• blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Calling Musk an “American” is surely stretching the truth a bit, innit?

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      42 minutes ago

      He has lived there since 1989 and has a US citizenship since 2002.

      One can always obviously argue that it doesn’t count and that he is South African because of his Father and because he was born there, and/or Canadian because his mother is Canadian, but in that case the telephone is a Scottish (Alexander Graham Bell), gramophone a Russian (Emile Berliner) and the zipper a Swedish (Gideon Sundback) invention - all made by US immigrants with citizenships.

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        20 hours ago

        Anyone who legitimately thinks he’s a genius better bring a shovel to their next iq test.

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          19 hours ago

          Ol’ Pooty-poot is on a strict mushroom diet. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

          Perfect environment for Musk to thrive

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      20 hours ago

      I can see him mixing up the terms ‘American’ and ‘Asset’. At this point, they are quite synonymous.