Musk has posted about an impending civil war on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months. Some warn it’s dangerous rhetoric.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly prophesied a future civil war related to immigration.

Musk has posted about the subject on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months, according to a review of his posts by NBC News. And his posts usually include a specific prediction: He thinks that Europe in particular is headed toward a “civil war” due to the arrival of refugees from other continents.

Musk’s interest in the subject of a civil war poked into public view earlier this month when he weighed in on anti-immigration street riots happening across Great Britain. “Civil war is inevitable,” he wrote on X.

Musk’s rhetoric is unheard-of for a corporate executive speaking in public, but the prediction of a civil war has become a frequent talking point among some far-right activists who view a civil war in Europe or the U.S. as not only unavoidable but also as something to be welcomed.

“What you’re seeing in these calls for civil war is a white supremacist clarion call. It is a dog whistle,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.

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    “What you’re seeing in these calls for civil war is a white supremacist clarion call. It is a dog whistle,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.

    Hmmm …

    “The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, a neo-Nazi and the founder and chairman of National Alliance, a white nationalist group, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. It depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the federal government, a nuclear war, and ultimately a race war which leads to the systematic extermination of non-whites and Jews. All groups opposed by the novel’s protagonist, Earl Turner—including Jews, non-white people, “liberal actors,” and politicians—are murdered en masse.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries

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      The fact that I’ve heard people unironically call for the Day of the Rope.

      That’s the ending of the book when the liberals lose power because of all the fucking nukes that the “Heroes” dropped and the “Good White Men” stand up and start lynching all the people who “Let it get so bad” in public. The book even says that many “Innocent” people were killed in the conclusion of it, but the heroes write it off as a “necessary sacrifice for the greater good”

      It’s full of insanity that feels more like parody, but this is their actual fantasy… A war-torn uninhabitable nuclear wasteland where the survivors just pick non-descript fruit all day.

      This is a book where the good guy beats a white teenager to death withe a crowbar because she had the gall to get raped by a black man, and that’s obviously her fault… /s This guy is said to be a calm nerdy type who was liberal all his life too…

      It’s also said that white feminists legalized rape to promote equality between the sexes, yes I’m not kidding. The whole book is the most fucked up piece of shit I’ve ever seen in my life.

      There’s just… so much wrong with Turner Diaries it makes my spine hurt. It really reads like a cautionary tale about fascism written as an extremely edgy parody of “What Right Wingers actually believe”, but… no this book really means that…

      Edit: Wait what did he say that had to do with the Turner Diaries.