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Elon Musk claimed Sunday that electing former President Donald Trump in November is the “only way” to save the country from the tyranny of Democrats and illegal migrants.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a “one-party state.”


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[–] Nuke_the_whales 39 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I remember the whole cave rescue and calling the rescue guy a pedophile. I feel like that was the moment people realized he was insane and not some real life Tony Stark

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This right here. This was the turning point for me.

I used to view him as a slightly eccentric billionaire using his funds towards positive progress... Boy howdy was I wrong.

[–] suodrazah 3 points 6 days ago

Fucking same goddamnit.

[–] Regrettable_incident 5 points 6 days ago

I think before then he had a good PR team. That was the moment when he thought 'What am I paying these guys for, I could do this just fine myself.'

[–] assassin_aragorn 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That was the moment I realized he was either going to be Tony Stark or Lex Luther.

And then he goes and proves me wrong by being worse than ever imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, Lex Luthor is smart..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Yup I feel the same way, like that was the moment he snapped or the crazy finally came out. Before I was a big fan, but it went downhill from there pretty fast. Though I've heard him on the Lex Friedman podcast like a year ago, and then he came across pretty sane - he just acts insane a lot of other times as well.