Musk calls for Nigel Farage to resign

[Michelle12A]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875904634419859928

He isn’t a British citizen.

Rats fighting in a sack.
Couldn't be happening to two nicer people.

Yes, it's just extremely funny to observe.

Farage could really do with the money from Musk, But he doesn't desperately, urgently need it in order to fight his political campaign because (thank god) there are campaign spending restrictions in the UK so the "battle fund" needed is much much less than in the US. Its not that UK parties don't accept dodgy donations (see cash for honours) but its not necessary for them to do so in the way it is in the US (where discussions around the size of each candidates campaign fund is a weirdly big part of the election folderol).

I don't mean that in a "we are so much better than America way." Just that, thank god, when the US decided that money counts as speech and is therefore protected under free speech laws we didn't. And also that, in the discussions around whether algorithms are free speech etc hopefully people will remember the American view on this isn't infallible. Free speech is important. But IMO Money is not speech. Algorithms are not speech - even if large corporations Musky types try to conflate them.

This is absolutely hilarious. The confused comments even more so. It was all well and good when he was interfering with Labour, but now it's all "hey now, wait a minute..." .

Hear, hear.

Musk accused experienced cave rescuers of being paedophiles because they declined his assistance. Ad they likely knew more about cave rescue than SissySpaceX I realised he was a prick best ignored. Nothing since has changed that opinion.

Britain likely does need change but old Spaceballs is not the individual we need.

People curate their feeds on SM, proactively or reflexively. Musk has curated his own SM feed to be especially alt-Right enriched and yet seems especially oblivious to how ill-informed and disinformation-rich his own feed has therefore become. That's what's hilarious... Musk is literally a victim of his own SM bubble-creation.

If he wasn't so rich we'd just shrug Musk off as yet another kook.

So he believes the UK needs liberating by the US?

Keep going, Elon. Hopefully the people with white suits will come for you because you’re clearly batshit.

Do you think Labour sending 100 'volunteers to work for Kamala during their election was justified?

Second response nails it. 😆

Who gives a shiny shite about Elon Musk's opinion on ANYthing? And he is so pointless and irrelevant to UK politics. Seriously, who the fuck does he think he is? 😂

Go away, you odd little man. The UK gives ZERO FUCKS about you!

No, most people weren't happy with that either. I wasn't! I want this weirdo to stay the fuck out of our business!

On Twitter, Musk is now running a poll about whether 'America should liberate the UK from its tyrannical government'.

How many allies are Trump and Musk going to threaten in jest?

It's like America is being run by children.

The comedown from whatever he's taken is going to be brutal.

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The comedown from whatever he's taken is going to be brutal.

He smokes weed every day but claims it has no effect on him. Ok mate, keep telling yourself that 🤣

(If it has no effect, why use it?)

The thing is, countries like the UK are unlikely to radically alter their geo-political positions. But China has already been making massive inroads into Africa, Southern America, Island countries. A big part of their appeal is that (while they are an autocratic country) China don't tend to try to interfere that much with the business of countries they invest it/are allied to. This is interference on steroids. Its basically insisting that America has the right to make all sort of petulant demands on other countries governments, or seek to overthrow them. But only other democratic countries. And only countries allied to them - countries that are actively hostile to America should, in the world of Trump and Musk, not be interfered with and discussed respectfully. Its quite the perverse incentive. If I was Panama or any South American country I would be thinking hmmmmm.....

He takes ketamine as well.

EM is off his bloody rocker, he changes like the wind. And yes, he wants in with SYL and is making use of his current profile. Well, screw the lot of them.

Those who say he is irrelevant to the politics and people of the UK and "why are we even talking about him" are misguided. He is dangerous, even to the UK, in a very unpredictable way.

So funny! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, OP.

I knew it would happen (they are all a bunch of thin-skinned egotists and it was inevitable that they’d end up falling out with each other) but didn’t think it would be so soon.

Musk and Trump next, I imagine. Woohoo!

Just that, thank god, when the US decided that money counts as speech and is therefore protected under free speech laws we didn't.

Yup. It's hard to quantify the shitty, shitty legacy of this Roberts court, but assuming humanity survives this period, the Citizens United decision will be right up there as one of the first dominos to be knocked over.

I wonder what these two twats want to distract us from.

I love that they are both showing themselves to be polarising, self obsessed wankers. They really don't need to make so much effort though. We got the memo years ago.

This is starting to look like the theory of Elite Overproduction.

I can give him any headspace. Why is he getting involved?

It's funny, it used to be all the hard-left-wing people who were incapable of getting on with each other, and who would form tentative alliances with each other only to fall out five minutes later, having huge strops and accusing everyone else of being evil, bigoted etc. (People's Front of Judea stuff, call-out culture, purity spirals...)

Now it looks like the hard-right-wing people are doing the same thing - hair-trigger offence-taking reflex, purity tests, constant whinging demands.

It's all rather exciting to watch.

I think it was appalling and incredibly stupid of Labour to have done this.

But the appropriate response by the Americans would be to state clearly that this isn't acceptable, and then change the bloody rules so that British (and other) politicians can't do this again. Not to do a whole load of interference in the other direction. Non-US politicians, going forward, may feel even more entitled to meddle in US politics ("Well, we know from experience that the Americans are going to interfere with our affairs, we're justified in doing what we can do ensure they vote for a candidate that we like")