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Still turkeys keep voting for Christmas - it’s appalling!

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Musk is a twat. Gotcha.

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But I realise sectoral differences cannot entirely why some capitalists are for immigration, while others arent. Even if the labour market in e.g. vehicle mfg and construction differ, there are still spill-over effects across sectors, affecting wages generally.

Exactly like the previous Tory government - we and tried tried but "lefty lawyers" etc. Same with Bxit - it would have been perfect but "remainer plotters."

Correct. He's an exploitative creep. We must stand up to them.

Would say also that he can’t be happy about the Online Safety Act kicking in the middle of March that puts the accountability on social media companies such as his on areas such as…child abuse content!

He can freely pass between the 2 parties in the US because he's the class they both serve. He had some surface level understanding of issues that he thought of as "from the left" that he vaguely nodded towards when it suited him. But those were as shallow as he is, so he "left" The Dems or w/e.

Because every smart right winger in the world knows that neoliberal economics don’t win elections. Their ultimate aim is corporate welfare for big business, tax cuts for the rich, and the crushing of unionists and protestors. But they can’t say that out loud.

Interesting thread but I wonder if Musks tweets are just the output of his Grok (chatGPT) bot tasked with spitting out provocative content.

Then he bought twitter and fired a good many of the workers there.

I think a key catalyst in his alliance with the far right is also covid. He realised the state has the capacity to shut down his Tesla factories (or request it anyway) and therefore realised that political power can still challenge corporate power. His vehement anti-lockdown stance is key.

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Great thread 👍🏻

The veneer is often very thin.

It’s all about labour. Always has been. Brexit too. Pesky workers’ rights, unions, pay rises. And by making it impossible to get medical care without a job, no one is going to complain. It’s how you get communist population control whilst pretending to be a capitalist.

Billionaires don’t become billionaires without exploitation

As brilliantly shown on @aodespair’s The Plot Against America en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plo...

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Absolutely fascinating, the parallel with Henry Ford especially.

I'm wondering whether we're giving him too much credit if we see him as just a smart businessman. He's allied himself with political forces that are staunchly against EVs. So either Tesla has become a side show to him - or his turn can't be explained by only looking at his business interests.

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I agree . If you look at the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the Bank , Oil and Railroad moguls in the US in the 1900’s it’s more of the same .

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Yes, and is driven by his ego and arrogance. He doesn’t have a philosophy or set of principles.

It isn’t.

Apartheid Elon

Fantastic thread

...nationalism understood that we would not evolve into a nation if a large part of the population thought that they did not belong to it. Therefore, the right of factory workers to own their own labour had to be protected. A nation could not be for the rich alone. Other oppressed groups were... 4/

Great analysis & I suspect Musk isn't the only Ceo who is pursuing this path. What makes Musk different is he is doing it so publicly. Usually it goes on behind closed doors. Most Ceos know that public extreme political positions are bad publicity for their brands. The public bit doesn't make sense.

OFFS Musk has always been a fascist white supremacist, he hasn't "turned".. gobsmacking that ppl didn't see this.. he's simply become emboldened..

He has always been racist. He was born anti-black.

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Elon wants to destroy every department and agency that is investigating him. That's what everyone should be paying attention to! #Eattherich #BoycottTesla

You've no doubt heard the news but, it's the quotes about his own father at the end I found telling. Especially I don't for one second trust Musk. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Here is the unroll for thread [Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵...]: read.newdin.com/..

Coincidentally, I'm sure, a Tesla is the most dangerous car on the road! And Musk is desperate to stop the Federal agency that monitors car safety. 😡 www.fastcompany.com/91234168/new...

Great thread

Current flashpoint is @ifmetall.bsky.social fight to get Musk to accept the Swedish collective bargaining system. This is taking a new twist as unions are holding up superchargers essential in this weather electrek.co/2025/01/05/t...