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If I didn’t already think that Musk is a fucking shithead, him stanning for Tommy fucking Robinson would have sealed it.
Tommy Fucking Robinson (or Stephen Yaxley-Fucking-Lennon to give him his actual name) is the worst. A racist thug through and through, who, by being banged up, is in the right place.
I have no idea who that is, but this is who I pictured.
Picture someone who'd hide behind his bigger mates if he was threatened and you'd be closer to the mark.
He's a Russian asset that holds U.S. military contracts. yay
Just wait until he uses DOGE to gut NASA and gets more contracts for SpaceX.
White, rich guy from apartheid South Africa accuses country of tyranny after it locks up a person white supremacists look up to.
Hmm. Hmmmm.
Lol, put that police state to use and get that X bullshit out of your countries so you don't have to deal with his lame blackmail attempts anymore. This is far more blatant and insidious than TikTok ever was. Let him boost away in his own little bubble of delusional Americans and Russian bots.
Could somebody just grind this man into a fine paste already?
Got any extra fiberglass submarines? ;)
We could just send him to Mars. No one says that his Mars rocket has to be able to make a return trip.
Jesus Christ Russia have absolutely nailed this part of their geopolitical play.
They've basically got 2 members of, if not an entire, US government under their thumb, they've corrupted the EU to make one of their major contributors to leave (thinking the US is on their side, idiotically), and they've got good relations with the other superpower (china).
Annoyingly, it looks like the EU which is the most, even if not enough, "for the people" political establishment in our world today is going to get screwed over the next decade or so.
Elon is a threat to humanity.
He’s trying to build starships. He’s a threat to the galaxy.
He has already started littering space with scrapped vehicles.
Next star trek series, they gonna find the Tesla floating out there.
“Captain, we are being hailed by T’ger.”
“On screen.”
“Elon and Don at McDonalds. Arms wide.”
“Arm photon torpedoes.”
“Can you make it go?”
~~I read that the, to be allowed, 25 starts of the starship rocket will blast the equivalent GHGs of 975000 airliner flights or about the yearly output of 280000 homes, into earths atmosphere. So at first SpaceX is a threat to us.~~
I downvoted myself. The claim was that one start and reentry of the Starship would emit 97000 tons of GHGs into earths atmosphere.
Another redditor fact-checked it and it seems to be only about 3300 tons per flight so it's 30 times less.
100 starts of the Spaceship would amount to 0.3% of the total emissions of all airplanes in a year.
I usually fact check posts with numbers in it and I feel bad for letting my guards down this time and spreading misinformation. Won't happen again.
Elon has spent $5 billion in taxpayers money and he hasn't even gotten an empty Starship into orbit yet. NASA can land a working rover on Mars for $1billion, and SpaceX can barely manage to recapture a smoking husk of a booster on "the chopsticks".
Believe me the galaxy is safe. Elon just wants those taxpayers dollars to keep his grift going.
There are a thousand better takes on Elon being a nazi piece of shit than trying to trash the most advanced rocket company in the world with weak arguments.
NASA always uses third party contractors for launch vehicles, and spacex is the best rocket company. Nobody is even close to second place now that Boeing is in the business of producing death traps and national security risks.
You call Elon a terrible piece of shit, but that thankfully has little to do with Shotwells excellent leadership at spacex.
He's got such a hate boner for Kier Starmer that I'm kind of intrigued. Starmer is the most boring, beaurocratic politician you can find. I can't understand what's triggered this latest Musk mania.
He's a prosecutor who apparently can't be bought.
That's far more dangerous to a billionaire than a firebrand.
If Starner only delivers a non-corrupt legal system it'll be an incredible win for the Country. But I do think he needs 10 years in office so he should focus on actually winning the next election.
accusation, confession
We should ban this guy's propaganda site.
All the people taking this lightly, wildly underestimate the effect the richest man in the world has on public discourse. This guy is taking heads of state to task, threatening democracy.
I hope he trips up and gets X banned.. but we need to be way more radical in protecting our democracy.
Did he think that was a compliment?
He is doing Russian dirty work
It’s really annoying how this guy never complains about what actual autocracies are doing; never a peep complaining about the times they ask for things to be removed from Twitter. Just hand wringing about needing to follow the law to operate in those places. Hypocrite
And the US isn't?
Ok.
I think this maniac wishes for immortality, and since the closest he can do is make his name stand out in the history books, he used his “dumbest kid on planet Vulcan” logical prowess to deduce that the best way to accomplish that is to become a mustache twirling villain.
Maybe the genie misheard him saying he wished to be immortal and heard that he wished to be immoral.
I hate that this piece of shit is so young...
I'm going to have to wait a lonnnnnng time to piss on his grave :(