[Politics] Musk (real life Bond villain planning world domination) needs a thread.

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

“The only way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach judges,” Musk tweeted on 25 February

Imagine someone actually writing and believing that. Literally that's like saying law and order shouldn't be a thing, might as well tear up the rule books, rip up the constitution. Lord of the Flies stuff.

It's only the judiciary that are preventing that swine and his ilk from installing a pure nazi dictatorship in the rogue state that is Amerika in 2025

 

[Scappa]

 

[SouthSaxon]

Echoes something I heard on another video - if people think they’re strong, they are strong. If people think they’re weak, they’re weak.

They’re only as strong as people believe them to be. That’s the con.

 

[AstroSloth]

Echoes something I heard on another video - if people think they’re strong, they are strong. If people think they’re weak, they’re weak.

They’re only as strong as people believe them to be. That’s the con.

Look at the French.

As a people they think they are strong, so they are strong.

Politicians need to be at least a little bit afraid of the people.

 

[SouthSaxon]

Whoops.

Italy’s Starlink talks at ‘standstill’ amid Musk outrage, minister says

Italian opposition parties have fiercely criticized a potential secure communications deal between Strarlink and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government.

www.politico.eu

 

[fly high]

Jeremy Clarkson taunts ‘idiot’ Elon Musk over Tesla vandalism

“What makes it so juicy is that he’s being pecked to death by the very people who put him on the pedestal in the first place. The eco hippies.”

www.politico.eu

Love him, hate him but taking the piss out of Musk.

 

[Springal]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the MAGA lot were all over EV and how shit they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla needs to be protected at all costs!!!

 

[RandyWanger]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the Leftie Liberals lot were all over EV and how good they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla is a symbol of hate.

 

[Springal]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the Leftie Liberals lot were all over EV and how good they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla is a symbol of hate.

Plenty of other EVs do MAGA racist followers now like all EVs or just the ones owned by racist scumbags ?

 

[RandyWanger]

Plenty of other EVs do MAGA racist followers now like all EVs or just the ones owned by racist scumbags ?

Just the cybertruck in all honesty. The rest are gash

 

[Springal]

Just the cybertruck in all honesty. The rest are gash

Not surprising given what a failure that vehicle is

 

[chickens]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the Leftie Liberals lot were all over EV and how good they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla is a symbol of hate.

I get the impression that most still love EVs, just not one particular badge.

Elon being a dickhead doesn’t detract from the fact that digging minerals out of the ground, transporting them halfway around the world and then burning them, remains a f***ing insane way of powering a vehicle.

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

 

[RandyWanger]

Elon being a dickhead doesn’t detract from the fact that digging minerals out of the ground, transporting them halfway around the world and then burning them, remains a f***ing insane way of powering a vehicle.

Elon is a dickhead, but the extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese (lets ignore the human side of this for now as the slave labour and exploitation claims haven't been confirmed and neither have the long term health effects of mining these materials) shipping it half way across the world to process into anode and cathode electrodes for batteries, then shipped back again to be installed in EVs makes perfect sense.

Also we should be ignoring the fact that 70% of electricity produced globally to charge the EVs is from burning fossil fuels.

Not many EVs last past 10 years and the cost of replacing the batteries is uneconomical but yeah, twice a day...

 

[BadFish]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the Leftie Liberals lot were all over EV and how good they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla is a symbol of hate.

Changing their minds when the facts change seems reasonable to me.

Gutting if you were daft enough to buy one though. Especially as he has been on the nose for some time.

E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technol...k-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter

The fact that people still thought he was okay a year ago is far more worrying.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Just the cybertruck in all honesty. The rest are gash

Not really. The Model 3 is probably the best of the bunch – Model Y is mediocre (just a bloated 3) and, the Cybertruck's record speaks for itself...

And as for 'Not many EVs last past 10 years...'? That's absolute bullshit. Firstly, because there are plenty of EVs that ARE older than 10 years old knocking around and secondly because most of the latest models that have been released were done so IN THE PAST 10 YEARS!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Elon is a dickhead, but the extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese (lets ignore the human side of this for now as the slave labour and exploitation claims haven't been confirmed and neither have the long term health effects of mining these materials) shipping it half way across the world to process into anode and cathode electrodes for batteries, then shipped back again to be installed in EVs makes perfect sense.

Also we should be ignoring the fact that 70% of electricity produced globally to charge the EVs is from burning fossil fuels.

Not many EVs last past 10 years and the cost of replacing the batteries is uneconomical but yeah, twice a day...

Wow. A lot of 'wrong' to unpack there.

 

[Southern Scouse]

The US today seems like a reality Handmaiden’s tale, where are the heroes to save us all?

 

[RandyWanger]

Wow. A lot of 'wrong' to unpack there.

Please do.

 

[darkwolf666]

I did see something funny over the weekend how 12 months ago the Leftie Liberals lot were all over EV and how good they are. Now Musk is in with Trump, Tesla is a symbol of hate.

As the expression goes, other EV cars are available...!

 

[SouthSaxon]

The US today seems like a reality Handmaiden’s tale, where are the heroes to save us all?

My wife is really looking forward to the final series of that. It’s still a couple of weeks away so there’s still time for it to become reality.