It all feels a bit like a mid-life crisis and his professional success has clearly lead to a bit of a God complex.

I expect his profile will crash and burn one way or another over the next few years - too many bad decisions.

how many times are you going to keep mentioning the left leaning media.
Let's look at the evidence.

The world media is still strongly influenced by Rupert Murdoch - hardly left wing is he, and therefore nor are any of his companies.

In the UK newspaper section we have about 10 mainstream newspapers and all but 2 are right leaning (all but the Mirror and Guardian) so that's 80% right leaning, probably higher based on volume sold.

On TV we have the BBC now controlled by an ex Tory candidate and only on Sunday during the riots they described the riots as 'pro British' protests.
Their leading political figure Laura Kuenssberg is regularly criticised for her bias against labour and often posts comments directly from Tory HQ.
We have GB news that is so right leaning it doesn't even care and employs a number of Tory MPs directly.

In the States they have Fox News which seems on a par of GB News to the point they have been sued over their election fraud comments.

So i would say the right is very well represented

Ok, I have to push back on some of this.

Murdoch owes four British newspapers in Britain.

The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, The Times and The Sunday Times.

The Sun, both versions, literally supported voting Labour in this election. They famously supported Blair.....the idea that the Sun is 'right wing' is laughable, the Sun supports whatever they think flogs copy.

The Times, both versions, is a small 'c' conservative paper that strongly supported Remain and regularly attacks anything to the right of the centralist Tory party.

Ok, let's move to TV broadcast....something that gains vastly more eyes than newspapers....Both are dying but TV less quickly than print media.

In Britain, none of the main broadcasters are right wing. GB News has been operating for a few years but is under constant attack by regulators and ignored by advertisers precisely because it has right wing content on it.....specific efforts being made to make it unviable.

In the US, the picture is different. However, Musk is under specific attack in an effort to close him down as I wrote earlier.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Do you know what? If you hate X & loathe Musk, start you're own social media company or at least grow some nuts & back the courage of your conviction & delete your X account

Pro USA & Israel

The subject of this thread is Elon Musk and X I think.

I am an old codger, but I am not a slouch in terms of today's technology - I build my own computers and I use my phone to buy things. However, I have never used, or subscribed to, Twitter/X, so I can't comment on whether Musk's ownership has changed the platform, but I do believe the use of social media generally has got out of control and has become one of the main catalysts in the coordination of this latest uprising.

As far as Musk's input into what the world is seeing at the moment I think that, as the planet's richest man, he is in a unique position to express his views. He is not alone in believing that our country is under attack, more and more commentators are also saying so. The indigenous population is rapidly being swamped with nationalities and cultures that are alien to us and, what's more, do not make attempts to adapt or fit in.

I'm glad Musk has written what he has. As an outsider he can see clearly what is happening here, but unfortunately the government, particularly the current one, wil continue to pander to minority groups for fear of being considered racist.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

So he can compete with Gab and go bankrupt? Great result!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.