tastyface

Civil strife? If it comes to violence, I (a white person) certainly won't be on the side of the white nationalists. Same for most of my peers.

Many of us love living in multicultural societies and will fight to protect our neighbors and our way of life.

I come from a family of recent immigrants. We're considered white so we get a pass for behaviors that our nonwhite peers get side-eye for. My ethnicity has its own enclaves. Those enclaves get treated as a cute cultural artifact rather than a threat -- even worth visiting on a tourist trip. My ancestral culture lives under the protective umbrella of "Western culture," but in practice, the overlap with prevailing Protestant/Anglo culture is minimal along almost any axis.

And yet, we are all American by almost any reasonable definition. If anything, the people beating their chests for having some random ancestors on the mayflower or whatever are the impostors here. What have they actually done for this country?

Also, I'm kind of surprised that you believe these things as a black man. You do realize that a large percentage of the country doesn't consider you "true" American either, right? They can't kick you out, but they will do everything in their power to disenfranchise you and turn you into second-class citizens. The signaling could not be any more clear.

How much context do you need for a quote that uses "walk[ing] over corpses" as a virtue???

Just don't be surprised when your children refuse to talk to you.

I hate how right wingers are constantly trying to normalize viscous, abhorrent rhetoric like this. Ironically, they often claim to be religious...

If any of my peers spoke like this, I'd cut them out of my life in an instant.

I live in a "white" country and I like my nonwhite neighbors, some immigrant, some nth-generation, even ones who mostly socialize within their ethnic/cultural enclaves. I believe they belong here as much as I do. I don't want to give any money to racists who want to expunge them for some perceived ethnic transgressions. These parties are one step removed from extolling the virtues of the glorious Aryan race, and we all know where that leads.

A felon who pardoned a bunch of cop-beaters, to boot.

People are so cavalier about saying atrocious things online these days. The nice thing is that these comments are forever. They will never escape their words.

What was Trump's punishment?

Accessory to assault on a police officer? What luck! That happens to be exactly the crime our beloved president pardoned a bunch of people for recently.

You agree with essentially a life sentence for moving pamphlets around? What a vomit-inducing thing to believe.

We simply cannot allow an unstable white nationalist who's deeply enmeshed in global far-right politics to be in singular control of a megacorp that's critical to national security. It's a far bigger risk than divesting from SpaceX and building or doing something else, if not outright nationalization.

Any non-MAGA leader would find this pretty obvious.

See also this This American Life episode, where doctors visiting Gaza saw a disturbing number of children with direct gunshot wounds to the head and chest: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/859/transcript

Musk's is the most engaged-with account on Twitter by far. Twitter is de facto his personal soapbox.

You think Musk's rhetoric is not extreme-right? Want some quotes?

Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

Most of the top engagement on Twitter comes from the right.

Enjoy having this content connected to your identity for the rest of time! You might be in for some unpleasant surprises later on.

Yes, some great things happened in Belfast in response to that post. Boy, isn't it great that the totally centrist Twitter is still relevant.

(History will judge you people appropriately -- as it did the people grinning at lynchings in 1950's America.)

Well, he also killed several hundred thousand people (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...) and started some race riots (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/m...), but whatever. Bygones for some quick cash.

LW did not elect a convicted rapist who literally tried to overthrow an election that he lost, and now sits on his throne enriching the lives of himself and his family by literal billions.

RW has absolutely no integrity.

Elon Musk has directly caused the deaths hundreds of thousands of impoverished people due to his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...). He's also an open white supremacist most recently responsible for instigating race riots in Belfast (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/m...). Read his social media feeds: they are literally Stormfront rhetoric at this point. But people don't want to hear these things. They just want to cheer for the trillionaire rocketman. It's sick and infuriating.

For example: https://www.wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-argue-xai-vital-nati...

Awkward to associate this insane rambling with your real name, ngl.

"Defund the police" is not the same as "terrorize immigrants for the survival of the white race."

Correct, anon, that's just a guess. Because after that happened, hate-mongers like Musk started a pogrom to burn down a bunch of unrelated people's houses. The act of violence you mentioned is not what got people rioting. Horrible crimes happen every day, after all.

Believe me when I say that as a white person, I'd much rather count some Sudanese immigrants as my neighbors than anyone in these lynch mobs.

Yes, but: it's hard to have optimism when 4/5 of articles about Musk's horrifying behavior are insta-killed, while Grok and SpaceX puff pieces are cheerfully discussed with nary a mention of their owner's murderous politics.

What does it take to make someone persona non grata in SV tech? Absolutely nothing, as long as they keep bringing in the big bucks. Nazi salutes, incitement of racial violence, thousands dead from starvation and cut-off medical care -- doesn't matter in the slightest. In a functioning society, Musk would not be able to go anywhere without being swarmed by protestors.

I don't think I can roll my eyes any harder.

Archive: https://archive.ph/20260612185731/https://www.theverge.com/t...

I think he's steadily working towards "too big too fail": make the entire US economy depend on his rat's nest of a megacorp, plus miltech/policetech (SpaceX, Grok).

Starship and anything space related is like 5% of the valuation.