Tech billionaire and close adviser to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, is lending his voice to encourage the pardon of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd in May 2020.

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    I genuinely dont think he cares about that. Well, maybe he does, but that’s ancillary. I think he wants the civil unrest. It’s an amazing smoke shield so that he can get away with all sort of nonsense. If the news cycle is clogged with articles about this and retaliatory protests that’s less eyes on him gutting systems and enriching himself

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      Musk was 19 when apartheid in South Africa ended.

      As in, lily white Musk lived for 19 years as an heir to a blood emerald mine in apartheid South Africa.

      There is simply no way he isn’t racist. I would believe Trump isn’t racist before believing Elon isn’t.

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        I phrased it poorly by saying I genuinely don’t think he cares about that. I agree with you. what I mean is I don’t think that’s his primary goal. I think it’s a nice bonus that he also gets to absolve a fellow racist

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      Civil unrest also gives them a reason to send in the national guard, declare martial law, yada yada.

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      Musk is a racist shithead, it really isn’t more complicated than that.

      Fuck this assumption that there is some 4d chess going on. Musk isn’t that smart.

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        You don’t need to be smart to know that pardoning the criminal who created national civil unrest a few years ago, will create national civil unrest now.

        Even Trump is able to put 2 and 2 together.