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      People sometimes come up with things they think are clever, but don’t have the time, money, or energy to present them in a meaningful way, so they instead make a shitty AI image of a billboard to get more attention than their words would otherwise.

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      Trump wants to buy Greenland and Canada, rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America, and take control of the Panama canal

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        Who even gets the money when you buy a country? Does it go to the people? If it does then that money is coming right back through taxes.

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          Historically, the king / emperor gets it. I’m guessing that most of the time it’s probably used to pay down war debts.

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        He has no interest in buying either Canada or Greenland. He hasn’t ruled out using force though.

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        Trump wants to invade Greenland and Panama. He wants to extort Canada into having no other choice than to submit to statehood.

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          Apologies, I don’t follow Trump crap too closely since I’m in the EU and I don’t want to turn into a doomer so I based it off the pic

          But yeah all in all fuck Trump

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      Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland. He wants to take the Panama Canal by brute force and keeps suggesting that Canada should become a State in order to avoid his oncoming tariffs. Meanwhile, Musk ‘donated’ about 250,000,000 USD to Trumps election campaign helping ensure he won and now we are all watching the US become an oligarchy. (Effectively Trump is owned by Musk).

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        Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland.

        No, Trump has been saying, in a threatening way, that Greenland is going to be part of the United States. He hasn’t suggested buying it, but he hasn’t ruled out taking it with military force.

        Effectively Trump is owned by Musk

        No. Musk bought a little influence and so far hasn’t pissed Trump off enough that he’s been cut off. But, it’s just a matter of time.

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          It’s both. He keeps asking how much for Greenland while suggestively saying it’s necessary for security. So threat and purchase offer. Like a true criminal.

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      Elon Musk is the resident Nazi at the heart of the US government and is widely believed to have bought his influence with Trump. Oh and also Trump is President again after being a convicted criminal. No this isn’t a joke.

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        What makes Elon a Nazi? Does he promote genocide or racism? I’ve only seen one picture of him doing the pose but have no context. Also lol on Trump. I would’ve assumed people with such a track record wouldn’t even qualify to work as teachers or any other job, let alone run and get elected as president lmao.

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          Watch the video. Don’t just look at the pics, watch the damn video. This is some sea lioning just asking questions nonsense that I can’t take seriously. His family left Canada during their civil rights movement to move to apartheid South Africa to enslave Africans in an emerald mine. He’s a fascist. He’s a Nazi. Call a spade a spade instead of instilling doubt. Defend a Nazi you are a Nazi.

          I’m answering this half assuming good faith but this being the internet I’m heavily doubting it’s a good faith innocent question.

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          He has a long history of retweeting Nazis and agreeing with them. It’s an indictment on our society that this is so little known even in the USA.

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          Elon Musk has a well documented track record of supporting far right causes that mirror Nazi ideology. At the Inauguration he performed two Nazi salutes (one to the crowd and one to the flag). He routinely promotes the methods of genocides of trans people and Palistinians through both verbal parlance and through direct funding and uses well known euphemisms in support of white supremacy causes. He has authoritarian leanings tasked with removing from government service entire administrative arms that previously were not electable or apointable positions (because they were staffed with experts whose task is to stick to their guns of scientific or proven best practice and not simply be yes men telling the administration what they want to hear).

          He also has never denied making a Nazi salute in the days since it’s happened instead deciding to make Holocaust and Nazi featured jokes.

          At this point what evidence can be put forward that he is not a Nazi?

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          That’s the neat part: Convicted felons ARE excluded from most public service jobs like being a teacher or a mayor. It was widely believed that this included the presidency until the Supreme Court decided it somehow didn’t.

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          Musk is very pro apartheid in South Africa and Israel, as a model for “If all politicians love Israel doing what it does, surely America can do similar in US.” Neo-naziism, mainstream right, in America is hateful of blacks, Muslims, and Hispanics. Genocidal ethnic supremacist, Netanyahu, says Musk cannot be a nazi because he supports Israel as much as all US rulership/oligarchy.

          Rather than semantic definitions of nazi, we should focus on Supremacist apartheid ethno states being praised for democracy. That ADL/Netanyahu, and all politicians who pledge loyalty to Israel, support Musk, and thought Trump would be best for Israel, is the core problem in US/media rulership.