Elon Musk, who recently stepped down as the head of DOGE, has been flooding his X feed with criticism of President Trump over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      55·
      5 days ago

      From their own social media platform. Thats the part that always gets me about their spats. They only post and read on the platform they own.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        5 days ago

        Nah, they read everything about themselves, or have someone read it to them.

        Then they go to the place where they literally control the narrative and respond.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          13·
          5 days ago

          you know. just like jefferson and hamilton. america has always been this weird form of fascism that fetishizes libertarian ideals while having a top down authoritarian regime. trump is just a lowering of the curtain. everything can get worse faster now because there’s nothing preventing them from being who they really are

    • ghen@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      It’s more that because of elon’s single-mindedness and pettiness that we can measure his effect on the platform and extrapolate that to other social media. So this would give us a good basis of measurement for the forced memes that big tech companies want us to spread when they aren’t being so obvious.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 days ago

    mind that he was willing to do all this together until he couldn’t get enough shit from mango mussolini for his pockets companies. he can choke on a bag of dildos after he gets his nuremberg trial.

    if these people, all of them, including the Dems who capitulate, owners of the media companies that censor in their name and push their fascist agenda, all ICE employees, don’t get their own nuremberg trials, and examples aren’t made of them, the US might as well throw the towel and declare itself a lawless land and a failed state.

  • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    I hate musk, think he is a nazi, and will reject the world he creates. Glad he is taking this one on though. They deserve each other.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      It’s like watching two nasty creatures fight each other while you, who was going to be eaten by one of them, can get away, at least for a little bit. But if you had the ability, you stomp the fuck out of both of them.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    5 days ago

    Stopped clocks, etc.

    Eel on musk is completely correct.

    The fact that he’s correct on this point does not make him a good person. He’s still an absolutely magnificent shitbag.

      • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        Please, trump is just the lighting rod for your rage at a system that is in the final stages of being taken over by economic forces. He’s the finger puppet on the hand of the general elite. Just because he’s a moron doesn’t mean he’s not your equivalent of a WWE heel.

    • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 days ago

      Fuck! Nail on the head with that comparison! It’s literally like the worst white trash Nazi bullshit episode from Jerry Springer is currently squatting in the White House.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    It doesn’t matter.

    If someone unearthed video of Trump raping an 11-year-old, Republicans would love him even more, his approval ratings would go up, leaders on the “religious right” would explain that it’s all Biblical, and Trump would successfully sue for the profits from video sales.

    • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      5 days ago

      I’d usually agree with this sentiment, but the MAGAsphere actually seems to be breaking with him on this one. The chuds are upset about this, and it might not go away so easily, especially now that he’s attacking his base over this.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 days ago

        Well one of the things that nobody seems to have considered is that Elon has a bot army, an AI, and Twitter he can turn against Trump.

        In addition, and it may or may not be a coincidence, but he’s not as buddy buddy with Putin as he once was.

        • ScatterBrain@lemmy.world
          9·
          5 days ago

          I absolutely believe Putin is fueling this. President Vance is a collaborative agent for Peter Thiel and the Heritage Foundation. Heritage is a longtime Putin ally. The question is, will MAGA stop questioning their echo chamber after Trump is put out to rot? That is the gamble, and they are going for it.

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I absolutely believe Putin is fueling this.

            Yeah, but liberals believe that Putin is behind everything, so that’s not surprising

            • ScatterBrain@lemmy.world
              11·
              5 days ago

              … because he has a ton of global influence??? He’s former KGB, one of the greatest misinformation diseminators of history. If you don’t believe that, you likely consume some of it.

              • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                5 days ago

                Ok. That doesn’t mean he’s behind literally everything the way liberals make out. The KGB were second rate information manipulators compared to domestic US operations anyway.

                • ScatterBrain@lemmy.world
                  10·
                  5 days ago

                  You are making a strawman argument. I didn’t say I am liberal, nor did I say Putin does everything. I said Putin is likely behind this, because Putin definitely has compromat on Trump. I also said he has global influence, which he does. These statements are obvious, supported by overwhelming evidence, and not so broad as your strawman

            • iopq@lemmy.world
              1·
              4 days ago

              Just because we think Putin is behind everything doesn’t mean he’s not behind this exact thing. The same way just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean you’re not being followed

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days ago

      If you truly believe this, you need to take a step back from one or more echo chambers, because you’ve lost touch with reality.

      Trump waffling on the topic, without any ‘hard’ evidence, has already caused momentum in the opposite direction.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        4 days ago

        But it’s just performative resistance. They still vote to give him everything he wants every time without exception.

        • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          But it’s just performative resistance.

          That’s your assumption, not a fact. If hard evidence of Donald Trump literally raping a child was made public during his last campaign, I’d bet my life savings he wouldn’t be President today.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I don’t like the presumption of video sales for CSAM.

      Edit: not a dig at you, but of the unpleasant viability of that statement.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      That’s my takeaway too. What are americans gonna do about it? Nothing. He’d just gain popularity and the church will like him more too because of their common interests