r/clevercomebacks 4h ago

Say no more!

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u/BumpoSplat 3h ago

Typical double standard.

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u/Gorg-Lady4157 3h ago

You can't preach borders while building your life somewhere else, that hypocrisy is obvious there.

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u/pchlster 2h ago

Reminds me of Brexiteers suddenly upset that they couldn't just live in Spain, any longer.

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u/QuietFlirt80 2h ago

Fuck Elon Musk and the fucking Tesla rocket he rode in on.

I honestly can’t express my contempt for him and his friend, the President, enough

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u/SubtleTease162 2h ago

Agreed, staying within the confines of TOS here, I wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if I woke up to a certain headline about him.

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u/Odd-Psychology-7971 14m ago

I would get more sleep because I would get drunk to celebrate

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u/SoftSmirk244 2h ago

That's right, there was an attempt on his life. Bangarang.

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u/_PlushieLette 52m ago

Right? The billionaire buddy system is alive and well, and somehow we’re all stuck paying the price while they play space cowboy and wreck democracy

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u/Exotic-Expression574 2h ago

Exactly. Funny how “stay in your country” only applies to everyone except him.

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u/MonthOk9907 1h ago

Interesting. So while I agree with the bot... it's clear the only purpose is to continually foment agitation towards each other.

u/Neveronlyadream 15m ago

The bot doesn't say you're a bot, so we're good.

In all seriousness, it's super weird seeing the bots taking opposing viewpoints. How do we get them to argue with each other? I could use a good show.

u/bolanrox 48m ago

Well yeah, His country got rid of apartheid. We should have it in the next few weeks.

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u/VoidOmatic 1h ago

He is working with Putin to destabilize countries so he can have a greater influence on regulations. He doesn't realize Putin is playing him. Putin is doing the same with Trump.

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u/LegoFootPain 2h ago

You see, double standards are twice as good as one standard! Lol

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u/CherryLuxex 2h ago

Pretty much. Rules for everyone else, exceptions for himself. Funny how that logic only works one way.

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u/GentleSmilesX 2h ago

He should ride his rocket all the way to Mars since he wanted to go there and never ever come back

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u/SoftCalm478 2h ago

He should shut down all projects that leave earth's atmosphere and explore space too than. Time to cancel that mission to Mars.

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u/zxvasd 2h ago

We tell you what to do; we do what we want. Because freedom.

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u/RememberTheMaine1996 1h ago

It really is true that if they didnt have double standards theyd have no standards at all

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u/WorkTropes 1h ago

Hmmm. Looking into this.

u/Chrillosnillo 29m ago

"Standard" is not a word I would use when discussing trumps Goebells

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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.

u/_jump_yossarian 20m ago

Seize his assets.

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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/pocketjacks 1h ago

I mean, he wasn't exactly the Aryan blonde haired blue eyed ideal either.

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u/s0ciety_a5under 33m ago

What do you do/look for to tell that?

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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.

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.

u/faberkyx 25m ago

you really can't get any whiter than an irish

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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/Windturnscold 3h ago

You know what? The answer already occurred to me: white people pass.

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u/Big-District-6013 1h ago

Ding ding ding 

It's only ok when euros do it.

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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/Big-District-6013 1h ago

Uhmmm you know put it that way I kinda would support the idea.

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u/TheAgnosticExtremist 3h ago

Why the fuck were they in South Africa?!

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u/ChemistVegetable7504 3h ago

This guy is dumber than a bag of hammers.

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u/thrownehwah 3h ago

Ketamine is a hell of a drug

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u/Geevers 3h ago

I would love to meet Eon Muks and give him big hug as per Reddit policies

/s

Cun /t

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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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u/Beaglelikethedog 3h ago

He should go to Mars and stay off of this planet.

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u/OokiiSaizu32 3h ago

Why is that South African all up in everybody else's business?

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u/TitShark 2h ago

Well, he doesn’t like actual South Africans (the precolonial kind)

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u/readytall 3h ago

Because apartheid knows no boundary

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u/zhiwiller 3h ago

He means poors.

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u/Grouchy_Row_7983 3h ago

And this stupid MF should crawl back under his slimy tock.

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u/Saanvi_Plane 3h ago

It is always the immigrants who want to pull the ladder up behind them

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u/metrorhymes 2h ago

Tribalism is for the weak minded

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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/Spirited-Living9083 3h ago

Because he’s ra*******

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u/grimprime64 3h ago

They didn't want him

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u/HasheemThaMeat 2h ago

Why is Elon Musk outside of his father’s anus?

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u/noiness420 2h ago

Rules for thee, but not for me.

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u/Dracibatic 2h ago

Is there a source for this? im sure its true, but still

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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/ExcellentHunter 1h ago

Then he should fuck off to South Africa?

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u/Dependent_Bar5956 1h ago

Rules for thee, not for me. Passport privilege hits different.

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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/Big-District-6013 1h ago

Why is the British/Dutch guy in South Africa to begin with?

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u/Pal_Smurch 1h ago edited 1h ago

Elon, you are not an honorary or honorable American. Go home!

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u/KingKnight1280 1h ago

Deport musk

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u/KingKnight1280 1h ago

Well, that works too. Just away from politics

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u/Soace_Space_Station 3h ago

British colonists should stay in Britain.

Americans:

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u/Big-District-6013 1h ago

Well that kinda sounds like something I can get behind.

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u/korneliuslongshanks 2h ago

Not to defend Elon, but can we show some evidence where he said this?

u/PrhpsFukOffMytB2Kind 11m ago

Don't be stupid. Satellite Internet Man bad.

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u/BrucieDan 3h ago

Shouldn’t he be I Holland then?

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u/xPetiteHeart 2h ago

global boundaries are for everyone except the guy trying to colonize Mars.

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u/RammRras 2h ago

I agree with him, let's revert all to the oceans to spores 😅

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u/KetoSniperBeast 2h ago

Elon Musk is Canadian. Do Canadians stay in Canada as well?

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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/brennuati 2h ago

dude's collecting passports like they're Pokemon cards

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u/AntonCigar 2h ago

Go back to the Netherlands

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u/Bizprof51 2h ago

He thinks he is so brilliant but he is an idiot. Just a rich one.

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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/EmergencyThroat6500 2h ago

Rules for thee, but not for me

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u/faff_27 1h ago

Thought this was mo salah at first glance lol

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u/One_Kaleidoscope_679 1h ago

Why is a dutch man in south africa

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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/fordnotquiteperfect 1h ago

Or Europeans in Africa?

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u/Sea-Chart2558 1h ago

Plot twist: Not a ton of white people are first people's of South Africa. ;)

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u/Affectionate-Bus6653 1h ago

Or South Africa for that matter. What an entitled asshole.

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u/Chance-Conference729 1h ago

Kick him out and take all of his money.

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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/Unlucky_Group_987 1h ago

Because he uses it as a tax haven

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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/fy1sh 1h ago

We are all earthlings, Elon is just a racist fuk.

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u/dukearcher 1h ago

Rules for thee, not for me

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u/Spiritual_Excuse_107 1h ago

The math just isn't mathing on this one.

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u/dungl 1h ago

by that logic perhaps earthlings should stay on earth and martians should stay on mars

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u/kidd64 1h ago

Are you saying that all Africans should go back to Africa.

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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/gogreenwithenviubet 1h ago

Fuck him apartheid for sure

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u/pocket_ofsunshine 1h ago

the man just can't stay put huh

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u/BlackVQ35HR 1h ago

They don't want him there either.

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u/themattmc13 1h ago

BECAUSE MULTICULTURALISM IS GOOD!

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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.

u/Mickhes 56m ago

Hell no, fix Italy if you want Italians back there, no amount of money will ever make me go back

u/aaandbconsulting 55m ago

Because he's the only true American...

/S

u/Zaza1019 52m ago

He means poor people.

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.

u/THElaytox 49m ago

Next Dem needs to run on deporting him and Thiel

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

u/Hooked_on_Fire 44m ago

Humans should stay on earth and martians on Mars too I guess. Thanks for clarifying Elon

u/Neither-Elevator463 43m ago

Musk makes America better tho

u/Knitspin 42m ago

Only looks that way because he’s so bad, everyone else looks good.

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.

u/drawkbox 42m ago

Straight outta the Kremlin balkanization tactics since tsardom.

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.

u/Bleezy79 41m ago

Fascist love double standards. Rules for thee, not me. Do as I say, not as I do.

u/BatterseaPS 40m ago

Got him with facts and logic. Surely people will see him for the fraud he is!

u/Affectionate_Owl8351 39m ago

They never think before they speak

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.

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.

u/Turbulent_Heron_7328 37m ago

Asking the real questions here.

u/No-Blueberry-1823 37m ago

Elon musk is a turd

u/Allaroundlost 36m ago

Fuck fElon Musk he will be in prison for life when we get our country back.

u/Scrans0n 35m ago

Because SA is most prevalant in america, duh

u/Artistic-Guide-6872 35m ago

Because Kuntlandia no longer exists as a nation state.

u/Kjufka 32m ago

some guy at twitter: elementary school level jab
redditors: "wow what a clever comeback!"

I agree with the message but ffs....

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.

u/PigFarmer1 30m ago

Rules for thee...

u/PenDramatic6811 21m ago

Yep, go back to Africa elon

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

u/CountOnBeingAwesome 19m ago

South Africa doesn't want him. Fuck, his own children don't either.

u/TheJpow 19m ago

Is SA interested in becoming our 53rd state?

u/HunterNo7593 16m ago

eLon : mOron

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.

u/zeek215 15m ago

Standards for thee, not for me.

u/Valgor 10m ago

I think the top engineer at SpaceX is a German immigrant.

u/Any-Relief-2201 8m ago

Then the American only for Native Americans 😁

So,  when the Non-Native-American Leave America?  Specially Donald Trump 😂 

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

u/PrincessTitan 4m ago

That man is technically Dutch…

u/YallRedditForThis 3m ago

I'm an Aussie and stay in Australia

u/Strict-Beginning-503 2m ago

Funny how “people should stay put” somehow never applies to billionaires shopping for tax breaks and influence.

u/wiseguyehhhh 1m ago

He should of stayed in his creepy fathers festering scrotum.

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u/_LittleCute 3h ago

Rules for thee, but not for me The classic billionaire mindset

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u/PrhpsFukOffMytB2Kind 12m ago

He never even said this. Classic internet 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/Shoddy_Tour_7307 3h ago

Where's the comeback? Its a single post.

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u/SexterMorgasm 1h ago

There hasn't been a clever comeback on this sub for years

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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/VforVehicularassault 1h ago

[incessant bullshit]

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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.

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/NihongoCrypto 2h ago

Can confirm. The Japanese do stay in Japan.

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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.