annual vehicle deliveries !

They've already fulfilled all the orders for the mobile Urinal, & production has been mostly shutdown, & massive discounting has started, & they've no new models planned to perk up sales, & an absentee CEO, so maybe the Market is going to finally call this fraud for what it is ?

Seeing as almost all his theoretical worth is tied up in Tesla stock, he might not be the richest man for much longer

Tesla stock price and Tesla's performance have been detached from the beginning...

[Hal Jordan]

It might also conceivably be because their best selling car, the Model Y, is about to launch mk II (Juniper) for delivery this quarter, so buyers are holding off in the usual fashion, whilst MK I is discounted.

Plus the problems all auto manufacturers have in the current climate, and the much, much, much wider pool of competitors. I've been around EVs long enough to remember when the only real options were a Renault Zoe (possibly with battery lease), a Nissan LEAF or a Tesla Model S, with a couple of other half-arsed efforts cramming a battery into an existing ICE platform like the VW e-Golf and Mercedes Benz B Class 250e.

I think calling Tesla a fraud is a bit OTT. Overpriced as a stock, yes, but it's not a house of cards.

[fishfoodie]

It might also conceivably be because their best selling car, the Model Y, is about to launch mk II (Juniper) for delivery this quarter, so buyers are holding off in the usual fashion, whilst MK I is discounted.

Plus the problems all auto manufacturers have in the current climate, and the much, much, much wider pool of competitors. I've been around EVs long enough to remember when the only real options were a Renault Zoe (possibly with battery lease), a Nissan LEAF or a Tesla Model S, with a couple of other half-arsed efforts cramming a battery into an existing ICE platform like the VW e-Golf and Mercedes Benz B Class 250e.

I think calling Tesla a fraud is a bit OTT. Overpriced as a stock, yes, but it's not a house of cards.

In the companies entire history it's sold 7 million cars, & yet it's value is more than the rest of the Motor production industry combined !

The fraud is the excess valuation is mostly down to the lies spouted by their CEO; aided & abetted by his stooges in the Board.

[TB63]

[TB63]

Ho Lee Fuck...

[Sandstorm]

Ho Lee Fuck...

Musk clearly is “on the spectrum” and spending too long in labour/difficult births increase the chances of a child having mental issues. Someone should ask the cnut how long his mother was in labour.

[Uncle fester]

Some speculation that he went to the wrong Las Vegas by accident, thus making the journey much much longer.

[Uncle fester]

Ho Lee Fuck...

Musk clearly is “on the spectrum” and spending too long in labour/difficult births increase the chances of a child having mental issues. Someone should ask the cnut how long his mother was in labour.

His problem isn't that he's autistic (and getting all autistic people a bad rep). His problem is that he's a fücking pratt.

[Slick]

Niall Fergusons latest interview about Trump and Musk is extremely cringy. Now he’s in the outer inner circle they are actually great and the strorming of the Capitol was just unfortunate and due to Covid

[dpedin]

Niall Fergusons latest interview about Trump and Musk is extremely cringy. Now he’s in the outer inner circle they are actually great and the strorming of the Capitol was just unfortunate and due to Covid

The reframing of the Capitol riots reminds me of another period of history in the 1920's Italy and Germany and I would have thought a learned historian might have seen the parallels between them?

[Hal Jordan]

What, Sir Niall "well, counterfactually speaking" Ferguson, suggesting that Jan 6th wasn't an attempted coup by a complete monster of human being?

Well I never!

[tabascoboy]

[I like neeps]

What, Sir Niall "well, counterfactually speaking" Ferguson, suggesting that Jan 6th wasn't an attempted coup by a complete monster of human being?

Well I never!

Another poundshop intellectual desperate to suck at the teet of power.

[sockwithaticket]

Man who unbans a horde of deeply problematic accounts, fires the moderation team, permits homophobia, racism and misogyny to run rampant on the platform , actively promotes conspiracy theories and misinformation and propaganda, remunerates accounts based on engagement (controversey is known to be the biggest driver of engagement) while doing fuck all about removing bots wonders why his site is a fucking cesspit of negativity. Or pretends to wonder.

[dpedin]

Man who unbans a horde of deeply problematic accounts, fires the moderation team, permits homophobia, racism and misogyny to run rampant on the platform , actively promotes conspiracy theories and misinformation and propaganda, remunerates accounts based on engagement (controversey is known to be the biggest driver of engagement) while doing fuck all about removing bots wonders why his site is a fucking cesspit of negativity. Or pretends to wonder.

Translated as 'I will make sure you only see what me and Trump want you to see on X, and none of it will be bad stuff about me!'

[Slick]

Did anyone else watch the Swiped programme about kids and smart phones? Utterly terrifying

[SaintK]

Poor old frog face, that love in didnt last long

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as the leader of Reform UK, claiming he “doesn’t have what it takes.

[fishfoodie]

Poor old frog face, that love in didnt last long

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as the leader of Reform UK, claiming he “doesn’t have what it takes.

Let me guess; he thinks, friend of Paedos, Tommy Ten names should be Leader ?

[I like neeps]

Poor old frog face, that love in didnt last long

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as the leader of Reform UK, claiming he “doesn’t have what it takes.

Let me guess; he thinks, friend of Paedos, Tommy Ten names should be Leader ?

Do you reckon the UK media will be reporting on this after their weeks of breathless Musk loves Reform nonsense? Unlikely I reckon.

[sturginho]

Poor old frog face, that love in didnt last long

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as the leader of Reform UK, claiming he “doesn’t have what it takes.

[Uncle fester]

With friends like that, who needs enemies.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Does Musk get that Reform is Farage and not in really a party at all?

[Hellraiser]

Does Musk get that Reform is Farage and not in really a party at all?

Of course not. Musk hasn't a fucking clue about most stuff he offers his opinions on.

[Hugo]

Musk has been melting down over the rape gangs for days now. It's just completely unhealthy to be obsessively posting like this, day after day.

The issue has been discussed to death on Twitter/X and there have been some very interesting takes from throughout the Anglosphere and beyond.

I think classism is at the heart of the problem. The ruling classes of the UK simply don't care about working class people enough to have acted in the appropriate fashion to stop the raping. I think it's also at the heart of Tice and Farage's denunciations of Robinson. It's not that they take issue with the things he has brought to light on a substantive level it's just that rather more superficially he is a hooligan.

That a hooligan was ahead of the curve on addressing these issues (or at least pointing them out) really speaks to a massive flaw in the machinery of British govt. that will have to be addressed. As aforementioned, for me classism is still a problem and I'm more than a little concerned about ethnic voting blocs and the patronage systems that they create whereby politicians look the other way in exchange for votes. That is not a healthy think for a democracy whatsoever.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Farage can maybe get 20% of the vote, but to have a shot at power he needs to get that over 30% and he can't do that if enough of middle England thinks he's a Tommy Robinson supporter. He already needs people to hold their noses and skip past there are a lot of UKIP/Reform who overtly or otherwise support Yaxley-Lennon, which is to say hold various extreme/racist/homophobic positions. Wanting to get that next 10-15% of the vote is what's driving frog face, but he's learning the nice way you can't just assume you'll keep your base. An interesting strategy from the man who says he wants to be PM mind, presented with a challenge from Musk he's opted for run silent, run deep in the hope the problem goes away without him needing to act

Also rather odd in all this is we did have an inquiry, one that returned a list of recommendations back in 2015 maybe 2016? And the Tories presented with a list that many involved in the various sectors thought good ideas did nothing with it, and Rayner in saying it wasn't for HMG to determine the need for a further report didn't exactly clarify if Labour would enact the recommendations already on the table. The politics says it's much more important to drive a sense of outrage than to seek sensible progress, which perhaps is depressing more than it's odd

[I like neeps]

Musk has been melting down over the rape gangs for days now. It's just completely unhealthy to be obsessively posting like this, day after day.

The issue has been discussed to death on Twitter/X and there have been some very interesting takes from throughout the Anglosphere and beyond.

I think classism is at the heart of the problem. The ruling classes of the UK simply don't care about working class people enough to have acted in the appropriate fashion to stop the raping. I think it's also at the heart of Tice and Farage's denunciations of Robinson. It's not that they take issue with the things he has brought to light on a substantive level it's just that rather more superficially he is a hooligan.

That a hooligan was ahead of the curve on addressing these issues (or at least pointing them out) really speaks to a massive flaw in the machinery of British govt. that will have to be addressed. As aforementioned, for me classism is still a problem and I'm more than a little concerned about ethnic voting blocs and the patronage systems that they create whereby politicians look the other way in exchange for votes. That is not a healthy think for a democracy whatsoever.

This just isn't true. The "ruling classes" of the UK are not council leaders and police officers in Rotherham, Rochdale and the likes.

[Paddington Bear]

Musk has been melting down over the rape gangs for days now. It's just completely unhealthy to be obsessively posting like this, day after day.

The issue has been discussed to death on Twitter/X and there have been some very interesting takes from throughout the Anglosphere and beyond.

I think classism is at the heart of the problem. The ruling classes of the UK simply don't care about working class people enough to have acted in the appropriate fashion to stop the raping. I think it's also at the heart of Tice and Farage's denunciations of Robinson. It's not that they take issue with the things he has brought to light on a substantive level it's just that rather more superficially he is a hooligan.

That a hooligan was ahead of the curve on addressing these issues (or at least pointing them out) really speaks to a massive flaw in the machinery of British govt. that will have to be addressed. As aforementioned, for me classism is still a problem and I'm more than a little concerned about ethnic voting blocs and the patronage systems that they create whereby politicians look the other way in exchange for votes. That is not a healthy think for a democracy whatsoever.

This just isn't true. The "ruling classes" of the UK are not council leaders and police officers in Rotherham, Rochdale and the likes.

Council/police in Rotherham etc were a combination of totally gutless, idiots and people who were very clearly on the take. Of course in Telford covering up the crimes got Davies the Labour candidacy and then subsequently a seat in Parliament. A large swathe should be locked up and losing their pensions

[Hugo]

Musk has been melting down over the rape gangs for days now. It's just completely unhealthy to be obsessively posting like this, day after day.

The issue has been discussed to death on Twitter/X and there have been some very interesting takes from throughout the Anglosphere and beyond.

I think classism is at the heart of the problem. The ruling classes of the UK simply don't care about working class people enough to have acted in the appropriate fashion to stop the raping. I think it's also at the heart of Tice and Farage's denunciations of Robinson. It's not that they take issue with the things he has brought to light on a substantive level it's just that rather more superficially he is a hooligan.

That a hooligan was ahead of the curve on addressing these issues (or at least pointing them out) really speaks to a massive flaw in the machinery of British govt. that will have to be addressed. As aforementioned, for me classism is still a problem and I'm more than a little concerned about ethnic voting blocs and the patronage systems that they create whereby politicians look the other way in exchange for votes. That is not a healthy think for a democracy whatsoever.

This just isn't true. The "ruling classes" of the UK are not council leaders and police officers in Rotherham, Rochdale and the likes.

They arent the boots on the ground in towns in the north of England but they are the agenda setters. They are the ones who tend to champion multiculturalism at every turn and chastise anyone who points out it's flaws as racist.

Then you have the judiciary, some of these people were convicted of raping a child and got two and a half year sentences. That's just an insult to the victims.

There's a massive disconnect between the people who wield substantive power and working class people.

[Biffer]

Seems GBeebies is having a meltdown with how to cope with Musk turning on their golden boy.

[Slick]

Seems GBeebies is having a meltdown with how to cope with Musk turning on their golden boy.

I think everyone might be better of just ignoring him really.

[Sandstorm]

Seems GBeebies is having a meltdown with how to cope with Musk turning on their golden boy.

I think everyone might be better of just ignoring him really.

I agree, but good luck getting The Media to stop giving him airtime.

[Guy Smiley]

Seems GBeebies is having a meltdown with how to cope with Musk turning on their golden boy.

I think everyone might be better of just ignoring him really.

I agree, but good luck getting The Media to stop giving him airtime.

Broad generalisation here, but it seems to me that Musk is a clear example of the divisive polarisation that marks our current phase of 'civilisation'. His supporters are fanatical and blind to his failings while those who don't give him the attention and loyalty he craves are turned on. He'll lose some followers with his antics and the glow will wear off but the damage is done already.

The social media era has given us division and hate and it's not going anywhere in the foreseeable. Maybe Musk will stumble badly, overestimate his influence and offend all of his supporters but it's unlikely. Humanity currently seems blind to a perspective outside of their personal device's screen and the chances of a charismatic leader rising to offer hope and a way forward seem nothing more than fantasy.

[Paddington Bear]

I don’t think social media has polarised society so much as revealing existing polarisation which has been exacerbated by a decline in living standards