• BigAssFan@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Usually trends tend to spread from America to Europe, sooner or later. McDonalds, movies, series, software, obesity, ridiculously large pick-up trucks, fascism. Okay, the latter was first exported to the States, like pizza, but it now returns in full swing.

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    I would love to see him go to Europe and try to convince them all the rights they have there, need to be gotten rid of. 😂

    “Listen, I know you get maternity leave, but you gotta ask yourself, is that hurting the billionaire class?”

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      10 months ago

      He’d be like “this will benefit you in the future when you become a billionaire yourself”

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    10 months ago

    We haven’t forgotten that time he used Starlink to benefit Russia over Ukraine, around the time he was cosying up to Putin.

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    10 months ago

    Make Europe Great Again! Like how it was in 1940!!!

    That is what he wants, right? He’s all smoochy smoochie with far right European politicians, he’s already “Hitler wasnt as bad as we think” wink wink…

    Maybe he forgot how that great period ended, and what we did with the top level players, back then… Maybe he should be reminded about that?

    I mean, obviously he forgot about all the pain and suffering and the millions of deaths, and he definitely doesn’t care about that, but narsismusk loves himself over everything else, so a reminder of hour Nazi leaders ended might not be a bad idea

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    As much as we are joking about him, please do NOT underestimate the power that this shit stain has. People underestimated trump twice and twice we ended up with trump presidencies

    There are a lot of vaporware brain idiots out there that lap up every word he says

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    10 months ago

    Yeah but all that and other consumer protections make it harder for him and the other robber barons to get even more filthy rich off of us.

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    Im pretty sure he doesn’t care, didnt he tell some important EU figure literally to go fuck themselves? He isn’t concerned with the opinions of the EU because they’re globalist homos to him, thats why he’s throwing his support behind AFD, BRUV, and some of these other regarded anti-EU, pro-Russian, pro-kleptocrat groups. to help dismantle the EU for Daddy Vlad

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      10 months ago

      As fascism gains traction and politicians generally speaking lose popularity, someone with as much clout as Elon who tells a ranking EU member to fuck themselves is only going to build their base as a result.

      thats why he’s throwing his support behind AFD, BRUV, and some of these other regarded anti-EU, pro-Russian, pro-kleptocrat groups

      He’s throwing his weight behind them because (a) he has nothing left to gain from the liberal establishment and (b) these underdogs are far more radical and more pliant, so if they win he’ll reap more concessions than from their liberal opposition.

      The desire to put every foul turn in world events on Daddy Vladdy is as much a part of the problem as Elon himself. NATO residents cannot accept that these calls for fascism are coming from inside the house. Elon can’t just be fascist and he can’t be pandering to domestic strains of fascism. They all have to be the consequence of some (comically inept and chronically understaffed) Evil Outsider.

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    10 months ago

    The reason we don’t have any of those nice things in the USA is due to multiple factors. But the one that bothers me the most is: conservative voters are willing and happy to let leopards eat their faces as long as the leopards say mean things about “liberals” while doing it.

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      We have a lot of problems here in the UK but at least most of us think Musk is an idiot. That diver he called a paedophile way back was a point of national pride for us at the time, because he was British.