This is wild.
In every single one of these countries, China is now viewed more favourably than the US. It represents a shift in favourability in *all* cases.
ICE NAZI IDENTIFIED: MARTIN LAGUNAS (OF CHICAGO).
HE POINTED HIS GUN AT A LAW-ABIDING U.S. CITIZEN MARTIN WAS PUBLICLY IDENTIFIED BY 2 OTHER ICE NAZIS AND A FAMILY MEMBER
Never forget that it was Elon Musk who gave Andrew Tate his platform back.
After Tate had been charged in Romania, Musk doubled down by significantly promoting Tate's account, inviting him to Spaces to spread his propaganda & misinformation, without a single care for the alleged victims of r*pe and trafficking and the fact the case was ongoing.
Elon Musk’s visible shock when confronted with the fact that London is safer than American cities exposes a massive gap between social media algorithms and statistical reality.
Despite the endless stream of online panic about ”dangerous” European capitals, the numbers don’t lie: London is objectively safer than almost every city in the United States.
The idea that London is a crime-ridden wasteland is a triumph of online disinformation, allowed to spread unchecked on platforms like X because it fits a specific political narrative.
The actual data shows that London's homicide rate sits at roughly 1.1 per 100,000 people. To put that in perspective, 100 out of the 100 largest US cities (!!!) have higher homicide rates than London, and 49 out of 50 US states are more dangerous on this metric. London achieves this safety record despite being a massive, diverse global hub of nine million residents.
Critics often point to property crime or phone snatching to argue that London is worse, but using petty crime to ignore murder statistics is fundamentally flawed. Criminologists rely heavily on homicide rates because non-fatal crime statistics are notoriously harder to compare and more unreliable. Theft, sexual violence, and minor assault reporting rates fluctuate wildly depending on how much citizens trust local police or whether they need a police report for an insurance claim. Forms of non-lethal violence also vary based on legislation: you will naturally see more stabbings in a country with fewer guns, and more gun violence in a country with more guns.
Homicide, by contrast, is an absolute and objective metric. It measures the ultimate form of violence, correlates strongly with overall severe crime, and leaves almost no room for underreporting. It counts all forms of lethal violence in an unhackable way. It is impossible to claim your city is safer than London if you have a five times higher homicide rate, even if London scores worse on theft.
London has plenty of room for improvement, but American commentators living under drastically higher murder rates should clean up their own backyard before preaching to others
Elon Musk called The Economist's Editor-in-Chief "a traitor to the West" after a tough interview. For someone who brands himself a free speech absolutist, attacking a respected journalist over difficult questions looks deeply hypocritical.
@RonFilipkowski Republicans prove once again that until it happens to them directly, they are incapable of comprehending that others’ lives might be different from theirs.
Translation:
California made it illegal for Elon Musk to buy elections.
And next, we’re going to make it a felony for Donald Trump to rig one.
Watch out.
Elon took $38 billion from US taxpayers to make a bunch of rockets explode while he illegally cut pediatric cancer research, meals on wheels and USAID. He’s the ultimate fraud and parasite.
I have no idea why Musk seems to believe that if you cut an aid program, private donors can just recreate it quickly using local infrastructure.
This is why unelected drug addicts don't make policy decisions.
Rovina Naboi in Kenya lost her little daughter Jane to starvation in a refugee camp. After Elon Musk threw USAID into the woodchipper, food was rationed to 40 percent of daily caloric needs, and one meal a day.
The world's richest man did this.