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A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump
Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.
“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.
Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.
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Moscow Musky!
Are we just forgetting that hegseth brought Elon into a war meeting about China and …now Russia is trying to cozy up to him?
Putin and Xi must be so god damn pleased that the US decided to just jump off a cliff.
I don’t know about China but Russia had a considerable part to play in Trump taking power twice. This isn’t a coincidence; this is the result of a frankly brilliant long-term play on their part (which doesn’t make it any less evil).
Or it could just be that people don’t like the extremes the Democrats have been taking. Also Biden isn’t all that popular of a president due to various reasons.
Blaming Russia is just an excuse
What extremes are you talking about?
There’s extensive evidence of Russia meddling in elections, not just in the US but in Britain and Germany as well.
we should treat trans people like human beings
Yeah that’s it time to vote for fascism
Shit poster alert.
I may be seeing some people on the left taking extremes. But the Democrats as a whole? They seem to be pretty moderate, compared to european standards. Care to elaborate?
Biden wasn’t popular, I give you that.
So if russian meddling had made ~2% Americans vote red, that would have been enough for the popular vote. Depending on the Distribution, Trump wouldn’t have been elected.
It’s really not an excuse. Russia and China are both trying to influence politics in the US and in Europe. It’s up to us to put a lid on it.
Russia is using social media to try to amplify extremes. Americans still choose who to vote for so I find it a bit absurd that Russia someone made Trump get elected.
It is just excuses for a Democrat failure
Just a heads up with the poster you’re responding to: checked their profile they are definitely walking the line of thinking whites are minorities.
I’m not surprised. Thanks 🙏🏼.
Please leave.
After he got full access to government and citizen info? I think not. If we throw him onto an uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean, preferably closer to Antarctica than South America? Absolutely.
Or maybe Mars.
Without a space suit
Strap him to a rocket, guy loves rockets.
At least set him up in another Tesla and send that out od the solar system
We can make his every dream come true and make him the first person on Mars.
One way trip, though. Everybody wins.
Eh why not? Bonus you get personal and federal data on all the us citizens. Thanks trump!
There’s that weird but common enough perception of Russia among the dumber kind of Americans, that it’s some land of tough people of ideology similar to that dumb kind and what not. At the same time all such idiots who tried to really move to Russia were scammed of their money and ran home. And apparently similar attempts by Boers didn’t have different results.
Even the Star Wars picture of Mandalorians in the newer media sometimes borrowed from that stereotype and not from the initial references to Maori and western movies.
What I personally don’t understand is why’d you consider losers tough.
It has something common with cowardice, maybe - cowards consider places with lots of slave-master dynamic to have tougher people, because they don’t understand what “tough” even is.
So - Elon, don’t (I think Kadyrov did threaten to rape him in the past, so probably he understands that himself).
Edward Snowden got asylum there, if you have value and fame they’ll treat you a lot better
I just wonder if he knows how thin is the rope he’s walking since then. Or if he realizes that asylum in Russia is not very different from asylum in China or in Thailand or in Emirates or Saudia or … Point being, that despite all the European-looking people around, nobody will hear him cry if at some point somebody important decides to silence him just in case.
Or maybe he knows and feels just fine having joined the privileged caste here. Those people who generally don’t live in Russia at all, just visit it from time to time. I guess it’d be hard to blame him anyway, looking at Assange, who’ve spend a kinda big part of his life in the same small space slowly losing his mind.
I don’t think he likes being there, but probably does feel safer there then in a western country or a state allied to US.
