“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

At the heart of the recent clash between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon is the immigration question, and specifically the H-1B visas for skilled immigrants working in “specialty occupations,” which Musk has said he supports. But for Bannon, the issue is emblematic of a bigger problem in Musk’s thinking.

“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious,” Bannon said, noting that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”

“No blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs,” Bannon said.

“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon observed. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”

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    Breitbart has zero credibility. I thought we’d all knew better than to share Breitbart links.

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    It’s hilarious to see people on the far right using leftist talking points to discredit the new techbrocratic right.

    But holy fuck the Overton window in the US is so fucked we’re running out of ways to describe the right side.

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      Mmm. It’s more like how during the American Civil War some people sided with the Union because they didn’t want black people in the country at all and that couldn’t happen with slavery.

      His point and motivations are Nazi shit and never anything else.

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    It truly is weird timeline where I’d share any of his statements in a positive light.

    Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being self-serving, insisting that his “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.”

    “What’s not positive,” he added, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”

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      this could be the most insane path to class consciousness imaginable. it would be incredible if all of elon musks political projects end up culminating in the working class developing class solidarity and mobilizing against the ruling class. especially when he could have just done nothing and still been a hundred billionaire.

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        I hope they don’t manage to build killer robot police before the class emancipation starts. They need us, we don’t need them… never forget this fact!

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    Bruh going full 1950s women’s hairdo

    Also we’ve reached multi-tiered nazi levels in the GOP. The bar keeps getting lower and lower

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        I’m always stunned by how much he’s let himself go since this picture was taken. These last few years have been rough on his body. I hope it gives him a stroke or something

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          Look at trump. He’s clearly got a lot more damage he can do to his body and still keep fucking up the world.

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    Can we build a Coliseum like Rome has for events like this fight?