Summary

Elon Musk labeled Britain a “tyrannical police state” on X, criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership, and questioned the imprisonment of far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Musk’s comments coincide with his role as a key adviser to Trump, raising concerns in the U.K. about its relationship with the incoming administration.

Musk also criticized Starmer’s policies, including increased farm inheritance taxes, and boosted far-right content on X.

This follows similar clashes with other U.S. allies, including Germany and Australia, over their domestic policies.

    • boomzilla@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      I read that the, to be allowed, 25 starts of the starship rocket will blast the equivalent GHGs of 975000 airliner flights or about the yearly output of 280000 homes, into earths atmosphere. So at first SpaceX is a threat to us.

      I downvoted myself. The claim was that one start and reentry of the Starship would emit 97000 tons of GHGs into earths atmosphere.

      Another redditor fact-checked it and it seems to be only about 3300 tons per flight so it’s 30 times less.

      100 starts of the Spaceship would amount to 0.3% of the total emissions of all airplanes in a year.

      I usually fact check posts with numbers in it and I feel bad for letting my guards down this time and spreading misinformation. Won’t happen again.

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          “Captain, we are being hailed by T’ger.”

          “On screen.”

          “Elon and Don at McDonalds. Arms wide.”

          “Arm photon torpedoes.”

          “Can you make it go?”

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      Elon has spent $5 billion in taxpayers money and he hasn’t even gotten an empty Starship into orbit yet. NASA can land a working rover on Mars for $1billion, and SpaceX can barely manage to recapture a smoking husk of a booster on “the chopsticks”.

      Believe me the galaxy is safe. Elon just wants those taxpayers dollars to keep his grift going.

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        There are a thousand better takes on Elon being a nazi piece of shit than trying to trash the most advanced rocket company in the world with weak arguments.

        NASA always uses third party contractors for launch vehicles, and spacex is the best rocket company. Nobody is even close to second place now that Boeing is in the business of producing death traps and national security risks.

        You call Elon a terrible piece of shit, but that thankfully has little to do with Shotwells excellent leadership at spacex.