• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    What on Earth are you trying to say here? Musk is die-hard on the MAGA train, and I certainly doubt he likes the PRC much considering how much control they exert over production and how BYD is outselling Tesla greatly.

    • Zyratoxx@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Elon only likes countries if and for as long as they do what he wants/likes. Like when he said "Germany rocks" because they allowed him to clear quite a chunk of forest in a water protection area to build his Tesla gigafactory. And now he doesn't like Germany because his donation to a controversial right wing nationalist party is seen as controversial and disliked by the media and public for being foreign interference.

      He may like Russia because / as long as he is ideologically aligned to but I am not sure if he loves China except that they let him manufacture his cars cheaply. But I am not the author so I can only make assumptions.

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Eventually liberal memes are going to devolve into venn diagrams with just "good" and "bad" reinforced with wojacks

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Does Elon Musk support Xi Jinping Thought and the annexation of Ukraine? I've heard Democrats complain about him letting Russia use Starlinks or something, but that's all I can think of. What controversies have I missed?

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      That's enough, not being enthusiastic about sending Ukrainians to meatgrinder automatically makes you putlerobot tankie Red China lover.

    • Zyratoxx@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      He sent Kadyrow a Cybertruck but idk if his friendship with Russia goes beyond that. Btw would a Cybertruck be considered a gift or an insult?

      • culpritus [any]
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        4 days ago

        There was the cybertruck technical some wealthy Russian was posting about. Last I heard Tesla remotely disabled it.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Is there a specific reason why you're saying he likes china or is this just saying he sucks therefore he likes the bad place iphone vuvuzela

  • culpritus [any]
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    4 days ago

    The only way this makes sense to me is that Musk has to play nice with the last two, while the rest are happy to play ball with him as long as stocks keep inflating, regardless of how much of a rage baby he acts. If they are not playing ball, he can just throw a fit on X until he gets his way. No chance of that working so well with the last two. So he has to show fealty. Musk has much more leverage to get what he wants from the west. Outside of the west he actually has to make deals.