Will Musk be the next Trump?

[L'Emmerdeur]

[Brian Peacock]

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's actually about free speech in social media.

'Elon Musk Marks Race to Bottom With Alex Jones, Ramaswamy, Andrew Tate in Live Twitter Chat'

Elon Musk has reinstated infamous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and to mark the occasion, Musk gathered a panel for an X Spaces conversation on Sunday. The discussion included Jones, Andrew Tate — who faces charges of rape, human trafficking, and organized crime; controversial Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn; and other problematic figures for an X Spaces conversation on Sunday.

The Tesla/X owner ran a poll on Friday (ending at midnight on Saturday), where users on X, formerly known as Twitter, voted to reinstate Jones, who had originally been banned in 2018. Jones had initially been suspended for a week in August of that year for incitements to violence, and the platform made the ban permanent the next month over a Periscope stream on the InfoWars account in which Jones ranted at CNN journalist Oliver Darcy for 10 minutes in a Capitol Hill hallway.

Hosted by Mario Nawful, the nearly three-hour session on Sunday found the men, unsurprisingly, crowing about some of their favorite topics. As The Wrap notes, Musk waxed on about his view that people should crank out a lot of babies (a stance he’s held for years, positing in 2021 that “civilization is going to crumble” if people don’t have more children; the mother of a set of his twins said in a biography written about him this year by Walter Isaacson: “He really wants smart people to have his kids”). Meanwhile, Jones was fixated on “globalists,” and the other people participating — including Rep. Matt Gaetz and far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec — lobbed praise on Musk and the return of Jones to the platform.

[Brian Peacock]

Racists, confabulists, treasonous liars, and sexual abusers. I'm looking for a common thread here.

[NineBerry]

Free speech. As in free from any decency.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Mr Musk disagrees with 'the idea of unions.' Hardly a shocking statement coming from somebody who likes to thump his chest and lie about how much he supports free speech. Unions when they actually function give workers a voice that corporations are forced to listen to. Of course a petty tyrant like Musk disagrees with that. Looks like he's not going to win in Sweden at least.

'"Get Unionized or Get Out!": Scandinavian Labor Elevates Fight With Tesla's Elon Musk'

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tough lesson in labor rights continued in Scandinavia Thursday, as one Danish progressive politician offered some advice to the electric vehicle executive: "Don't mess with Nordic unions."

Musk's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement for just 130 mechanics in Sweden has proven to be a significant miscalculation about the power of unions in Nordic countries, as more than a dozen collective bargaining units across Sweden have made Tesla's operations increasingly difficult in the country in solidarity with the mechanics and their demand for a minimum wage.

As Common Dreams reported earlier this month, Musk—the world's richest person—has appeared flat-footed in recent weeks as unionized postal workers, delivery drivers, and electricians have refused to work with Tesla to help pressure the company to sign the mechanics' contract.

France 24 reported last week that "garbage is piling up outside Tesla centers as refuse collectors refuse to pick it up" and cleaning staff are also declining to work in Tesla showrooms.

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Beyond Sweden, powerful unions representing dockworkers in Denmark and transit workers in Norway and Finland have made clear their members won't help Tesla circumvent the Swedish work stoppage that was started in October by the mechanics at the company's service centers.

The unions have pledged in recent weeks to block the transit of Tesla's EVs unless the company could reach an agreement, giving Musk a deadline that expired on Wednesday.

"Swedish workers have [the Transport Workers' Union]'s full support," said Ismo Kokko, president of the Finnish union AKT. "It is a crucial part of the Nordic labor market model that we have collective agreements and unions support each other... The Nordic transport unions stand united in this matter."

Musk has demonstrated little understanding of the display of solidarity that has spread from Sweden to its neighboring countries—calling the postal workers' solidarity strike "insane" and attempting to compel the Swedish postal authority to continue crucial deliveries to Tesla, an effort that was rejected on December 7 by a Swedish court.

[JimC]

Go Nordic unions!

[Tero]

Musk sets up Santa for modern technology
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[NineBerry]

Musk sets up Santa for modern technology
https://www.threads.net/@esa55jarvi/post/C1QJQ_zxq-w

Hahahaha!

[Tero]

Musk promoting C-sections so our Aryan babies can have bigger brains.
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[Sean Hayden]

Cool. If Musk farts and nobody’s around to tweet about it…

[Tero]

Trump will never be Musk. Musk will never be Trump.

But he has found an ingenious way to cash in on billions. Spread his DNA widely. He could just start a sperm bank and even make a few bucks.
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[NineBerry]

Musk isn't smart. He's cunning and deceitful.

[rasetsu]

Nobody would give two shits about Musk today if China hadn't pulled his ass out of the fire.

[Tero]

Musk will be the next Howard Hughes, who died in a hotel room with no will.

“Three years ago, I was showering at the YMCA and sleeping on the office floor,” Musk reminisced in a 1999 CNN Perspectives documentary, reported by Business Insider. “Now I have a million-dollar car and quite a few creature comforts.” Musk’s purchase wasn’t just a display of wealth; it was a testament to how far he had come.

In the interview, Musk explained he put 11,000 miles on the car. He drove it from Los Angeles to San Francisco and it was his daily vehicle, which he admits was a "crazy car to have as a daily drive."

In 2000, while driving on Sand Hill Road with PayPal Inc. Co-Founder Peter Thiel to a meeting, a moment of bravado led Musk to demonstrate the car’s capabilities. “Watch this,” he said, moments before the McLaren spun out of control, flew “like a discus” 3 feet into the air and crashed. The worst part? The car wasn’t insured.

The car hit a hidden embankment on Sand Hill Road at a 45-degree angle, launching it into the air “like a discus.” According to witnesses, the McLaren maintained about 3 feet of air clearance before it slammed down on the ground, going in the original direction. The aftermath was a spectacle of destruction.

“We blew the suspension out ... the core chassis and the engine were OK, but all the glass and the wheels and everything was shredded. There was massive body damage in the front and rear,” Musk said.

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