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Elon Musk said he is starting a new political party, which he dubbed the 'America Party' in a post on X Saturday.

Musk was born in South Africa but obtained his citizenship in 2002. He took an increasingly prominent role in politics through his partnership with Donald Trump during the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle, pumping money into the Republican's campaign and utilizing his social media platform, X, to promote him.

However, Musk and Trump had a very public fall out after the tech mogul departed the federal government. While Musk has walked back some of his more outrageous allegations and attacks, he has persisted with the idea that the U.S. needs a new political party.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dude did a nazi salute and destroyed all the institutions that would force him to make better cars. He's just another flavor of Trump

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Good, split the tech bro vote away from maga. Add in the rubes who'll believe that the new party represents anti woke freedom, and the gop will lose big.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We need a parliamentary system before a 3rd party is viable.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, there's certainly are no fuckunf checks and balances. Amazing all the time they forced us to learn about all that shit in school turned out to be made out of paper mache.

[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 points 6 days ago

That’s Orwellian double speak if I’ve ever heard it.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Party with drugs people... This isn't about politics.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They are but there's always people who ruin that fun and this guy seems like one of those x1000.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I agree wholeheartedly i shouldve left the /f for being facetious.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago

They even have their own party salute!

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

This man is a human taint. That said, I would gladly take his money if it would get me into an office where I could implement some real, lasting, democratic-socialist style change. Obviously that last part of the plan would be hidden from him. Commence your down voting.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck downvoting. Double agent that fucker.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Nobody strained any muscles thinking up that name

[–] Zagam@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly it's surprising there's isn't an X in it. Maybe Elmo had hit a new stage in growth.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

oh no, he's splitting the nazi vote

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Curious if fetterman will join

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It’s not like he can win a Dem primary now lol

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Know what you're getting into if you follow this dude.

Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute on the stage at the 2025 US presidential inauguration.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Man. It still makes me irrationally angry that so many people dismiss this as a wave, or any-fucking-thing other than what it is, a Nazi salute.

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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

With how much he loves the letter, I'm shocked he didn't call it the X party.

I hear he loves history too, so maybe the History X party. I guess he should include the America part so people know which side he's on.

The "American History X" party sounds about right for him.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sex Party actually has a nice ring

[–] draenog@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sex Party actually has a nice ring

Strangely enough in Australia we did have a Sex Party for a while : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sex_Party They actually had some really good policys (in my opinion)

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[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We need a third party, but not one made/controlled by a billionaire. We need a new party by and for the common people.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

We need a better voting system that can support more than two parties, first

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

super hypothetical, but if the far right splits, that could open the door for a center left party

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

Center left? Center left??? How about full blown leftist socialist, because nothing less will do.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Center left in american politics is definitley not what is needed. That's like using a teenage mutant ninja turtle bandaid and thinking thats better for curing cancer than a normal bandaid.

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[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

"America Party" - brought to you by Ketamine (TM)

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago

The man that interfered with our last election is making a new party. So exciting.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Yes, please split the Right.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

But mom says we have white supremacist party at home

[–] Zier@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the 'America Fascist Party'? AFP = AFD.

[–] goombakid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the Fascist American Party.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

split the right? go Musk! 😂🤮

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

If you can't build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?

The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn't go away. It's just that now you've got extra tasks to deal with.

Trump didn't get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has been estimated that there was a total of 5.5 Billion dollars spent in the last Presidential Election. Elon Musk is estimated to be worth over $400 billion. He can literally buy Congress.

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