{"id":273217,"date":"2020-07-25T15:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=273217"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:36:32","slug":"we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-elon-musk-sparks-online-riot-with-quip-about-overthrow-of-bolivias-evo-morales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-elon-musk-sparks-online-riot-with-quip-about-overthrow-of-bolivias-evo-morales\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will coup whoever we want\u2019: Elon Musk sparks online riot with quip about overthrow of Bolivia\u2019s Evo Morales"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
It\u2019s not at all a \u201cjoke\u201d: it\u2019s the ugly face of the 0.001% super-rich people who are the real power governing the world and putting puppet politicians in place to impose what\u2019s best for their interests,\u00a0 always further dominating the slave population, the 99.999%.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has stirred up a Twitter storm after seemingly suggesting that he has no objections to carrying out regime change operations for his company\u2019s benefit. But some argued Musk was clearly joking.<\/p>\n

The provocative comments were made after the billionaire businessman suggested that another government stimulus bill to help boost America\u2019s faltering economy would\u00a0\u201cnot be in the best interests of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

One unpersuaded commentator fired back:\u00a0\u201cYou know what wasn\u2019t in the best interest of people? The US government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you could obtain the lithium there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk, apparently unphased by the accusation, responded:\u00a0\u201cWe will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.\u201d\u00a0In a follow-up tweet, he claimed that Tesla gets its lithium from Australia.<\/p>\n

The post triggered Twitter pandemonium. Journalist Max Blumenthal claimed that Musk\u2019s unapologetic tweet\u00a0\u201cpractically takes credit for the Bolivian lithium coup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others\u00a0described\u00a0Musk\u2019s musings as\u00a0\u201cflippant\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cmurderous and cruel,\u201d\u00a0even as they\u00a0acknowledged\u00a0his\u00a0\u201crefreshing candor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not everyone took the Tesla CEO\u2019s pronouncement at face value, however. Some observers argued that Musk was clearly joking, even if his jest was in poor taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get this is meant to be a joke, but this is really bad. Innocent people suffer when military coups backed by the US happen. You are making light of that suffering,\u201d\u00a0read\u00a0one\u00a0reply.<\/p>\n

Bolivia\u2019s former president, Evo Morales, resigned and fled the country last November following accusations of election fraud. In an interview with RT, he called the events\u00a0\u201ca coup\u201d\u00a0aimed at installing a right-wing leader who will open up Bolivia\u2019s lithium reserves \u2013 some of the largest in the world \u2013 to exploitation by industry.<\/p>\n

Earlier in November 2019, Bolivia axed a massive lithium project with German company ACI Systems Alemania (ACISA). Although it\u2019s true that Tesla receives lithium from Australia, it is also said to be one of ACISA\u2019s clients.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: It\u2019s not at all a \u201cjoke\u201d: it\u2019s the ugly face of the 0.001% super-rich people who are the real power governing the world and putting puppet politicians in place to impose what\u2019s best for their interests,\u00a0 always further dominating the slave population, the 99.999%.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}