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Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government
(www.hindustantimes.com)
God I wish he’d fuck off
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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Which one?
Why not both?
Space Karen
Yes
Is he OK?
I know he isn't, but this feels like a ketamine fueled tweetfest.
Definitely clinically psychotic, just like Trump, but who the fuck is gonna do anything about that?
Coke is one hell of a drug...
I think he's more a K man.
He bought himself a president already - looking to add a king to his collection now?
You jest, but…
*joust ftfy
I hope this is "incitement" or something and he gets got.
Now picture this happening in the 90s/00s: Musk sets up his own british TV channel and starts airing programmes of himself commenting on UK politics from Sillicon Valley. Wouldn't this in itself seem absurd? Wouldn't it spark a political debate on whether the channel should be allowed/regulated?
glances at Rupert Murdoch
Ok, I'll admit I wasn't around in the 90s
I mean, you're not wrong. We just fucked up already.
Bruh he needs to fuck off he isn’t a politician neither does he have anything to do with British politics, he can have an opinion of course but when he is donating a shit ton of money to reform party and then trying to persuade the king to overthrow the government and call for a new election that’s a different story it’s obvious what he’s trying to do here.
He's not even trying to hide it. I'm just waiting to see how long before people's patience runs out.
Patience with people trying to overthrow democratic governments is not advised.
Somewhat Ironically, An American
The last part hit different
Exactly he’s not even hiding his intentions. And if he is he’s doing a shit job at it
Where are you, James Bond, now that we need you?
We regret to inform you that MI5 and MI6 will now be designated MI1 and MI2 due to budget constraints
Deeply unserious man.
I mean this is ludicrous, but he's not suggesting overthrowing the government. He's suggesting Charles does what he has the power to do which is dissolve Parliament, forcing an election. To do so would cause a constitutional crisis in the UK and likely the revocation of that power. But it's clearly nothing more than stupid provocative hyperbole. Musk is a fucking clown but this is some pretty intense spin.
What he has the power to do.
Technically he only has the power to authorise. The PM has the power to request.
When the reformation happened. After beheading the last ruling king. It became a little more complex then the king passing soverignty to parliment. As the king did not have soverinty after the war the short lived republic did.
Post reformation when parliment is disbanded. The king is authorising the government (IE pm) to gain sovereignty from parliment. But parliment must actually pass it. Hence the closing ceromony.
So power never actually resides in the king under the post reformation constitution. But is passed between parliment and the PM. Hence why the Government \PM is in power during an election cycle.
The only way the King could force parliment to disband. Would be to try and retake power using the loyalty of paliment or the military (who rechnically still swear to obay him).
But technically he dose not have the power to force it legally.
Sorry lots of typis. Visually impaired typing on a phone. Is A PIK (Pain In rhe King.)
It would cause the dissolution of the monarchy.
So not necessarily A Bad Thing.
What if UK for example bans xitter in the UK? What will he say then?
The UK (and other countries) should instead heavily tax companies that advertise on sites proven to spread disinformation. Couple of hefty fines for a few big advertising users and Twitter starts to lose (even more) money since it isn't worth the risk of advertising there.
Direct action against Musk or Twitter isn't going to work. We need to be sneaky ☺️.
Issue with that ia the cost of fighting.
You fine someone like Musk. He will take ot to court and has the fiscal clout to make the fight to expensice for the government.
Heck even the US IRS has difficulty taxing billionaires due to this.
Don't fine him directly. Fine doing business with his company interests to starve him of income. Like the modern slavery laws. It's useless going after the slavers but if caught using people that have been trafficked then your company gets a hefty fine and make it expensive to show that you comply. Something like that but for advertising on sites that intentionally spread misinformation and do little to nothing to prevent it (i.e. Twitter).
Do you honestly think that would stop him taking the UK gov to court.
It would not. He would claim it is a personal attack on his companies rights to free speech.
Remember, this is not about having a valid case. It is about who has the greatest limitation on spending. Elon spending his own money. Or a gov that must argue it is a valid use of voters money.
Do you honestly think that would stop him taking the UK gov to court. It would not. He would claim it is a personal attack on his companies rights to free speech.
Then the goal for any legislation is simple: don't make it personal to Twitter and instead reference "platforms that openly allow misinformation and hate on their servers that do business in the UK without appropriate and swift moderation". Something like that.
The goal won't be to fine Twitter or Musk directly. It will be to move the needle in a way that makes doing business with him or his companies not worth the hassle. Musk could win the court battle, but ultimately lose his hate machine. Absolutely fine 😉.
But let's be honest.... None of this will happen 😂.
Act of war. See revised terms and conditions
Given he is now part of the preparing US government. And has openly asked that government to overthrow the UK.
The US government can def be seen as having threatened war against a NATO member.
The US embassy should def be called to explain. And closed as a hostile nation if is fails.