• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Why do this? Because he believes the liberals are going to freak out about this and forget about rioting.

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      4 days ago

      Because a majority of his people don’t care about the racism or approve of it.

      It’s a populist move in the USA.

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      He definitely doesn’t want the rioting to end, he is actively trying to make it bigger. What he wants to people forgetting is that Musk repeated that Trump is in the Epstein flight logs.

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      Because he thinks people are going to freak out and protest over it

      It’s interesting how when France or Germany protests and property is damaged, US media always calls them protests, but when my compatriots do it, they’re “riots.”