AkaSci 🛰️
For those of us who mighty have missed it since we don't visit twitter anymore, there is a MAGA vs tech bro war going on over there today.
What was Vivek Ramaswamy thinking when he decided to trash "American (MAGA) culture" in this long tweet and stir this hornet's nest?
More at https://www.axios.com/2024/12/26/maga-civil-war-ramaswamy-musk-loomer-cernovich
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AkaSci 🛰️
Then there is Laura Loomer who wants to claim the mantle of MAGA'ism for herself by taking the battle to Elon Musk and his tech bros.
We say, please proceed.
Hopefully, this drives some wedges among the MAGA crowd and opens up the eyes of some republicans who voted for this monstrosity.
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AkaSci 🛰️
Musk and Loomer may have a lot in common, but Musk has something Loomer doesn't - money and control of twitter.
Wanna bet trump and his tech bros will somehow buy Loomer's silence? Perhaps, an ambassadorship to some remote island nation?
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AkaSci 🛰️
What a day! A MAGA leader telling the truth about DOGE.
This feud has legs. It will likely escalate given the bloated egos, thin skins and the viciousness in trump world.
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AkaSci 🛰️
Coverage at the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/27/h-1b-visas-elon-musk-trump-immigration/
A MAGA ‘Civil War’ on X between Musk and the far right over H-1B visas
"The online rift over the H-1B skilled-worker visa program signifies a potential wedge between Trump’s core base and his new Silicon Valley supporters."
IMHO, racism and resentment also plays major roles in this feud.
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AkaSci 🛰️
The war is still raging after Loomer's account (now without the blue checkmark) was restored after a 12-hour lockout.
Musk is now directly trashing MAGA, not just Loomer. This smells like a civil war.
We can only hope that this creates some lasting damage to MAGA world.
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AkaSci 🛰️
Revenge of the Oligarch?
Blue checkmarks are disappearing for prominent MAGA activists on Xitter.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
And what’s funny for guys like Fuentes is almost all of their funding comes from people who are billionaires all of them to an individual are not nationalist by any stretch of the imagination.
Billionaires are transnational to autocracy doesn’t really matter if they Our South African Nazis, or homegrown Nazis, all of them, desire the destruction of a democratic republic in order to rule on its ashes.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
All I have to say is bring it on Elon Musk. Show us who are do so in full public view make our day.
Because I despise somebody like Laura Loomer, But Elon Musk and the rest of the tech bro PayPal mafia R by four, the greatest threat to all of us not only in the United States, but most of the world.
And we need to see this guy do his worst. The whole world needs to see this because we stand a good chance of him being very clear about what he is.
AkaSci 🛰️
Elon to the anti-immigrant MAGA - Go F yourself 😠
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AkaSci 🛰️
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Musk wrote “The portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”
Who thinks this will impress and placate the MAGA crowd?
Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, resigned.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/elon-musk-germany-afd-party
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AkaSci 🛰️
Trump weighs in .. on the side of the billionaires - what did we expect?
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.
I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”
Suck it MAGA.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/
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AkaSci 🛰️
bannon has generally been critical of musk. Now things are getting personal. These insults will leave scars, even if both sides somehow patch up their differences.
Good!
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AkaSci 🛰️
It's been a tough day to be a nativist anti-immigrant not-filthy-rich MAGA supporter.
This is not the kind of freedom they had in mind.
😢 🐆
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