suggested Taiwan should become a ‘special administrative zone’ in China
Yes, because that worked so perfectly for Hong Kong. 🤥
I bet China would embrace such a deal happily even with eager, wait a few years, and then force full integration.
Musk is such an idiot, that I lack words to describe it. He has been convinced (bribed) by China to spew shit in all directions regarding Ukraine and Taiwan, he is 100% an undeclared foreign agent of the worst kind.
then force full integration.
Don't be silly, China is a democratic country... they would hold a vote, like they did with HongKong: 99% for, 1 against. Totally democratic. 🤫
It's really sad, because China was making good progress before Xi Jinping became president.
~~president~~ dictator
This guy really doesn't know when and how to shut up.
It's intentional
Yeah, I think people underestimating Musk is extremely dangerous.
Everyone underestimated Trump too and gave him 24/7 coverage because of how “stupid” he was.
Assume a powerful enemy is intelligent, or you’ll not understand how they got their power and will be perplexed as to how they grow it and how they will abuse it.
When relentless coverage of terrible people, and their insane words/actions, results in said people winning fair elections, I think the intelligence of the electorate might be the biggest problem.
But yes, that's beside the point, as is their growing mental illnesses and instability. The wealth/power they've been allowed to accumulate will always make them a danger/threat that should be taken seriously.
I'm just wondering why the U.S. DoJ isn't doing anything about it.
Same reason the IRS spends all their time auditing poor people who made mistakes instead of auditing one billionaire for year. The metrics they're graded on aren't based on quality, they're based on quantity. Going after a billionaire is expensive, and sure, it would have lasting positive impact, but they're graded on number of cases closed
Sure, but poor people aren't having influence over tense geopolitical situations.
Exactly my point. We could spend 1 year auditing / investigating 1-2 billionaires and have way more government funding and way less foreign interference, but we don't because the system is working as intended
Well...this musk person is well paid shill so...uhm yeah
¯_(ツ)_/¯
What the fuck is this moron going to say next? "Hitler wasn't all wrong"?
He’s gotta take the dunderheaded asshole position on everything apparently. He’d probably be YouTubing from his car right now except he has people fly him everywhere.
Taking bets on that one soon. I wonder if he is getting brainwashed by his own algos.
Taiwan should simply not sell microchips to Muskian companies. Let him use 80s ex Soviet chips instead.
As great of a plan as that sounds, companies like TSMC wouldn't dare to risk tanking their profits just to spite a single company run by an absolute dingleberry.
TSMC will do nicely with other companies (re: Apple, which gets most of its chips anyway). Threatening a leading manufacturer is silly when there’s plenty of other companies desperate for premiere hardware.
Extreme wealth and a love of authoritarianism, name a more iconic duo.
So Elon is basically now acting like a tankie?
This is fucking hillarious.
Elon and false communists both benefit capitalism
Tesla co-founder? Since when?
Yeah my thoughts exactly. A lawsuit can't change the truth of the founders.
Wow, Musk sure does love licking boots...
He does seem to have a few fetishes. Makes sense.
How do I block articles about him from showing up?
You could try to Connect app ([email protected]), which allows you to filter posts containing an arbitrary string or regex.
Wait, what?!
Did that gigantic moron tell Taiwan is part of China???
He knows who's buying 70% of his cars. And that's not Taiwan.
Oh COME ON. This guy is actively mocking Taiwan now, too??
Damn it, Muskrat
Didn't he recently say he does everything he can to prevent wars and the like?
Cause this is quite the exact opposite of trying to prevent wars.
I'm convinced that this guy gets off of getting his name on articles.
By that logic it's also completely arbitrary that mainland China isn't part of Republic of China.
why not the opposite?
I wish there was a filter to block any post with this asshat's name in it.
How can they hit!?
Really wish I could figure out how to set up a filter for this POS so I don’t have to keep encountering him.
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