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Is Elon Musk Nuts?

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 3:42 PM

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The Don Lemon Interview Accomplished One Thing

The truth about Elon Musk has never been clearer.

March 19, 2024, 3:06 PM

https://slate.com/business/2024/03/don-lemon-elon-musk-interview-twitt
er-x.html

So … what did we learn from these two, and this sorry spectacle? Well, it may have been a useful exercise in hopefully dispensing, once and for all, any supposition that Elon “Free Speech” Musk is actually interested in advancing that democratic principle. If Don Lemon brings up things that Musk himself has posted? That’s censorship. But if Musk cancels an agreement with Lemon, after his company spent a full year wining and dining the anchor, because his feelings were hurt? That’s … free speech, apparently.

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Opinion | Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand

By Jamelle Bouie | March 23, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/opinion/elon-musk-great-replacement
.html

There is no particular mystery to unravel around the political views of Elon Musk, the billionaire technology and social media executive. He is — and for some time, has been — on the far right wing of American politics. He is an enthusiastic purveyor of far-right conspiracy theories, using his platform on the website X to spread a worldview that is as extreme as it is untethered from reality.

Musk is especially preoccupied with the racial makeup of the country and the alleged deficiency of nonwhites in important positions. He blames the recent problems at Boeing, for example, on its efforts to diversify its work force, despite easily accessible and widely publicized accounts of a dangerous culture of cost-cutting and profit-seeking at the company.

“Experts and critics say that Boeing’s woes have been years in the making,” reported CNN in January, “some pointing to the result of a shift in corporate culture that started at the top and put profits ahead of the safety and engineering prowess for which it was once praised, placing not only its future, but the passengers on its planes, at grave risk.”

Is diversity the problem at Boeing, or is it a shortsighted obsession with maximizing shareholder value at the expense of quality and safety? Musk, a wealthy shareholder in various companies — including his own, Tesla, which is being sued by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly allowing racist abuse of some of its Black employees — says it’s diversity.

“It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE,” Musk wrote in January, deliberately misspelling the acronym D.E.I., meaning diversity, equity and inclusion.

Musk’s current obsession, as Greg Sargent observes in The New Republic, is the “great replacement,” a far-right conspiracy theory that liberal elites in the United States are deliberately opening the southern border to nonwhite immigration from Mexico, South and Central America in order to replace the nation’s white majority and secure permanent control of its political institutions.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180007/elon-musk-great-replacement-the
ory-hate-video

On X, Musk recently pinned a post to a slickly produced video that purports to expose a “Democrat open borders plan to entrench single-party rule,” in which Democrats shepherd millions of people into the United States and “keep them in the country at all costs.” Musk says, “This is actually happening!” The video had, at the time of this writing, well over 50 million views.

Musk is far from the first person to push the “great replacement” theory. It was featured in ads released by Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a top Republican in the House. “Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” said one version of the advertisement. “Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”

The “great replacement” was part of the centerpiece of Tucker Carlson’s message to viewers during his time on Fox News. It is touted by a number of anti-immigrant, white nationalist and white supremacist groups. It was featured prominently at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, where neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us.” And it has inspired at least four separate mass shootings, including the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh (11 killed), the 2019 Christchurch shootings in New Zealand (51 killed), the El Paso shooting the same year (23 killed) and the 2022 supermarket shooting in Buffalo (10 killed).

It should go without saying that the “great replacement” is idiotic. There is no “open border.” There is no effort to “replace” the white population of the United States. Racial diversity is not a plot against the nation’s political institutions. And the underlying assumption of the “great replacement” — that, until recently, the United States was a racially and culturally homogenous nation — is nonsense.

But beyond this obvious critique lies a more subtle problem with the “great replacement” conceit. It rests as much on a racial understanding of political identity as it does a racial understanding of national identity.

As Musk and his like-minded paranoiacs see it, nonwhite voters would necessarily be Democrats. With each new “illegal,” the Democratic Party gets a new vote. But there’s nothing about immigration status or melanin content that demands liberal politics. And in fact, there’s growing evidence of a rightward drift among nonwhite voters, particularly those of Hispanic origin. If nonwhite voters are up for grabs — if their partisan identities are more contingent than fixed — then it’s also true that Republicans and conservatives can simply compete for their allegiance the way they would for members of any other group.

There lies the rub. To compete for voters is to believe in one of the fundamental truths of democracy: that there’s no such thing as a permanent majority. Just the opposite, in fact. Majorities in a democratic country are variable and fluid for the simple reason that individuals themselves are variable and fluid. They contradict themselves. They contain multitudes. They have different and competing values and interests that fall in and out of salience depending on the situation or political context. Your opponent may have assembled a majority to beat you, but you can — in the next election — assemble a different majority to win for yourself. The only constant is that nothing is settled or set in place.

To believe that the “great replacement” is true is to reject the dynamism of democratic society. It is to believe, instead, in a zero-sum world of immutable identities and the hierarchies that necessarily follow. There is no hope for persuasion — no hope for politics, even — if people can be only one thing.

It’s no surprise, then, that the rise of “great replacement” theory has happened in tandem with the Republican Party’s turn toward authoritarianism in the personage of Donald Trump. If there’s no persuasion, then the only thing that’s left is domination and the imperative, then, to dominate others before they can dominate you.

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Monday, March 25, 2024 5:47 PM

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Judge tosses Elon Musk’s case - March 25, 2024

“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.”

“This case represents the latter circumstance,” Breyer continued. He also said Musk was litigating in bad faith and denied his company an opportunity to amend and refile its case.

Because Musk is an asshole with too much money and time on his hands, but nothing to do, his lawyers will find a way to continue litigating.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/tech/judge-tosses-elon-musks-case-again
st-hate-speech-watchdog/index.html

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Monday, March 25, 2024 5:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

California judge, huh? Big surprise. Huge even.

Take it to Texas, Elon. You should know better.

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Monday, March 25, 2024 6:56 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
California judge, huh? Big surprise. Huge even.

Take it to Texas, Elon. You should know better.

Google uncovers that Musk has been sued and lost in every state many times by his ex-girlfriends and ex-wives. And his children hate him:
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+times+has+Musk+been+divorced

No surprise that Musk loses in court to everybody he comes in contact with (including his children). They all hate him, even the judges who try very hard to remain impartial, because Musk is a huge asshole, much like Trump.

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Monday, March 25, 2024 8:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Oh wow. Google uncovered that, huh?

Speaking of Google, when RFK Jr. announces that his running mate is going to be the billionaire rich ex-wife of one of the founders, he's just going to pull that many more votes away from Joe Biden*.

Anyway you look at it you lose.

Tick Tack

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Monday, March 25, 2024 8:30 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh wow. Google uncovered that, huh?

Google uncovered this story:

Elon Musk claims Neuralink’s brain-computer chip can cure blindness
Published on 22/03/2024
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/03/22/elon-musk-claims-neuralinks
-brain-computer-chip-can-cure-blindness

You'd never guess, but Musk's claim of "curing" blindness is bullshit. Musk is an asshole.

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Monday, March 25, 2024 8:36 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh wow. Google uncovered that, huh?
Google uncovered this story:

Just remember, friend.

Google also told you for months that Donald Trump wasn't going to be able to appeal that half a billion dollar NY judgement before he paid a half a billion dollar bail too.

Google also told you that this is what German soldiers in 1943 looked like:

Google says a lot of things.

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Sunday, April 7, 2024 3:43 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Seem that Joe Biden wants him out of business

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Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Apr 8, 2024, 01:00 PM EDT

Elon Musk was deposed last month over his role in allegedly promoting a false conspiracy theory that a 22-year-old Jewish man participated in a neo-Nazi brawl.

Musk tried to keep the deposition from going public, and perhaps for good reason: It did not go well for him.

The lawsuit alleges that Musk used his colossal social media platform to amplify a false far-right conspiracy theory linking 22-year-old Ben Brody to a brawl in Oregon between the neo-Nazi group Rose City Nationalists and the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist fight club.

Musk amplified the conspiracy theory repeatedly to his more than 180 million followers, suggesting Brody was a fresh-faced federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi in a “false flag situation,” a phrase used to suggest a harmful event was deliberately set up to misrepresent a group or person.

How Crazy Is Musk? Find out more in his own Musky words at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposit
ion-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

There is a copy of the 108-page deposition of Musk being a total nut under oath.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:52 AM

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Musk turned a college kid's whole world upside down by spreading a false flag conspiracy on Twitter.

Elon Musk Claims 'Limited Understanding' Of Why He's Being Sued After Tweets Forced A Family To Flee Their Home

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-claims-limited-understanding-of-why-hes
-being-1851397341

He also claimed that he had no idea that Brody had requested he retract his “false flag” posts and that despite millions of followers seeing his posts, he doesn’t agree that Brody “has been meaningfully harmed by this.” According to Musk, it’s “rare” for incidents like this one to have “a meaningful negative impact” on the victims.

Great guy, that Elon Musk. Truly our best and brightest.

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Did Elon Musk fib about SpaceX's Starlink breaking even? (yes)

By Victor Tangermann | Apr 10, 1:57 PM EDT

https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-problem-spacex-starlink-profit

In a brief announcement on his social media platform last year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrated that the company's Starlink broadband service had "achieved breakeven cash flow."

"Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year," he said at the time.

But according to a damning new report by Bloomberg, Musk may have once again rigged the numbers in his favor by greatly underplaying the costs involved in launching the satellites, when in reality the company is losing "hundreds of dollars on each of the millions of ground terminals it ships."

According to Bloomberg's sources, SpaceX's accounting was "more of an art than a science" and the much-hyped system isn't actually profitable, despite Musk's assurances.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-10/is-elon-musk-s-star
link-profitable-spacex-satellites-are-money-losers?sref=YfHlo0rL

The company has kept its financials close to its chest, especially while fundraising. During a March press conference, SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen appeared cagey, telling reporters in a carefully worded comment that "I don’t know that I want to quantify those numbers, but we are in positive cash flow and profitable territory for our satellite business now."

In short, is SpaceX's Starlink business cashflow positive, as Musk claims, or merely in "profitable territory"? The distinction could make all the difference for Musk's outsize plans for space colonization. The mercurial CEO has long argued that the internet satellite broadband arm of his space company will provide the funding necessary to get humans to Mars. According to Bloomberg, Starlink represents more than half of SpaceX's revenue this year.

As of now, SpaceX has launched 5,600 satellites into low-Earth orbit and is planning to launch tens of thousands more.

Despite eclipsing the total number of all operating satellites in Earth's orbit, Starlink isn't just struggling to cut even. Experts are concerned that trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022.

In other words, SpaceX will have to pump out untold numbers of satellites to keep up with quickly growing bandwidth demands.

More bad news. According to Bloomberg, all major US airlines have rejected SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet service on flights, though an exact reason as to why remains unclear.

Nonetheless, SpaceX has exceeded expectations when it comes to generating revenue over the years. Sales could grow from $4.7 billion a year ago to $15 billion this year, per Bloomberg's sources.

SpaceX may end up spinning off its internet service with a potential IPO. But that's still years out, according to company officials.

More on Starlink: SpaceX Announces Plans to Set 100 Starlink Satellites on Fire

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Is Musk's plan to colonize Mars nutty?

Getting to Mars isn’t enough: Why staying alive will be the biggest challenge.

SpaceX’s Starship is projected to be ready for a trip to Mars in the next 5 years. But are we? Colonizing space in the next few decades may seem like a forgone conclusion, but let's take a more honest look at the science.

An honest look at the science is exactly what Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the authors of A City on Mars, are offering. These space optimists turned into space realists while researching the possibility of human habitats in outer space.

The environments we would encounter on other planets aren’t just harsher versions of what we have on earth. In some ways they’re actively hostile to any living being, more hostile than practically any environment on earth. From dramatic temperature swings to deadly cosmic radiation to bone degradation, here are the real – and often overlooked – factors we need to contend with if we’re going to be able to successfully incubate human life on another planet.

https://www.freethink.com/series/hard-reset/city-on-mars

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The only new model in Tesla’s lineup doesn’t have sufficient demand to run all the shifts? That’s very troubling but not surprising. I guess the decision to launch an $80,000-120,000 niche truck that’s worst in class in every regard except acceleration wasn’t the best plan. Maybe instead they should’ve been focusing on drastically improving the core lineup and adding additional models that would be easier to produce and potentially sell in the hundreds of thousands to a million units per annum. If the decision to can the $25,000 car in exchange for a “robotaxi” is even the least bit true the future of Tesla looks bleak. Robotaxis are years and years away not only due to their technical challenges that are so far from being solved but also due to government approvals and the market’s acceptance of such a product.

Maybe Elon will also learn that the anti-vax anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists he’s trying to be buddy-buddy with on Twitter aren’t exactly the EV buying type either. All he’s doing is turning off the people that actually have and would buy a Tesla. Elon needs to go. It would be best if he left on his own but that’s extremely unlikely to happen. The board is full of Elon apologists but maybe if they see their portfolio crashing that will motivate them to make a move they otherwise wouldn’t have done on a moral or ethical basis.

EVPaddy commented:
Musk has to go, yes. But the share price basically can‘t be saved that way either. It has been inflated by Musk‘s lies over many years. It will only know one way for a long time.

https://electrek.co/2024/04/14/tesla-rumor-massive-round-layoffs/

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