Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

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The persecution fetish conservatives have is just incredible.

Well, I guess when you’re a psychopathic narcissist it’s hard to imagine that everybody else isn’t one too, so it’s understandable that they think we want to put them in concentration camps because that’s what they want to do to us.

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If their leaders say that someone else was going to do something to them, then it makes it acceptable when those leaders do those things to the people they said were going to do the thing to them. Easy way to make atrocities seem reasonable. Same thing they do with labeling people “terrorists”. If you think someone is trying to horribly murder you, then when your leaders torture them, it seems ok.

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The earth should really start just domain blocking X. Nothing of value ever happens there.

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Where we should really start is yeeting Musk and his supporters out of the fucking solar system (shooting them into the sun would be a waste of perfectly good delta-v)

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Trebuchet the rich into a cliffside from point blank range

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Yeet the rich…

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Or just give them submarines. Perhaps they’d be good people deep down.

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He could pay to go there. He’s all horny for space anyway. So go. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

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So many points 🤣🤣🤣🤣 for knowing delta-v

On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?

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On the other hand… do you want them getting out there to infect the rest of the galaxy?

Who said anything about giving them supplies?

I’m sure the free market will solve this! (yes, /s)

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In old days we would have admins block sites on their networks. I guess this time everyone looks up to the government to do it

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The issue is that reasonable people become irrational with anonymity and the culture Musk has built up on X feeds right into that. I think X is a social danger that people are unable to safely consume without being extremized.

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You can do it on your own machine, but an ISP doing it would violate the now reinstated Net Neutrality rules.

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Just add

x.com 127.0.0.1

To your hosts file. No more Twitter.

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“Just a joke” is always the refrain when people call out this brand of nonsense. Drives me mad

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It’s like when people say “no offense but” and then continue with something offensive. Just because you say no offense, it doesn’t make it not offensive.

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With all due respect, you’re a piece of shit

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That one is fine though - the recipient may not be due any respect.

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No offense but you look like the kind of person who enjoys dipping their fries in soda before eating them.

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The government in the UK should buy some space in the Sun and publish an article how the convicted pedophile Musk is found to have a torture chamber in the German Tesla factory and that kind of shit. When Musk inevitably goes ballistic just say it was a joke, then repeat.

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He seems to forget that a joke has to be funny.

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This guy is irresponsible with the power he holds. I hope the UK removes access to his failing social media platform

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They’ll block Xitter, and Elon will use Britain 🤣

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Deport this nazi and nationalize SpaceX in the name of national security. Give it to NASA (with StarLink) and give NASA all the money we normally give musk. Deport this nazi.

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That would be way too cool and awesome to ever happen

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I still have my fingers crossed!

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Deport him to Mars.

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The ocean would be cheaper.

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Space the bastard. See if he floats.

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