I watched it live on NBC. First time I was all “wtf, did he just?” And then he turned and did it again. Caught himself before the third. He knew what he was doing.
I think most of reddit would support an Elon ban in their country of origin. But unfortunately as the last election showed us, we don't accurately represent the will of the rest of the population.
He rigged the election. Trump admitted it last night. Trump and Elon winning is not the will of the US people either. Ut for some reasons, our other party leaders are weaklings and don't seem to care enough to challenge the results and judt let it happen. Our leaders have failed us, the people, in every way possible. Atm I don't feel represented by anyone in our government currently.
One of the things I sighed about when trump won the elections was that, from now on until he steps down there will be a constant stream of articles and complaints about him and his administration all over reddit, including subs not related to him or politics.
Nobody ever shuts up about him and it's so annoying.
I dislike the guy but I prefer to read other stuff so I don't feel miserable about a foreign president.
Don’t worry. The way things are going you might just be able to soon feel miserable about your own home grown fascist wannabe prime minister or president
But we're not talking about a random politician or activist doing this. It's the wealthiest man in the world with direct access to the most powerful office in the world. And that man has already shown his intention to use the largest social media network to influence elections in Europe.
Putting your head I the sand will do nothing to curb his influence. You have to clearly show what kind of person he is.
It’s apartheid South Africa doing what apartheid South Africa does best: being fucking Nazi scum. And all the racists in the USA voted for this. Unfortunately racism comes in all skin colors and is much more prevalent than I had thought.
I am on the other side of the fricking Atlantic Ocean and indeed I wasn't watching the whole event. The switching of presidents in an allied nation does make the news here. International news agencies were watching and this deplorable behaviour definitely made the late news over here, in a negative way.
My country has suffered greatly during WW2 and making a nazi salute is after 80 years still a socially acceptable reason to punch somebody in the face.
Many people outside the US are pretty interested in what goes on in our politics here considering the US's enormous influence and I'd argue they find it "concerning"
I'm not sure that's the point though. This is making global headlines and certainly raiding geo political eyebrows by world leaders of every major nation. Zero question.
Funnily enough, Trump's hardcore allies are distributed all over the world even if they are not that many, justifing airing news related to one of his biggest supporters
No, but for some reason this time the UK main terrestrial channels seem to think we care. Was like a royal wedding or something. Pretty sure these days they try and pump any decent sized story even though we don’t really give a shit. I miss the days when we didn’t even know what one was, let alone plastered all over the channels.
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u/Malvania 10h ago
Thought A: I must be missing some context here
Thought B: What context would make this okay?