The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Rishi Sunak plans appearance at rightwing Italian premier’s political festival
UK prime minister pencilled in as surprise guest at Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy event
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Watch: Sunak speaks at Italian right-wing political festival
Watch as Rishi Sunak speaks at Giorgia Meloni's right-wing political festival in Italy on Saturday, 16 December.
www.independent.co.uk
Do you have data to back up this claim? I would argue a man with a private jet has not done more for climate change than any other human being on the planet, even if that man is responsible for pushing EV's
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He didn’t say if he’d done the most good or bad stuff for climate though to be fair…
Rishi Sunak plans appearance at rightwing Italian premier’s political festival
UK prime minister pencilled in as surprise guest at Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy event
Watch: Sunak speaks at Italian right-wing political festival
Watch as Rishi Sunak speaks at Giorgia Meloni's right-wing political festival in Italy on Saturday, 16 December.
You've linked some places who used the word right wing, but it's the equivalent of Labour hosting a festival and it being labelled "a left wing festival". While being literally correct, it doesn't really mean anything. The phrase "Elon Musk attends right wing festival" is being deliberately used to attach a negative connotation, people immediately think it was some far right neo-Nazi festival or something, where as the reality is it's just a Conservative festival because that happens to be the party of the Italian Prime Minister. If he attended the UK Conservative party conference as a speaker, you could say the same thing, but no one would. It's relying on people's ignorance, which is clearly plentiful.
What data could there possibly be? A private jet contrasted with being the CEO of one of the worlds leading EV makers, as well as SolarCity? Who else has done more? It's obviously not an empirical statement, but feel free to list someone you think may have personally done more.
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lol! and trump had the biggest most viewed inauguration too. period!
you know you don't have to talk as though you're speaking facts, and then when asked to provide any, avoid and act like it's a given. period! it's not. Period! there's many others that could easily be top spot. period!
like you've said...
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He lobbied against high speed rail in California using his con of Hyperloop. That high speed rail connection would have been great for lowering carbon immersions, less flights and less cars making the journey. He did it because he feared it would hurt his car business. I might be wrong here but that doesn't sound very climate friendly to me.
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The Hyperloop, would love to see Roar defend that pile of ****
Well here's the thing, Americans don't use trains. They're a nation of people who use cars. So even if they built high speed rail in California, hardly anyone would use it. Culturally it's just not really an American thing like it is in the UK and Europe. So mass production of EVs is actually a far more effective route to take in North America, where as in Europe rail makes more sense, even though tickets are about 5x as expensive as they should be.
It's not very environmentally friendly to build a high speed rail network that no one wants to use, it's actually the complete opposite.
There isn't a Hyperloop, but so what? Why is it a pile of ****? I'll wait
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Because physics.
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and that's hard facts.
Happy to hear your take on it gabby, genuinely.
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Americans don't use high speed rail because they don't have high speed rail. If they could get from LA to SF in the same time as a flight for less money how do you know they wouldn't use it? And not everyone has cars, its why so many people use buses there.
Rail is the most environmentally friendly transport there is. If Elon wasn't worried about it why did he lobby with his vapourware Hyperloop?
Sounds like some weird conspiracy, as if Elon Musk is the reason California doesn't have high speed rail xD
Why is this even relevant? The US uses trains 10x less than the UK per capita, we don't all use trains in the UK because of high speed rail either, most journeys aren't done on high speed rail. It's simply a cultural thing. In the US they mostly use cars, gas is cheaper, people learn to drive younger, car ownership is higher. It's just cultural. Some high speed rail that 10% of people in California can afford would have zero impact on the environment. It's not even clear if it would be a net benefit for the environment.
Why is this even relevant? The US uses trains 10x less than the UK per capita, we don't all use trains in the UK because of high speed rail either, most journeys aren't done on high speed rail. It's simply a cultural thing. In the US they mostly use cars, gas is cheaper, people learn to drive younger, car ownership is higher. It's just cultural. Some high speed rail that 10% of people in California can afford would have zero impact on the environment. It's not even clear if it would be a net benefit for the environment.
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The implication there is you think the Italian Prime Minister and Conservatives are left-wing.
This may come as a shock to you but wanting to leave the EU isn't something that's exclusive to people on the right, it's a nationalist thing and you get them across the entire political spectrum.
Yea, shooting rockets into the sky, powering the infrastructure of Twitter, promoting crypto, flying around the world in his private jet, and making cars with all that metal, plastic, rubber, and rare earth metals does way more for climate change than any of those people who plant trees.
Elon sells cars, so he will **** anything that makes people buy less cars
I still bet Roar doesn't even own a Tesla, he has yet to prove otherwise
When have I said I own a Tesla???
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A Tesla! I'm sure roar has better taste than that. You're missing a key one though. I bet not even a blue tick!
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EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation
The EU says it is launching "formal enforcement proceedings" against the social media platform.
www.bbc.co.uk
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