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The idiot man-child can "summon" as much as he wants, but they're sovereigns of another country and can't make them do shit if they don't feel like it.
Why is The Guardian amplifying this idiocy?
Wdym "amplifying?" It's already amplified - Elon is acting in an official-unofficial way with the incoming Trump admin. It's what happened. The Guardian is literally just reporting it and not advocating for a side or a position. Like it or not what Elon wants and says now matters. Even if we ignore him, the government will still act on what he says.
Pretty arrogant of him to think that UK MPs are willing to travel to America to be mansplained to by a South African emerald mine nepo baby.
Who does he think he is? He's like the kid that teamed up with the bullies and now tries to speak as though he has the same authority, lol. He's a mere magazine cover away from being shit-canned, as others who took tRump's limelight away discovered. I'll have popcorn ready to watch Musk get the Banon treatment!
It's almost like he gave Trump an advantage so huge he owes him, huh? Like it's weird Trump isn't reeling him in at all, right? Anyone?
This person just keeps getting worse. To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.
To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.
For real? I have never heard this before.
If true, it is simply more evidence in the court of "this show used to be funny, but it lost the plot x seasons ago".
Since this is clearly a threat from a powerful individual towards MPs, this should be cause enough to charge Musk with some kind of crime and issue an arrest warrant in this country.
Nah, the UK had murders committed by state actors in their soil and nothing came out of it
So, Musk is the idiocrary era Göring?
told you he was gonna act like this to empty threats. he is acting not just like a spoiled kid but like an enabled one, the worst kind.
I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.
Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha
Oh that's a good one.
We got a badass over here. Is Musk gonna threaten them with his katana if they don’t comply?
The probable response I'm expecting from British MPs (and government): "Shut the fuck up."
Musk is such an insufferably man-child. The UK government should just restrict or ban Twitter. It's a shithole network that is hemorrhaging users. Blue Sky or Mastodon can pick up any of the surplus demand. And nothing of value would be lost if Twitter dies.
Just get all government accounts off Twitter. A lot of people still use Twitter because of these “important” accounts, the less of them, the more people are happy to move elsewhere.
Farage and his Reform party exists. So that's at least one MP that I could see saying yes.
I'm surprised anyone still listens to him. His whole thing with Brexit was taking the money sent to the EU to fund the NHS. It was obviously lies, but many Brexit supporters made this argument.
God, I forgot about that. I used to work in an office full of Farage fans and that was one of the most common threads back in 2016. There was a large amount of open racism, too. It was an experience.
I'm pretty sure even Farage doesn't want to fly to America to get his ass kicked. He might to suck some billionaire cock, though.
With what authority Musk? Oh yeah that's right, you have none. You hold no elected position in government.
Just to piss him off, the UK should open the second spaceport in Wales and give launch access to Ariane, ULA, Rocket Lab, and Firefly.
Summon deez nutts in yo mouf
Well, his tough talk worked with Brazil, didn't it?
Does he think he is the leader of the world or something? A week ago or so, he said that if the EU limits starlink in anyway, USA will pull off from NATO
Yes he does. As someone else stated in another thread, going full Nazi was Elon's way of becoming President of the United States without actually having to be born there.
I mean, yeah he does. He’s a narcissistic loon
Hey! You can't just disrespect loons like that!
But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?
I haven't a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.
Don't forget the trap card in defense mode
I should probably pre-apologize for that joke. I don’t play a lot of fantasy games and I don’t really know what gets summoned. I promise, though, I’m a big enough nerd for Lemmy. I have 3 telescopes and probably every Raspberry Pi model if we look through the drawers in my soldering desk.
I should probably pre-apologize for this joke too.
If you can summon from the fey realm, all of that is possible - and more!
haha, still doing the "face down look up, don't you see how intense I am?" stare. pure cringe elonia. I remember doing that in middle school when I was a super hard core bad ass that you better not mess with! :D
The Kubrick stare. 
The D'Onofrio stare.
"Bwahahaha!" - UK MPs probably.