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Eugene

(64,247 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 12:45 PM Feb 15

Russia Asks Elon Musk for Help Crushing Dissent

Source: The New Republic

Russia Asks Elon Musk for Help Crushing Dissent

Edith Olmsted
Thu, February 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM EST·2 min read

It looks like Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government could put people’s lives at risk across the world.

USAID provided, among other things, funding for groups advocating for human rights and democratic reforms in states mired by autocratic regimes, as a form of U.S. soft power in places such as Russia. When Musk gutted the agency earlier this month, he baselessly claimed that USAID was “laundering” taxpayer funds into far-left sources.

Now Russia wants to know exactly where the money was going. Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, asked the U.S. Tuesday for a list of individuals and opposition groups in Russia who received money from USAID.

“If they recognized the organization as an enemy, let them give us the lists,” Volodin said, according to The Times of London.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/russia-asks-elon-musk-sell-172435826.html

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Russia Asks Elon Musk for Help Crushing Dissent (Original Post) Eugene Feb 15 OP
The power to kill Turbineguy Feb 15 #1
Isn't that treason.... Lovie777 Feb 15 #2
Last year Felon Musk helped Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Nakba. C0RI0LANUS Feb 15 #3
That does it... 2naSalit Feb 15 #4

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
3. Last year Felon Musk helped Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Nakba.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:38 PM
Feb 15

"Elon Musk's X Suspends Nelson Mandela's Grandson Account as He Calls for Palestinian Liberation"

Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela was heading to Gaza on a Freedom Flotilla when Felon Musk cut him off.



Source:

https://www.vcpost.com/articles/126072/20240427/elon-musk-x-suspends-nelson-mandela-grandson-account-palestinian.htm


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2naSalit

(96,306 posts)
4. That does it...
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 01:38 PM
Feb 15

If he even speaks to poopy, arrest him and don't let orangeanus have any say.

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