Welp…
Maybe that’s the only way US will ever get a third party. I’m not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That’s true “checks and balances”.
At least give it a cool name like The (John) Galt Party or something so it has a better change of splitting the right. I guess the nazi party was already taken?
he’s just so bad with names. Surprised he didn’t call it the X Party. wouldn’t that have been more “cool”? surprised he didn’t ask Grok to come up with party names, I mean hell I use chatgpt to come up with names for videogame characters and it works well.
This is going to fizzle out when he inevitably gets distracted by something else.
Oh, can “aliens” start political parties in the USA?
Imma start a “British Colony” party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.
He doesn’t have to run himself. He can endorse and fund people to run for him
So, another copy of the Libertarian Party?
But even more barefacedly just “republicans who don’t want to pay their taxes”
Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…
Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’
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US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.
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America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.
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The entire Democrat demographic hates him for kissing Trumps ass.
The entire Trump demogaphic hates him for going against Trump.
And the Republican demographic have never liked him as far as I’m aware.
So… who are his voters? Probably just a convenient way to shuffle money around.
This isn’t about money. It’s about Elon Musk‘s ego and will to power.
The American Billionaires Party?
If they manage to steal half the GOPs votes, we have reason to thank him.
Perfect timing. Just when everyone hates musk he wants votes.
Yea, that gonna be fun to cringewatch
What’s it called again ? Please let it be an AnCap one, it would make sense for him to do just that
Their logo needs to be a muskrat. Doesn’t matter what they name it.
are they hiring? i have many expensive ideas with zero guarantees of success
Who do you think you are, an oligarch?
I am but a simple man looking to profit off the vanity of a complete moron with more money than God.
Just in: Elon Musk can fuck off. Preferably to Mars, permanently.
Fuck him and his political party.
The funniest thing about stuff like this is that there are already a hundred political parties in the US. Every time someone says “we need a third party,” it reminds me of that xkcd comic about standards and protocols.
When people say that they want a third part I doubt they mean it literally, as in they believe there are literally only two parties, but rather I suspect they mean that they want a third party which is large and influencial.
That is a ridiculous comparison. More political parties are a good thing.
Not until the US election system is changed. Until then they are just irrelevant distractions.
They would be, if the political and electoral system supported it.
Which is obviously not the case in the US.
The Let That Sink In party?
I’ll just point out the risk of what I’ll call “Joe Roganing” here. Elon pretends he hates both parties while there’s no election coming up. Then when the election arrives he “makes up his mind” and endorses Republicans. This allows him to 1) attract people fed up with both parties just to hand them to Republicans, and 2) have a credible that that forces Republicans to do his bidding.
