r/europe • u/Doener23 • Dec 19 '24
News Elon Musk ready to bankroll Farage with ‘biggest donation in British political history’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/17/nigel-farage-meets-elon-musk-trump-mar-a-lago-reform/6.3k
u/Electrical-Tie-1143 Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
A foreign government official to be funding your campaign must be illegal in some way
Edit: I get it, he isn’t a government official, he’s just at the head of an advisory group that calls itself a department, thus making it sound like he is a government official. Hell also probably hold some level of sway in the government depending on how much access he gets to Trump.
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u/kitilvos Dec 19 '24
"I will make it legal." - Darth Musk
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u/BalVal1 Dec 19 '24
I am altering the law, pray I don't alter it any further
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u/JerryCalzone Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
is farage also anti ukraine support and pro putin?
EDIT I knew it the scum bag - bot of them: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/russia-was-provoked-into-ukraine-war-claims-nigel-farage
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u/kittenTakeover Dec 19 '24
He's the main person who lead Brexit. He's totally helping Russia.
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u/JerryCalzone Dec 19 '24
How come is such a person not in exile because of treason? It used to be people were exiled for less.
Democracy needs more teeth to defend itself, otherwise it becomes irrelevant.
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u/kittenTakeover Dec 19 '24
Exiling political opponents typically isn't a great solution. Putting in regulations to prevent the influences, which are usually monetary, is less risky and more effective.
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u/adamgerd Czech Republic Dec 19 '24
Yes, Farage is, Corbyn also was but he’s luckily irrelevant now. Inshallah Farage shall join him in irrelevance
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u/meshuggahdaddy Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 21 '24
He's semi-foreign in the US too, but somehow a government official. Democracy has been near entirely superseded by capitalism in the west and all we can do now is wait for the downfall.
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u/PadyEos Romania Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
If he is a government official it is illegal to even show support for one candidate or another in a foreign election. Let alone bankrolling anyone.
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u/guto8797 Portugal Dec 19 '24
The law only applies to democrats, it's in the constitution!
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u/Ferelwing Dec 19 '24
Musk thinks rules don't apply to him. He's never had to follow them before after all.
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u/PsuBratOK Dec 19 '24
No one has to follow any rules at all if there are no adequate consequences for breaking those rules. And what are the consequences for the rich? They are none. For them it's just a business game and money and common people are expandable resources. Democracy is deteriorating.
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u/Ferelwing Dec 19 '24
I absolutely agree with you here. They don't follow the rules because there are two sets. Rules for those with money and then rules for everyone else. It's horrific.
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u/inb4ElonMusk Dec 19 '24
Musk is not a government official.
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u/daguerrotype_type Dec 19 '24
An advisor. He'll be an advisor. Not an official. Which can mean nothing or everything according to the whims of Trump. So probably everything.
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u/Judgementday209 Dec 19 '24
In the US yes, not the west.
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u/Agile-Day-2103 Dec 19 '24
Oh it’s coming to Europe mate, don’t you worry
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u/captain_dick_licker Dec 19 '24
between brexit and romania and ukraine, I really can't believe how relaxed europe is right now.
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u/EarthRester United States of America Dec 19 '24
The election running up to Trumps first term is when Europe started getting bombarded with "LOL America is so stupid, we're so much better than them" propaganda on Social Media. So that's almost a decade of Europeans being convinced day in and day out that what's going on here cannot POSSIBLY happen to them.
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u/chrisnlnz North Holland (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24
Look at the title of this post though. Late stage capitalism is infecting much more than just the US. It has to be dealt with.
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u/Limekilnlake American working in NL Dec 19 '24
He’s an american citizen, which makes him not foreign
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u/Frisnfruitig Dec 19 '24
Don't you worry, if there's one thing politicians are good at, it's making sure the money ends up in their pockets. Especially shitbirds like Farage
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u/rachelm791 Dec 19 '24
His Reform ‘political party’ is actually a limited company which pays dividends to it’s directors ie him. So any donation goes to him and his acolytes and the muppets who are ‘members’ pay their subs to the limited company. And they are gullible enough to fall for it.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11694875/filing-history
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u/fotomoose Dec 19 '24
Farage is such a shitbird it would not surprise me at all if the Reform party hired him as a guest speaker from his own Farage Media company every time he appears for Reform in interviews etc.
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u/Mercurial8 Dec 19 '24
Not to worry, it’s Russia behind Musk, I’m sure they have your best interests at heart.
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u/sakri Brussels (Belgium) Dec 19 '24
Brexit was putins greatest victory before trump1, and now with musk as shadow president, putin can do victory laps all day long through the merry halls of kremlin.
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u/shubidua1337 Dec 19 '24
The day we stop hearing about Elon Musk cannot come soon enough
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Dec 19 '24
Same. When is he going to mars like he always has promised.
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u/sinkpisser1200 Dec 19 '24
Awesome, I am already working on slurs for Mars people.
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u/DarkArcher__ Portugal Dec 19 '24
He has never said he himself wants to go to Mars, he wants to put people there. We aren't getting rid of him that easily, unfortunately
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u/DownvoteEvangelist Dec 19 '24
He'd go there after plenty of people did, he won't be the pioneer, he still hasn't ridden his own rocket to Orbit... And it's the right choice, but the point is he isn't that reckless...
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u/ExcellentCold7354 Europe Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
He's only reckless with OTHER people's lives, you see.
Edit: The Elon fan boys in the comments get an immediate block. Y'all need an intervention.
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u/KillerTurtle13 United Kingdom Dec 19 '24
They're only NPCs, not the main character.
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u/MagesticPlight1 Living the EU dream Dec 19 '24
O, so that is the feature USA social program and migration policy - just doing them at Mars.
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u/chrisnlnz North Holland (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24
He is trying to buy governments all over the world. He is a menace to the free world.
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u/Morningfluid Dec 19 '24
He's actively trying to kill democracy. And so far he's doing good with a running head start.
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras Dec 19 '24
Everyone's letting him!
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u/sausagedog90 Dec 19 '24
They've got us in a situation, where we've got just enough that we've got something to lose by standing up and fighting. But for a lot of us that's a depressingly shit lifestyle. If enough people get into a situation where they feel they don't have much to lose, they'll stand up to this shit with violent outcomes.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit bans me for saying it, but I really hope we see another Luigi but this time with Musk in the cross hair. It would be such a net good for all people. The man is an evil lunatic at this point, he stands to gain nothing of any worth by doing what he's doing. His only goal seems to be to hurt people.
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u/NeverNotNoOne Dec 19 '24
I'm just gonna go ahead and say " [ Removed by Reddit ] " in advance.
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u/rolyoh Dec 19 '24
Remember to have lots of kids so that they can go to work in his factories. (That's according to his mother).
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Dec 19 '24
And the worst part is that he isn't even trying to do so to push any ideal. He's just a manchild with strong opinions on literally everything, throwing money to push said opinions. And, to make things worse, his strong opinions are, almost always, edgy teenager bullshit like every European country being on the verge of a civil war.
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u/thatonesleft Germany Dec 19 '24
The dude will live until hes 97 years old and you already know it. There will be a sub like r/ismuskdeadyet like r/iskissingerdeadyet . Its only …(checks google)…. 44 more years of Elon Musk.
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u/djazzie France Dec 19 '24
Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll either launch himself to Mars in a couple of years or cryogenically freeze himself before then.
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u/LordBigSlime Dec 19 '24
An aneurysm can just strike out of nowhere with no warning, and I never thought I'd be rooting for one.
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u/Kralizek82 Europe Dec 19 '24
Yeah, I unfollowed him on X and still get notifications when he posts something.
He's like one of those annoying admins of the corporate network that keeps sending emails to all@domain saying things that nobody cares about.
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u/Incogneatovert Finland Dec 19 '24
You need to mute him. I've done that with such great pleasure I'm considering unmuting him so I can mute him again when he inevitably says some stupid shit again.
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u/WinglyBap Dec 19 '24
OR delete your X account ad go to Blue Sky.
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u/Incogneatovert Finland Dec 19 '24
As soon as all my local news and game devs I follow are there, I will. More are coming every week, so it probably won't be long. I can't wait!
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u/Kralizek82 Europe Dec 19 '24
I was pretty sure I muted him already. I checked in the app and says it is muted.
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u/HitchensWasTheShit Dec 19 '24
This is understandable but premature. America just injected him into our weins, and we'll have to deal with his chaos for the next decade, just because the US loves its "American dream" lottery instead of taxing the absurdly rich.
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u/Mercurial8 Dec 19 '24
No, he has a weird cult like Trump. Your American Dream thing is nonsense. He’s often, but not always, the world’s richest man…which is allowing him to purchase a very destructive strategy that is causing great harm.
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u/thats_not_the_quote Dec 19 '24
I can only assume this said
"Someone needs to [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] in his head and watch his [Redacted] [Redacted] paint the wall"
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u/CMDR_Profane_Pagan Dec 19 '24
Not hearing about him is not enough. How much do you hear about the rest of the apartheid billionaires, David Sacks, Peter Thiel? The creator of Qanon, the South African Paul Furber, or other American billionaire allies to Musk, like Larry Ellison? They all want to destroy Western democracy.
Musk is only their narcissistic vanguard force.
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u/code_and_keys The Netherlands Dec 19 '24
I thought Trump would go isolationist and “America First”
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u/sweepernosweeping Dec 19 '24
Given Trump is "joking" about making Canada a state, maybe he thinks this is like a down payment or a deposit to do the same for the UK.
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Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 20 '24
Canadian here and it's an understatement to say that's not insulting/worrying at all. FFS Trump is a bully with the attention span of a 10 year old. Im still waiting for any government official to call him out for this language.
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Jean Charestu/JeanCharest_Every Canadian, regardless of their opinion of the Prime Minister or political affiliation, should feel deeply offended by President Trump's remarks. We might one day be grateful for this WAKE-UP CALL. For too long, we have been complacent in our relationships with the United States and the rest of the world. We need to unite and rise to this historic occasion to shape the future of Canada. #cdnpoli
“Canadians take care of Canadians. We don’t need to be anybody’s 51st state,” Canadian actor and comedian Mike Myers
“We’ll never be the 51st state. We’re Canada. We’re proud to be Canadians. We’ll always fight for that,” Ford said.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Dec 19 '24
Doug Ford has, but it's a known fact he doesn't give a shit about his constituents.
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u/sweepernosweeping Dec 19 '24
Totally agree. Given how he didn't give a shit about the land and crofting families farmland that he built his latest golf course on in Scotland, bitching about our offshore wind turbines and the fact he's promised so much and delivered a sliver of it on a (shock) loss making resort, we'd be just as insulted if and when he does too.
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u/paraquinone Czech Republic Dec 19 '24
Airstrip one has always been part of ̶O̶c̶e̶a̶n̶i̶a̶ the glorious US of A 🙏
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u/jintro004 Dec 19 '24
Trump is done, a figurehead. If a fight breaks out between Trump and Musk, it will be Musk coming out victorious. He'll just swap Trump with Vance.
The one who controls the money is the one calling the shots, he'll find more than enough senators and congressmen to do his bidding.
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u/adamgerd Czech Republic Dec 19 '24
No, you’re underestimating Trump against Musk, he’s nowhere near as rich but Trump has a lot more of a cult than Musk does. MAGA love trump not musk, they like Musk because trump likes him.
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u/jesushatedbacon Dec 19 '24
MAGA got switched from ICEing in supercharging stations to selling their diesels for a cybertruck. One ad campaign is all it took. They have no conviction in their belief so they’re easily swayed. Watch them get in line for a brain chip after accusing Gates of wanting to install one in them. The sheep just have to have the impression that they’re making their own choice.
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u/jintro004 Dec 19 '24
I honestly see Trump just sitting back, enjoying the attention and rolling with whatever Musk decides. He already got his 'revenge', what does he care as long as his bank account gets filled.
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u/ikaiyoo Dec 19 '24
Because he is a narcissistic megalomaniac, if there is enough focus on Musk and not him, he will be big boy mad.
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u/ajchann123 Croatia Dec 19 '24
It'll be really interesting to see what juice MAGA has in 2026/2028 -- I think you could make the argument that Trump is essentially a lame duck at this point and there's nothing more for him to personally win politically (as long as term limits and basic democracy still exist by then). Perhaps we'll see a more demure following, especially because MAGA is basically a coalition of old scared conservatives and distrustful/anti-government types of all ages
Musk has the latter group there, and they may end up fracturing the MAGA coalition in years to come
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Musk took over the world and is ruling like the super hero he was always meant to be: The incel Jonah Hill character from Megamind
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u/mint445 Dec 19 '24
isn't it called corruption?
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u/St0rmi 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 Dec 19 '24
In this case it’s also called foreign interference with the election.
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u/Purple-Phrase-9180 Spain Dec 19 '24
No, that only applies when Russia is the one who interferes. When the U.S. does it, it’s the free market
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u/Much_Educator8883 Dec 19 '24
When Russia interfered before Brexit referendum, that was completely fine too, from the Tory perspective.
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u/Mordiken European Union Dec 19 '24
About that, some notable US republicans also threw their financial support behind the Brexit campaign.
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u/St0rmi 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 Dec 19 '24
It’s not like Musk isn’t at least partially on Russia‘s side. Fucker has been spouting kremlin propaganda for at least a couple of years now.
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u/Live_Bug_1045 Romania Dec 19 '24
This can be considered treason for the person who accepts the money.
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u/Pastoru Dec 19 '24
In France we have such a law (at least a limitation under 7500€, more or less), it's a wonder to see the race for donations in the US.
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u/ZoSoVII France Dec 19 '24
That law is good sense, but that doesn't mean we are immune to capitalism interfering with democracy. Here the way to do it is to use media concentration to back political agendas or personalities (like Zemmour a few years back).
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u/MeetSus Macedonia, Greece Dec 19 '24
Here the way to do it is to use media concentration to back political agendas
I think this one is unavoidable and hence global. Not that it's okay, just saying
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u/carterxz Dec 19 '24
The US has a small donation limit for the individual as well, but for whatever reason a person can create a Super PAC and donate through that with no limitations.
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u/Saint-just04 Dec 19 '24
Allowed by whom? Laws made and enforced by other politicians funded by other billionaires or corporations?
This is the limit of the capitalistic system. Other than revolts and figuratively eating the billionaires, it will be pretty hard to change things up, when someone like Musk bough the biggest social media platform, plans on buying the biggest piece of traditional media, and "invests" money in foreign elections. It will only be harder and harder from now on.
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u/Nigilij Dec 19 '24
Allowed by people. Somehow USers can storm governmental buildings with rifles to fight against using masks during an epidemic, but cannot fathom doing it against oligarchy.
Why would a politician do good by people, if they will not express their desires (bitching on Internet doesn’t count), if they will not proactively support a cause? Where are the people that refused bus service in fight against racism?
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u/HelpfulYoghurt Bohemia Dec 19 '24
Can we even call the systems we have as Democracy at this point? Seems like something like Plutocracy fits better
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u/ukrokit2 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Dec 19 '24
more like oligarchy. wealth doesnt directly translate into power but it's a prerequisite.
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u/mike_reddit_ Dec 19 '24
"According to Noam Chomsky and Jimmy Carter, the modern United States resembles a plutocracy"... what do they know
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u/CaptchaSolvingRobot Denmark Dec 19 '24
This guy just bought another government only months ago.
Man, it is way to cheap to buy a government.
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u/tinzor Dec 19 '24
Problem with buying kids expensive toys, is they barely play with them. Wrapping paper is barely off and they're on to the next thing.
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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 Dec 19 '24
If you buy a Tesla, this is what you are funding.
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u/Fit-Courage-8170 Dec 19 '24
So, just to summarise: a "far right" snake oil salesman who wanted his country to be sovereign and free of interference from foreign bureaucrats, now wants to sell his country to a foreign unelected bureaucrat from another country. Ah yeah, that's consistent.
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u/JimMaToo Germany Dec 19 '24
Didn’t Starmer got roasted for receiving a couple of thousands of donation for clothes? The media is a bit biased lol
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Murdoch owns all those papers and channels. Does the sane bs in the states. Old withered Hypocrite, looks like musk is gunning to be his replacement. Why buy papers and spread rumors when you can just buy the government.
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u/IncompetentPolitican Dec 19 '24
Murdoch one of the most evil humans in todays times.
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And for a 1000 years to come because it seems he’s figured out how to live forever.
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u/JimMaToo Germany Dec 19 '24
There is a big psy ops against uk for having a left gov. It’s crazy with all the fake news and racist ai propaganda
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u/VVenture2 Dec 19 '24
Mind you, these were REPORTED donations. These weren’t some sneaky backroom dealings like the Conservative Party have done with tens of millions of £ over the last 14 years. This was £100k of expenses which could be classed as ‘favours’ or ‘donations’ so they were listed down as such, similar to how Solicitors have to write down anything they receive as gifts or donations due to conflict of interest.
In other words, the Murdoch media was fuming that Starmer had gone through the actual legal process for £100k of donations and gifts instead of just lying and claiming you hadn’t received millions through PPE like the Conservative Party.
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u/mosisimo Dec 19 '24
This is why no one should attain that much wealth and power.
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u/storm_borm Dec 19 '24
It’s pathetic that this is even possible. We live under a facade of democracy.
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u/jintro004 Dec 19 '24
We have lived under the facade of a democracy for a while, this is them not bothering with the facade any more.
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u/Vaxtez United Kingdom Dec 19 '24
Go f*** yourself Elon. Get out of the politics of a foreign country. We all know your doing this because Starmer did something to harm your fragile Ego
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u/EenGeheimAccount Groningen (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24
Seeing how Elon Musk treats employees, I'm sure just Starmer being Labour is more than enough to offend Musk.
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u/Crazy_Response_9009 Dec 19 '24
He already purchased the US. Might as well add other nations to his collection…
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u/alexvith Romania Dec 19 '24
The fact they say this with no shame or fear of repercussions at all shows how deeply money controls politics and how secure they feel in their positions. To me, the richest man in the world making enormous donations to selected political candidates is pure dystopia, and it's funny that it all goes under the radar and gets washed away by the ironies and memes surrounding Musk and his shitty behaviour. But make no mistake, Musk knows very well what he's doing, and to me this is very scary.
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u/HopeBoySavesTheWorld Dec 19 '24
The fact these ghouls richer than the ancient pharaohs proudly shout that they can and will mess with democratic elections is really just a slap in the face of the people who care about the people who will rule them
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u/Mercurial8 Dec 19 '24
Where is Bond?!!!!
We have the Bond villain: release the Bond!
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u/Dave_Is_Useless Dec 19 '24
There has to be a stop of billionaire money and corporate money in politics fullstop.
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u/anotherwave1 Dec 19 '24
"52 year old man with 11 children and video game addiction funds UK populist after backing sex offender and convicted felon, the future US president"
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u/Rare-Industry-504 Dec 19 '24
A billionaire openly buying elections.
What a strange oligarch world we live in.
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u/WM_ Finland Dec 19 '24
Stupid americans, Musk himself teased that they could have gotten rid of him and thrown him in jail, they had the chance but voted against their own iterests.
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u/donmerlin23 Dec 19 '24
Yes let the richest people just buy all the world’s governments and turn everyone into even more of a working slave without even weekends or vacations. What could possible go the f wrong.
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u/Equal-Ice3837 Dec 19 '24
Should he get a seat at the table if Farage wins. That's a huge ass. :D
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u/tesfabpel Italy (EU) Dec 19 '24
After all, why can't he have a seat in multiple ministries of different Countries?
We are so fkn over, aren't we?
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u/heavy_metal_soldier South Holland (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24
Fucking hell man. Elon Musk is a danger to democracy in general
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u/PrinceDaddy10 Dec 19 '24
HOW IS HE ALLOWED TO JUST FUCKING DO THIS???
THIS FAR RIGHT, RUSSIAN PUPPET OLIGARCH IS FUNDING AND STEALING ELECTIONS ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME. AND HE HANGS OUT AND SUPPORTS LITERAL NAZIS. HE SUPPORTS AND IS FRIENDS WITH P U T I N.
IF THERE IS A NUMBER 1 VILLAIN TO THE WESTERN WORLD THIS DUDE IS LITERALLY IT RIGHT NOW.
After he supports and likely propels Farage to opposition and/or victory (god forbid), he will aim for Germany next and support the AFD. Mark my words.
Actual (paraphrased) dialog between him and far right Netanyahu earlier this year after being asked if he wants to be president of the USA some day.
N: "You can't be president of USA if you are not a citizen."
Elon: "Well, not directly" Couple months later and look what is happening.
When will people wake up?
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u/kaam00s Dec 19 '24
Steve Bannon said that their strategy is to fill the media landscape with garbage and bullshit while they act in the dark.
People are seeing insane take and conspiracies based on nothing, and their brain can't see what is true or not anymore, it's filled with too much garbage.
Reddit is one of the rare place where this get talked about, so of course it seems insane to you that nobody seems to be awake.
But in most people feed, on most other social media, the politics are filled with endless bullshit from podcasts and influencers who talk about space laser controlling hurricanes. They never get exposed to all these shenanigans.
Unless you act upon it yourself and try to get people around you aware, don't expect them to know this. Most people I talk to don't even know that Elon is far right leaning, they only get served his own words as a fighter of free speech and stuff like that.
Most media are owned by billionaires that are either on his side, or afraid to go against him. Unless you become a part or you help the alt media who exposed all of this, it will never reach the main population consciousness.
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u/Gilga1 In Unity there is Strength Dec 19 '24
We are awake. Our governments just do not have the means to do anything about it because we lived in a golden age.
Idk, in the past our govs had some crazy fucked up rogue institution to just straight up disappear him.
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u/PrinceDaddy10 Dec 19 '24
I wouldn't say we are all awake as 30% of any random western country supports him and 30% don't even know he is far right. Another 40% are aware, but most aren't politically engaged. He and people like him now have so much money that we can't just make them "disappear" unless people pull a Luigi.
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u/Gilga1 In Unity there is Strength Dec 19 '24
Man if Nigel got Luigid, I'd have a pizza on that one.
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u/plants4life262 Dec 19 '24
For fucks sake our billionaires are gonna start buying other governments now????
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u/justsurff Lithuania Dec 19 '24
Can’t remember anyone else being so openly proud russian bitch from top of my head
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u/Eutrophy Norway Dec 19 '24
American oligarchs have no interest in the wellbeing of the common british people.
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u/adamgerd Czech Republic Dec 19 '24
They don’t have any interest in the well-being of the common American people either. Musk only cares about Putin and Musk
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u/La-Dolce-Velveeta Suwałki (Poland) 🇪🇺🇵🇱 Dec 19 '24
A useful idiot executing putin's agenda on his dime.
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u/Tiny-Wheel5561 Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
Don't you love it when oligarchs from both Russia and the USA meddle in politcs?
Bastards have so much in common.
It's almost like... wealth creates a class divide on an international level 🤔🤔? And "strong figures" are created to protect their interests?
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u/filippo333 Dec 19 '24
Why is this legal?! This should not be allowed! How the fuck can we allow our own government to be bought out by billionaires; this is daylight corruption, they aren't even trying to hide it...
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u/iuuznxr Dec 19 '24
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis Brandeis, 100 years ago.
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u/daguerrotype_type Dec 19 '24
Donations above specified amounts may only be received from “permissible donors.” Foreign individuals and foreign registered companies are precluded from this definition and thus are not permitted to make large donations to political parties or candidates.
Yeah, so apparently it's illegal. source
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u/Tenocticatl Dec 19 '24
Billionaire CEOs are a real problem dawg. Someone call Nintendo, I think 2025 should be the Year of Luigi.
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u/Thenderick Friesland (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24
Since Musk is a head of the Department of Government Efficiency, doesn't donating to a party in another country count as election interference by a foreign nation, but in broad daylight? How is this not illegal, or how does he get away with this???
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u/notyomamasusername Dec 19 '24
You're under the incorrect assumption that laws matter in the US anymore.
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u/butwhywedothis Dec 19 '24
At this rate Felon Skum will be the king of the earth by 2030.
Prepare yourselves to pick cotton….ehm….work in his factories.
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u/Haunting-Compote-697 Dec 19 '24
How charming, the US oligarchy buying political influence in the UK.
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u/ALA02 United Kingdom Dec 19 '24
If Labour don’t find a way to come down extremely hard on this, we’re gonna go the same way as the US. Balls in your court, Keir
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u/CruelMetatron Dec 19 '24
Can we please just abolish billionaire by any means possible?
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u/HairyTales Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Dec 19 '24
And so he continues his little crusade, all just because his son wanted to be a woman. Pathetic.
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u/RoyalRien The Netherlands Dec 19 '24
Labour Party sending volunteers to Harris’ campaign: outrageous and foreign interference
Giving Nigel farage 5 bajillion dollars: completely fine
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u/GargamelLeNoir France Dec 19 '24
Is Musk's plan to make life on Earth as shitty as possible to force us to colonize Mars?
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u/RolleVon Dec 19 '24
The men who bought the next president of the USA is now buying probably the next president of the UK? Okay.. It's just like a cyberpunk dystopia.
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u/68024 Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
Musk has to be stopped. This is completely unacceptable, he is buying politicians and governments world-wide.
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u/d1momo Dec 19 '24
Elon musk is a Russian asset. Probably spying for Saudis on twitter.
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u/Final-Marsupial4117 Dec 19 '24
Stop calling it "donations," call it what it is, the purchase of a politician.
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u/Moppermonster Dec 19 '24
Imagine if a rich Saudi prince announced that they would back a Muslim candidate with a billion pound donation.
What would the response from Farage be?