Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Admiral Yi]

Some of us do.

[Zoupa]

Indeed.

[Josquius]

I'm also not convinced in the current moment that it's wise to suggest there's some innate, inheritable, essentialist politics derived from an individual's ethnic and national background even after they've become a citizen...

Although FWIW I think the interesting point on that part of Musk's past and his politics (not an original idea in any way) is actually that he grew up in 80s South Africa. He left in 1989 to avoid conscription, which I sympathise with. But that's a time when everything is open politically - the future was really unknown and unknowable (I often wonder if there's a similar perspective with Eastern Europeans of a similar generation). So the idea of a fixed constitutional or political order that you work in, which most of us grew up with did not exist. I think that does have an impact on Musk.

There's plenty of people like Tony Benn in the world. Though these people are exceptions that prove the rule.
That we make such a big deal of pointing to those who don't follow the sympathies of their upbringing clearly suggests the default assumption is that people will be heavily aligned with this.

It is an interesting thought. What if apartheid had held on just a little longer. Could the sacrifice of extra evil there have stopped Musk being unleashed into the world and the potential for greater evils to come.

What I find curious with musk is the question of whether this has always been his belief system and he merely pretended to be a chill moderate liberal when the government was friendly to that, or if theres something in the  theories about his trans daughter driving him nuts (these are evidenced, not just idle thoughts).

[fromtia]

We are going to have to do something drastic about Musk, once he's encased himself in Sand Trout we are stuck with him for 3000 years.