• @HandMadeArtisanRobot
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    1841 month ago

    Wow it’s almost like he wants to destabilize the western world! How peculiar. 🤔

      • @[email protected]
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        321 month ago

        At least he’s not smart about it and just yells it all in public. If he ever realizes he can do it quietly it’ll be an even bigger problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        That’s the thing I don’t get. Trump got the presidency, he can just carry Elon aside like a burger wrapper

        • @Ledivin
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          Are you under the impression that Trump actually has a lot of money? You don’t get rich by bankrupting businesses, and he’s done a lot of that.

          He certainly doesn’t have enough to maintain the lifestyle that he’s grown to love.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month ago

            He’s got bribes from all mayor tech companies willing to get in his favor. He doesn’t need any more money. He can order the mint to print him a stack.

            He’s got immunity. He can litarally rob a bank and claim his presidential immunity. Hell he can kill Elon and steal his stuff LEGALLY

  • @[email protected]
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    1281 month ago

    There was a time when King Charles tried to overturn parliament way back in the 1600s. I forget what happened next, but I’m pretty sure it was all very civil.

    • @[email protected]
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      541 month ago

      Unfortunately parliament didn’t finish the job, and another Charles came along. Now we’re up to a third Charles. I think parliament should have another go and get rid of these parasitic Charleses once and for all

    • Zagorath
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      231 month ago

      Somehow I don’t the UK will Be Heading down that same route again.

    • @Maggoty
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      21 month ago

      Ahh yes but the second Charles was successful. Largely because Parliament was going after Catholics and people didn’t like living under an Inquisition. Then James fucked it all up and everyone decided just electing better leaders was the compromise.

  • RQG
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    911 month ago

    Yeah and he is pushing the neo nazi party before the German election.

  • @[email protected]
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    871 month ago

    There’s still time for SpaceX to do the right thing and load him in the next starship launch next week

    • Kate-ay
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      121 month ago

      Just like the end of Gravity’s Rainbow.

    • Chainweasel
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      101 month ago

      I say strap him to the outside before they launch instead of putting him inside, preferably against the heat shield.

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        It’s important to get empirical evidence of what happens if you strap a man to a rocket. Theoreticals are nice, but hard data is what makes science progress.

    • @Gammelfisch
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      Indeed, launch Leon’s ass to Mars. He can take Putin’s Sock Puppet with him and sell Tesla’s.

  • @njm1314
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    Oh please try Chuck. Please do. The one incontrovertible way to end the monarchy immediately would be if one of the inbred stands up and tries to exercise any real power.

      • @Furbag
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        301 month ago

        I’ll settle for a few billionaires, I guess…

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          The billionaires are japanese. And the yen billion isn’t much more than a slightly well off commoner.

    • @GraniteM
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      21 month ago

      There’s actually a very good stage play about this exact subject.

    • @[email protected]
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      The queen dissolved parliament a few years ago, and while she is dead now I don’t think her death was related

      • @Maggoty
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        101 month ago

        Parliament asked her to do it though. That’s a bit different. If a monarch tried to force the issue it would go very badly. It’s one of those technical power versus real power things.

    • @[email protected]
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      A lot of troopies in the Commonwealth swore an oath on enlisting that then transfered to Charles. Charles has the biggest gang ever but Musk just wants to troll aus and canada more.

      Keep up.

      • @Maggoty
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        21 month ago

        Okay but how serious do they take the exact wording? In the US they swear to the Constitution and take that very seriously. It’s why Trump will need to destroy the military if he wants to eventually use it as his personal force. Are the British soldiers willing to arrest or kill their elected leaders on the word of a monarch?

  • WheelchairArtist
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    561 month ago

    musk getting guillotined is something i would like to watch in the near future :)

  • WatDabney
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    We could well be heading towards something interesting in the not very distant future.

    I’m not sure if Musk sincerely believes his wealth makes him untouchable or if he’s too self-absorbed to even consider the matter, but it works out to the same thing either way - he’s likely wrong.

    He can get away with a fair bit manipulating an emotionally stunted egomaniac like Trump, but when he starts trying to butt into European politics, he’s going to find himself running up against families that have been pulling political strings for centuries now, and who don’t fancy crude upstarts with nothing more than money going for them, and if he proves to be too much of a problem for them, they’re going to squash him like a bug.

    • @krashmo
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      271 month ago

      I’ll believe it when I see it.

    • @Supervisor194
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      There likely needs to be a very public message sent out to these billionaires along the lines of “stay in your lane… or else.” The kind of incontrovertible message that everyone will understand when they see it. But it’s probable that they’ve already got a similar (albeit conflicting) message from some other… billionaires that specialize in that art whose name ends in “estration.”

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          41 month ago

          There’s a difference between acknowledging the existence and motivations of a group and cheering for them.

  • @[email protected]
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    521 month ago

    Thats one way to attract the attention of Mi6. He certainly fits the bond villain profile…

    • @Red_October
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      261 month ago

      Except that Bond Villains are usually clever and invent something themselves. This dipshit is like the Bond Villain we have at home, from a rejected script that someone keeps failing to salvage.

    • @reddig33
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      351 month ago

      It’s already come multiple times. But people don’t seem to learn. We had Trump 1.0.-Covid-Brexit. Now we have Trump 2.0-BirdFlu-Elon Boogaloo.

  • @randon31415
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    461 month ago

    The one time the conservative vote got split and let the liberals into power without a majority of the vote (instead of the reverse) and he thinks it is an emergency and an injustice worthy of bringing back monarchy powers…

    Just tough it out for 5 years like the rest of the world is going to do with Trump.

    • @[email protected]
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      421 month ago

      If you think the US will have fair elections again after 4 years then I have some very bad news for you concerning the integrity of Russia’s elections.

  • Aatube
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    Kinda bad but really funny headline. He’s calling for Parliament to be dissolved and new general elections to be held, which the monarch can do since 2022 as was the case before 2011. But the headline does have merit, as in constitutional monarchies, everything the monarch does should (pronounced “must”) first be advised by democratic functions—in this case, the prime minister. And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

    • FaceDeer
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      It probably wouldn’t be much of a “civil war”, pretty much everyone would just say “that’s nice Charles” and then go pass a law explicitly removing that ability.

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      And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

      Rest of the UK just going to sit and watch?

      • Logi
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        131 month ago

        Watch some English people going at each other? Probably. Buy popcorn shares.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        My guess is, Scotland would leave that sinking ship, become a sovereign nation, and join the EU.

        • @Z3k3
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          21 month ago

          We tried that. There’s no apatite for udi

      • Aatube
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        We gotta maintain the canonical continuity. With respecting historical precedent by the virtue of the common law system, Ireland shall free herself from the retcon and reestablish against discontinuity. Charles? Check. Fighting for democracy? Check. Scotland and Ireland as they should be, independent and without the EU’s EWsgusting meddling? Check. ¡Viva la revolución

  • @laserm
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    381 month ago

    When I was younger, my sister teased and provoked me (I mean she still does but much less). Every time this happened, my parents told me to just ignore her. I think media should do the same when it comes to Elon Musk, since damn, everyone who doesn’t willingly choose ignorance already sees who he is. By this you are just giving him more exposure.

    • @sYnoxjj
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      91 month ago

      That’s not how it works—actually, that’s not how anything works. It’s not about doing the right thing; it’s all about what drives the most attention, clicks, or money.

      There’s a reason every media outlet reports on every little thing the fat guy or this bozo does or says. There’s a reason you didn’t ignore this news and felt compelled to comment on it.

      It’s the same reason 99% of these commenters have no idea who someone like Demis Hassabis is, was or will be: it doesn’t drive attention.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      It’s hard to say what the responsible and ethical approach is for journalists given it is newsworthy that the richest man in the world (who is also extremely influential to the highest office of the most influential country of the world) is encouraging such an extreme and unexpected regime change, but also Musk, like Trump, puts out so much noise it’s hard to predict what will actually be policy they persue vs what is just noise

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        71 month ago

        But it does. His whole power is his ability to stir the conversation.

  • Chozo
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    Elon should’ve been in that Cybertruck.

    • Marighost
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      Or that other cybertruck. Or the other one. Or that other one…

  • @foggy
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    351 month ago

    I mean, musk is a private citizen.

    Surely the CIA has all his comms tapped, right?

    …right?

    • @Maggoty
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      51 month ago

      Technically this is all foreign facing communication with extremist organizations.

      Sips tea

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      It’s time like this that makes me wish the deep state was real, but there is nobody in control behind the scenes. The world is a chaotic shit hole and we’re all being held hostage and forced along the ride.

  • @andxz
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    261 month ago

    My sanity isn’t ready for an reality where Elon fucking Musk is fucking shit up globally. Trump was bad enough, but this shit? This is what will eventually cause a global conflict against fucking fascists of all things.

    We already did this shit once, are we really going to do it again?

    • @Alpha71
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      21 month ago

      sounds like the old man didn’t learn his lesson the first time.

      • @andxz
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        11 month ago

        He most certainly did not.

    • @DicJacobus
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      11 month ago

      Trump is dying. Putin is dying. Hopeful megalomaniacs are looking to fill the vacuum when the boomers pass on. Someone had to step up. Elon decides it’s his time

      • @andxz
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        I agree, I just was naïve enough to think that maybe we had grown a little bit wiser. I was obviously wrong. So woefully wrong.