He does seem to have gone a bit nuts on some of the details. The latest is a survey:
"America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government"
which passes over the fact we only elected the current lot with a huge majority a few months ago.
Most of the stuff he goes on about, people in jail for social media posts or the investigation of rape gangs happened under the tories or their coalition who were in power from 2010 to 2024. But Musk/MAGA and similar are so anti lefty they were blaming everything on Starmer before he even took office.
It's also odd that he's going on about Starmer for not prosecuting the grooming gangs when he was actually the first to do so around 2013, a decade before Musk noticed this stuff and started ranting on about it. Also back then Tommy Robinson was doing occasional jail for headbutting he colleagues and fraud and the like rather than campaigning for the rape victims.
Eh, I mean, he was always pretty bad, but it does _feel_ like he's gone totally off the deep end. And he wouldn't be the first; notably, plenty of people around his age went _very_ weird around September 11th (you may remember Christopher Hitchens' weird voyage of personal discovery from basically a pacifist to a bloodthirsty war hawk to eventually getting voluntarily waterboarded, for instance; to his credit he did somewhat recant at that point).
I suspect covid, both the stress of the event itself, psychological impact from isolation, and brain damage from the disease, screwed people up more than we give it credit for.
It's good that you brought up Hitchens. Like Trump, Dick Morris, Gingrich, and a variety of other larger-than-life 20th century figures, Hitchens had a magnet inside. When Russia switched its primary polarity from left to right, they promptly turned 180' in unison, like an iron bit in an MRI machine.
The PayPal Mafia smell a lot like those guys, like a 21st century unit of the same brigade. Some may have just waited longer than the others before dropping their cover.
The amount of influence that a few unhinged and volatile men have and feel free to excert on us at global scale is confusing; our inability or drive to regulate this is perplexing.
There was a comedy show in German TV in the late 70s and 80s called Nonstop Nonsense. It was quite popular and funny.
Now the show has arrived on American shores and mutated into a horror clown show starring Elon Murks. You will no doubt downvote me for this, but hear me out: it is not long before he starts eating people—people's brains, their money, their minds. He's nibbling already and longing to set the world on fire. To see it burn to illuminate his ego. He will not stop, he must be stopped.
"America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government"
which passes over the fact we only elected the current lot with a huge majority a few months ago.
Most of the stuff he goes on about, people in jail for social media posts or the investigation of rape gangs happened under the tories or their coalition who were in power from 2010 to 2024. But Musk/MAGA and similar are so anti lefty they were blaming everything on Starmer before he even took office.
It's also odd that he's going on about Starmer for not prosecuting the grooming gangs when he was actually the first to do so around 2013, a decade before Musk noticed this stuff and started ranting on about it. Also back then Tommy Robinson was doing occasional jail for headbutting he colleagues and fraud and the like rather than campaigning for the rape victims.
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