Musk now going to bat not only for German fascists, but British ones too. - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 60 days ago

Musk now going to bat not only for German fascists, but British ones too.

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minerva1.bsky.social•60 days ago

Of course

craigforth.bsky.social•60 days ago

i wonder what he hopes to achieve with this, unless he is aiming for a long game with farage (and even farage realises yaxley-lennon is toxic). it would be unlike musk to actually plan years in advance.

iebathrugby.bsky.social•60 days ago

If this is what Musk is doing then he should be branded as a terrorist and be arrested should he step foot outside of his home or step foot in any of the UN countries.

patrioticcats.bsky.social•60 days ago

Oligharchy facists vs world democracies is the theme for 2025.
Not looking good

trnrz.bsky.social•60 days ago

At least he’s consistent

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yup just a bold truth teller no other salient things to say about him right Elon?

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•60 days ago

Oh yeah I heard that he was arrested for voluntary truth telling. He got sentenced for just being too honest and telling non lying things, and that just made the deep state soooo madddd so they arrested him. “STOP IN THE NAME OF THE LAW you’re under arrest for telling the truth too hard!”

waterloo45.bsky.social•60 days ago

Musk is the forth Reich

sethcotlar.bsky.social•60 days ago

The full report on Robinson from which that screenshot was taken. https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-tommy-robinson/

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•60 days ago

TY for the citation

“Robinson has written for the Cdn far-right media organization, Rebel Media. On the organization’s website, Robinson is listed as a Shillman Fellow... run through the anti-Muslim organization, David Horowitz Freedom Center funded by tech billionaire Robert Shillman."

#Cdnpoli

sethcotlar.bsky.social•60 days ago

One of the people who has funded Tommy Robinson's political career in Britain is American businessman Robert Shillman. Same guy funded Prager U's shambolic "take down" of The 1619 Project.

greatgoogly-moogly.bsky.social•60 days ago

Oh crap. On behalf of real Americans, we apologize for exporting that garbage across the Atlantic.

sybilte420.bsky.social•60 days ago

OMG the filthy rich and oligarchs are buying countries! Is this a game of Risk? IRL

danziger.bsky.social•60 days ago

Shillman is a Restoration comedy-ass name

austenlied.bsky.social•60 days ago

Definitely is

quispme.bsky.social•60 days ago

He also has funded Brigitte Gabriel's ACT for America, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, FrontPage Magazine and Rebel News, and has argued against the US accepting Syrian Muslim refugees

quispme.bsky.social•60 days ago

He has also funded Laura Loomer and Katie Hopkins.

aliagvr.bsky.social•60 days ago

Very important to note that Tommy Robinson's EDL is also linked (officially on https://gov.uk corporate filings) with the extreme far-right Meir Kahane Jewish Defence League (JDL), declared a terror organisation in the US and Israel both.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2011/12/29/jdl-and-far-right-parties-find-common-ground

drgeophysics.bsky.social•60 days ago

+American. There seems to be a pattern eh?

emptywheel.bsky.social•60 days ago

Musk has LONG been cozy w/Tommy.

Tommy was the gateway for Xitter to become a terror-facilitating device in Ireland and the UK already.

stephenengland.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yeah, I'd say sympathies with Robinson were common on the Right for years before the AfD became "respectable."

sethcotlar.bsky.social•60 days ago

Gee, if only there'd been indicators of what Musk's politics were before 2024! s/

anaphoristand.bsky.social•60 days ago

I mean go figure a guy born in Apartheid South Africa to a couple of white-supremacist Nazi sympathizers with an emerald mine turns out to be a fascist.

emptywheel.bsky.social•60 days ago

I thought I did a pretty good summary, admittedly just in November, when I expected that'd be where the riots were stoked if Trump lost.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/elon-musks-machine-for-fascism-a-one-stop-shop-for-disinformation-and-violence/

jcoblentz.bsky.social•60 days ago

@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a great breakdown on this specific misrepresentation.

jaymarose.bsky.social•60 days ago

Farage has already created the for-profit structure to bypass the political finance laws a year ago.

I’m loathe to look at the details of the Observer sale. Guardian is my last trusted print source, now that BBC is going analysis over fact going forward. Did fear win or a stalking horse buy it?