Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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I remember when the Leftoids hailed Elon Musk as a hero.
So does Julian Assange.
Get fucked, worms. No matter how much you hate it, Twitter is now a platform for free speech.
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Quote:Free speech for Trumptards is what Twitter does.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember when the Leftoids hailed Elon Musk as a hero.
So does Julian Assange.
Get fucked, worms. No matter how much you hate it, Twitter is now a platform for free speech.
If there’s one tweet that will tell you everything you need to know about Elon Musk, it’s this one from early this morning:
Elon Musk @elonmusk
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
4:58 AM · Dec 11, 2022
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888
In five words, Musk manages to mock transgender and nonbinary people, signal his disdain for public-health officials, and send up a flare to far-right shitposters and trolls. The tweet is a cruel and senseless play on pronouns that also invokes the right’s fury toward Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, for what they believe is a government overreach in public-health policy throughout the pandemic and an obfuscation of the coronavirus’s origins. (Fauci, for his part, has said he would cooperate with any possible investigations and has nothing to hide.)
Beyond its stark cruelty, this tweet is incredibly thirsty. As right-wing troll memes go, it is Dad-level, 4chan–Clark Griswold stuff, which is to say it’s desperate engagement bait in the hopes of attracting kudos from the only influencers who give Musk the time of day anymore: right-wing shock jocks. But that is the proper company for the billionaire, because whether or not he wants to admit it, Musk is actively aiding the far right’s political project. He is a right-wing activist.
Currently, Musk’s politics are a subject of debate in the press. On Saturday, The New York Times’ Jeremy W. Peters attempted to offer a nuanced portrait of the Twitter owner’s ideologies, arguing that Musk “continues to defy easy political categorization.” But Peters’ laundry list of Musk’s recent lib-trolling and “woke” scolding—such as Musk’s November recommendation to his millions of followers to vote Republican—undermines the very thesis of the article. The nuance Peters is looking for does not exist: Musk’s actions and associations make a clear case that he is a right-wing reactionary.
Musk, for his part, has maintained that he is a centrist, that his politics have remained unchanged, and that it is the Democratic Party that has veered dramatically leftward. (Musk and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) Musk’s logic—that wayward leftism has given a lifelong moderate liberal no choice but to support right-wing causes—is a common trope among far-right activists. It has been employed by many in the so-called Intellectual Dark Web and influencers such as Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, and others. The argument stretches far back in American politics. The neoconservative movement in the United States was originated by liberals who grew disillusioned with the Democratic Party, especially in relation to the left’s Vietnam protests.
Publicly, Musk appears deeply committed to the right’s culture war against progressivism in most forms. His purchase of Twitter was an explicitly political act couched in the notion of preserving free speech. But Musk’s notion of free speech is a broad course correction that involves amplifying and advancing the interests of right-wing reactionaries while trolling the left. Musk might argue that this is restoring balance to the system, but if we are judging based only on actions and outcomes, it is very hard to see his tenure at Twitter as anything other than a series of policies intended to benefit a particular ideology.
Twitter has suspended accounts that have mocked Musk or expressed left-leaning views. Whether intentionally or not, Musk has, in effect, been governing Twitter using the classic Frank Wilhoit maxim: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Put differently, the billionaire has
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Among the many grievances people harbor toward Elon Musk, add one more: animal cruelty.
Neuralink, a startup co-founded by Musk in 2016, aims to develop a brain chip implant. But to do that, the company has first been testing its technology on animals, killing some 1,500 since 2018 — and employee whistleblowers recently told Reuters the experiments are going horribly wrong.
Current and former employees told Reuters that Musk put staff under immense pressure to speed up animal trials in order to begin human trials, telling them that they had to imagine a bomb was strapped to their head as motivation to work harder and faster.
That may have contributed to botched experiments: Through documents and interviews with Neuralink staff, Reuters identified four experiments with 86 pigs and two monkeys that went awry due to employee mistakes. As a result, the experiments had to be repeated.
Much more at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/12/11/23500157/neuralink-anima
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Free speech for Trumptards is what Twitter does.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember when the Leftoids hailed Elon Musk as a hero.
So does Julian Assange.
Get fucked, worms. No matter how much you hate it, Twitter is now a platform for free speech.
If there’s one tweet that will tell you everything you need to know about Elon Musk, it’s this one from early this morning:
Elon Musk @elonmusk
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
That's a great tweet.
Fauci's fucked, and fuck your pronouns.
Why do you think Fauci hightailed it out of there after being silent for half a year?
Preserve your documents.
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Among the many grievances people harbor toward Elon Musk, add one more: animal cruelty.
Fuck off. You people used to blow Elon all day, every day.
The last 3/4 of that article isn't even about Musk, and the first 1/4 of it states that the USDA found nothing wrong with the operation.
I know you love getting jabbed up with experimental substances, but sane people don't.
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Quote:The USDA can't find animal cruelty, but Musk's employees described the cruelty to the news reporters. It is the same kind of story with Musk and the self-driving cars. The government agencies in charge are not stopping Musk from lying about his self-driving cars, but his customers are suing him because they paid an extra $15,000 for self-driving sensors, which would be activated in a few months, once the software was perfected. It just so happens the few months have gone into the past and the customers are slowly realizing that Musk is a liar who stole their money.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Among the many grievances people harbor toward Elon Musk, add one more: animal cruelty.
Fuck off. You people used to blow Elon all day, every day.
The last 3/4 of that article isn't even about Musk, and the first 1/4 of it states that the USDA found nothing wrong with the operation.
I know you love getting jabbed up with experimental substances, but sane people don't.
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The total value of Tesla stock in 2021 was more than the value of the next 10 largest auto makers. Once the stockmarket realizes Musk has cheated them, the value of Tesla will drop and Musk won't be nearly as wealthy.
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/10/26/teslas-market-cap-gigantic-v-next-10
-automakers-v-teslas-global-market-share-minuscule/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:The USDA can't find animal cruelty, but Musk's employees described the cruelty to the news reporters. It is the same kind of story with Musk and the self-driving cars. The government agencies in charge are not stopping Musk from lying about his self-driving cars, but his customers are suing him because they paid an extra $15,000 for self-driving sensors, which would be activated in a few months, once the software was perfected. It just so happens the few months have gone into the past and the customers are slowly realizing that Musk is a liar who stole their money.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Among the many grievances people harbor toward Elon Musk, add one more: animal cruelty.
Fuck off. You people used to blow Elon all day, every day.
The last 3/4 of that article isn't even about Musk, and the first 1/4 of it states that the USDA found nothing wrong with the operation.
I know you love getting jabbed up with experimental substances, but sane people don't.
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The total value of Tesla stock in 2021 was more than the value of the next 10 largest auto makers. Once the stockmarket realizes Musk has cheated them, the value of Tesla will drop and Musk won't be nearly as wealthy.
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/10/26/teslas-market-cap-gigantic-v-next-10
-automakers-v-teslas-global-market-share-minuscule/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
The point is that you only care because you don't like what Elon is doing right now.
He's the only Billionaire you hate (now) and want to see fail (now), since the rest of them are pushing agendas that you live by.
And unless there is video proof of any allegations his "employees" are throwing at him, anybody with half a brain isn't buying it because none of these employees are showing themselves, so who knows if they even exist.
There was a day where "anon" was used judiciously. That day is long gone. Now all the Legacy Media does in every article is site anonymous sources and pedal them as facts to the low IQ people who read their propaganda rags.
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Quote:Tesla stock is down 57% for YTD. One of these days, the stock market will realize Musk is no genius, but only a fraud same as Trump. When that happens, Tesla shares will have an even bigger drop to the same low price matching what other car companies are worth. It is his engineers who are the real geniuses, not Musk. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TSLA:NASDAQ?authuser=0&window
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The point is that you only care because you don't like what Elon is doing right now.
He's the only Billionaire you hate (now) and want to see fail (now), since the rest of them are pushing agendas that you live by.
And unless there is video proof of any allegations his "employees" are throwing at him, anybody with half a brain isn't buying it because none of these employees are showing themselves, so who knows if they even exist.
There was a day where "anon" was used judiciously. That day is long gone. Now all the Legacy Media does in every article is site anonymous sources and pedal them as facts to the low IQ people who read their propaganda rags.
=YTD
Musk's saving grace was letting his engineers make the real decisions for his companies. But when Musk pushes aside his engineers and, instead, personally makes decisions, he shows how stupid and ignorant he is, same as Trump has shown. When things go well for his engineers, Musk takes the credit and makes the money.
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Kelley Blue Book: Tesla’s approval rating sinks into negative territory, survey finds
December 12, 2022
A survey that tests consumer perceptions of prominent brands indicates that more consumers now have a negative view of the EV maker than a positive view.
There appears to be a political connection.
YouGov found a political divide in the numbers. The Wall Street Journal explains, “self-described liberals now view Tesla more negatively than conservatives, though conservatives also have a negative view of the brand on average.”
What changed to influence opinions so radically? Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously bought the social network Twitter at the end of October and has been a prominent figure in the news for reshaping its operations.
The company has also come under criminal investigation over a series of accidents that may have involved its driver assistance software, according to Reuters.
Morning Consult’s numbers also reinforce the political divide. Among self-described Democrats, 24.8% saw Tesla positively in October. Just 10.4% said the same at the end of November. Self-described Republicans saw their opinion of the company rise, from a favorable 20% to 26.5%, over the same period.
“It seems like Tesla is on its way to becoming a partisan brand,” Morning Consult’s Jordan Marlatt told the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/teslas-approval-rating-goes-negative-surv
ey-finds/
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Remember how Elon Musk demolished California High-Speed Rail projects, babbling about his single-lane car tunnels and hyperloop? Well, the possible reasons are many. Him being an insane, overfed monstrosity, perhaps.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Elon+Musk+California+High+Speed+Rail
When someone says “high-speed rail isn’t profitable,” what they’re saying is “HSR doesn’t lend itself well to value capture. It keeps money in the pockets of the users instead of extracting it and funneling it into the hands of a few private individuals.” And they’re right
https://twitter.com/buttpraxis/status/1579873283885109248
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