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Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, joined Trump onstage in Butler on Saturday to show his support for the Republican and state that he is "not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA."

A number of people have mocked Musk's appearance at the Butler rally on Saturday on social media, as well as criticizing his public speaking efforts.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 157 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised Newsweek didn't explain why he said "Dark MAGA."

Because it was a crypto scheme.

https://crypto.news/dark-maga-coin-spikes-elon-musk-trump-rally-speech/

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago

Yet another Musk pump&dump.

Fun fact: if the law applied evenly to billionaires, he'd still be in prison for his previous two market manipulation schemes (the doge coin pump and dump and the pretending that he was about to take Tesla private to boost the stock), sexual harassment, and much more.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

i am not having fun after hearing that fact

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Sorry about that. Allow me an attempt to rectify that.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

thank you. that fact was much more fun

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

"X-MAGA" would have sent mixed signals

[-] Balex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I thought it was in reference to Dark Brandon.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

As did I. Though if it was, I think he's misunderstood what Dark Brandon even meant.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

I assumed it was a weird reference to the Phoenix Force from X-Men.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Considering this is the man who thought that the name of the main character in Blade Runner is "Bladerunner," I doubt it.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

I don’t want him associating with my favorite movie. Secondly, he probably thinks the theatrical cut is the canonical one.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Apparently he hasn't seen any cut if he thinks Deckard's name is Bladerunner. It's not like they never say his name in the movie. It's said multiple times.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Imagine watching Bladerunner and being so fucked up on whatever drugs he was on to think the main character’s name was “Bladerunner”.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I assumed it was the equivalent of "dark enlightenment".

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