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How can one do that without transparency? Elon seems almost proud of the boorishness of his "wood chipper" and the lack of transparency. He declares entire pro

How can one do that without transparency? Elon seems almost proud of the boorishness of his "wood chipper" and the lack of transparency. He declares entire programs to be fraud and declares them cancelled, seemingly taking only minutes to unilaterally make that declaration. If he respected the people and the democratic process he'd create transparency and (if he's right) have massive public support behind his efforts. But he's offered ZERO transparency, only name calling.

tim333 2y ago
Yeah, it's a bit worrying. There's a good article in the NYT saying it's a bit like when the US tried to remake the Iraq government after invading and sent in a handful of young people to rearrange everything who did't know what they were doing "The Familiar Arrogance of Musk’s Young Apparatchiks" https://archive.ph/jnTG3 https://archive.ph/jnTG3 It seems much closer to what's happening than calling it a coup. It was odd as a Brit seeing him going on about the grooming scandal in the UK. I mean it was a bad thing but he was getting a lot of his facts wrong and wanting to fire the wrong people etc. I'm not quite sure what's up with him.
- resters 2y ago
  > It was odd as a Brit seeing him going on about the grooming scandal in the UK. I have two theories. A) At his core he's a cultural supremacist. Perhaps it began in a benign way when he was a boy trying to believe his ancestors deserved their place in South Africa's economic hierarchy and he deserved to ride to school in a limousine. Over time he gained power as a rich nerd, yet he began to sense limits to that power and longed for the kind of power held by leaders of tribes. Cultural trends led to more tribalism in politics which captured Elon's imagination, and because of his early conditioning the political messages rooted in cultural supremacy felt like powerful truths that he felt called to help promote. In Trump he sees a tribal chieftain fighting what is ultimately a noble battle and unencumbered by ideas that weaken or water down the ancestral spirit he is fighting for. B) It's all purely opportunistic. Tactics upon tactics all based on some analysis that it's the only way he will personally save humanity by getting humans to Mars in time.
  - tim333 2y ago
    My guess is he was getting most of his information on it from people on twitter/x who were mostly right wing, anti islam, anti woke and non brits. A lot of them seem to tweet to own the libs etc. rather than worrying too much about the factual accuracy. Some of their reasoning seems to be - bad/woke stuff happens in the UK - who's the leftie to blame - ah Starmer's running the left party - tweet it's all Starmer's fault, he should go. But the government in charge from 2010 to 2024 when most of that happened was Cameron and the Tories. Starmer is actually quite middle of the road, small c conservative and the first person to prosecute and imprison the bad guys in the grooming thing. It's all a bit mindless / ill informed. I hope rearranging the US government is a bit better thought out! At least the people involved seem to be American and so presumably have some basic knowledge of the American government.

tim333 2y ago

Yeah, it's a bit worrying. There's a good article in the NYT saying it's a bit like when the US tried to remake the Iraq government after invading and sent in a handful of young people to rearrange everything who did't know what they were doing "The Familiar Arrogance of Musk’s Young Apparatchiks" https://archive.ph/jnTG3 https://archive.ph/jnTG3 It seems much closer to what's happening than calling it a coup. It was odd as a Brit seeing him going on about the grooming scandal in the UK. I mean it was a bad thing but he was getting a lot of his facts wrong and wanting to fire the wrong people etc. I'm not quite sure what's up with him.

resters 2y ago
> It was odd as a Brit seeing him going on about the grooming scandal in the UK. I have two theories. A) At his core he's a cultural supremacist. Perhaps it began in a benign way when he was a boy trying to believe his ancestors deserved their place in South Africa's economic hierarchy and he deserved to ride to school in a limousine. Over time he gained power as a rich nerd, yet he began to sense limits to that power and longed for the kind of power held by leaders of tribes. Cultural trends led to more tribalism in politics which captured Elon's imagination, and because of his early conditioning the political messages rooted in cultural supremacy felt like powerful truths that he felt called to help promote. In Trump he sees a tribal chieftain fighting what is ultimately a noble battle and unencumbered by ideas that weaken or water down the ancestral spirit he is fighting for. B) It's all purely opportunistic. Tactics upon tactics all based on some analysis that it's the only way he will personally save humanity by getting humans to Mars in time.
- tim333 2y ago
  My guess is he was getting most of his information on it from people on twitter/x who were mostly right wing, anti islam, anti woke and non brits. A lot of them seem to tweet to own the libs etc. rather than worrying too much about the factual accuracy. Some of their reasoning seems to be - bad/woke stuff happens in the UK - who's the leftie to blame - ah Starmer's running the left party - tweet it's all Starmer's fault, he should go. But the government in charge from 2010 to 2024 when most of that happened was Cameron and the Tories. Starmer is actually quite middle of the road, small c conservative and the first person to prosecute and imprison the bad guys in the grooming thing. It's all a bit mindless / ill informed. I hope rearranging the US government is a bit better thought out! At least the people involved seem to be American and so presumably have some basic knowledge of the American government.