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He's a foreign fascist interfering in British politics. Shut down all his business operations in Britain and expropriate the assets.
I call for the dissolution of Elon musk
Oh fuck off you absolute weirdo
Is he English? Why is he trying to influence another country's politics?
Because he's a wanker.
Because the best way to keep his wealth is to push wherever he can towards corporate fascism.
He did the same thing in Germany. There's many articles from a while back when he had a super awkward interview with some AfD politician where they discussed how Hitler was actually a communist. Yeah, not kidding. This here however seems a bit more dramatic, maybe Muski has learned something from that first experience.
south african apartheid queen, trying to bring it back to western countries.
They stopped buying his cars
Doesn't anyone ever make the connection that BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN'T EXIST
I don't mean kill the person or assassinate them .... just separate them from their money. The idea of someone owning and controlling so much money and wealth is only detrimental to the rest of humanity.
Get rid of excessive wealth and you will solve 99.9% of the world's problems. It won't create a utopia but it would be a hell of a lot better world than what we have now.
We know it can be done and that it works because that was how it was done when things did work, in the post-war years until the 1970s. Anything over an obscene amount was taxed at 90%, and wealth taxes at inheritance would take large chunks of generational wealth above obscene levels.
I love you, fellow champion of rational thought. Their money only exists by mutual consent. Their ownership of things only exists by mutual consent. We can revoke our consent. They have built many systems, of government, of policing, around us and around them to protect their money and ownership, but at the end of the day, even these systems are powered by people and only exist by mutual consent. Their defenses require us to be willing to fight each other, that is why they work so hard to keep us willing to fight each other. If we stop fighting each other for long enough, we might just realize they are simply frightened, selfish human individuals just like any of the rest of us. They may be billionaires, but they are not gods, we just cower before them and their systems as if they were.
We can change this, if we work together, instead of against each other.
Their money only exists by mutual consent.
I recall a late-night, alcohol-fueled conversation I once had with a friend who's an anthropoligist, where we were discussing how pre-industrial societies are often ruled by myths to an extreme extent. She said "western societies have plenty of myths, too, even if you leave out religion."
"Yeah, like what?"
"That money has value."
We live in this huge collective, collaborative and willing self-delusion that, to be fair, was close enough to reality and worked pretty well for many of us for a surprisingly long time. I think there are too many cracks appearing in the illusion now though and thanks to the efforts of the hyper-ultra-wealthy the cognitive dissonance between what the illusion is telling us and what reality is showing us is becoming impossible to ignore.
Oh that's a great idea. You see how the U.S. government is crumbling and pedophiles are being protected by the people doing it to strip away any chance of justice. And people are being assassinated at oddly convenient time to help the pedophiles and their investment banker friends.
Listen to Elon. The guy who is literally instigating a second civil war for the the U.S. You too can achieve the American dream.
BTW he's on the list!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-wealth
Double btw they want to take away our passports for questioning war policies of another country. That's kinda goofy huh 😜 https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/
How is this not screaming fire in a theater...he should not be inciting violence.
We should make a rule that billionaires are only allowed to destabilize one democratic nation state at a time.
If we're in a position to make rules, then it should be about proper dining etiquette while eating them.
I would never do such a thing. Though my dog is less discriminating about what she eats.
~~Tommy Robinson~~
That's the name he took on to come across more blue collar. His real name is:
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon
Firstly, what is this "we?" Did he move to the UK? No? Then why the fuck is he acting like he has a say?
Secondly, he sounds actually deranged based on the quotes. I feel more and more like conservatism should be classified as a mental illness.
I think the 'we' is referring to fascists, not British citizens.
And alarmingly, that's not even a joke. There's a clear cult of personality thing being whipped up, and I legit don't see what he's got in common with the baying mob other than racism, fascism, and a taste for violence.
Why would so many people be convinced to bus up and down the country spewing hate at migrant hotels, raising flags everywhere like we've fallen to USA levels of idiocy, at the behest of a man who doesn't share their: country, nationality, culture, religion, class, upbringing, life path / experience, financial or social position or priorities, or literally anything other than... well, I can't think of anything other than fascism, unhappiness, and probably the petulant anger of someone who can't figure out why nobody likes or respects them.
And I don't think many of them are consciously aware of the unhappiness or thwarted desire to be a valuable member of society, so fascism it is.
Racism, entitlement and ketamine make a nasty combination.
He ran out his welcome in the US government and now he's trying to worm his way in to the UK government.
When he says "we" he means the white race. The guy's a flesh and blood 4chan board who inherited blood wealth from daddy's emerald mine.
Billionaires. Should. Not. Exist.
Make. Elon. HOMELESS.
The right never stops inciting violence.
Stochastic terrorist Nazi and murderous ketamine junkie suffering from the broke mind virus advocating physical violence is creating his own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yeah, violence is coming you fuckmook, because you make it necessary.
Blind disabled granny with a free Palestine sign: jailed
Foreign billionaire destroying democracy: aww you staaapth 🤭
I'd love to see blood spewing from this grifter's neck.
Since he's fine for people calling out for drastic actions in things they have no business in, I'm calling out for psychiatrists to lock Musk up in a padded cell.
Cool. Charge him with treason and throw him in jail if he ever decides to pay the U.K a visit again, then.
[Verse 1]
I come from scientists and atheists and white men who kill God
They make technology high quality, complex, physiological
Experiments and sacrilege in the name of public good
They taught me everything, just like a daddy should
[Verse 2]
And you were beautiful and vulnerable and power and success
God damn, I fell for you, your flamethrowers, your tunnels, and your tech
I studied code because I wanted to do something great like you
And the real tragedy is half of it was true
[Bridge 1]
But we’ve been fuckin’ mean, we’re elitist, we’re as flawed as any church
And this faux-rad West coast dogma has a higher fuckin’ net worth
I bit the apple ’cause I trusted you
It tastes like Thomas Malthus
Your proposal is immodest and insane
And I hope someday Selmers rides her fuckin’ train
[Chorus]
I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
I wanted to be you and do what you do
I lived here, I loved here, I thought it was true
I feel so stupid, and so used
I feel so used
[Verse 3]
I was your baby, your firstborn, the hot girl in your comp-sci class
And I was Darwin’s prep school dream bred born and raised to kick your ass
I fell for circuit boards, rocket ships, pictures of the stars
If you could only be what you pretend you are
[Verse 4]
When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone
I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go
But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land
For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand
[Bridge 2]
‘Cause we’re so fuckin’ mean, we’re so elitist, we’re as fucked as any church
And this bullshit West coast dogma has a higher fuckin’ net worth
I bit the apple ’cause I loved you, and why would you lie?
And then I realized that you’re just as naïve as I am
Oh, you’re so traumatized it makes me want to cry
[Chorus]
You dumb *removed*
I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
I wanted to be you and do what you do
I lived here, I loved here, I bought it, it’s true
I’m so embarrassed, I feel abused
[Verse 5]
Well I don’t want to eat the rich, I’d have to eat my heroes first
And my tuition’s paid by blood, I might deserve your fate or worse
But I don’t need your god damn money, I don’t need jack shit from you
So when I speak, you bet your life my words are true
[Verse 6]
Let me level with you man, as someone guilty of the game
I took the help, I took the cash, I would’ve taken your last name
So if any girl on Earth should get to make a call about this, it should be me
And as I see it, you’re a dick
[Bridge 3]
So fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again
You promised you’d be Tesla, but you’re just another Edison
‘Cause Tesla broke a patent, all you ever broke were hearts
I can’t believe you tore humanity apart
With the very same machines that could have been our brand new start
[Chorus]
And the worst part is
I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
And sometimes I feel like I still fuckin’ do
I lived here, I loved here, I bought it, it’s true
I’m so embarrassed, I feel abused
I feel so used
I feel so used
Take me to the moon
‘Cause I feel so used
This is why you must never buy a Tesla.
The Board is tripping over itself to give this guy a Trillion dollar payout.
Fuck off nazi.
Tesla stock too high again?
"We'll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!" - actual Elon quote.
I'd imagine there are many ways people might "deal with it", unfortunately for him.
Aren't you supposed to be meddling with my country's politics, Musky? Some reason you're afraid to do it in public right now?
The Napoleon complex on Musk is reaching epic proportions.
And just like Napoleon, he wants you to revolt to be crowned emperor afterwards.
A Napoleon complex, as I understand it, is when a high achiever feels insecure due to a reasonably insignificant, but noticeable, flaw, and gets so bitter and defensive about it that it draws attention from their achievements to the flaw and their bitterness.
Eg, man rises to the top of his country, conquers others, spreads and empire that, for all its flaws, revolutionised global concepts and uptake of democracy, human rights etc. English critics mainly focus whether he's a few inches shorter than average.
Whereas Elon: did not do any of that, and the 'minor flaws' are his remarkable personal anti-magnetism.
It's absolutely unbelievable that the richest man in the world still can't get any friends, let alone partners, who can stick around longer than a year or so. He was brought up with the finest education money could buy and every opportunity, and has not managed to invent, discover, or excel at anything other than buying things.
Not only has he not conquered a multitude of countries or spread anything other than anger and personal dissatisfaction, he couldn't even rise to the top of his own country.
And, not being funny, his own country was not the stiffest competition in the field of 'really respectable, well liked, competent people'. White South Africans do not dominate the league tables of Cool Chill Folk Who Fairly Earned Their Worldwide Respect, and all he had to do was keep buying companies and collecting money and not being such a raging wanker as to be a threat to multiple countries' national security. That is such an achingly low bar, and I truly do not believe anyone except Musk could have failed to clear it.
TLDR: Napoleon ruled his country and many others, leaving a new global standard for law, human rights, freedom, and democracy (which is even more impressive considering he was a kinda imperialist knob).
Musk's talents are being astronomically rich, and against all odds, setting a new global standard for 'that white South African pro-apartheid guy who turned out to be unusually racist and anti-meritocracy'. How bad do you have to be before billions of people would recognise you from that description? The man was born on a golden throne and has managed to make a name as the most distasteful turd in the open sewer miles away.
Musk on foreign leaders admonishing Trump
Foreign interference!
Musk when directly interfering with foreign governments
This is totally fine.