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by bloopernova 618 days ago
Musk is backing the republican party of the USA, using the reach of twitter and the power of his fortune.

The GOP has destroyed the trust involved in elections, purely on the ego of trump, and thrown away the peaceful transfer of power.

GOP state members have stated that they will discard the result of the election, sending their own picked electors. That will inevitably fall under the purview of the supreme court of the USA, who have shown themselves to be partisan and who will hand the election to trump. What happens after that is anybody's guess. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-set-stage-... + https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/supreme...

Musk is also spreading the "this might be the last election you ever vote in" meme, which is pure projection from the extreme right wing that has taken over so much of the USA. So I have a large amount of derision for provocateurs like Musk, who can simply fly his private jet to another country if the USA becomes embroiled in civil war. https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-claims-during-trump-081...

I utterly loathe the people that would cause violence and stolen elections, and musk is one of them.

And, to the people that would back the extreme right: they will turn on you the very nanosecond it becomes convenient to them.

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California is basically a single party state at this point; something that Musk would be aware of; it seems that is what he is referring to.
Wouldn’t everyone have more trust with paper and ID?
> Musk is also spreading the "this might be the last election you ever vote in" meme

It’s hilarious that you’re spreading the left version of that meme and can’t even tell.

That's only correct if either both sides want to do things that risk effectively ending elections or neither side wants to do such things.
I hadn’t made that connection before. Brilliant 4D chess?!
> "this might be the last election you ever vote in" meme

To be fair the left is saying the same, because Trump will end democracy, this time for real.

I am not American, so often only the crazy/extremist views reach me over the ocean, but I did read over the past years the hope in leftist circles, that migrants will make Florida and Texas first a purple and then blue.