Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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Elon Musk Goes Full Crazy With New Claim About Holocaust
By Tori Otten / January 23, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/178324/auschwitz-elon-musk-social-media-p
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Elon Musk, who has used social media to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, is now arguing that had social media existed at the time of the Holocaust, it could have prevented the tragedy.
Musk visited the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, as part of an apparent apology tour for his blatant antisemitism. Later that day, he participated in a conference on antisemitism organized in Krakow by the European Jewish Association.
Musk admitted he had been “somewhat naive” about the dangers of antisemitism. But he revealed how little he actually cares by sitting down for an interview with Ben Shapiro, a far-right commentator and conspiracy theorist. The two men then insisted that social media could have prevented the Holocaust from happening.
To prove their argument, Musk showed fake tweets he created of people sharing photos of Nazi attacks on synagogues, supporting Jewish resistance fighters, and pushing back against Holocaust deniers. There was even a tweet from the “official” Auschwitz account claiming Jews there were “thriving” — only to have a community note debunk that claim.
This claim holds very little water, for many reasons. A major one, as journalist Aaron Gordon pointed out, was that Nazi Germany revoked Jews’ right to free movement long before the death camps were built. So all those tweets from people urging Jews to leave Germany would have been meaningless.
Another reason is that many civilians were well aware of what Nazis were doing, or at least aware that Jewish people were being removed and never seen again. And they were perfectly content to let it happen.
In fact, if the current state of X (formerly Twitter) is anything to go by, social media could have actually made the Holocaust happen faster.
Since Musk took over the social media platform, X has been rife with hate speech. Musk himself is a major source of disinformation and hate speech, particularly antisemitism. He has also let multiple neo-Nazis back onto X, after previous leadership banned them.
In November, Musk backed a vile antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people are getting what they deserve because they harbor “diabolical hatred against whites.” That, combined with the revelation that X was placing ads next to pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi content, sent advertisers fleeing the platform in droves (again).
Musk said Monday that his November post was “literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done,” which is saying something if you look at his X feed. He claimed he hadn’t understood the dangers of anti-Jewish sentiment because “in the circles I move in, I see no antisemitism.”
He said that “two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” which actually undercuts his previous claim. Surely at least one of those Jewish friends would have been able to tell Musk about antisemitism.
Musk then claimed that thanks to all his information-hoarding friends, he is “Jewish by association.”
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” he said, which holds all the gravity of someone calling themself “Jew-ish.”
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Musk said used Tesla cars may be worth five times what new Teslas are today
By Peter Valdes-Dapena | Sun March 3, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/cars/musk-tesla-cars-value-ev-prices/in
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Back in 2019, Elon Musk made an astonishing claim for Tesla vehicles. Tesla cars, he said, would go up in value, not down, after purchase.
The reason for that is Tesla’s full self-driving capability that, Musk has said, requires only some additional software updates and regulatory approval before Tesla vehicles on the road today will become fully independent. He repeated this claim as recently as June 2023.
“You can think of every car we sell or produce that has full autonomy capability as something that in the future may be worth five times what it is today,” he said in the company’s third quarter, 2023, earnings call.
And not only would the price of a used Tesla go up, but Musk also predicted a world in which Tesla’s driver assistance suite, which the company calls “Full Self-Driving” despite not fully self-driving the vehicle, would on its own be worth $100,000.
Because, with regulatory approval, your self-driving Tesla would be able to go “work” as a taxi on your behalf. All you’d have to do is sit back and collect the cash.
But four years after Musk’s 2019 prediction, the average used Tesla Model 3 is selling for $29,000. And regulatory approval for “Full Self-Driving” has not arrived, either, as the company incrementally attempts to improve the software.
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Yup. Have to argue Musk on that one.
Used EVs aren't worth shit, and once the batteries start going on them en masse, their pathetic used price value today is going to dwarf what they will go for in the future.
They're nothing but big goddamned future paperweights.
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Elon Musk is allegedly a fan of several psychoactive drugs. But according to the venerable Silicon Valley chronicler Kara Swisher, the vice proving most destructive to the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is a little less tangible than the others.
"The drug that's hurting Elon Musk is all his enablers, who suck up to him. And needing to be adored," Swisher recently told The Guardian when asked about the mercurial CEO's very public slide — mostly documented via X-formerly-Twitter, the platform he purchased for $44 billion in 2022 — into red-pilled conspiracyville. "That'll kill you."
"You could see him getting more and more radicalized," Swisher continued. "He suddenly got obsessed with the woke mind virus, whatever the hell that is, and angry all the time."
In other words, according to Swisher, a lack of accountability from those in his inner circle combined with a very obvious need for others to like him have led Musk — the world's richest man and arguably its most powerful unelected official — down a deeply destructive and conspiracy-laden road. And given Musk's immense real-world power, it's led to serious consequences for himself and his companies in turn. (Or, at least, as real as consequences might get for the richest person in history.)
Sycophant Symphony
Swisher certainly wouldn't be the first to call out Musk's penchant for surrounding himself with sycophants. In late 2022, shortly after Musk took over Twitter, the venture capitalist and longtime Musk pal Chris Sacca noted that he'd "recently watched those around him become increasingly sycophantic and opportunistic."
"Simply put, agreeing with him is easier," the investor added, "and there is more financial and social upside."
Not Angry, Just Disappointed
Swisher's comments to the Guardian were prompted by some statements she reportedly made about Musk in her newly-released book, titled "Burn Book." In the book, per the Guardian, Swisher says that Facebook founder and sword guy Mark Zuckerberg has been the "most damaging man in tech," while Musk has, to her, been the "most disappointing."
"Here's someone who actually was doing serious things," the journalist told the Guardian. "There's a lot of people in Silicon Valley who are always doing a dry cleaning app. He was thinking of everything from cars to space to solar."
Indeed, Swisher's sentiment seems to capture why Musk's descent into red-pilled conspiracy-mongering has been so jarring. Musk has never been without his faults, but for a long time, his public image was one of a true visionary. But now, between his rampant antisemitism and racism, erratic antics, and otherwise disappointing behavior, his once-inspiring vision has never looked so clouded.
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Joe Biden*'s preferred drug of choice is adrenochrome. He'll settle for an ice cream cone though.
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Quote:Prologue to Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Joe Biden*'s preferred drug of choice is adrenochrome. He'll settle for an ice cream cone though.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
—F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE GREAT GATSBY
If I had to pick the moment when it all went off the rails for the tech industry, I’d choose Saturday morning, December 10, 2016.
I got a tip: The crowned heads of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech companies had been summoned to tromp into Manhattan’s Trump Tower and meet the man who had unexpectedly just been elected president and was the antithesis of all they supposedly represented.
“Skulk” was more like it. The only reason I was hearing about the tech summit was because one of tech’s top-tier players had not been invited due to his “liberal leanings” and “outspoken opposition” to President-Elect Donald Trump. The outcast called me in a lather.
“Sucking up to that corpulent loser who never met a business he didn’t drive straight into a wall, it’s shameful,” he said. “Can you believe it? Can you believe it?”
After decades of covering the nascent Internet industry from its birth, I could believe it. While my actual son filled me with pride, an increasing number of these once fresh-faced wunderkinds I had mostly rooted for now made me feel like a parent whose progeny had turned into, well, assholes.
My first call was to one of the potentates who was sometimes testy, often funny, and always accessible. Of everyone I had covered, I could count on Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to engage with me on a semi-human basis. While Musk would morph later into a troll-king-at-scale on Twitter, which he would rename X, he was among the few tech titans who did not fall back on practiced talking points, even if perhaps he was the one who most should have.
So, what did Musk think of Trump’s invitation? The meeting had no stated agenda, which made it clear to me that it had nothing to do with policy and everything to do with a photo op.
“You shouldn’t go,” I warned him. “Trump’s going to screw you.”
Musk disagreed. He told me he would attend, adding that he had already joined a business council for the newly elected president, too. When I brought up Trump’s constant divisive fearmongering and campaign promises to unravel progress on issues ranging from immigration to gay rights, Musk dismissed the threats.
I can convince him, he assured me. I can influence him, he told me.
Apparently, Musk thought that his very presence would turn the fetid water into fine wine, since he had long considered himself more than just a man, but an icon and, on some days, a god. Good luck with that, I thought to myself as we hung up.
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"I didn't talk to any of the reporters. I've been a good boy. Gimme some ice cream. C'mon man!" ~Joe* Biden
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Elon Musk reveals why he takes ketamine, denies abusing the drug: ‘I should keep taking it’
Tesla CEO said he gets the drug via a prescription from a medical doctor to combat 'chemical tides'
By Melissa Rudy Fox News | Published March 18, 2024 8:42pm EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/health/elon-musk-reveals-takes-ketamine-denies
-abusing-drug-should-keep-taking-it
Musk also said that he obtains the ketamine via prescription from a medical doctor and that he does not abuse the drug. There can be risks, however, when it’s given in unsupervised circumstances. Patients should not self-medicate. Musk is self-medicating. Musk is always unsupervised. . . .
Self-medicating and Unsupervised Ketamine Deaths Like Matthew Perry’s Are Not Unheard-Of
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/12/16/ketamine-deaths-lik
e-matthew-perrys-are-rare-but-not-unheard-of-heres-what-to-know/?sh=284150f61262
The combination of Musk/Hot-tub/Ketamine would be an imaginable celebrity drowning death.
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Elon Musk on Racism, Bailing Out Trump, Hate Speech, and More - The Don Lemon Show (Full Interview) | March 18, 2024
When life gives you Lemon, sack him
CNN veteran publishes Musk interview that got his X show canceled
By Richard Currie | Tue 19 Mar 2024 // 15:30 UTC
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/musk_lemon_interview/
Last year, two high-profile American news anchors lost their jobs. This year, CNN's Don Lemon joined Fox News's Tucker Carlson with a new show on Elon Musk's X.
Only one of those presenters still has the slot, however, and somehow it's the credulous, slack-jawed goon who cheerfully signal-boosted Russian propaganda that won out.
The disintegration of Lemon's (unsigned) contract to host the show on X was widely reported last week, but the former CNN newsman has now published the fruits of his labor – and the reason why the deal was canned.
To be fair, a serious journalist should probably have known better than to sit down with Musk and expect the agreement to remain intact, yet the interview shows that while you can take a man out of CNN, it is considerably harder to take CNN out of a man.
On that note, Lemon's "wishlist" to have the show run on X was reported to include a "free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content" – so maybe it was a joke after all. Lemon strenuously denies these claims, we should add.
All this blatant shit-flinging between Lemon and X forms the backdrop for a toe-curlingly uncomfortable watch, with Musk's face reddening like a child being rebuked by their principal as Lemon constantly pushed back against the narratives he weaves online.
Because while Carlson will lap up even the most outlandish statements from Musk's mouth like a malnourished kitten, Lemon, as most actual journalists would, took the opportunity to hold the overpowered tycoon to account, questioning his behavior and past statements.
You know, the good stuff that Tesla stockholders just love to hear about.
After some back and forth about whether Twitter (as was) was lefty or righty, Lemon's own perceived stance, Musk's relationship with Donald Trump, and some Tesla Roadster guff, the conversation took an awkward turn when Lemon drilled into Musk's ketamine prescription to treat an occasional "negative chemical state."
While it has a reputation as a "horse tranquilizer" in illicit transactions, ketamine is also known to have a fast-acting though transient effect on depression. The problem was Lemon implying that Musk was dissociating with heroic doses while posting his infamous hot takes on X.
He also prodded about whether such issues might get in the way of SpaceX's government contracts and his companies' standing on Wall Street. To which Musk said: "From the standpoint of Wall Street, what matters is execution ... For investors, if there's something I'm taking, I should keep taking it."
It was downhill from there. Lemon barreled through all the recent Musk issues of concern without flinching, from his supposed endorsement of the Great Replacement Theory, to X's increasingly hands-off approach to content moderation, diversity, trans rights, the "woke mind virus," and ending on a particular sore point for Musk – advertising on X.
With regard to the first thorn, Musk said: "Don, the only reason I'm doing this interview is because you're on the X platform, and you asked for it. Otherwise I would not do this interview."
On moderation, he suggested that Lemon "loves" censorship. "Moderation is a propaganda word for censorship ... If something's illegal, we're going to take it down. If it's not illegal then we're putting the thumb on the scale and we're
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