• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Dude was born and raised in South Africa pretending to be an American (much like Ted Cruz who was born in Canada) interfering in US elections. It’s fucked.

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      4 months ago

      Our whole schtick is (supposed) to be that anyone who wants to come here and make a life here is an American.

      There’s plenty of things to be pissed at Musk for, especially in relation to how his family made their money in Apatheid South Africa (emerald slave mines), but him being born elsewhere isn’t it.

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        4 months ago

        That shtick is just a shtick. Every country with a functioning government has standards for who they’ll allow to immigrate and become a citizen, and Musk is precisely the kind of person I’d want to keep out. He’s making a life here as a billionaire, not an American, because billionaires have no real nationality, just flags of convenience. I don’t want him on my planet, much less in my country, and I especially don’t want his greasy money in our politics.

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      4 months ago

      Eh, now you’re getting xenophobic.

      There’s a ton of reasons to criticize musk on without resorting to such stupid argument “he’s not a real 'murican”

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        4 months ago

        To be fair, you can’t be President if you’re a naturalized citizen so the xenophobia thing is kind of built-in.

        In this case, thank fuck because we’d have Musk running for President, guaranteed.