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Elon Musk has called on King Charles III to dissolve the UK Parliament, citing past controversies involving Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Rotherham Scandal.

Musk accused Starmer of inaction during his tenure as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and urged a new general election, drawing backlash for spreading misinformation.

Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.

Musk’s growing political involvement globally, including support for right-wing parties, has sparked calls for regulation against foreign interference.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Set date for a 'LONDON TEslA PARTY' and throw all those shitty cars into harbor!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

The ocean is already polluted enough, I suggest dissolving them in acid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

So, technically, the monarchy signed over the majority of executive power to Parliament with the Parliament Act 1911 which gives authority over taxation and budgets to Parliament.

But bills do also technically still require Royal Assent, which has not been withheld since 1708.

So... the Crown COULD try to force an impasse where nothing can pass without their approval, but then Parliament COULD make the Crown live off canned beans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

"err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the,, ,uhh,,,,, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress..... burp"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As a Brit I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.

I also think that King Charles should dissolve the monarchy as it’s sickening to have such a thing in 2025.

People often say but tourism. The fact is France gets many more visitors a year than Britain and they got rid of their monarchy. We could make more turning Buckingham Palace into a bougie hotel for instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can you tour bukingham palace?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Small sections.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.

He illegally immigrated into the US, it's quite literally his MO

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

As an American (and ashamed of it), can we give Elongated Muskrat back to South Africa?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't think that'd be very fair to South Africans.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I think King Charles should instead order Elon Musk dissolved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Let's dissolve them both in a vat of acid

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I seem to recall doing such things to be unwise for kings named Charles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's a mixed bag actually. Charles 2 did it successfully but only because he essentially had a popular mandate to do so. (Parliament kept trying to do an Inquisition of Catholics, and people were unamused.)

James 2 tried to follow that act and was deposed in 3 years. So mileage may vary.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If someone luigi'd musk the US and the entire world would be better off. Somebody else can run his companies, probably do a better job, and not be an asshole while doing it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US might legit get worse unless there were several near-simultaneous Luigi events. We have a bad habit of using those types of situations to just increase big brother's overwatch and create more privacy/freedom invasions against the populous.

That said, if the US gets worse at the safety of everyone else's democracy... I'm willing to take that sacrifice.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need thousands of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The more they will try to screw us over, the more people will resist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems they're pushing society in a direction where more and more people will have nothing left to lose. Might be inevitable, how long it takes is the question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It seems they’re pushing society in a direction where more and more people will have nothing left to lose.

That's just the negative side effect (negative for them) of pushing society in a direction people will have nothing. But it's inevitable, and it's proof that the big capitalist lie based on infinite "growth" and exploitation will never work in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Best thing chuck can do is ignore the gnat until it gets near enough to swat

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can he please stop sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Being a US president isn't enough. He wants to be the German chancellor and British PB now, too?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you meant British PM. Although I’ll take PB if it was for Prime Bastard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Autocorrection but let's say it was deliberate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time for some right wing infighting.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Telling a king what to do sounds like a quick way to end up on the dungeon wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This... IS... UNACCEPTABLE! 10 YEARS DUNGEON!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I urge anyone with a bathtub full of acid to dissolve Elon Musk. It can also be an oil drum instead of a bathtub, or something else. I'm not too picky for that matter.

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I urge the US electorate to dissolve Elon Musk in a vat of acid

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think King Charles should do it. That way no more King Charles.

[–] otp 28 points 1 day ago

Can King Charles dissolve Musk, instead?

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