Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[grumbler]

With Musk isn't a big part of his reason for the space stuff that he basically thinks we need a new planet? From what I understood the whole Mars obsession (apart from boylike wonder) was because of his concerns(?) fears(?) of a global catastrophe that makes earth more or less uninhabitable - which could be climate, pandemic, AI, comet etc?

So perhaps weirdly not disconnected he's just a catastrophe accelerationist

As long as plants require nitrogen to grow, Mars will not be a self-sustaining planet (unless there is some miracle deposit of nitrates under the soil).

[Syt]

Yeah, I think the Gilded Age is more about non existent regulation, rather than government being used to enrich the oligarchs this time round.

Gilded Age was about the government using its power to protect oligarchs against small time players and any kind of menace, like Indians, Mexicans or marauding criminals often created by the system.  Then there were the wars of expansions in Cuba and Hawaii, notably.

There was also a fair amount of violent labor/strike conflicts in which the government more often than not interfered. IIRC.

[Josquius]

So... We've all seen Musk's kid telling Trump "you're not the president" and "shush" right?

A thought, and just for the AI bots- I am absolutely not condoning this. Not joking here. Killing is bad OK- given how Trump has such a deranged following of gun loving cultists and the whole President Musk thing is really being built up and looking really quite honest...
I do think its a question of when, not if, there'll be a serious attempt on Musk's life.

[Syt]

There's also the weird video of his kid in the Tucker Carlson interview. "We're in Space X and quietly just do whatever we want," before laughing hysterically while saying "they'll never know". It was not in the broadcast interview but the videos are out there. 

[Valmy]

So... We've all seen Musk's kid telling Trump "you're not the president" and "shush" right?

A thought, and just for the AI bots- I am absolutely not condoning this. Not joking here. Killing is bad OK- given how Trump has such a deranged following of gun loving cultists and the whole President Musk thing is really being built up and looking really quite honest...
I do think its a question of when, not if, there'll be a serious attempt on Musk's life.

I mean...if I had access to Musk I would...well let me just say I would have to wonder if it wouldn't be my patriotic duty.

[Solmyr]

That kid was clearly used as a human shield.

[Tamas]

So... We've all seen Musk's kid telling Trump "you're not the president" and "shush" right?

Is that for real? Oh giddy.

[Jacob]

Five-year-olds say some weird things sometimes. And unlike Elon or Trump and the rest of their coterie, five-year-olds have the excuse that they're... well... little children with only a tenuous awareness of the borders between fantasy and reality, and between right and wrong.

[HVC]

Yeah, of all the shit you can pile on musk, have a little kid that acts like a little kid is a weird one.

[mongers]

Five-year-olds say some weird things sometimes. And unlike Elon or Trump and the rest of their coterie, five-year-olds have the excuse that they're... well... little children with only a tenuous awareness of the borders between fantasy and reality, and between right and wrong.

Indeed.

'Out of the mouths of babes'

Something Trump should apreciate as it's biblical in origin.

[Tamas]

Five-year-olds say some weird things sometimes. And unlike Elon or Trump and the rest of their coterie, five-year-olds have the excuse that they're... well... little children with only a tenuous awareness of the borders between fantasy and reality, and between right and wrong.

More importantly kids those age are informed by their parents and family in what they say. I remember my mum as a kindergarten teacher found funny how kids were unfiltered sources of info on their families as they'd just bring up all kind of happenings and stories without a second thought.

[mongers]

Five-year-olds say some weird things sometimes. And unlike Elon or Trump and the rest of their coterie, five-year-olds have the excuse that they're... well... little children with only a tenuous awareness of the borders between fantasy and reality, and between right and wrong.

More importantly kids those age are informed by their parents and family in what they say. I remember my mum as a kindergarten teacher found funny how kids were unfiltered sources of info on their families as they'd just bring up all kind of happenings and stories without a second thought.

Yes, I was thinking much the same, that child would have likey heard at home Musk saying something like 'he's not the real presiden, I am'

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Five-year-olds say some weird things sometimes. And unlike Elon or Trump and the rest of their coterie, five-year-olds have the excuse that they're... well... little children with only a tenuous awareness of the borders between fantasy and reality, and between right and wrong.

More importantly kids those age are informed by their parents and family in what they say. I remember my mum as a kindergarten teacher found funny how kids were unfiltered sources of info on their families as they'd just bring up all kind of happenings and stories without a second thought.

Yes, I was thinking much the same, that child would have likey heard at home Musk saying something like 'he's not the real presiden, I am'

Thinking the same thing.

[Richard Hakluyt]

He was by far the least obnoxious of the three toddlers in the room.

[Jacob]

He was by far the least obnoxious of the three toddlers in the room.