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Elon Musk Melts Down over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
- no-name-here 2mo agoPaywalled original source: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/23/elon-musks-vision-of-the-future https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/23/elon-musks-vis... 10-minute and 6-minute video: https://youtube.com/@theeconomist https://youtube.com/@theeconomist My biggest surprise from the video was that he seemed slow to respond to questions.
- jqpabc123 2mo agoTime to wake up and smell the coffee --- Musk's primary skill is marketing and con artistry. People buy into his grandiose visions that are really just ploys to move money from investor's pockets into his.
- giardini 2mo ago[flagged]
- hn_acker 2mo agoOn July 25, 2026, Elon Musk called the interviewer (Zanny Minton Beddoes) "a traitor to the West" [1]. For context, Musk periodically affirms and reposts calls for murder of anti-remigration government officials [2], non-white refugees, and other non-white immigrants [3], referring to such government officials as "traitors" in the sense of "race traitor" [4][5]. [1] https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2081157083437703578 https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2081157083437703578 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration [3] https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mrjzbrhgxk2q https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mrjzbr... [4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_traitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_traitor