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Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The earth should really start just domain blocking X. Nothing of value ever happens there.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where we should really start is yeeting Musk and his supporters out of the fucking solar system (shooting them into the sun would be a waste of perfectly good delta-v)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trebuchet the rich into a cliffside from point blank range

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yeet the rich...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just give them submarines. Perhaps they’d be good people deep down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

*oceangate submarines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

He could pay to go there. He’s all horny for space anyway. So go. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So many points 🤣🤣🤣🤣 for knowing delta-v

On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?

Who said anything about giving them supplies?

I'm sure the free market will solve this! (yes, /s)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In 3001 (sequel to 2001) they were able to revive Frank Poole. And in three body problem they thought they could revive just his head — I’m NOT taking any chances!!

🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In old days we would have admins block sites on their networks. I guess this time everyone looks up to the government to do it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The issue is that reasonable people become irrational with anonymity and the culture Musk has built up on X feeds right into that. I think X is a social danger that people are unable to safely consume without being extremized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can do it on your own machine, but an ISP doing it would violate the now reinstated Net Neutrality rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just add

x.com 127.0.0.1

To your hosts file. No more Twitter.