• blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

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

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        3 days ago

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

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          3 days 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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      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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        I almost edited my comment to revise my position, and I was waiting for someone to call me out. I’m glad you did. Immigrants built the US (Canada too), and fully earnestly I believe it’s what makes America great. I would be angry if someone questioned, say, Ilhan Omar’s citizenship and patriotism because she was born elsewhere. I can’t not hold that opinion simply because Musk is a piece of shit.

        So without snark, I don’t question his citizenship. I don’t believe he holds the values I think make an “American” (or, uncomfortably, maybe he does…), but for better or for worse, a citizen he is.

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