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I’ve been noticing this shift in Elon Musk’s Twitter posts ever since the Charlie Kirk incident. It’s not just him but many in that same circle of venture capit

I’ve been noticing this shift in Elon Musk’s Twitter posts ever since the Charlie Kirk incident. It’s not just him but many in that same circle of venture capitalists tracing back to the PayPal Mafia, like Joe Lonsdale or Peter Thiel or David Sacks or whoever. They went from reasonably arguing for certain moderate positions the Trump administration could support. Then they started to become completely sycophantic, which you can see in the change of content on the All In podcast. But soon after the Charlie Kirk assassination, I saw them start to regularly repeat the talking points first popularized by racist supremacists. I also saw phrases like “Western values” or “Western civilization” or Christian/Biblical analogies appearing more. Then I saw them retweet posts made by supremacist Twitter profiles directly (instead of just borrowing talking points or phrases). And now you have people like Musk straight up calling for “Remigration”, which is the far right’s term for sending people who aren’t white Christian Europeans back to the place they originated from - including taking away the citizenship of current US citizens. It is very disturbing to see this shift among many Silicon Valley billionaires, especially since there is a collection of powerful companies (Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, etc) that are being embedded into the government and into defense by the Trump administration.

yawpitch 11mo ago
> especially since there is a collection of powerful companies (Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, etc) that are being embedded into the government and into defense by the Trump administration. Note this was all happening — and obvious — well before Kirk’s death; there’s been no shift, Musk and Thiel have been working on this, and not hiding it, since the start.

yawpitch 11mo ago

> especially since there is a collection of powerful companies (Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, etc) that are being embedded into the government and into defense by the Trump administration. Note this was all happening — and obvious — well before Kirk’s death; there’s been no shift, Musk and Thiel have been working on this, and not hiding it, since the start.