Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.

The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive has endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany, demanded the release of jailed U.K. anti-Islam extremist Tommy Robinson and called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer an evil tyrant who should be in prison.

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      23 hours ago

      You can still trade with other people.

      The meaning of what I’m saying is to focus on problems you can affect, not ones that only affect you as much as you let them.

      Slacktivists won’t like this, though.

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        22 hours ago

        Which tribe will run the pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and who assures they won’t put poison in it to wipe out a rival tribe?

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        21 hours ago

        It sounds like you mean we should focus on impacting and supporting our local communities. That is definitely something more of us should be doing.

        It’s the use of the word “tribalism” that’s putting people off. That word has connotations that (I don’t believe?) you intended. To a lot of us, it’s a pejorative term that refers to the mindset of a small group that’s fiercely hostile to other groups (while only being protective to their own.) A group with a “tribalist” mindset is likely a bubble of xenophobia.