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In a country known for guns, poor mental health care and prideful morons you'd figure this fuck face would be dead already. No one willing to take one for the team, eh? Me either.
Tbh, at this point if it was the Army I wouldn't even see it as a coup
I bought some tesla puts lol. Literally banking on this.
I have to say I find this somewhat curious. Why is Musk aligning with Putin? I don't think it's just to echo Trump, but I also don't see how it's in his interest to do so. Being pro-russian is not exactly popular among Americans, across the whole political spectrum, and neither it is among allied nations. Does Putin have some kind of insane leverage, or what's in it for Musk?
Is he just so deep in his delusion that the world is his own shitposting messageboard that he's too busy being edgy to realize he's committing suicide?
He sees a model of oligarchy he likes. What else is needed? He has more money than anyone could ever spend in a thousand lifetimes. But now he has power, and it was so, so easy for him.
I think this is it, Musk is playing a different game than most of the others.
He knows that there are very few dollars left to squeeze out of the free market... So he is getting in on the ground floor of a new type of oligarch fascism he likes. Now he can not only control his competition, but the very basis of USD value itself... If you the think his stock market and crypto scams were bad, you haven't seen nothing yet.
There is lots of money left, but after you used the cheat code and have unlimited money what is the point for a megalomaniac. The only way he can move forward is to make everyone poorer. This is the new plan.
Every person, every business on this fascist propaganda sewer is now on The List. Time's up.
Oh you need it for - Don't care. It's a good tool to - Don't care. OFF. NOW.
“feeding off the dead bodies of soldiers”
Then tell Russia to stop sending soldiers. It takes two to tango.
Though, given the many sexual harassment/assault allegations against him, maybe he doesn't.
wild way to spell russia.
If your personal tastes lean towards treason, maybe the Republican party is right for you.
Remember how everyone applauded him for giving starlink to Ukraine? Yeah...
"Giving" as in "US military paid them and Elon took credit for it".
Right? Overpaid for by a lot, too. Just so he could turn it off whenever his buddy Putin asked.
So, how are Tesla sales today?
Sounds like the rantings of a mad man tripping on ketamine and coke
Musk also threatened changes to X’s Community Notes after fact-checkers refuted his claims.
The only part of this that surprises me is that it didn't happen sooner. Musk is so thin-skinned that he's indistinguishable from an anatomical model of a human.
and falsely claimed he is “despised” by Ukrainians, echoing Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
Falsely? Oh, he meant Zelensky, not himself. Nvm.