Nowadays very few people in this side of the pond think Europe is worst than the US, and I’m actually living in a country which is pretty much at the tail of the EU wealthwise and hearing that viewpoint from people who old enough and from humble enough origins to have lived in actual misery when this country was a Fascist shithole. As far as I can tell most people around think that at the moment EU is the safest and most prosperous place to live in the World.
People did use to look up to the US maybe 2 decades ago and before, but then the long-term results of Neoliberal Capitalism started to reveal themselves and shitstains like this guy and Trump got into the scene (gleefully followed by the rest of the Republican party and even the Democrat party leadership) and the perception of the US went from “Prosperous Land Of Opportunity” to “Dangerous and Decaying Country”.
The American Dream has been murdered and people like Musk are just plunging the knife a couple more times into its already cooling down corpse.
As much as we are joking about him, please do NOT underestimate the power that this shit stain has. People underestimated trump twice and twice we ended up with trump presidencies
There are a lot of vaporware brain idiots out there that lap up every word he says
Yeah unfortunately, just look at the polls for e.g. Germany, I’m pretty sure Muskrat had its influence there: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
Im pretty sure he doesn’t care, didnt he tell some important EU figure literally to go fuck themselves? He isn’t concerned with the opinions of the EU because they’re globalist homos to him, thats why he’s throwing his support behind AFD, BRUV, and some of these other regarded anti-EU, pro-Russian, pro-kleptocrat groups. to help dismantle the EU for Daddy Vlad
As fascism gains traction and politicians generally speaking lose popularity, someone with as much clout as Elon who tells a ranking EU member to fuck themselves is only going to build their base as a result.
thats why he’s throwing his support behind AFD, BRUV, and some of these other regarded anti-EU, pro-Russian, pro-kleptocrat groups
He’s throwing his weight behind them because (a) he has nothing left to gain from the liberal establishment and (b) these underdogs are far more radical and more pliant, so if they win he’ll reap more concessions than from their liberal opposition.
The desire to put every foul turn in world events on Daddy Vladdy is as much a part of the problem as Elon himself. NATO residents cannot accept that these calls for fascism are coming from inside the house. Elon can’t just be fascist and he can’t be pandering to domestic strains of fascism. They all have to be the consequence of some (comically inept and chronically understaffed) Evil Outsider.
Make Europe Great Again! Like how it was in 1940!!!
That is what he wants, right? He’s all smoochy smoochie with far right European politicians, he’s already “Hitler wasnt as bad as we think” wink wink…
Maybe he forgot how that great period ended, and what we did with the top level players, back then… Maybe he should be reminded about that?
I mean, obviously he forgot about all the pain and suffering and the millions of deaths, and he definitely doesn’t care about that, but narsismusk loves himself over everything else, so a reminder of hour Nazi leaders ended might not be a bad idea
We haven’t forgotten that time he used Starlink to benefit Russia over Ukraine, around the time he was cosying up to Putin.
from another post comment somewhere
Make
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Away
now that’s a MEGA I agree with
I also like the former Megaupload.
I also think that many Europeans are pessimistic about the future. The reason for this is Musk, Trump and their cronies. It is the lingering concern that things could get as bad in Europe as they are in the US.
Elon is succeeding in uniting the world against billionaires.
in other words please dont spread to Europe, stay beneign if possible
Usually trends tend to spread from America to Europe, sooner or later. McDonalds, movies, series, software, obesity, ridiculously large pick-up trucks, fascism. Okay, the latter was first exported to the States, like pizza, but it now returns in full swing.
The reason we don’t have any of those nice things in the USA is due to multiple factors. But the one that bothers me the most is: conservative voters are willing and happy to let leopards eat their faces as long as the leopards say mean things about “liberals” while doing it.
We have a lot of problems here in the UK but at least most of us think Musk is an idiot. That diver he called a paedophile way back was a point of national pride for us at the time, because he was British.
I would love to see him go to Europe and try to convince them all the rights they have there, need to be gotten rid of. 😂
“Listen, I know you get maternity leave, but you gotta ask yourself, is that hurting the billionaire class?”
He’d be like “this will benefit you in the future when you become a billionaire yourself”
President Musk can fuck right off. Wtf does he know about Europe…
Can he go fuck himself, I like sending my kids to school without body armor and I like free healthcare
Yeah but all that and other consumer protections make it harder for him and the other robber barons to get even more filthy rich off of us.
You’re a rich nation ready to be plundered. They will be coming. Media control first. Then buying elections.
Yup that guy is naive. Politicians in Europe are every bit as venal, stupid, and greedy as American ones.
Doesn’t Italy have a Mussolini in their legislative body?
Ha! The UK lost control of its media to greedy rich people centuries ago! So… Yeah… Take that.
I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe this all started with Tesla workers in Sweden protesting and Musk is holding a grudge.
I think he does know how unpopular he is in europe and he’s just doing putin’s will by intentionally stoking division between the US and its major allies.
No. He’s trying to get right wing extremists into power, because they won’t stand in his way if he treats workers and nature as his property.
He got reigned in by unions, environmental activists, agencies and society in general when he tried to ignore every law and regulation he could find at his Berlin gigafactory. That pissed him off big time and it’s not the only time it happened.
He’s a petty little man with too much money.
It’s insane to me that one of the richest people in the world, and still making more every second, cares so much about new ways to hurt people so he can continue to make even more.
Because of this, I feel that it has more to do with gaining power over making money. He appears to be at the stage where he just wants to control everything and absolutely believes he is entitled to do so. At this point, it probably doesn’t even cost that much to do whatever he wants, so why not take it as far as everyone will let him.
It’s called elite projection. They believe that they personally not only know everything and are right all the time, they also want to force everyone to think like them. It’s the same mechanism as with stalinism.
There’s been those huge strikes in Sweden against him by the unions too.
they won’t stand in his way if he treats workers and nature as his property.
Unfortunately it’s not just him. The reason Elon supports right wing populism in europe is so that him and all the other US oligarchs can buy out all the gains european people made as a result of mass movements and the threat of the spread of communism. Public health services, public transport services, environmental protections, consumer protections, paid holidays, disability pay… Anything that is worth anything will be sold off to the US oligarchs for pennies on the dollar while the top guys in AfD, NF, FdI, Reform UK etc. get their cut. Any and all safeguards standing against the looting will be removed and if any single country tries to resist, they will be drowned under the weight of tariffs.
This is of course nothing new, US and European countries have done exactly this to countless countries on the global south throughout the 20th century. What’s new is the crosshairs of the big dog is now turned on europe.
stoking division
get right wing extremists into power
The two are certainly not mutually exclusive.
But I don’t think elon going on about some BS is gonna do that much to embolden already surging russian-backed right wing groups in europe. I think eroding us-eu relations is likely to be the stronger impact.
Unfortunately, Twitter is still used by many media outlets and politicians as a gauge for public sentiment. Just by changing the narrative on there he can change the elite’s perception of reality.
