Letters: The world’s first trillionaire makes life unbearable

Musk being a trillionaire should inspire disgust (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. This amount is almost beyond comprehension.

He makes about $1 million a minute. If he spent that $1 million every day, it would take 2,740 years to spend it all.

There are few things more unconscionable than such an evil person having such a large portion of the world’s wealth.

There are few things scarier than such a hefty amount of money being in the hands of someone who could never be trusted to use it for good.

When I hear the words “Musk is a trillionaire,” my mind jumps straight to the rows and rows of wrongly detained people in Ice facilities. People who are not being fed properly. People who are without the medication that they need.

I think of the cruelty of Donald Trump’s welfare system, one that Musk supports. A system where people on food benefits are given just $6 a day.

I think of how Musk is using his power and influence to help unleash what constitutes a “cleansing” of transgender people from the US. How he’s fostering attitudes that allow them to be murdered with abandon and treated at all points like second class citizens.

I remember how he could end world hunger several times over but just doesn’t seem to want to. How he pledged to give $6.6 billion towards it—just 0.66 percent of his wealth—but then gave that money to his own foundation instead. Not his monkeys, not his circus, right?

Musk being a trillionaire should inspire disgust.

A man, the richest in the world, is using his wealth and power to make the lives of ordinary people unbearable.

It should serve as a reminder of the laundry list of things wrong with the Trump administration and the yes men like Musk who support it.

I’m concerned, and you should be too.

Remy Dharmi, east London

We need militancy

The growth of the far right in Britain and the north of Ireland has been met with impressive mass anti-fascist mobilisations, such as in Brighton.

But the race riots are a stark demonstration of the growing need for militancy on a broad scale.

Already we have far right street mobs burning houses and holding check points. We must also consider the looming threat of what they could do under a Reform UK government.

Nigel Farage is open that his answer to imagined “two-tier policing” will be to set the police—likely in his Trumpian proposed immigration force—against the left.

The show trial of the Filton 4 and proscription of Palestine Action are the latest high-profile instances of repression of the left.

Mass anti-racist organisations choose to distance themselves from or undermine militant anti-fascist groups, but they must be asking themselves now if the image of establishment respectability is more valuable than doing what it takes to defend our communities.

Not everyone can be frontline, but part of the work of all serious anti‑fascists should be to support those who are.

Anna Price, South Wales

Will the Greens buckle under Zionist pressure?

Labour has been the dominant party in Hackney for all but eight years since 1964.

A factor that saw Labour humbled in Hackney in the recent by-election was its continued loyalty to Israel.

Hackney Green Party made a pledge to divest the council’s pension fund from Israeli firms. It has also committed to de-twin the borough from the Israeli port of Haifa.

But the council is being tested.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) wrote to the council complaining that a photo of Brenda Puech, a Green councillor, on the council website showed her wearing a keffiyeh. UKLFI claimed it was “antisemitic”.

Hackney council removed Puech’s picture.

Zoë Garbett, Green mayor, condemned the removal.

If a council with a Green majority, headed by a Green mayor can’t overturn this or stand up to Zionist bullies, how is it going to disinvest from firms that are complicit in the terror state of Israel?

Sasha Simic, east London

The real ­terrorists

In the past few weeks we’ve seen terrorism on the streets of Belfast. But not the terrorism ascribed to people holding signs and sitting cross-legged in public places.

The assault on the Palestinian people is terrorism. Terrorism the British government supports.

The two thousand plus dual British nationals who served in the Israeli forces are fine returning home. And we’re in no danger apparently, even though war crimes have been committed.

Louis Shawcross, County Down, north of Ireland