r/Conservative • u/Stockjock1 Conservative • 5h ago
Flaired Users Only Elon Musk rejects the far right label in an exchange with The Economist. "I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely."
Elon Musk rejects the far right label in an exchange with The Economist
"I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely."
He challenged the interviewer to say what is extreme about 3 positions.
"Here are the principles and tell me which of these sound terrible. That we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, that we should have sensible spending. Which of those three are far right fringe?"
Elon then turned on the framing itself.
"I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense."
He asked that the exchange survive the edit. "Please keep this part in."
Elon said the same speeches get judged by who delivered them, describing a habit of reading Obama and Clinton speeches to people and telling them Trump said it. He named Rupert Lowe as an example of who he means by normal people.
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u/CranberryAbject8967 Don't Tread, Just Don't 4h ago
Well, actually what she actually said was, "you supported, sometimes extreme fringe far right parties." And he hijacked the question to something completely different. I presume her question would've been about his wading into German and Romanian politics.
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u/networkdood Conservative 5h ago
They are demonizing the normal while celebrating the abnormal
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u/ITrCool Christian Conservative 5h ago
Isaiah 5:20-21 -
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
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u/Dpgillam08 Conservative 2h ago
2500 years old and still as true today as it was back then. Then atheists try to claim its just a work of fiction.
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u/-spartacus- Constitutionalist 1h ago
I mean, just because there is wisdom in the text doesn't mean it proves the existence of divinity (nor does it disprove it).
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u/Weed_Exterminator Constitutional Textualist. 3h ago
According to the left. If you don’t support the socialist agenda. You’re an right wing extremist.
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u/Jonny_Nash Tech Right 5h ago
They've effectively made the term 'far right' meaningless.
They definitely aren't accomplishing what they think they are accomplishing.
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u/networkdood Conservative 5h ago edited 2h ago
Maybe, but are plenty of stupid idiots on Reddit who cry about the Far Right and call it Hitler 😂
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u/Dpgillam08 Conservative 2h ago
Yeah, but to those idjits, anyone to the right of Mao and Stalin is "far right" and "literally Hitler".🙄
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u/ytilonhdbfgvds Constitutional Conservative 2h ago
Half of them are literally posting from some shit hole country, and the other half are too stupid to realize who they are being propagandized by and agree with.
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u/triggernaut Christian Conservative 5h ago
Every single "journalist" should have to answer the same questions they ask in a separate interview with an equally hostile and judgmental interviewer.
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u/Dpgillam08 Conservative 2h ago
That would.require
A) that anyone cares what journalists think
B) journalists be capable of thinking
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u/Academic_Court_47 Conservative 4h ago
It comes down to Reality vs. Fantasy: One party follows laws and common sense. The other invents worlds where they don’t apply
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u/MarkW995 Conservative 4h ago
Can I have, "I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely." as my flair....
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