Elon Musk is a very powerful person.He’s the world’s richest man. He’s got one of the largest social media platforms on Earth at his fingertips. By all accou...
His companies can’t be banned from existing and they can only jail people who are caught breaking laws (as opposed to just talking about it), but I’d love to see his companies banned from government contracts and not have them up for renewal.
Heard an interesting theory today that when it comes to Europe, Musk probably wants to topple centrist governments because they’ve been so spooked about Europe being overly dependent on US tech, one of the things they’re doing to combat this is starting to build a publicly run, competing satellite service as an alternative to Starlink.
Doesn’t explain why he’d interfere in Canada, but he might also just be showing his true colours.
And that’s the exact attitude that lets him get away with it. Create some laws. Designate him a foreign bad actor and arrest people who talk with him. The far right would have no qualms about doing the same. Look what nazi germany did. Taking no action against the far right is being complicit with them.
What lets him get away with any of his BS is him having money. How do you propose to designate someone with Canadian citizenship “foreign” to Canada? You want to outlaw multiple citizenships (as if he can’t just pay someone else to say what he wants)? Whatever authoritarian law you want to create is primarily going to be enforced on innocent activists and not on people like him. Taking pointers from fascists doesn’t turn out well unless you’re in a position of power to start with.
You can strip people not born in the country of citizenship. You say it will be used against innocents? Its already happening against innocents you restrict the law, It would be worse under the far right. You dont just sit back and let something bad happen when you can do something to stop it.
A theory came to mind about what his angle is with Canada: image rehabilitation with MAGA. We all know there’s a sort of MAGA-North up here that he can ingratiate himself with, and he might want to use any tenuous association he builds with them (as a Canadian citizen) to weaken the allegations he’s an “African” as highlighted by MAGA-ites angry over the visa thing). This also fits together with Trump’s Canada annexation rhetoric.
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His companies can’t be banned from existing and they can only jail people who are caught breaking laws (as opposed to just talking about it), but I’d love to see his companies banned from government contracts and not have them up for renewal.
Heard an interesting theory today that when it comes to Europe, Musk probably wants to topple centrist governments because they’ve been so spooked about Europe being overly dependent on US tech, one of the things they’re doing to combat this is starting to build a publicly run, competing satellite service as an alternative to Starlink.
Doesn’t explain why he’d interfere in Canada, but he might also just be showing his true colours.
And that’s the exact attitude that lets him get away with it. Create some laws. Designate him a foreign bad actor and arrest people who talk with him. The far right would have no qualms about doing the same. Look what nazi germany did. Taking no action against the far right is being complicit with them.
What lets him get away with any of his BS is him having money. How do you propose to designate someone with Canadian citizenship “foreign” to Canada? You want to outlaw multiple citizenships (as if he can’t just pay someone else to say what he wants)? Whatever authoritarian law you want to create is primarily going to be enforced on innocent activists and not on people like him. Taking pointers from fascists doesn’t turn out well unless you’re in a position of power to start with.
You can strip people not born in the country of citizenship. You say it will be used against innocents? Its already happening against innocents you restrict the law, It would be worse under the far right. You dont just sit back and let something bad happen when you can do something to stop it.
Proud boys are a designated terrorist org in Canada.
Doesn’t matter if they’re Canadian.
It’s that simple.
A theory came to mind about what his angle is with Canada: image rehabilitation with MAGA. We all know there’s a sort of MAGA-North up here that he can ingratiate himself with, and he might want to use any tenuous association he builds with them (as a Canadian citizen) to weaken the allegations he’s an “African” as highlighted by MAGA-ites angry over the visa thing). This also fits together with Trump’s Canada annexation rhetoric.