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• @fightallfascism @fightallfascism on bluesky

  But by the end of the night, Elon Musk's live conversation with far-right German politician Alice Weidel had veered off the rails — and indeed off the planet entirely — into a rambling dialogue about Hitler, the existence of God, and why “future Martians” will one day save the Ea…

• @iandunt Ian Dunt on bluesky

  I see we're working our way through all the stupidest historical takes now, in a mission to kill every living brain cell on earth.  If Hitler was a “communist socialist guy”, why were Communists and Socialists the very first people he killed?  Riddle me that Batman.  —  www.polit…

• @galetstrong @galetstrong on bluesky

  This guy really doesn't need to have a security clearance....  www.politico.eu/article/elon...

• @nataliegreenpeer Natalie Bennett on bluesky

  “As for humanity, we don't want to be one of those lame, 1-planet-civilizations.  Any self-respecting civilization should have at least 2”  —  Because competing with imaginary aliens is how we should determine future of the human race 🤦  —  www.politico.eu/article/elon...

• @wagnermarkus Markus Wagner on bluesky

  ‪Geschichtsklitterung: German compound word meaning a knowingly false reinterpretation of history not rooted in facts.  Like calling Hitler a “socialist” or “communist” despite the fact that Nazis killed 20,000 German communists in concentration camps and by execution. www.politi…

• @politicoeurope @politicoeurope on x

  Elon Musk's live conversation with far-right German politician Alice Weidel had veered off the rails — and indeed off the planet entirely — into a rambling dialogue about Hitler, the existence of God, and why “future Martians” will one day save the Earth. https://www.politico.eu/…

• @daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x

  Elon Musk and the leader of Germany's far-right AfD party Alice Weidel agreed on a lot during their hour long conversation today, including that “Hitler was a communist” https://www.wired.com/...

• @suchtirma @suchtirma on x

  Alice Weidel saying Hitler was a communist and Elon Musk not even correcting her sums up what kinda knowledge Elon has on politics & what he's promoting with the AFD. There's no excuse to say that as politician, its either a severe lack of knowledge or simply rewriting history.

• @dropsitenews @dropsitenews on x

  Elon Musk and Alice Weidel (of the far-right German AfD party) put their brains together for a discussion: Weidel: “The National Socialists (Nazis) were socialist. Adolf Hitler was a socialist.” Musk: “Yeah, they nationalized industries like crazy.” Weidel: “He was a [video]

• @zei_squirrel @zei_squirrel on x

  Elon Musk just did a promotion “interview” with the leader of the German far right AfD. What question did he proudly highlight on his own account? Him asking her if she unequivocally supports Israel, and her saying yes of course we must do everything for Israel. [image]

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Elon sounds *extremely* bored in his chat with the AfD's Alice Weidel. He's run out of questions for her and is sort of politely batting off the ones she's asking him to fill the silences.

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  The world's richest man endorses a party considered extremist by German intelligence, German courts, all other German mainstream parties, even by Marine Le Pen (!) https://zeteo.com/...

• @daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x

  In case you missed it last night, Elon Musk held a hour-long conversation on here with Alice Weidel, the leader of far-right German party AfD, which has deep ties to neo-Nazis. Their conclusion? “Hitler was a communist” https://www.wired.com/...

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  After one of the most uninspired retellings of the “every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a star” story I've ever told, we're now on a very low-energy discussion as to the existence or nature of God. Safe to say it's not like a usual political interview, I guess.

• @krassenstein Brian Krassenstein on x

  BREAKING: Elon Musk: “Only AfD can save Germany”. Sorry but I vehemently disagree.

• @tvietor08 Tommy Vietor on x

  Elon Musk is currently doing a Twitter spaces interview with German right-wing extremist AfD party leader Alice Weidel. Elon just agreed with her claim that ACTUALLY Hitler was really just an anti-semitic communist/socialist. The man's a historian, too!

• @tom_nuttall Tom Nuttall on x

  Ten minutes and counting into listening to Musk drone on to Weidel about space travel, it's pretty funny that very serious European Commission officials were worried this event might give the AfD an unfair advantage in Germany's election

• @yanisvaroufakis Yanis Varoufakis on bluesky

  “Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product (X.COM)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. www.ft.com/content/8e91...

• @premnsikka Prem Sikka on bluesky

  Musk considers how he can destabilise the UK Labour govt and oust Starmer as prime minister.  —  Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  —  …

• @t0nyyates Tony Yates on bluesky

  This story condenses to ‘we have sources that tell us in private that he is trying to do what he said he was trying to do in tweets to 200m people, entirely openly.’ www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

• @mijrahman Mujtaba Rahman on bluesky

  What a remarkable headline  —  “Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK premier before next election”  —  “His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.  —  Yes.  By him.  —  www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

• @blairmcdougall Blair McDougall MP on bluesky

  A foreign oligarch is plotting to overthrow our democratically elected head of government.  And the Tories chose this week to politically align with him.  There are societal risks to Badenoch's pizzagate tactics but also huge political risks for her in importing (very unpopular) …

• @umakumaran Uma Kumaran MP on bluesky

  Foreign influence and industrial pumping of disinformation on a scale we've not previously seen.  —  He's tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days.  —  He's the richest man in the world and owns one of the world's biggest social ‘media’ platforms.  —  We must fight bac…

• @pickardje Jim Pickard on bluesky

  literally an attempt to subvert our democracy  —  www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

• @mijrahman Mujtaba Rahman on bluesky

  Last time I checked the EU never tried to overthrow a UK Govt. Where are the sovereignists now?  Their silence is deafening  —  www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

• @ianfraser Ian Fraser on bluesky

  How Elon Musk became the first tech tycoon to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product, taking his lead on “grooming gangs” from a bunch of far-right disinformation accounts.

• @bobrmitchell Bob on bluesky

  The irony of this is off the scale, Musk now believes his own lies and disinformation!  —  How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics.  —  www.ft.com/content/8e91...

• @kadriliik Kadri Liik on bluesky

  So, welcome to the world of Russia-watchers!  We have spent years discussing who feeds Putin all that crap he seems to believe.  —  www.ft.com/content/8e91...

• @anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum on bluesky

  How Musk is being radicalized by his own “For You” feed, which is providing him false information  —  from @financialtimes.com:  —  “he had not been relying on conversations with a UK source for his information, but preferred to do his own research online”  —  www.ft.com/content/…

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Remember when Musk - and quite a few people in the commentariat now supporting him - were howling in outrage at junior Labour staffers door knocking for the Democrats (their sister party), as “foreign interference”?

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @trussliz @Keir_Starmer 💯

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Starmer is evil

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Nobody trusts Starmer and for good reason. Investors won't invest without trust. He has created a financial crisis for Britain.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Unbelievable. Starmer must go.

• @p_kallioniemi Pekka Kallioniemi on x

  Recently, Musk has interfered in European politics, promoting Reform UK, a right-wing, pro-Kremlin, populist party led by Nigel Farage. He also defended Tommy Robinson, a hooligan and career criminal who spread false information about a Syrian boy. 8/22 [image]

• @jonlis1 Jonathan Lis on x

  This is absolutely obscene. It should be roundly condemned by people across the political spectrum. It's the British people and the British people alone who decide who leads them, not unhinged far-right foreign oligarchs who can't even vote here

• @amberrudduk Amber Rudd on x

  This is terrible . It's the only thing that could make me pro Starmer. Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election via @FT https://www.ft.com/...

• @p_kallioniemi Pekka Kallioniemi on x

  Musk's primary attack against the Starmer government has involved the Rotherham grooming scandal, in which Muslim gangs groomed and raped young girls. At the same time, Musk has defended Andrew Tate, a Muslim groomer and an alleged sex trafficker and rapist. 11/22 [video]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Because there has been a massive coverup

• @peterstefanovi2 Peter Stefanovic on x

  Financial Times reporting Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election The government needs to start taking this seriously before it's too late https://www.reuters.com/...

• @jimfergusonuk Jim Ferguson on x

  🚨 Elon Musk Targets Starmer: A Global Political Showdown Unfolds 🚨 Alert: The tides are turning, and Keir Starmer's premiership is under threat like never before. Reports suggest Elon Musk, soon to be a senior figure in the Trump administration, is exploring ways to remove [image…

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on x

  “Musk, the world's richest man and key confidant of...Donald Trump, is probing how he and his right-wing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.” https://www.ft.com/...

• @mattgubba Matt Gubba on x

  Elon Musk is examining legal routes to REMOVE Keir Starmer as the British Prime Minister. Do you support @elonmusk in the fight to liberate Britain from the far-left oppression of UK Labour? YES or NO [image]

• @yanisvaroufakis Yanis Varoufakis on x

  “Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product ( https://x.com/)” Or, in my parlance, he may be the first technofeudal lord to have fallen under the spell of his own cloud capital. https://www.ft.com/...

• @acoyne Andrew Coyne on x

  There's a threat to western civilization all right, and its name is Elon Musk.

• @simon_schama Simon Schama on x

  which particular bits of western civilisation? Aristotle? Michelangelo Shakespeare? Bach? Montaigne? Lorca? Rembrandt? Tolstoy? on all of whom Musk an authority of course.

• @carolineslocock Caroline Slocock on x

  Musk is exploring how to oust Starmer as PM before the next election says FT. Separately I note he registered a company in the UK before Xmas, presumably to get round electoral laws to prevent foreigners donating to UK parties, all too easily sidestepped. https://www.ft.com/...

• @tashecon Timothy Ash on x

  Are we in an era where spoilt entitled billionaires use their wealth and control over social media networks to bring down democratically elected governments? https://www.ft.com/...

• @tashecon Timothy Ash on x

  Musk just does not get this democracy thing. Hey Elon - you cannot buy everything. https://www.ft.com/...

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