Your guess is as good as mine.

Sorry I thought I said it was in lemmy.world, but apparently not! Here’s the link: https://lemmy.world/post/24250168

CEO is Singaporean (and according to the BBC article I mentioned in my other comment, he says this report of a sale is “pure fiction”). China has some people on the board though. Not sure what to believe here.

There’s actually a post in the “News” community with a link to a BBC article directly contradicting this very article, per TikTok itself.

Old news. What else you got?

Sounds good to me!

What lets him get away with any of his BS is him having money. How do you propose to designate someone with Canadian citizenship “foreign” to Canada? You want to outlaw multiple citizenships (as if he can’t just pay someone else to say what he wants)? Whatever authoritarian law you want to create is primarily going to be enforced on innocent activists and not on people like him. Taking pointers from fascists doesn’t turn out well unless you’re in a position of power to start with.

Those window opener crank thingies sucked, but I miss knobs and dials. They might look dated now but they were actually rather convenient. Touchscreens are annoying as eff to multitask with. There’s so little you can do on a screen without looking. Of course we weren’t multitasking quite as much in those days, so just when we started to need tactile controls the most, they were already gone.

Interesting. I’m no fan of seafood on pizza in general, but I’d take the anchovies first here, since they’re basically just salt bombs. (Tuna on pizza or over pasta isn’t something I can easily stomach even though I love it in other food combinations.)

A theory came to mind about what his angle is with Canada: image rehabilitation with MAGA. We all know there’s a sort of MAGA-North up here that he can ingratiate himself with, and he might want to use any tenuous association he builds with them (as a Canadian citizen) to weaken the allegations he’s an “African” as highlighted by MAGA-ites angry over the visa thing). This also fits together with Trump’s Canada annexation rhetoric.

It’s a worthwhile first step when the conditions are right, but there’s a huge problem this piece fails to address: where the “awakened” person’s next steps lead them.

A vacuum forms when a person’s ideology (which is a portion of their personal identity) crumbles. They will grasp for literally anything to feel safe and whole again, and that spells danger if they don’t have enough understanding of history and current cultural context to make an informed decision. (In fact people reaching this point on their own without checking into any historical context is probably how a lot of today’s MAGA-esque groups started growing.)

At the same time, we can’t just tell people what to believe, either. The easiest step is discussed here. The most crucial steps are missing.

I’m envisioning a commemorative t-shirt, along the lines of:
“I was banned/demonetized for criticizing X or its CEO.”

His companies can’t be banned from existing and they can only jail people who are caught breaking laws (as opposed to just talking about it), but I’d love to see his companies banned from government contracts and not have them up for renewal.

Heard an interesting theory today that when it comes to Europe, Musk probably wants to topple centrist governments because they’ve been so spooked about Europe being overly dependent on US tech, one of the things they’re doing to combat this is starting to build a publicly run, competing satellite service as an alternative to Starlink.

Doesn’t explain why he’d interfere in Canada, but he might also just be showing his true colours.

This is essentially the same as blaming people for their own depression. People need empowerment if they’re currently feeling disenfranchised and powerless-- especially if they’re also depressed or anxious. As an analogy, if someone is upset about something, they often need some empathy before they can listen to anyone tell them how to “fix” a problem. (Especially if the “fix” creates other problems they’re not sure how to cope with.)

The reason fascists are making such great strides again as living costs and loneliness are on the rise is because they’re very effective at acknowledging people are hurting FIRST (without minimizing or shaming them for hurting in the first place). Then they go on to set up the scapegoats and reinforce the in-group dynamic.

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Snow can be wet and heavy, but this is straight up slush.

Yes, Canada’s Liberal party is pretty much equivalent to the US Democratic party in many ways.

He should use that picture in his “BRUV” party campaign for UK Prime Minister (which is totally not just about attracting money from Elon Musk).

The author was born in Jerusalem to American parents and raised in an Orthodox setting. In 1993, his family moved back to the US, first to Cleveland and then to Boston, where his father got a job as a director at Harvard University.

I’m sure people doing this are burning at least some social bridges within the wider community, in order to make waves there and beyond. That’s probably the biggest sacrifice. Maybe since they recently started trying to draft even Orthodox Jews into their military for the first time ever, some more people’s eyes will be opened?

What we need both online and off is less tribalism and more open discussions of what economic and social policies have and haven’t worked for whom up until now, based in simple facts rather than sound bites and emotional manipulation.

Online though, there’s probably not much we can do. (Ideally there’s speaking truth to power if an opportunity arises, but we’re not talking about powerful people here, right?) Most real people (since much of the absolute worst vitriol we see online is astroturfing) can only be reached under the right conditions, like if they respect you or if they were already questioning things on their own and only need a little push. (Wealthy people have an advantage in that they can use money to induce favourable conditions all across a society, while the rest of us need to either be heavily organized or especially lucky. What works in regular people’s favour though is exposure to doses of reality. Not in a confrontational way, but in an empowering way.