Tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link

Elon Musk has called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in the UK while addressing the crowd attending the “unite the kingdom” rally, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

The X owner, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands of attenders watched along, also railed against the “woke mind virus” and told the crowd that “violence is coming” and that “you either fight back or you die”.

Speaking at the rally, he said: “I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long. Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.”

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    The Napoleon complex on Musk is reaching epic proportions.

    And just like Napoleon, he wants you to revolt to be crowned emperor afterwards.

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    Firstly, what is this “we?” Did he move to the UK? No? Then why the fuck is he acting like he has a say?

    Secondly, he sounds actually deranged based on the quotes. I feel more and more like conservatism should be classified as a mental illness.

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      He ran out his welcome in the US government and now he’s trying to worm his way in to the UK government.

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    Musk on foreign leaders admonishing Trump

    Foreign interference!

    Musk when directly interfering with foreign governments

    This is totally fine.

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    Doesn’t anyone ever make the connection that BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN’T EXIST

    I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them … just separate them from their money. The idea of someone owning and controlling so much money and wealth is only detrimental to the rest of humanity.

    Get rid of excessive wealth and you will solve 99.9% of the world’s problems. It won’t create a utopia but it would be a hell of a lot better world than what we have now.

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      I love you, fellow champion of rational thought. Their money only exists by mutual consent. Their ownership of things only exists by mutual consent. We can revoke our consent. They have built many systems, of government, of policing, around us and around them to protect their money and ownership, but at the end of the day, even these systems are powered by people and only exist by mutual consent. Their defenses require us to be willing to fight each other, that is why they work so hard to keep us willing to fight each other. If we stop fighting each other for long enough, we might just realize they are simply frightened, selfish human individuals just like any of the rest of us. They may be billionaires, but they are not gods, we just cower before them and their systems as if they were.

      We can change this, if we work together, instead of against each other.

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      I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them …

      Why not? They’d sooner watch the world burn than part with their wealth and power over humanity. You can make an argument for Kirk not deserving to die, but people like Muskrat are ghouls of the highest order that arguably deserve a fate worse than death.

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      We know it can be done and that it works because that was how it was done when things did work, in the post-war years until the 1970s. Anything over an obscene amount was taxed at 90%, and wealth taxes at inheritance would take large chunks of generational wealth above obscene levels.

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    Stochastic terrorist Nazi and murderous ketamine junkie suffering from the broke mind virus advocating physical violence is creating his own self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Yeah, violence is coming you fuckmook, because you make it necessary.