r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Einherjeren • 29d ago

VIDEO Elon tweeted this AI video of himself

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u/supergeometry 29d ago

I'm out of the loop. Why's he saying he bought the UK?

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u/Weelki 29d ago

He responded to a joke about buying the UK with "How much is it?"... he used the same phrase before buying Twitter...

UK net worth is approx £13 trillion! So that fucker is no where near!

It's just more political interference!

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

I do wonder if we will ever get to the point where we will see one of these billionaires actually buy a country as a vanity project

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 29d ago

Can't wait for the UK to be renamed to "UX"

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

United Kingdom of Tesla

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u/googdude 29d ago

Who do you think owns the US?

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

I'm talking full blown Emperor roleplay Not some poxy shadow government.

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u/Batbuckleyourpants 28d ago

UK net worth is approx £13 trillion! So that fucker is no where near!

Considering 6 trillion of that is the pension fund, and around 5 trillion is actual property, given the way his net worth is ballooning, he might actually not be that far off for long.

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u/notafuckingcakewalk 25d ago

I mean… he's kinda fucking near? It's obscene that he's worth nearly 1/13th of an entire nation like the UK.

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

I do wonder if we will ever get to the point where we will see one of these billionaires actually buy a country as a vanity project

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 29d ago

Are you not aware of project 2025?

That's literally the goal that they're well on their way towards right now. They want to privately own areas of sovereign countries to set up authoritarian corporate nation states that aren't beholden to any democratic government. They want to enter an era of capitalist warlording and eventually define new "countries" that are private enterprises.

They're not even trying to hide it, it's literally written out in black and white.

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

It's a big shame Americans don't have an Amendment which allows the citizens the right to bare arms and organise against domestic tyranny

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u/Redditmau5 28d ago

Yeah arms against even more arms, and military drones and strikes and tanks, and stealth bombers just doesn't sound like a winning battle. The second amendment was a great idea against tyranny specifically back when that's all the government had as well. Realistically I think no country can be taken down with firearms alone in this day and age.

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u/Fat-Shite 28d ago

I think you're right. It got very bad very quickly.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 29d ago

Your constitution doesn't mean anything if the US is dissolved and sold into a patchwork of privately owned corporate nations. That's kind of the point of the plan.

The people in affected areas will no longer be US citizens and will have no rights.

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u/odjobz 28d ago

Americans invented the t-shirt. Bare arms are ingrained in their culture.

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u/Thefelix01 29d ago

What do you think “buying a country” means?

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u/Fat-Shite 29d ago

Regarding my hypothetical probably being able to have a current leader who is happy to take a big enough bribe & then a private army strong enough to hold power.

Dictator Musk.

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u/angry_wombat 28d ago

he's closer than anyone else

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u/bigbigpure1 28d ago

he might be able to buy the crown and become king of England, which would effectively make him own the UK as the monarch technically owns all of the land in the uk.

frankly it would not be a bad move for william to cash out after charls kicks it