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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

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[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 125 points 3 months ago

The persecution fetish conservatives have is just incredible.

Well, I guess when you're a psychopathic narcissist it's hard to imagine that everybody else isn't one too, so it's understandable that they think we want to put them in concentration camps because that's what they want to do to us.

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

If their leaders say that someone else was going to do something to them, then it makes it acceptable when those leaders do those things to the people they said were going to do the thing to them. Easy way to make atrocities seem reasonable. Same thing they do with labeling people "terrorists". If you think someone is trying to horribly murder you, then when your leaders torture them, it seems ok.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 89 points 3 months ago

The earth should really start just domain blocking X. Nothing of value ever happens there.

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 22 points 3 months ago

Where we should really start is yeeting Musk and his supporters out of the fucking solar system (shooting them into the sun would be a waste of perfectly good delta-v)

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Trebuchet the rich into a cliffside from point blank range

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Yeet the rich...

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

Or just give them submarines. Perhaps they’d be good people deep down.

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[-] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

He could pay to go there. He’s all horny for space anyway. So go. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

So many points 🤣🤣🤣🤣 for knowing delta-v

On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?

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[-] takeda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

In old days we would have admins block sites on their networks. I guess this time everyone looks up to the government to do it

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

The issue is that reasonable people become irrational with anonymity and the culture Musk has built up on X feeds right into that. I think X is a social danger that people are unable to safely consume without being extremized.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

“Just a joke” is always the refrain when people call out this brand of nonsense. Drives me mad

[-] elfin8er@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

It's like when people say "no offense but" and then continue with something offensive. Just because you say no offense, it doesn't make it not offensive.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

With all due respect, you’re a piece of shit

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No offense but you look like the kind of person who enjoys dipping their fries in soda before eating them.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The government in the UK should buy some space in the Sun and publish an article how the convicted pedophile Musk is found to have a torture chamber in the German Tesla factory and that kind of shit. When Musk inevitably goes ballistic just say it was a joke, then repeat.

[-] Chaosppe@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

He seems to forget that a joke has to be funny.

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[-] Madnessx9@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

This guy is irresponsible with the power he holds. I hope the UK removes access to his failing social media platform

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[-] HowMany@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago

Deport this nazi and nationalize SpaceX in the name of national security. Give it to NASA (with StarLink) and give NASA all the money we normally give musk. Deport this nazi.

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago

That would be way too cool and awesome to ever happen

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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Need a running list of all the confirmed falsehoods Musk has personally shared. Seems to be increasing.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Someone had one but they gave up on it nearly two years ago

https://elonmusk.today/

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

He’s using it to distract from the videos of him being shit on while he climaxes and cries that came out.

[-] str82L@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Did I miss something here? What is this of which you speak?

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Definitely not fake news, that’s for sure!!!

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

As reliable as the information shared by Musk!

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not until Musk stops doing the same thing

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Look, if you make something up, you're going to have to do better than kinkshaming. There's nothing wrong with scat play if that's what you're into.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Sure but is that what musk wants people to think he’s into?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

People are gullible as fuck...

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

The US won’t touch social media due to the first amendment. The UK may be willing to hurt Elon here.

[-] RubberDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] cashsky@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

That's because it's CHYNA TAKIN ALL ARE DATAS

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

i swear that in every picture his hairstyle and face look slightly different. are we sure there’s only one elon musk?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago

He's melting

[-] Squeezer@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

The persistent bullshit cuntery is exhausting. This feels like a tactic, trumpian relentless attention grabbing. Fuck him.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It's based on creating the same kind of environment that exists in Russia. Everything is fake, nothing is real, everyone lies.

It's really easy to control people when they feel that objective truths are no longer possible.

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lonE skuM needs some adults in the room to serve him some real consequences.

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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Hey teach, which fuckin' islands are we talking about here? You got the Hawaiian fuckin' islands, the Bermuda fuckin' islands, the Caribbean fuckin' islands, and somewhere out there, you've got Gilligan's fuckin' island.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

insert currently popular shocked meme here.

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