There’s a lot to dislike about him, and I may be clutching at straws, but he may yet push the new administration in a more green direction. He’s big on renewables (esp solar) and I can see this becoming a massive issue. If they do fall out, it won’t just be over a clash of egos
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They will crash and burn very soon though. Orange Nazi already saying that Musk can’t be president etc.
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I doubt it will happen. Trump is loyal to no one.
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the ubiquitous use of the word ‘manifest’
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…and all the false bollocks that comes with it.
“Think it and you will manifest it!”
Fuck off!
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I guess everyone anticipated a ‘bumpy’ 2025 but did anyone’s political bingo card have:
France’s most notorious post-war figure dying, a former French president standing trial, a former & future US president facing-not-facing justice, a Canadian PM resigning, a US city getting attacked & a megalomaniac South African tycoon championing a jailed Luton Town hooligan as leader of UK right
all within the first 7 days?
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Musk is a deeply troubling man though hopefully he will completely self destruct in a big cloud of Ketamine
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I don’t really get the science here but imagine it gets into the food chain…!
Musk’s double nazi salute… fucking hell. It worries me that as the WW2 generation dies out, today’s kids won’t appreciate how dark it is, or what it means
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Exactly this:
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I hope someone shoots the cunt.
Not very Balearic I know but Nazi fucking salutes?! Fuck off.
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politicised djs. it never goes well. always some form of nauseating bourgeois identity politics, be it from the left or right.
probably going to ruffle feathers, but I just don’t get it. keep playing music to drug casualties, please. And leave the undergrad dissertations on your hard drives full of furry porn. In fact, if we could institute a total ban on djs using social media, even for promo, that would be fantastic.
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To be honest I don’t think we’re living in an era where keeping quiet is helping anyone.
When billionaires are able to purchase ‘democratic’ leverage in superpower states I can’t hate on creative types who have an opinion-whether it’s an educated one, or not.
They really aren’t the enemy right now in my opinion.
The crazies on the fringes playing weird music and spouting idealistic utopian narratives are what we need right now more than ever. We need some escape from this (very real) existential madness.
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normally I’d agree, but when the question comes to complicated international geopolitics…
And to be honest with you my criticism wasn’t directed against the utopian dreamers (a tendancy I encourage, even if misguided) but the old farts who think that just because they got into acid house in 88 suddenly this makes them the most progressive person on earth. The kids are alright.
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Within the next decade, we’re likely to see a mass exodus of wealthy Southeast Asians—and other affluent individuals from the Global South—fleeing their increasingly uninhabitable home countries for more temperate climates. This isn’t speculation; it’s an inevitability as climate change, resource scarcity, and political instability reshape the global map. The problem is, this movement of people won’t look like the migrations we’re used to. These won’t be the desperate, huddled masses that Western countries are already building walls to keep out. It’ll be the ultra-wealthy, sidestepping immigration laws with ease, buying their way into citizenship or residency.
For countries like those in Europe, already struggling with tensions over immigration, this will be the final straw. The locals—already angry about housing shortages, wage stagnation, and resource competition—are going to be up in arms. And by then, it’ll be too late. These wealthy newcomers won’t be arriving with solutions; they’ll bring their demands and their dollars, snapping up land, draining resources, and deepening the divide between the haves and have-nots.
What we’re seeing is the early stages of a new kind of global feudalism. The places everyone wants to live—temperate zones with reliable infrastructure and relative stability—will become fortresses of privilege. Resources in these areas will become the last battlegrounds of human civilization, as the wealthy cling to their islands of comfort while the rest of the world burns.
The tragedy isn’t just that this will happen, but that it could have been avoided. The same wealth that’s being used to build escape routes could have been used to mitigate the crises forcing this exodus in the first place. But as Caitlin Johnstone points out, we live in a dystopia where the ruling class’s control is so complete, they’ve convinced most people that this is normal.
By the time the world wakes up to what’s happening, the doors will have slammed shut. Climate collapse doesn’t just displace the poor—it reshuffles the rich. And the places they flee to will bear the brunt of humanity’s final, desperate grasp for survival.
George Monbiot nailed it today: “Musk’s fascist salutes are a signal, showing how far he intends to go. They point to the destruction of democracy he seeks, the impunity, the violent pursuit of power. They point to the empire he wants to build, and to the degradation of all our lives as he sets out to crush our humanity.”
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And there was me feeling good about the day after getting a baguette from Sainsburys that was still warm when i got back to the office to make lunch.
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And seemingly nobody is saying anything. It’s egregious and there isn’t anyone who saw that and thought anything else. What an absolute human turd.
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No idea why the BBC are giving oxygen to people saying he made an ‘awkward gesture’.
Yeah right, nobody makes a Nazi salute TWICE without knowing exactly what they are doing.
If I had a Tesla I think I’d be putting it on Autotrader sharpish before everyone started ‘saluting’ me. As you say absolute turd.
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