"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's pickin' up some bargain." - George Bailey: It's a Wonderful Life [1946]
Elon Musk has positioned himself within the Belly of the Beast in order to protect his own interests: China [CCP] ties, Lithium (and other strategic ore) sources, Tesla, Neuralink, Starlink, et al. Most of all, he seeks to neutralize the competition for total dominance of AI development (read: tyranny). I read just today that virtually the first action by RFK Jr. was to fire the FDA officials investigating Neuralink. (If Anthony Fauci was wicked to torment Beagles, then why is Elon Musk virtuous for tormenting monkeys?)
I completely ignored this promiscuous transhumanist from 2008 to 2022. Pundits (including Rush Limbaugh, as I recall) once dismissed him as a flagrant "grifter" on account of the taxpayer subsidies; I agreed, and left it at that. Now I am expected by fawning pseudo-conservatives to revere this con man?
Elon Musk did not found Confinity (which became PayPal); Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Luke Nosek did. Elon Musk did not found Tesla; Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk's modus operandi is to bully his way in, usurp control, oust the real founders, then hire shysters to retcon the founding documents to make himself a "founder". They are "legal fictions" - but they are factually false.
Why are you so sure about the death of free speech! How can a small elite forever silence 8-9 billion humans?
"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's pickin' up some bargain." - George Bailey: It's a Wonderful Life [1946]
Elon Musk has positioned himself within the Belly of the Beast in order to protect his own interests: China [CCP] ties, Lithium (and other strategic ore) sources, Tesla, Neuralink, Starlink, et al. Most of all, he seeks to neutralize the competition for total dominance of AI development (read: tyranny). I read just today that virtually the first action by RFK Jr. was to fire the FDA officials investigating Neuralink. (If Anthony Fauci was wicked to torment Beagles, then why is Elon Musk virtuous for tormenting monkeys?)
I completely ignored this promiscuous transhumanist from 2008 to 2022. Pundits (including Rush Limbaugh, as I recall) once dismissed him as a flagrant "grifter" on account of the taxpayer subsidies; I agreed, and left it at that. Now I am expected by fawning pseudo-conservatives to revere this con man?
Elon Musk did not found Confinity (which became PayPal); Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Luke Nosek did. Elon Musk did not found Tesla; Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk's modus operandi is to bully his way in, usurp control, oust the real founders, then hire shysters to retcon the founding documents to make himself a "founder". They are "legal fictions" - but they are factually false.