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He's not quite as openly fascist as say, Peter Thiel, but he's clearly a douchebag who cares about nothing beyond himself. He's clearly sympathetic to racists a
by Finnucane 4y ago
He's not quite as openly fascist as say, Peter Thiel, but he's clearly a douchebag who cares about nothing beyond himself. He's clearly sympathetic to racists and autocrats. He does not have a desire to make humanity a multi-planet species. He just wants an escape pod from the burning Earth.
- freejazz 4y agoExactly. Likewise all the hemming and hawing about "free speech" is just self-serving nonsense.
- logicalmonster 4y agoWhen did mind-reading become a thing?
- abeisgreat 4y agoIt's not mind-reading if you look at someone's actions and words then speculate about what their motivations and future decisions will look like - that's just deductive reasoning.
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- jfengel 4y agoWell, inductive reasoning. But yes, that.
- aliasxneo 4y agoI don't read the news, so I'm a bit ignorant on these matters, but mind providing some references for some of these remarks? I'm also genuinely curious as to the sentiment and would like to be informed on the matter.
- gregjor 4y agoYou can easily find everything Musk has said and done, every broken promise, and every actual accomplishment. Few people get as much media coverage as Musk. Use Google, don't ask people on HN to read and summarize for you.
- illuminerdy 4y agoYou know how a little old grandma will have a Trump yard sign out front of her house and anyone on the left who sees it will say "she must be a transphobic bigot"? It's that level of evidence.
- chitowneats 4y ago
- rvz 4y agoLet us not forget to mention that they realize much later that all along they have been 'useful idiots' for someone else's gain whilst also parroting that they support the current thing and whoever disagrees is a fascist. Now we are all told that the villain of the month is Elon Musk according to the reporters. Time to complain on Twitter!
- trs8080 4y agoI don't need a reporter to tell me that Elon Musk is a villain.
- jcuenod 4y agoExcept for the ones who are idiots who parrot GOP talking points?
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- freejazz 4y agoThose are the "free thinkers"
- archon1410 4y ago>He does not have a desire to make humanity a multi-planet species. He just wants an escape pod from the burning Earth. These are not mutually exclusive things. The primary reason cited for the desire to become multi-planetary is to use other planets as a escape hatch in case something happens. And they are incentived to escape themselves and leave others here to rot. It's much more efficient than trying to save one planet from armageddon every time.
- freejazz 4y ago"It's much more efficient than trying to save one planet from armageddon every time." It's actually not. If we can't figure out how to live here, we aren't going to figure out how to live in a less hospitable environment.
- archon1410 4y agoWhy would that be? Musk's dream of a Mars colony seems easier than trying to co-ordinate that 1.5C global warming plan or prevent myriad of other apocalypse scenarios. It seems pretty intuitive two planets are better than one. Thinking from Musk's perspective, as a proud Homo sapiens who "must secure the existence of our people and a future for ~~white~~ human children", will he have better luck trying to prevent global warming by coordinating a global (including China and India) response, or starting a company to reach Mars by himself? Surely it's the second one.
- nathanaldensr 4y agoSorry, but there is no evidence that either of those two plans are feasible at all.
- sshine 4y ago> It seems pretty intuitive two planets are better than one. Spoken like a true colonialist! ;-)
- freejazz 4y ago>"Musk's dream of a Mars colony seems easier than trying to co-ordinate that 1.5C global warming plan or prevent myriad of other apocalypse scenarios." In the best case scenario, we go to mars and do the same thing again. That's disregarding all the actual problems it would take to get there, and live there. And also disregarding all the problems we actually HAVE to solve about living here (and living, in general).
- s9w 4y ago
- tmaly 4y agohow do you define fascist in this context?
- yucky 4y agoAnybody to the right of Mao.
- Jdmdnnd 4y agoHow is Peter Thiel a fascist?
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoSort of. EM is a dick to employees in an apolitical way. Peter Thiel is absolutely a warmongering, nutter ahole. EM has no direct incentive to not "stick us with the check" on a dying Earth, although I don't think it's feasible to sustain human civilization on Mars. Logistics.