i guess people didn’t see the humor he insisted was behind it. maybe he just needs to explain how funny it is until we see it
But that would ruin the whole joke!!
Which he is.
Whoa, that’s a shame.
Maybe we can hire him to run NASA or something idk.
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Tesla sales down 63% in France and 60% in Germany from a year ago, among smaller drops elsewhere. The article notes it’s not all due to Musk being an election-meddling Nazi, but it certainly is fueling anti-Tesla sentiment in America’s rival nations in the EU.
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Apparently Musk got annoyed that Grok wasn’t racist enough and put it into Afrikaner mode. Just a few examples
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Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I’ve yet to see a single piece of information critical of (or even neutral toward) these white refugees, but a lot of Republican frenzied vitriol about Democrats/Black people who I guess want to kill them or something.
Like, I could Google it myself but I haven’t organically stumbled upon a single news article or even a comment neutrally discussing them, let alone attacking them. Zero. I don’t know anything about it, except dozens of mentions in places like /r/Conservative talking about how liberals are frothing at the mouth about it.
Feels like extremely astroturfed rage bait.
This could describe most of Republican talking points on a variety of topics.
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The episcopal church is refusing to help the Afrikaners while the government is refusing to help other refugees. That’s not being critical of them, just a protest of the lack of support of others, but I can see that as being taken negatively.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-s1-5395887/afrikaners-refugees-trump-episcopal-church
Ah. More a religious row. I guess it’s become one of those “anything not pro-Trump is liberal” topics.
I didn’t go down a rabbit hole, but the easiest source I found from 2014 showed that
According to the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Study, members of the Episcopal Church are politically split between conservative (31 percent), moderate (37 percent) and liberal (29 percent).
More specifically…it’s a three-part concern on the part of the Episcopalians:
First – federal mechanisms to help settle refugees have largely been shut down; ECUSA is being told “Afrikaner refugees incoming; you have to take care of them; good luck” without the formerly usual federal supports in place.
Second – the feds have shut down the acceptance of primarily non-fair-skinned folks traditionally considered in need of refugee status, and created this new class of not-previously recognized fair-skinned refugees, begging questions about racism, which ECUSA doesn’t want to be part of.
Third – ECUSA has been trying to find reconciliation with its sister Anglican organizations in southern Africa…and supporting the US government’s efforts to rescue/“rescue” Afrikaners from those organizations’ parishioners, particularly when some of those parishioners may have previously been candidates for refugee status, is a problem.
If the feds had simply decided to invite Afrikaners as refugees, and if their need is that great, ECUSA probably wouldn’t have had a problem. It’s the full context that’s creating a problem.
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I wonder what an updated survey would show. 2014 would have been around the time the Episcopalians’ schism would have started to stabilize.
(More socially conservative congregations splintered off…)
I assumed that the grok stuff was all fake, but apparently was real.
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