Now that Musk and the rest of Putin's puppets feel they have sufficiently compromised America's integrity, they are moving on to a new target. They will lap up and amplify all the far right bullshit that originated from the Russian troll farms.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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It's strongly suspected that Russia had some influence on Brexit, if not a whole heap of other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum
Nonetheless, that result weakened both the UK and Europe, which is the sort of thing Putin would have been very much interested in.
I mean, it could all be a massive coincidence, or it could be a massive coincidence like all those people falling out of windows.
Are we still going to refer to them as Putin’s puppets, when the US has been angling for a while now to become the greatest exporter of alt-right ideology? Doesn’t this detract from the fact that the US isn’t exporting democracy anymore (if it ever did) and is instead exporting its degeneration into whatever Bannon/Trump/Musk/Thiel and others want it to become?
Maybe calling them Putin’s puppets helps discredit them on US soil, but the rest of us see the US go the way of Russia and China. And a bleak future in which most of us will only get to choose between different flavors of authoritarianism…
It will most probably not limit itself with the UK.
The UK is just ripe for the plucking, that country has shown the ability to shoot themselves in the nuts and has proven to be able to elect nutjobs and/or a nutjob party. See Truss, Johnson, Sunak, etc.
Any country that shows social instability, a reasonably strong fascist movement and uproar against people from the left through MAGA terminology will be in his visor as a target. He will then endorse these via his platform and his fortune.
He is willing to see the world burn for personal gain. These gains will come through his companies located all over the world, hence his meddling with these countries.
Don't worry he already started pushing and donating to the AfD in Germany. Maybe we'll join the UK with a Dexit from the EU sooner than later if these bozos get in power
That's a scary thought.
It's also explicitly what they lay out as their plain in their parties programme
Oh holy crap, really? Is Elon's 'Grand Master Plan' to cause complete economic collapse so he and the 1%'s can reign supreme... Or some shit?
They want to leave the euro and go back to the deutsche Mark. They also want to dismantle the EU and instead build a "Europe of Motherlands" where the Nations have more control again.
I'm not sure what musk sees as the benefit here. Maybe it really is the "chaos is a ladder" kind of thinking. But maybe it's just also the "anti-woke" stance he finds appealing without him having any other knowledge of the German parties system
There really should be some laws around how much funding parties can accept as donations and it should be zero from non citizens. Why is it ok for non voters to have any influence over elections and policies?
Because the entire western world are essentially corporate owned plutocracies masquerading as "democracies".
In capitalism you vote with your wallet. The individuals with the greatest wealth, and those who control the wealthiest corporations, get the most votes. It's as simple as that. Sure intelligence, social dynamics, and psychology play a part, but nothing plays as bigger part as capital. Democracy can't exist with massive wealth inequality or individuals/orgs able to buy politicians, parties, or elections (e.g. billionaires).
Democracy can't exist with massive wealth inequality or individuals/orgs able to buy politicians, parties, or elections (e.g. billionaires).
We could pass/strengthen laws that prevent politicians from being bought but that wouldn’t benefit the politicians so I guess that we’re shit out of luck on that one.
Imagine most people getting into politics because they actually want to make better policy & make the lives of citizens better? Rather than the 6 figure pay check & a $300million real estate portfolio.
Looking forward to emigrating away from Elon and to the tyrannical police state he hates.
Nigel Farage can get fucked.
Rich coming from the asshole who's cars records everything around them and have been seized as evidence by police.
It’s about racism, the same thing that motivates a lot of his efforts in the US.