Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands
Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.
Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.
In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.
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The persecution fetish conservatives have is just incredible.
Well, I guess when you're a psychopathic narcissist it's hard to imagine that everybody else isn't one too, so it's understandable that they think we want to put them in concentration camps because that's what they want to do to us.
If their leaders say that someone else was going to do something to them, then it makes it acceptable when those leaders do those things to the people they said were going to do the thing to them. Easy way to make atrocities seem reasonable. Same thing they do with labeling people "terrorists". If you think someone is trying to horribly murder you, then when your leaders torture them, it seems ok.
The earth should really start just domain blocking X. Nothing of value ever happens there.
Where we should really start is yeeting Musk and his supporters out of the fucking solar system (shooting them into the sun would be a waste of perfectly good delta-v)
Trebuchet the rich into a cliffside from point blank range
Yeet the rich...
Or just give them submarines. Perhaps they’d be good people deep down.
*oceangate submarines
He could pay to go there. He’s all horny for space anyway. So go. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
So many points 🤣🤣🤣🤣 for knowing delta-v
On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?
Who said anything about giving them supplies?
I'm sure the free market will solve this! (yes, /s)
In 3001 (sequel to 2001) they were able to revive Frank Poole. And in three body problem they thought they could revive just his head — I’m NOT taking any chances!!
🤣🤣🤣
In old days we would have admins block sites on their networks. I guess this time everyone looks up to the government to do it
The issue is that reasonable people become irrational with anonymity and the culture Musk has built up on X feeds right into that. I think X is a social danger that people are unable to safely consume without being extremized.
Greater internet fuckwad theory still holds true.
You can do it on your own machine, but an ISP doing it would violate the now reinstated Net Neutrality rules.
Just add
To your hosts file. No more Twitter.
“Just a joke” is always the refrain when people call out this brand of nonsense. Drives me mad
It's like when people say "no offense but" and then continue with something offensive. Just because you say no offense, it doesn't make it not offensive.
With all due respect, you’re a piece of shit
That one is fine though - the recipient may not be due any respect.
The government in the UK should buy some space in the Sun and publish an article how the convicted pedophile Musk is found to have a torture chamber in the German Tesla factory and that kind of shit. When Musk inevitably goes ballistic just say it was a joke, then repeat.
He seems to forget that a joke has to be funny.
This guy is irresponsible with the power he holds. I hope the UK removes access to his failing social media platform
They'll block Xitter, and Elon will use Britain 🤣
Deport this nazi and nationalize SpaceX in the name of national security. Give it to NASA (with StarLink) and give NASA all the money we normally give musk. Deport this nazi.
That would be way too cool and awesome to ever happen
I still have my fingers crossed!
Deport him to Mars.
The ocean would be cheaper.
Space the bastard. See if he floats.
Need a running list of all the confirmed falsehoods Musk has personally shared. Seems to be increasing.
Someone had one but they gave up on it nearly two years ago
https://elonmusk.today/
He’s using it to distract from the videos of him being shit on while he climaxes and cries that came out.
Did I miss something here? What is this of which you speak?
Definitely not fake news, that’s for sure!!!
As reliable as the information shared by Musk!
Link us or stop
Not until Musk stops doing the same thing
Gotcha, you’re not gonna share the knowledge. Seems an unusual decision.
Dude... That was the whole point from the beginning, the Musk being shat on thing is fake, just like the news he's sharing, why should we refrain from doing to him the same thing he's doing to others?
Although I support that position, it wasn’t obviously a joke because no part of that would surprise me if it happened in reality.
Wat
People are gullible as fuck...
Look, if you make something up, you're going to have to do better than kinkshaming. There's nothing wrong with scat play if that's what you're into.
Sure but is that what musk wants people to think he’s into?
The US won’t touch social media due to the first amendment. The UK may be willing to hurt Elon here.
Cough Tic tok cough
That's because it's CHYNA TAKIN ALL ARE DATAS
i swear that in every picture his hairstyle and face look slightly different. are we sure there’s only one elon musk?
He's melting
The persistent bullshit cuntery is exhausting. This feels like a tactic, trumpian relentless attention grabbing. Fuck him.
It's based on creating the same kind of environment that exists in Russia. Everything is fake, nothing is real, everyone lies.
It's really easy to control people when they feel that objective truths are no longer possible.
lonE skuM needs some adults in the room to serve him some real consequences.
Hes losing a lot of money bankrolling a loser. Bound to twist his outlook
Hey teach, which fuckin' islands are we talking about here? You got the Hawaiian fuckin' islands, the Bermuda fuckin' islands, the Caribbean fuckin' islands, and somewhere out there, you've got Gilligan's fuckin' island.
insert currently popular shocked meme here.
It's just a parody! /s
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