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u/Vinura 3h ago
Dude is the illegal immigrant he accuses everyone else of being.
Came through Canada and overstayed.
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u/Thatisme01 3h ago
During an April 2013 conference in California, Kimbal Musk recalled how his and his brother’s startup scored a $3 million investment from venture capitalists.
“When they did fund us, they realized that we were illegal immigrants,” Kimbal Musk said at the time.
His brother interjected, claiming that “it was a gray area” without elaborating. Last time we checked, that doesn’t sound like a clearcut case of legal immigration.
Two separate biographies of Musk’s life have claimed that investors helped the two obtain the correct visas, suggesting they were once raising funds without the appropriate legal paperwork. One possibility is that Musk launched Zip2, an early online mapping company, under a student visa, which generally comes with limitations regarding how much work can be done off campus.
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u/Cyberslasher 3h ago
I think criminals should be sent back to their country, that's why Canada should be forced to take back Elon Musk, Justin Bieber, Ted Cruz and probably Nickelback.
Canada really isn't sending their best.
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u/PartyClock 3h ago
Please don't make us take them back. We consider them more of a form of "putrid discharge" rather than symbols that bring us any sense of pride.
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u/SeaGoat24 3h ago
Same reason an Austrian went to Germany
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u/CherryLuxex 2h ago
Exactly. Funny how history keeps giving the same example when people try to make that argument. The logic falls apart pretty fast once you think about it.
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u/EitherChannel4874 3h ago
Q: Why did his grandad move from Canada to South Africa?
A: Because he was a racist piece of shit that liked the idea of apartheid.
That nazi salute makes a bit more sense when you know where he came from.
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u/ilimlidevrimci 2h ago
Yep this is getting closer to the real story. European colonizers staying in Europe would be the most accurate analogy.
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u/Cool-Network-8777 3h ago
Funny how those rules only apply to everyone else and never to the guy making them
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u/Omarplay2 3h ago
Oh no they do apply to other people aswell, as long as theyre white
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u/Mathies_ 3h ago
Well italians are white. Maybe not to a nazi tho
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u/Wise_Novel_9299 2h ago
Both Italians and the Irish have been considered as not white enough previously, when it was more convenient for the narrative.
When you're in the business of hate the goalpost can always be moved to where it is most convenient.
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u/skinnymean 2h ago
Irish were always considered white. They were just lesser whites. It’s America’s own flavor of the caste system.
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u/verumvia 53m ago edited 43m ago
The division is inherited from England/Great Britain/early UK since the Irish plantation system was established in the 16th century under Elizabeth I. Irish people who weren't a part of An Pháil (English medieval crownland, centered in Dublin) were seen as savages that had to be civilized by British colonizers and missionaries.
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u/durrtyurr 1h ago
A large part of the division there was those countries were predominantly catholic, and the USA was/is predominantly protestant.
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u/snakerjake 1h ago
Well italians are white.
You should be grateful to be unaware of just how systemic racism in america is.
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u/SamuelClemmens 1h ago
If you are a believer in Ethnostates then America, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and (white) South Africa are all Anglo states.
Its not a clever comeback, its just not picking up on a dog whistle.
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u/Windturnscold 3h ago
Why were there Dutch in South Africa?
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u/BabyLegsOShanahan 3h ago
Exactly.
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u/endofworldandnobeer 3h ago
Europeans in Europe. Oh no, then his family wouldn't have been able to exploit Africa and its people.
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u/Over-Confidence2622 3h ago
If Italians stayed in Italy and Japanese in Japan, who'd eat all the sushi-Italian fusion spots in LA? Elon's just doing his part for globalization, one hypocritical tweet at a time.
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u/mishma2005 3h ago
Because he got butthurt apartheid ended and went to the second most racist country on the planet*
(*also, compulsory military service)
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Comments copied from: r/therewasanattempt/comments/1ie62w6/to_self_reflect/
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u/mattincalif 2h ago
Please don’t spread incorrect information. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-italy-quote/
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u/GreasyPeter 1h ago
How many Japanese people does he have working for him on H1B visas? I bet it's much more than 0.
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u/DocCEN007 1h ago
Why did a European go to Canada, then to Africa? For the genocide and apartheid, Clyde!
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u/korneliuslongshanks 2h ago
Not to defend Elon, but can we show some evidence where he said this?
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u/No_Aslume2509 2h ago
Much like the same reason with the Dutch and Brits arriving in South Africa, when your born white you practically have the world at your fingertips (That depends on how you were born since if you are not able-bodied or are financially unstable (Indentured servitude), you don't count)
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u/MercyfulJudas 2h ago
Oh damn...we can just post shit from literally a year ago? And it'll get upvoted?
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u/Bulky_Caramel 2h ago
Saying foreigners don't belong in America and they need to go back to their own countries is a gross mindset, but this man sure makes it a tempting one.
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u/Bocaj1000 2h ago
Because if he was in South Africa he would be called British and told to go back to Britain.
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u/Adventurous-Unit-227 1h ago
I would walk before I would drive a Tesla. I do not support Aparthied NAZIs.
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u/Islanduniverse 1h ago
We really need to move past nationalism on all fronts. It’s a disgusting ideology, and is based on being born in a specific place and time, as if anyone has any choice in the matter.
My parents fucked, now I’m an American!
We live on a fucking snow globe people! And we are never getting off of it alive if we don’t start working together and getting over our arbitrary differences.
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u/frogsodapop 1h ago
I say that all the time whenever that fuckwad says anything.
Why is he still here...on earth?? Annoying the shit out of everyone?? Why is he not yet on fucking Mars!!
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u/Relative-Career-9869 1h ago
So it’s “stay where you’re from” until Silicon Valley and tax benefits enter the chat.
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u/Republican-Snowflake 1h ago
I like how he will bitch about "illegal immigrants," but was one. He lied to get here, and is one of the biggest welfare queens in the US. Maybe ICE should look into him.
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u/Straight-Skin5595 52m ago
The quiet part is that rules about “staying put” somehow never apply to billionaires with passports full of stamps and government subsidies.
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u/but_are_you_sure 44m ago
He never said this. All I did was google that tweet and every article is calling it BS. Use your brains
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u/Hooked_on_Fire 44m ago
Humans should stay on earth and martians on Mars too I guess. Thanks for clarifying Elon
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u/Neither-Elevator463 43m ago
Musk makes America better tho
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u/Knitspin 42m ago
Only looks that way because he’s so bad, everyone else looks good.
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u/Neither-Elevator463 24m ago
Nah, thousands have a job because of him. Multiple companies worth billions. Tech advancements. He has done more for American than 99.9% will in their lifetime.
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u/No_Examination4398 41m ago
It takes about 5 seconds of research on Google to find that Musk did not say this.
Then sort comments by controversial to see everyone else pointing this out.
Reddit is an ignorant place.
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u/CornDoggyStyle 39m ago
This only applies to poors. Rich oligarchs can travel as they please. They are not citizens of any country. They hold entire nations hostage, divide their people, and make quality of life worse. They rape all of them for their resources and move on to the next when they're depleted. The second you tax them, they just leave the country, taking their wealth with them. Ordinary citizens do not have the luxury to leave when their country falls apart.
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u/cajoburto 38m ago
I think we need to go further back, part of him goes to Essex and other parts to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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u/postprandialrepose 30m ago
Elon Musk used to suck his own farts through his pants. Now, he presses one of his nostrils directly against his asshole and snorts his farts right from the source.
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u/workingtheories 21m ago
he wants more money probably, and he views damaging society as more beneficial to that goal than helping it shrug off its plutocratic nazi class
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u/Sostratus 15m ago
There's nothing clever about this. The retort of someone who buys into this racist worldview is obvious: both Elon's parents have English lineage and thus a shared common ancestry and culture with the majority white Americans. It's a consistent, if unpalatable, position against race mixing.
A clever comeback would attack the core idea and not a cheap strawman.
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u/Any-Relief-2201 8m ago
Then the American only for Native Americans 😁
So, when the Non-Native-American Leave America? Specially Donald Trump 😂
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u/NoBonus6969 5m ago
I'm sure he does but is he paying people to talk about him again. I went months without hearing his name and now he's popping back up on Reddit
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u/Strict-Beginning-503 2m ago
Funny how “people should stay put” somehow never applies to billionaires shopping for tax breaks and influence.
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u/_LittleCute 3h ago
Rules for thee, but not for me The classic billionaire mindset
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u/Chopper_003 2h ago
Venezuelans say Americans should stay in America!
Greenlanders say...
Cubans...
Brazilians...
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u/Columna_Fortitudinis 2h ago
I can see the whole point of the post, hypocrisy! but I have a question. Why is it considered wrong to be against immigration exactly? I know I'm asking this to people who are probably from "a nation of immigrants" and I will probably get cooked in the replies but I'm curious and I just want to know.
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u/Born-Evening-1407 1h ago
See, that is why reddit is losing the culture war so badly. This is why Trump was reelected.
Musk never said this, this is also entirely against bis ideology. He says Italy should remain culturally Italian and Japan should remain culturally Japanese. And western countries should not just become economic zones with wild mixes of unassimilated cultures that have no resemblance of their original century old individual cultures.
What he actually said was that he would go to war against anyone trying to stop H1B visas or anyone actually arguing against migration on the sole base of racism. He was very vocal about this and on record countless times.
His publicly available stance (see X) is that immigration must serve the country and to him that mostly means the broad economy.
I know we all hate Elmo here... But THIS I reflected, untrue, very cheap slander bullshit is why anyone with 2 braincells left distrusts the hive mind that is reddit. You all want to feel snarky and smart, yet you are the gross opposite.
Cheers reddit, never change.
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u/__don1978__ 3h ago
He's in USA. Don't insult everyone else from The Artic Circle to the most south of Argentina and Chile like that.
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u/wetgoopy 44m ago
If you turned conservative's beliefs and the way they talk about people they don't like against them, they for some reason don't like it. Female espousing republican views? Shut up and get back in the kitchen. Literally any minority supports MAGA? Shut up (targetted racial slur), you're probably a dirty anchor baby who ain't even a real american. They seem to love dehumanizing people but then get offended when it's reciprocated.
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u/Himera71 3h ago
He brings a lot more to the table than the average illegal.
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u/Bent_Brewer 1h ago
Does he though? The money he's siphoned off from the government could have gone to similar, better established companies, and potentially gotten better results.
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u/BumpoSplat 3h ago
Typical double standard.