Tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link

Elon Musk has called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in the UK while addressing the crowd attending the “unite the kingdom” rally, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

The X owner, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands of attenders watched along, also railed against the “woke mind virus” and told the crowd that “violence is coming” and that “you either fight back or you die”.

Speaking at the rally, he said: “I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long. Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.”

  • arsCynic@lemmy.ml
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    Rät - Penelope Scott

    [Verse 1]
    I come from scientists and atheists and white men who kill God
    They make technology high quality, complex, physiological
    Experiments and sacrilege in the name of public good
    They taught me everything, just like a daddy should
    
    [Verse 2]
    And you were beautiful and vulnerable and power and success
    God damn, I fell for you, your flamethrowers, your tunnels, and your tech
    I studied code because I wanted to do something great like you
    And the real tragedy is half of it was true
    
    [Bridge 1]
    But we’ve been fuckin’ mean, we’re elitist, we’re as flawed as any church
    And this faux-rad West coast dogma has a higher fuckin’ net worth
    I bit the apple ’cause I trusted you
    It tastes like Thomas Malthus
    Your proposal is immodest and insane
    And I hope someday Selmers rides her fuckin’ train
    
    [Chorus]
    I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
    I wanted to be you and do what you do
    I lived here, I loved here, I thought it was true
    I feel so stupid, and so used
    I feel so used
    
    [Verse 3]
    I was your baby, your firstborn, the hot girl in your comp-sci class
    And I was Darwin’s prep school dream bred born and raised to kick your ass
    I fell for circuit boards, rocket ships, pictures of the stars
    If you could only be what you pretend you are
    
    [Verse 4]
    When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone
    I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go
    But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land
    For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand
    
    [Bridge 2]
    ‘Cause we’re so fuckin’ mean, we’re so elitist, we’re as fucked as any church
    And this bullshit West coast dogma has a higher fuckin’ net worth
    I bit the apple ’cause I loved you, and why would you lie?
    And then I realized that you’re just as naïve as I am
    Oh, you’re so traumatized it makes me want to cry
    
    [Chorus]
    You dumb *removed*
    I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
    I wanted to be you and do what you do
    I lived here, I loved here, I bought it, it’s true
    I’m so embarrassed, I feel abused
    
    [Verse 5]
    Well I don’t want to eat the rich, I’d have to eat my heroes first
    And my tuition’s paid by blood, I might deserve your fate or worse
    But I don’t need your god damn money, I don’t need jack shit from you
    So when I speak, you bet your life my words are true
    
    [Verse 6]
    Let me level with you man, as someone guilty of the game
    I took the help, I took the cash, I would’ve taken your last name
    So if any girl on Earth should get to make a call about this, it should be me
    And as I see it, you’re a dick
    
    [Bridge 3]
    So fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again
    You promised you’d be Tesla, but you’re just another Edison
    ‘Cause Tesla broke a patent, all you ever broke were hearts
    I can’t believe you tore humanity apart
    With the very same machines that could have been our brand new start
    
    [Chorus]
    And the worst part is
    I loved you, I loved you, I loved you, it’s true
    And sometimes I feel like I still fuckin’ do
    I lived here, I loved here, I bought it, it’s true
    I’m so embarrassed, I feel abused
    I feel so used
    I feel so used
    Take me to the moon
    ‘Cause I feel so used
    

    Lyrics: https://lyricsvin.com/rat-lyrics-penelope-scott/

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    Oh that’s a great idea. You see how the U.S. government is crumbling and pedophiles are being protected by the people doing it to strip away any chance of justice. And people are being assassinated at oddly convenient time to help the pedophiles and their investment banker friends.

    Listen to Elon. The guy who is literally instigating a second civil war for the the U.S. You too can achieve the American dream.

    BTW he’s on the list!

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-wealth

    Double btw they want to take away our passports for questioning war policies of another country. That’s kinda goofy huh 😜 https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/

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    The UK is a dumpster fire. The UK is literally mini-US, it’s all neoliberals hard-working “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” guys. (And by “guys” i don’t just mean biological men, this is not a gender issue.)

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    Is he English? Why is he trying to influence another country’s politics?

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      He did the same thing in Germany. There’s many articles from a while back when he had a super awkward interview with some AfD politician where they discussed how Hitler was actually a communist. Yeah, not kidding. This here however seems a bit more dramatic, maybe Muski has learned something from that first experience.

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    Blind disabled granny with a free Palestine sign: jailed
    Foreign billionaire destroying democracy: aww you staaapth 🤭

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    How long until someone calls for the dissolution of Elon Musk?
    That would be inappropriate, but people get desperate.

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    Cool. Charge him with treason and throw him in jail if he ever decides to pay the U.K a visit again, then.

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        An interesting point - I checked, and as far as I can tell, non-citizens can be charged with treason in the U.K, so long as they are considered under the jurisdiction of the U.K - “alien residents” for example are covered, and probably temporary visitors to the country as well. It would likely be up to judicial interpretation whether attempting the coup virtually would qualify, but I’d assume it might.

        The serious take would be that this comment is too mild to qualify for treason, but one could always hope.

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          Too mild when said by Musk. Now imagine if a queer colored disabled Muslim immigrant said the same thing. They could definitely make these very words count as treason but fear repercussions and bad international press when Musk is the target. You know even his ex, Trump, would come back running to save him from the evil colonialists.

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    Somebody needs to arrest that fuckhead and stick him in the deepest hole they have, take all his money, and properties to teach him to keep his grubby paws out of politics

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      Calling for the government to resign and elections isn’t exactly treason. Dissolution of the government is a perfectly ordinary part of democracy in the UK

      Just the way he’s put it makes him a total cunt

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    Doesn’t anyone ever make the connection that BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN’T EXIST

    I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them … just separate them from their money. The idea of someone owning and controlling so much money and wealth is only detrimental to the rest of humanity.

    Get rid of excessive wealth and you will solve 99.9% of the world’s problems. It won’t create a utopia but it would be a hell of a lot better world than what we have now.

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      The (not) funny thing is that money is not worth anything objectively, we give it value. We could decide the own nothing.

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      I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them

      Killing them won’t do any good, if you kill one, another one takes their place. You gotta tax them, because that affects them all equally, so it’s not just “pop one, another appears” game.

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      I love you, fellow champion of rational thought. Their money only exists by mutual consent. Their ownership of things only exists by mutual consent. We can revoke our consent. They have built many systems, of government, of policing, around us and around them to protect their money and ownership, but at the end of the day, even these systems are powered by people and only exist by mutual consent. Their defenses require us to be willing to fight each other, that is why they work so hard to keep us willing to fight each other. If we stop fighting each other for long enough, we might just realize they are simply frightened, selfish human individuals just like any of the rest of us. They may be billionaires, but they are not gods, we just cower before them and their systems as if they were.

      We can change this, if we work together, instead of against each other.

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        All power comes from the people. All constructs of law and money are effectively paperwork, just inventions by humans because they were considered useful at the time of implementation.

        Just like paper has no real power and depends only on the one who interprets it, the same is true for the law and even for money. It’s all based on our collective will to recognize and acknowledge these concepts.

        Any way, the paperwork we’ve done (including the books we’ve written) is the actual American dream. The american dream isn’t to buy a house or sth, but to do so in a certain state of mind. I.e. you want to adhere to a great system that makes sense somehow, and be a part of it. That’s why we need to develop new systems, new paperwork, that inspires the people, like a dream, they want to be part of it. That is the key to making a system last.