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Calling Musk an “American” is surely stretching the truth a bit, innit?
So is calling him a genius 🤷♂️
Anyone who legitimately thinks he's a genius better bring a shovel to their next iq test.
Ol’ Pooty-poot is on a strict mushroom diet. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.
Perfect environment for Musk to thrive
He needs to be jailed and then deported.
To South Africa, Canada doesn't want him.
El Salvador.
I am hoping El Salvador.
He has lived there since 1989 and has a US citizenship since 2002.
One can always obviously argue that it doesn't count and that he is South African because of his Father and because he was born there, and/or Canadian because his mother is Canadian, but in that case the telephone is a Scottish (Alexander Graham Bell), gramophone a Russian (Emile Berliner) and the zipper a Swedish (Gideon Sundback) invention - all made by US immigrants with citizenships.
I almost edited my comment to revise my position, and I was waiting for someone to call me out. I'm glad you did. Immigrants built the US (Canada too), and fully earnestly I believe it's what makes America great. I would be angry if someone questioned, say, Ilhan Omar's citizenship and patriotism because she was born elsewhere. I can't not hold that opinion simply because Musk is a piece of shit.
So without snark, I don't question his citizenship. I don't believe he holds the values I think make an "American" (or, uncomfortably, maybe he does…), but for better or for worse, a citizen he is.
I can see him mixing up the terms 'American' and 'Asset'. At this point, they are quite synonymous.