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Elon Musk said he is starting a new political party, which he dubbed the 'America Party' in a post on X Saturday.

Musk was born in South Africa but obtained his citizenship in 2002. He took an increasingly prominent role in politics through his partnership with Donald Trump during the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle, pumping money into the Republican's campaign and utilizing his social media platform, X, to promote him.

However, Musk and Trump had a very public fall out after the tech mogul departed the federal government. While Musk has walked back some of his more outrageous allegations and attacks, he has persisted with the idea that the U.S. needs a new political party.

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[-] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

"I want a fan club!"

The twat is sad he's not in the news as much anymore.

Borrowing from the Brits when I say: Fuck off, ya wanker!

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

We need a parliamentary system before a 3rd party is viable.

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[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

Party with drugs people... This isn't about politics.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you can't build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?

The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn't go away. It's just that now you've got extra tasks to deal with.

Trump didn't get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 0 points 1 week ago
  1. Publicly funded elections
  2. End FPTP and enact a parliamentary system
  3. Better media that lets everyone know what's going on

Lots of luck with any one of them, but that's the answer

[-] evenglow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

We don't need the answer. We need a leader.

[-] madlian@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 week ago

Leader is subjective. Trump is a “leader.”

We do not need another Trump.

[-] evenglow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Is there anything else you can infer from my comment?

[-] madlian@lemmy.cafe -1 points 1 week ago

It’s actually the words you used.

“We need a leader”

Quite subjective.

[-] evenglow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No. You lack the ability to make very basic contextual inferences.

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