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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Van Badham

They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say never mind the bollocks

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk
Is Elon Musk part of the new punk rock or a soldier for an ideology that demands submission to concentrated power? Photograph: Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters

Elon, enough! In the past two weeks, the world’s richest man has teased economic Armageddon in the US, spruiked for a violent far-right extremist and meddled in the domestic political affairs of at least two sovereign nations.

There’s more. A lover’s quarrel with Nigel Farage? Something “gamechanging” to do with crypto? It takes a fine talent to make omnidirectional megalomania boring but our boy has done it. His purchase of Twitter has transformed the site from a hubbub of views to a rightwing toilet of whatever his brain is farting that day.

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