Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk concurred that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.”

    • enkers
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      4211 months ago

      I certainly gave him credit for longer than I should have. I’d say it stemmed mostly from a belief that scientific and technological progress will help solve a lot of large scale problems, and he seemed to be aligned with and guiding some of that progress.

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          11 months ago

          Which ideas? Like electric cars are a pretty legitimately good alternative to ICE cars. Ofc investing into public transit would be better, but that’s a social problem, not a tech one. Reusable rocketry seems pretty legit. Starlink does seems like it’ll be a massively taxpayer subsidized money black hole, though.

          I’d say most of the issues I have with the Elon are his social policies (anti-worker) and views.

    • alternative_factor
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      1911 months ago

      I think it’s that the richest (and thus arguably the most powerful) person in the world is a full-blown fascist is very hard to take.

      • @Ritsu@lemmynsfw.com
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        1311 months ago

        Nowhere near the most powerful man… definitely not the richest. Remember that in most countries (china) wealth isn’t publicly announced.

        • alternative_factor
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          511 months ago

          He still wields incredible power, it’s rough just to think about it for me. I honestly find it a lot harder to think about Musk than Trump, reason being that Musk actually has some smart people working under him.

          • prole
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            311 months ago

            Musk was born in S. Africa. He cannot become President of the United States. Trump is much scarier because of this.

      • prole
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        311 months ago

        arguably the most powerful

        Lol no. He wishes.

    • Th4tGuyII
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      1811 months ago

      I would’ve suggested a few years ago that people simply didn’t know the monster behind his public facade, but that mask has long since broken.

      At this point I can only guess it’s a mix of right-wing facists and the “disgraced billionaires” of the world worshipping him in the hopes that they can “one day” be like him.