Will Musk be the next Trump?

[Brian Peacock]

Busy week for Elon...

Elon Musk’s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes

You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk

Elon’s politics: how Musk became a driver of elections misinformation

Elon Musk should face arrest if he incited UK rioters, says ex-Twitter chief

[laklak]

I fucking love the dude. He's like the Joachim Phoenix Joker with 50 billion dollars. He trolls the entire world and doesn't give a single shit. I've never felt this way about another man before.

[Strontium Dog]

One can only admire the level of scorn he has for humanity.

[JimC]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Musk is definitely working on his emulation of the narcissistic gasbag, including his ridiculous dishonesty.

'Elon Musk Voted by Mail Despite Calling it "Insane"'

He has railed against voting by mail as “insane,” claimed it was “not allowed” before the pandemic and suggested it is a way to commit fraud.

But Elon Musk has repeatedly voted by mail—when he voted at all.

The billionaire Tesla and X boss became one of the most vocal opponents of mail-in ballots at the same time as he drifted rightwards from what he claimed was a “100 per cent Democratic” voting record.

...

Musk’s voter file shows that he registered to vote in August 2006, four years after taking the oath as an American citizen—he was born in South Africa to a Canadian mother and South African father, entitling him to passports from both countries—but never exercised his democratic rights until the general election in 2016, when he voted by mail. He voted again by mail in the 2018 midterms. In 2020 he canceled his California voting registration and re-registered in Texas, which would have allowed him to vote in that year’s general election.

[Sean Hayden]

It's human. "Yeah, voting by mail is insane, but so long as it's offered I'm not missing out on the convenience..."

--lefties that complain about rich tax cheats but look for similar advantages at tax time?
--a righty that hates welfare but will gladly take a handout when it's offered?

I'm guessing that's what's happening here. Something like philosophizing butting up against reality...

[pErvinalia]

Creepy old guy wants to impregnate Taylor Swift.

[Brian Peacock]

When he said he'd give TayTay a child perhaps he only meant he has spare kids that he isn't using and doesn't need. Very generous of him actually.

[Svartalf]

Creepy old guy wants to impregnate Taylor Swift.

c'mon, who wouldn't want to?

[NineBerry]

Creepy old guy wants to impregnate Taylor Swift.

c'mon, who wouldn't want to?

Raises hand.

[aufbahrung]

Elon has been on Truth Social, anything could happen and anything probably will...maybe next lead for the Foo Fighters?

[L'Emmerdeur]

That fuckin' guy.

'Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk for $15M in Land Dispute'

Billionaire CEO Elon Musk has been sued by a card game company for reportedly using its land near the U.S.-Mexico border without permission. Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the namesake game, filed a lawsuit Thursday in a Texas court alleging that Musk’s SpaceX had trespassed and damaged its property in the state, and “treated the property as its own for at least six months.” The company purchased the land in 2017 with more than $2 million in donations from supporters to stop former President Donald Trump from building a wall at the border. The company claimed that the land, where “wild horses galloped freely in the Texas moonlight,” will take $15 million to fix after SpaceX cleared the land to house construction materials. In its complaint, the company said Musk had stole the land “without remorse or even explanation, as has become his public reputation throughout the world,” referencing Musk’s failed charitable promises to the region where SpaceX is headquartered, which “have either not been fulfilled or have been made to further his own company.”

[aufbahrung]

America? Power behind the throne - defacto king of...prepare to be chipped and pinned in the first year if it pans out. And there's a robot army if you try to escape the experimentation facilities.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Rotten, horrible people pointing out the chief Xit's role in propagating lies.

'Musk Boosts Four Favorite Misinformation Superspreaders'

Elon Musk is one of the most prolific spreaders of misinformation on his platform: He has directly advanced 17 false narratives that appear in NewsGuard’s database of 2,757 provably false claims known as Misinformation Fingerprints. But his role in spreading misinformation extends far beyond his personal X account. A new analysis by NewsGuard has found that in addition to his own stream of false claims, Musk is a frequent booster of other misinformation superspreaders, helping through his engagement to increase their follower counts dramatically.

Between January and June 2024, four of the five accounts Musk engaged with most frequently on X, according to a NewsGuard analysis, were repeat spreaders of misinformation — meaning each had been previously flagged by NewsGuard for advancing at least seven false claims.

Also noting--the 'free speech absolutist's' site booted a journalist off for promoting a document apparently created by the Trump campaign while vetting JD Vance which was then hacked by Iranian intelligence.

[Brian Peacock]

Elon absolutely believes in his freedom to preach.