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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] gedaliyah 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] AFKBRBChocolate 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, what a load of crap. I wonder if Musk really talked about that stuff, which would be taking his shittiness to the next level.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He talks about it openly. "Falling birthrates" and "the great replacement" are dog whistles for "white genocide". They're talking about how "the white race" is going to "lose" because the white people are outnumbered by people of color.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's such garbage. I'm not sure why anyone cares about anyone else's skin tone. I'm lilly white, but I wouldn't care at all if everyone in the world was an even brown at some future time. Why would I?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of people cope by convincing themselves they're innately "better" than some outgroup. For some people it's music taste, for some people it's skin color, etc. A lot of it is subtle bigotry learned during childhood from media and parents. Elon grew up in apartheid South Africa with a father who owned part of an emerald mine, I feel like that could explain a lot.

There's also something to be said about the addictive nature of conspiracy theories. Elon was always a "wacky guy" or whatever but there was definitely a point where he went from a typical rich dick to whatever the fuck this is and he seems like he's pretty far down the "aliens built the pyramids" to "jewish people run the world" pipeline.

@elonmusk tweets "There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye" about an article titled "The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday..." from smobserved.com

transcription: @elonmusk tweets "There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye" about an article titled "The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday..." from smobserved.com

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 3 months ago

“jewish people run the world” pipeline.

He's already there.

[–] Snowclone 1 points 3 months ago

white supremacy is deeply ingrained in US history and culture. It's what the country has been about for 100s of years, it's why the US committed genocide, it's why lynching was a family picnic affair. It's not going to slowly fade away. If it isn't explicitly stamped out, it's here to stay.