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 (DIR) Post #AyECsJbaydjmLj8H1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-09-15T10:58:58Z
       
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       Elon Musk doesn't really have an authentic national identity he is willing to embrace due to his racism. To be South African? Awkward, complicated. One would need to recognize the past and help be a part of building a multi-ethnic future. To be American? He will always be an immigrant. He's not "English" either. Maybe that's why he's latched on to whiteness?
       
 (DIR) Post #AyEEc4XhPdM0uLh008 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-09-15T11:18:18Z
       
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       @androcat Well he could also just be American ... but it would mean embracing the multi-ethnic multi-cultural vision of being American.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyEFs1wGxbh7Q7MMnA by quinn@social.circl.lu
       2025-09-15T11:32:28Z
       
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       @futurebird I suspect he sees himself mainly in terms of the ruling class, Grand Duke without portfolio, who definitely recently found out he's not king but nevertheless very much entitled. I don't think he feels comfortable on Earth, and still dreams sometimes of being emperor of Mars.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyEH243o1lL6qlERZQ by vestige@sleepyhe.ad
       2025-09-15T11:45:32Z
       
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       @futurebird This describes many white rural Americans, not just Elon.America isn't a melting pot. It's a rice mill. Cultural identity is stripped away, and isolated people latch on to whatever "ism" they can to find a sense of identity, and often racism and nationalism are the easiest ones to find.That's part of why I think hacker culture has been so popular and positive in America - though hacker culture is not without its problems. It is, at least, an identity that is not directly tied to genocide and nationalism.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyEJG6pCkIGfO1E8bA by Deixis9@beige.party
       2025-09-15T12:10:30Z
       
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       @futurebird Citizens of nowhere, it's a trait shared by these zillinonaires, not just the South Africans.Extreme antisocial behaviour.They fantasise about living away from us on private islands, spaceships and planets.@georgemonbiot.bsky.social has some ideas on them in his Neoliberal book.