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To think Elon Musk has gone nuts

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Viviennemary · 06/01/2025 18:15

What on earth is going on with him. Calling for Nagel Farage to resign. Now wanting the PM to resign amd said we have a tyrannical government. It's all a bit odd.

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Thatcastlethere · 06/01/2025 20:07

Almn0etd · 06/01/2025 19:41

Ah yes the customary equivalence to Fascism etc. Everyone you don’t agree with must be a neo nazi.

Very imaginative. And original. But not surprising.

She listed leaders who held a variety of political viewpoints there, including far left...
So that's some crazed mental gymnastics you are doing there.
That poster just meant that sometimes guys who say things that sound insane get elected as leaders. Which is a valid and scary point.

ByBusyTiger · 06/01/2025 20:08

Dudes not wrong tho

Place has been run like shit for decades, wish we had entrepreneurial leadership, we need it desperately ‼️

Thepurplepig · 06/01/2025 20:09

Fingeronthebutton · 06/01/2025 20:00

That’s just the best. 😂😂😂 👏👏👏👏

The problem with Elon is he has Asperger’s. He becomes highly fixated on the task at hand.

Keir Starmer pissed him off and here we are. I’m not sure where it’s going to end

NordicwithTeen · 06/01/2025 20:09

I was thinking today he's gone full Bond Villain, hasn't he? It all started when he changed Twitter to "X"... I can see him sitting in a giant volcano, surrounded by lasers, doing Mr Burns fingers and saying "X-cellent" far too easily now.

TheGander · 06/01/2025 20:10

OneWittyLemonCat · 06/01/2025 19:49

In completely unrelated news Ketamine overuse absolutely wrecks the bladder…..

So he’s not taking the piss.

(I’m here all week, try the veal etc etc.)

Absolutely. I had a patient who couldn’t walk more than 500 metres outside without having to empty her bladder. I wonder what kind of doctor would be prescribing ketamine weekly- maybe the kind of “ concierge doctor” who supplied Michael Jackson, Matthew Perry etc.

Thatcastlethere · 06/01/2025 20:10

CheeseTime · 06/01/2025 19:33

I’ve never forgotten when those Thai children were stuck in a cave for days and many clever experts were quietly working through the options for rescue then Musk tried to muscle in with a whacko terrible idea for a sort of submarine pod thing and irritated everyone and wasted their time.
Megalomaniac is right:

And then he claimed the guy that actually rescued them was a peadophile!! Completely out of nowhere, in a fit of rage!! And then got even more angry when it was pointed out to him that that was slander and not acceptable!!

dcbgr · 06/01/2025 20:11

No one ever made money betting against Elon Musk

hihelenhi · 06/01/2025 20:11

justasking111 · 06/01/2025 19:36

Sorry it was a long time ago. I have a vague memory of a shell suit for some reason as well.

So do I. It was turquoise and when he was on Wogan...

IkeaJesusChrist · 06/01/2025 20:11

This what happens when an idiot like him becomes a billionaire and thinks they're important and clever.

There's a reason why SpaceX and Tesla give him little projects to work on himself away from others.

StrawberryWater · 06/01/2025 20:15

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HRTQueen · 06/01/2025 20:17

Just wait until he falls out with Trump

he has always been this way insulting people when he takes for whatever reason a dislike to them

he just has more of a platform now and more power which makes him nastier

but at least we can see him in plain sight unlike others who hide behind him

rosa17 · 06/01/2025 20:17

I think he knows exactly what he's doing - supporting Tommy Robinson and trying to stoke racist riots as we saw in August. Disgusting person!

hihelenhi · 06/01/2025 20:18

Almn0etd · 06/01/2025 19:41

Ah yes the customary equivalence to Fascism etc. Everyone you don’t agree with must be a neo nazi.

Very imaginative. And original. But not surprising.

Erm, no. This isn't about who I agree and disagree with politically (which you wouldn't know in any case). It's about your absurd claim that someone merely being in a position of power means they're somehow better than the rest of us and have "earned" it. Many haven't.

So don't make more of an idiot of yourself than you already have on this thread. Besides which, Stalin was not a "neo nazi". Neither was Caligula. Nutters, though, yes. Authoritarians, yes.

You are historically illiterate. Very embarrassing for you. Grow tf up.

TequilaNights · 06/01/2025 20:18

Andrew tate jumping on the wagon too...

What are they distracting people from

Sherbs12 · 06/01/2025 20:19

itsjustbiology · 06/01/2025 19:18

I rather admire him. I think he is certainly an oddity. Is he nice ? I don't know.Is he causing all this aggro for his own personal fun ?Yes probably. Is he playing the system to his own end/ego ?yes I think so , Is he making the people who are intent on hiding the truth uncomfortable? Yes absolutely. Have you seen the debate in Parliament going on live right now..they are jumping through hoops trying to minimize this damage and rightly so. All across this house of parliament they ignored the victims and kicked the can down the road for years. They are not doing that now and that is down to Musk. I hope he keeps shouting and draws the kind of attention only he can to shine a light on these injustices in our society. One thing for sure ..nobody can ignore him.

Is this satire? He’s ’shining a light’ on the injustices (read: rightful, legal convictions) served on Tommy Robinson, who risked sabotaging a court case on a grooming gang, so let’s not pretend he’s a legitimate advocate for the victims. Meanwhile, Starmer was overhauling the legal system to make it more efficient so that more convictions against the gangs could (and did!) take place.

A £200million inquiry has already been carried out - it’s called The Jay Report, if you’d care to read something factual about this issue - and the Tories didn’t implement a single one of the recommendations in the 10 years since it was published. Labour have already committed to taking action on it and implementing the recommendations, way before Musk et al used these horrific cases of abuse for political point-scoring and media coverage.

You ‘hope’ he keeps shouting about what exactly? More disinformation, more abuse, more challenges to our democratic and legal systems?

NordicwithTeen · 06/01/2025 20:20

dcbgr · 06/01/2025 20:11

No one ever made money betting against Elon Musk

Who'd want to get rich after seeing that? Enough to make everyone see what happens when greed is fed.

HPFA · 06/01/2025 20:21

Suspect that Trump will soon find him more trouble than he's worth.

Araminta1003 · 06/01/2025 20:21

Elon Musk purchased twitter for 44 billion and some say it is worth 10-15 billion max now. Elon Musk hates losing. Despite his riches, it is about the ego and saving face. So a lot of the disruption will be to up traffic on X (no idea of the debt terms in the acquisition, but I doubt they are favourable in this interest environment and perhaps he has to do some expensive refinancing shortly and is simply trying to big up his platform). If he gets millions of views etc from Germany and the UK etc, that bigs it up. Remember no publicity is bad publicity on social media.

Elon Musk, despite his riches, has had many failed relationships and so many children that he cannot possibly be a good parent to. The issues with his transgender child are very publicly aired. So there are some personal failings as a direct result of being a workaholic which probably means, he is even less able to let go of the losses above.

Vannymcvan · 06/01/2025 20:22

Power crazed nazi are the words I'd use.

Feelingathomenow · 06/01/2025 20:22

Oh come on, it’s very clear what’s going on, he’s trying to create arguments, he’s trying to set one group against another, he really doesn’t give a toss which side you take, he gets off on causing arguments and chaos - he sets the cat amongst the pigeons and gets a dopamine hit when his name is mentioned and people are at each others throats. Those supporting him and those all over every thread screaming how awful he is are equally feeding into what he wants.

Hes not mad, he’s extremely intelligent, he gets off on people arguing - he’s now seeing how far he can push things to see how irrate people can get, he will keep getting more extreme, then suddenly he will change tack to cause confusion.

it’s really hilarious how wound up everyone is getting - all feeding into his game. Hes a manipulator, a power hungry puppet master. Hes intelligent, most likely with pPsychopathic tendencies- he’s clearly bored over Christmas and playing a game to see how people react.

He’ll make friends with Meg and Harry next, then go after the Royals then he’ll drop them and change direction. He’s treating Britain like Sim Island.

Just ignore him, he’ll find a new play thing once he’s not getting his dopamine hits he needs.

Why are people so gullible to be playing his game?

FancyAnotherCuppa · 06/01/2025 20:22

User135644 · 06/01/2025 18:40

He's being heroic over the grooming scandal.

I think it's genuinely sickened him which is a normal response

But not enough to….
Hang out with Epstein and Maxwell as they trafficked young girls?
Invest in P Diddy’s business ventures as he trafficked young girls?
Push Donald Trump as POTUS, a rapist

Yeah, he’s really bothered about the rights and safety of women 🙄

WestwardHo1 · 06/01/2025 20:23

FictionalCharacter · 06/01/2025 19:39

What will be most interesting to see will be the inevitable falling out between him and Trump. Trump won’t stand for being upstaged and someone else appearing to have ideas. He only wants sycophants who do nothing but praise and worship him. Musk isn’t doing that. He has too much of an ego of his own and there’s no room for that alongside Trump’s.
As well as that, Trump and his handlers must be realising that Musk is a liability. He was useful because he used money to help get Trump elected. They’ll get rid of him soon enough.

Well that could get very messy.

BotterMon · 06/01/2025 20:24

He's an overgrown child with an extremely low attention span who has a toy box full of unlimited $$$. It's all a game to him. He is dangerous.

justasking111 · 06/01/2025 20:25

I wonder if he has presidential security around him. Food taster etc.

Sasskitty · 06/01/2025 20:26

luckylavender · 06/01/2025 19:57

@Sasskitty -he hasn't donated anything to Reform yet

I said allegedly.

Farage said it was an ‘exaggeration’. so who knows..

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