Elon Musk asks if America should 'liberate the people of Britain' in tirade against UK government
Elon Musk asks if America should 'liberate the people of Britain' in tirade against UK government
The tech billionaire and key advisor to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has taken to social media to air his grievances with the British government.
Summary
Elon Musk sparked controversy after criticizing U.K. officials on social media, accusing Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips of being a "rape genocide apologist" and calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer's removal over child grooming gang prosecutions.
Musk also suggested "liberating" Britain in a poll.
Starmer defended his record as former director of public prosecutions, condemning Musk for spreading misinformation and fueling far-right threats.
U.K. Health Minister Wes Streeting labeled Musk’s comments a "disgraceful smear."
Let’s liberate the people of America from the oligarchy first.
One Luigi at a time 🙏
He sounds like a terrorist
He sounds like hes trying to demo what he wants to happen in other places. Normalise the conversation, break the standards. If its part of the dialogue now, it isnt that far fetched if it happens in the future. "We can do it too" "they did it first"
Its not subtle. Its a game plan. Its disgusting, but that is exactly whats happening. Same as when he said that the king of england should dissolve parliament. That wont happen, but saying it out loud unfortunately gives it merit. If its part of the conversation, its going to have opinions. Opinions that used to be only said in shadows, can now be said in public. And then they can be pointed to as justification.
He sounds like a twat who knows full well that whatever bullshit he spouts the toady, rage farming, media will be all over it like flies on shit.
Oh he knows, he's been doing it for a long time. Only this time he's bought the US government, and spends most of his time with the president-elect, so these tweets have consequences in the real world too. He's also perfectly aware of this, as is his buddy Putin.
A media owned by him and his cronies
That's because he is.
He's a troll. Just a troll with hundreds of billions of dollars who's somehow still a troll.
I wish everyone would stop feeding him.
Ok, so the anti-war Trump administration has now threatened to invade Mexico, suggested annexing Canada, purchasing (or possibly invading) Greenland, and now 'liberating' the UK... all before even actually starting its term.
I am so very glad that reality is basically now a 16 year old 'libertarian' playing the US in some kind of Millenium Dawn derived mod.
I think Musk should liberate the whole world. Starting with liberating it of himself.
It's crazy that the two biggest shit heads in the world somehow ended up working together.
I admit I suspected something like this already when Musk was one of the last to leave the Trump’s chief business advisory council, during Trump's first presidency.
I suspected many of the things about Musk that are now out in the open. Musk is a malignant narcissist like Trump.
We need to restart the titan sub program, I feel like it has great potential. I mean, who doesn't want to visit the Titanic?
No. No. Ok. I have a brilliant plan. Forget conquering Britain militarily. We will simply revoke The Declaration of Independence. The Act passed through Congress doing this will be called The Declaration of Dependence.
We're now all just in the UK, and we Demand proportional representation in Parliament.
Luigi needs to be set free
I mean, there is more than 1 Mario brother. Nothing is stopping someone picking up the second controller and joining the game.
Maybe South Africa can liberate us from this piece of human shit.
Why are people dragging us into this all the time? He fucked off from here, we are very happy about it and he is your problem now.
Actually he's everyone's fucking problem now.
Fair enough, what about antarctica, can they take a bullet for the team?
You are our last hope.
Fascists are getting more and more dangerous.
Where have we seen this before...
Any bets on how long until he tops this with a new, even more outrageous comment? It's going to be right around as long as it takes for the media cycle to move on. Maybe he wants to nuke London now.
You know, Musk is going to piss off the wrong powerful person at some point. Putin may be the window thrower, but he's not the only state actor willing to get blood on his hands.
I sometimes wonder how it must feel to go through your daily life knowing that there's a large percentage of the entire planet's population that either actively wants you dead or, if not, would celebrate (or at least not care) if you died.
It can't be a good feeling. I appreciate that. I hope it feels absolutely terrible.
I for one would celebrate... I would literally dance in the streets
Makarov
And free ketamine for all!
Specifically, the program would have to have a name that only a tech bro could love. So it will be called Universal Basic Ketamine (UBK.)
He absolutely should, right after he learns that the best way for someone to liberate a country is by jumping balls first into a running wood chipper.
He says that like other countries aren't also a democracy. If the people wantes liberated they literally would just vote that kind of government in!
What do you mean, "also"?
Sue and prosecute that goon already FFS!
I know that at some point, UK extracted oil from the sea but do they still produce some ? /s At this point, there is no excuse to stay on xitter, bluesky starts to get traction, and mastodon is not this hard (still some trouble with data transparency though)
