#maga vs musk

[hezigler]

Why They’re Turning On Elon

Those who have experienced group hate like racism, anti-Semitism, &/or anti-lgbtq+ may have an understanding of levels of hate.

[readandwriteclub]

Trump Is Bragging To Friends About How He’s Ripping Off The Elongated Muskrat

Naive Trump thinks Elon's the fool... Trump's election win increased Trump's net worth marginally; doubled Musk's net worth — you judge who's the fool.

[victusinveritas]

[weirdlegogirl]

Agatha and Rio kill the patriarchy. ☠️ I made this video the morning after the election, and it’s one of my absolute favorites. I think to cope, I’ll make more videos of my LEGO killing the ‘carrot man’ and create an Elon LEGO and kill him too. Perhaps everyday in a different way.

[dosesofcommonsense]

[ketrindoll]

"Elon Musk staff has been caught plugging in hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA). His staff encountered resistance when demanding that Treasury officials grant access to systems managing the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to programs like Social Security and Medicare. Tensions escalated when Musk’s aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers, performance appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service for government employees. In response to employees speaking out, Musk’s aides locked civil servants out of computer systems and offices, with reports of personal items being searched."

Elon is taking over every person's in America private data. Not an elected official, a nobody, really. And Americans are doing fuck all about it.

You naive bastards who claimed "the fight isn't over" - this would be the time to have that fight. Or by the time you lift your asses it's going to be beyond too late. The moment to act is yesterday.

Keep up being an activist on social media only and you'll get to watch your entire democracy crumble before March Madness. Oh, and everything about you falling into the hands of a nazi. Have fun.

[nando161mando]

Tech billionaire vs. right-wing demagogue: the dystopian showdown we never asked for.

[free-luigi]

I’m not gonna lie, this is the funniest shit I have seen in ages…the whole ‘MAGA civil war’ over on X has been wild.

H-1B has been trending number one off and on over there for like three whole days, an eternity in internet time lol.

[loredwy]

This is pretty funny, actually

[tomorrowusa]

The MAGA Civil War has more to it than just billionaire tech bros vs. nativist hotheads.

MSNBC'S Jason Johnson examines a borderline racist and anti-American rant by Vivek Ramaswamy as a starting point to go deeper into the growing dispute. Joining Jason are Wajahat Ali and Tim Miller for an excellent discussion.

Somewhat related: Elon Musk is so pissed at the MAGA people who dare to criticize him that he took away their iconic verification blue checkmarks ✔︎ on Twitter/X.

MAGA opponents of Elon Musk claim he stripped them of their X badges

Musk is just a petty, power-hungry dweeb who has temper tantrums whenever he can't get his own way. Ramaswamy is similar but with fewer billions and no hair transplants.

[azspot]

What Zuckerberg and Meta have realized is the value, demonstrated by Trump, Musk, and MAGA antagonists, of saying that you’re “protecting free speech” and using it as cover for almost anything you want to do. For Meta, that means increasing engagement, decreasing government oversight and interference, and lowering their labor costs (through cutting their workforce and strengthening their bargaining position vs labor) — all things that will make their stock price go up and increase the wealth of their shareholders.

Meta’s Free Speech Grift

[ravagingracoon]

It's amazing how much good media representation can explain complex issues to people that fell into the right-wing pipeline

My self-proclaimed MAGA dad absolutely LOVED Knives Out movies and was openly talking about privilage and audacity of white Americans that unfairly treat and use foregin work force for their own gain

Suddenly, when things he thought he belived in weren't shown in an us vs them format but with a likeable character and a complex but funny story he could come to the right conclusions.

Also, we watched Glass Onion a day after his belief in Elon Musk plummeted (bc H-1B visas) so that definitely helped

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jamie Tahsin at Vice:

As the polls began to dramatically shift in favor of Donald Trump on the evening of the election, Elon Musk, arguably Trump’s biggest supporter in recent months, tweeted: “The cavalry has arrived. Men are voting in record numbers. They now realize everything is at stake.” The top reply came from the notorious influencer and accused rapist and human trafficker, Andrew Tate. His summary of the election: “It’s men vs gays n chicks.” 

Tate’s political analysis had the tone of a 14-year-old playground bully, but Musk’s excitement at men turning out to vote spoke to something fundamentally true: that Donald Trump’s plan was working. When I first read the tweet, I began searching for evidence that men were indeed turning up in record numbers. On Musk’s platform, X, I was greeted with videos from Philadelphia and Miami of young men wearing red caps celebrating in the streets—pickup trucks tearing down street-lit highways with MAGA flags trailing from their cargo beds. After covering the Manosphere and the hyper-online ‘Bro’ Right for the past five years, I knew that in recent months they had mobilized like never before behind Trump, and that if they were motivated enough to actually go out and vote, Trump had a serious edge. 

Videos began to spread of frat boys across the US declaring their support for Donald Trump. When his victory was announced, one group filmed themselves performing Trump’s dance moves to “Y.M.C.A.” on the steps of their fraternity. 

Men aged 18-29—a group that has been politically unengaged in recent years—voted decisively for Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported a shift to the right of 28 points among this group. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning, 56 percent of young male voters opted for Trump in 2024—a marked increase from 41 percent in 2020. In Trump’s successful courtship of this cohort, his secret weapon appears to have been his 18-year-old son, Barron. 

[...]

But Barron’s role in Trump’s media strategy goes beyond just introducing Trump to figures like Adin Ross. Barron and his best friend, fellow 18-year-old Bo Loudon, were tasked by the campaign with helping Trump reach a young male audience. Loudon is a pro-Trump influencer, and son of the conservative media personality Gina Loudon, former co-chair of Women for Trump. Bo and Barron reportedly set up the Adin Ross stream, and Bo has claimed he helped set up Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan, too. 

On the day of the election, figures from across the vast and frequently depressing multiverse that is the online ‘Bro right’ gave their ringing endorsements of Donald Trump, and implored their fans to go and vote for him. Upon the announcement of his victory, John Shahidi of the Nelk Boys tweeted: “Idc what anyone says, podcasts helped us win this election.” When the Wall Street Journal reported that ‘Younger Men Voted Decisively for Donald Trump,’ Shahidi reposted it alongside the message, “Shout-out to our entire team!” A part of Trump’s message that particularly resonated with his young male audience, and the podcast hosts he made appearances with, was his seemingly favorable stance towards cryptocurrencies, and his puzzling claim that Bitcoin will be “made in the USA.” Earlier this year, in Austin, Texas, I interviewed an African-American man who told me he would vote Trump for the first time, almost entirely because of his stance towards crypto. 

[...] The rise of influencers like Tate and Ross aren’t just a symptom of young men shifting to the right, but an active factor that has exacerbated it. The ideology gap is widening between young men and women, not just in America, but all over the world. In the UK there is a 25-point gap between the views of young men and women; in Germany, this rises to 30.  The factors that have led us here are wide-ranging, but in making a concerted effort to reach out to disaffected young men, Trump gained an edge in what is being described as one of the most consequential elections in US history. We saw a similar effect in the UK during the last election, as young men shared their support for Nigel Farage and his Reform Party.  Many of the complaints coming from young men may appear to be misguided. Yet if politicians on the Left do not find a way to reach out to this group, and engage with it where it dwells online, opportunist populists like Trump and Farage most certainly will. In this election, one of Trump’s strongest weapons appears to have been his gigantic, chronically online 18-year-old son, his best friend Bo, and the ‘Bros’ they swung for Trump.

What the hell is wrong with these misogynistic and privileged frat bro males who got Trump over the line?

[victusinveritas]

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava "True Colors Shining Through," Bannon captioned a post that included an Axios article about how a "MAGA Civil War" has broken out "over race, immigration and billionaires versus the working class."