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Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud (www.newsweek.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30917902

A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's that weird but common enough perception of Russia among the dumber kind of Americans, that it's some land of tough people of ideology similar to that dumb kind and what not. At the same time all such idiots who tried to really move to Russia were scammed of their money and ran home. And apparently similar attempts by Boers didn't have different results.

Even the Star Wars picture of Mandalorians in the newer media sometimes borrowed from that stereotype and not from the initial references to Maori and western movies.

What I personally don't understand is why'd you consider losers tough.

It has something common with cowardice, maybe - cowards consider places with lots of slave-master dynamic to have tougher people, because they don't understand what "tough" even is.

So - Elon, don't (I think Kadyrov did threaten to rape him in the past, so probably he understands that himself).

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Edward Snowden got asylum there, if you have value and fame they'll treat you a lot better

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just wonder if he knows how thin is the rope he's walking since then. Or if he realizes that asylum in Russia is not very different from asylum in China or in Thailand or in Emirates or Saudia or ... Point being, that despite all the European-looking people around, nobody will hear him cry if at some point somebody important decides to silence him just in case.

Or maybe he knows and feels just fine having joined the privileged caste here. Those people who generally don't live in Russia at all, just visit it from time to time. I guess it'd be hard to blame him anyway, looking at Assange, who've spend a kinda big part of his life in the same small space slowly losing his mind.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

I don't think he likes being there, but probably does feel safer there then in a western country or a state allied to US.