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[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 165 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Elon Musk should jam soup cans up his ass till they come out his mouth.

✅ Yes 99%

⏹️ No 1%

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No he should be spitroasted by soup cans til they burst out his barrel gut

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[-] kittenzrulz123 7 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk should shove cactuses up his ass utill he cant fit any more.

✅ Yes 100%

❌ No 0%

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 147 points 2 months ago

I genuinely can't believe what is happening. What timeline are we living in?

Maybe it's time we designated Musk as a terrorist?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What the fuck is this, an anachronistic parody of 1939? "What if Hitler had Twitter"?

For the sake of the world, I hope whatever brain-eating disease he's contracted acts quickly.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Tell me more how Dems were the real war hawks.

[-] ploot 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Republicans have only threatened to invade Mexico, Canada and the UK so far, with a few days to go yet until they take power. They're basically pacifists.

Edit: Oh, and Panama.

[-] VoteNixon2016 23 points 2 months ago

And basically Greenland too

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

But other than those 5 places...

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 38 points 2 months ago

My bins weren't collected last week, now we've got snow in them and all the cardboard's all wet and soggy. If that is not evidence of a tyrannical dictatorship, then I don't know what is.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Adrian Binnmann will be straight over as soon as you let that nice billionaire run the country.

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[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago

Brit here. What a complete wankpuffin. He should focus on liberating himself from his own stupidity.

[-] Mex@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

"wankpuffin" going to have to use that one.

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Non American , and non brit here. Why is this waste of energy so interested in the UK and Europe now ? I know there will be plenty of cynical takes which I will probably endorse however I’m interested in what his actual motivation might be. Does he just want parties in power in the given country that he has influence over for the sake of legislative advantage for his businesses? Or is it trollconomics for sake of driving signups to his failing social network I forget the name of?

[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

it’s all a big ploy to give the US bargaining chips when negotiating with the UK for trade agreements.

“well we’re going to tariff the shit out of you unless we can sell chlorine washed chickens in your country”

“oh also fuck your publicly owned railways and roads, you’ll sell them to us at a discount or you’ll be sorry.”

“by the way we’re still going to endorse and fund far right parties and destabilise your democracy - that’s just what allies do, right?”

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Publicly owned railway? Hold on there Thatcher!

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

The labour gov is pretty much planning to nationalise rail again.

All contracts as they expire will be replaced with co ops or a new nationalised company. By 2027 apparently.

So yep public owned rail again.

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[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

He wants to be king of the world, it's as simple as that. He already has the most money (not that that'll stop him from wanting more), now he just needs to have the most power, and actively supporting the rise of fascism around the world (which he has been doing for long before he let his mask start to slip and now completely come off) is his way of getting it.

The fact that you think he bought twitter, or is running it the way he is as some sort of troll, rather than a very real, and very effective, way of manipulating the public as well as politics as a whole, shows how well it works.

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[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 26 points 2 months ago

Surely there's only troll bots and right wing psychopaths left on twitter? I'm surprised it's not 100% yes

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Why do I feel like we're about to do a whole Third Reich thing?

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

This one will be the Fourth Reich.

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[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 21 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk clearly needs mental health support.

Hell of late he is making trump see, sane and well-thought-out.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

Imagine that! Wannabe dictator asking whether or not they should invade a sovereign country! He's truly a good person because he asked his people if they should invade instead of flat out invading!

/s

[-] isles@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

And we can trust the reliability of the data, given the sterling reputation of Twitter and Musk himself, of course.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

I'm also positive that the pole was representative of the US population as a whole and not just his idiot supporters.

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[-] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

If in the next decade Ruzzia and America form an AXIS like alliance to take over more territory I won’t be surprised.

[-] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 14 points 2 months ago

US here, we need to worry about our own government right now, and many of us wish Musk would drive his own Cyber truck to test dummy it's 'features' personally. As a US citizen I am sorry the oligarchy is a pain for you as well.

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

You should've voted yes. It'll get X banned faster in Europe.

[-] nroth@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Can't tell if this guy's finally lost it or I just have a very different sense of humor from him

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I have heard a hypothesis that his ketamine habit has burned through a bit too much frontal lobe.

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[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 12 points 2 months ago

I’m a Dane living in the UK. This is beginner level Trump/musk idiocy. Denmark is currently wrestling with the US demanding a piece of their kingdom (and yes, Denmark is a democracy, so using the word kingdom may seem a bit anachronistic, but in this case we are talking about Greenland, which is an autonomous region of the Danish commonwealth, so the official term is “kingdom”)

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Right, because his tyranny will be so much better for us! 🙄

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago

I want to liberate Musk's body from his oppressive brain.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago

I can't believe Elon musk managed to destroy twitter so much they lead to four separate twitter's for each political quadrant!

Twitter for the right, Twitter for the left, Twitter for the libertarian, Twitter for Linux users

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago
[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 26 points 2 months ago

Yes. No oil.

hastily hides the north sea oil fields

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Maybe ~~Putin~~ Musk should launch a special military operation in ~~Ukraine~~ Britain to ~~de-nazify~~ de-tyrranize them. How kind and noble that would be.

[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Yay, no X in the UK soon! UK will so be liberated.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

They're welcome to Luton, to be honest.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

Jesus. Who are the numbnut 62% who chose Yes?

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

The people still remaining on X will skew numbnut.

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[-] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Can we turn all the lights off and pretend nobody's home when they come knocking? We'll definitely hear them coming.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

third grade troll

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 6 points 2 months ago

Nah, you are OK, thanks.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Maybe willingly telling the guy steamrolling towards the 1984 timeline exactly who is against him isn't the best idea?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

On one hand, fuck that fucking assclown.

On the other hand, my god that would be one hell of a comeback in historical terms: former colony invades and ~~colonizes~~ liberates former rulers

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Not that the empire still exists of course, so what you're actually invading is the land that used to belong to a society that no longer exists and a different society is there now and is unhappy about having to deal with this nonsense.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Excited to see Elon Musk start paling around with King Charlies and talking about a return to Absolute Monarchy in a few weeks.

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