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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #50 on: January 23, 2025, 09:30:48 AM »
I'm beginning to think the salute was a Freudian slip. In any case, he's not making it any easier on himself. Read his tweet below and think about what he's saying. At the very least, he's as dumb AF, his security clearance should be revoked, and he should be deported back to South Africa.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #51 on: January 23, 2025, 09:53:00 AM »
I'm beginning to think the salute was a Freudian slip. In any case, he's not making it any easier on himself. Read his tweet below and think about what he's saying. At the very least, he's as dumb AF, his security clearance should be revoked, and he should be deported back to South Africa.
Trump's going to invade Russia? That sounds really scary.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #52 on: January 24, 2025, 04:19:32 AM »
It's a joke to him.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #53 on: January 24, 2025, 10:18:52 AM »
It's a joke to him.
Yes.

What did you expect? At this point he is trolling.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #54 on: January 27, 2025, 02:44:07 AM »
Bingo!
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #55 on: January 27, 2025, 09:48:02 AM »
Bingo!

I'm pretty tired of labelling everybody who has right wing political views "Nazis".
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #57 on: February 02, 2025, 12:00:56 PM »
I'm pretty tired of labelling everybody who has right wing political views "Nazis".

You know the duck analogy.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #58 on: February 03, 2025, 10:18:30 AM »
You know the duck analogy.

The Nazis herded up groups of people they felt were inferior to them and systematically genocided them. They weren't just about making silly Roman salutes.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #59 on: February 03, 2025, 10:31:39 AM »
The Nazis herded up groups of people they felt were inferior to them and systematically genocided them. They weren't just about making silly Roman salutes.

Not initially though.

I think it would be prudent to look at where we are now and see what might be coming down the track.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

I'm very much afraid of what the next few stanzas of this epic hold.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #60 on: February 03, 2025, 12:11:33 PM »
Not initially though.
It's clear from Hitler's writings that he was always about eradicating the Jews and the Slavs.

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I think it would be prudent to look at where we are now and see what might be coming down the track.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

I'm very much afraid of what the next few stanzas of this epic hold.
Things do look very grim, but it's not because Elon Musk is a Nazi.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #61 on: February 03, 2025, 07:19:02 PM »
Not initially though.

I think it would be prudent to look at where we are now and see what might be coming down the track.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

I'm very much afraid of what the next few stanzas of this epic hold.
And where does that tie in with my wife being called a nazi and given death threats for standing up for women's single sex spaces?

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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #62 on: February 03, 2025, 10:43:28 PM »
And where does that tie in with my wife being called a nazi and given death threats for standing up for women's single sex spaces?

Well, you'd have to ask the people who called her a Nazi.

I wouldn't say they had any grounds for making that accusation, but you knew that already.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #63 on: February 04, 2025, 03:13:22 AM »
Well, you'd have to ask the people who called her a Nazi.

I wouldn't say they had any grounds for making that accusation, but you knew that already.
The point though is that Nazi is effectively meaningless because it's so frequent. It's become a go to accusation for pretty well anything that disagrees with many who see themselves on the left.

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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #64 on: February 04, 2025, 06:43:41 AM »
The point though is that Nazi is effectively meaningless because it's so frequent. It's become a go to accusation for pretty well anything that disagrees with many who see themselves on the left.

Yes I get that. You will note I never made the initial accusation that he was a Nazi.

My point is that history repeats itself imperfectly and we need to be aware of that. So even if Musk isn't exactly a Nazi, he isn't exactly not a Nazi.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #65 on: February 04, 2025, 07:09:16 AM »
Yes I get that. You will note I never made the initial accusation that he was a Nazi.

My point is that history repeats itself imperfectly and we need to be aware of that. So even if Musk isn't exactly a Nazi, he isn't exactly not a Nazi.
No, I think that using the term becomes a distraction in opposing what is done.

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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #66 on: February 04, 2025, 07:38:37 AM »
Yes, but "power-crazed monster who spreads disinformation and engages in othering on a global scale" isn't a very catchy title.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2025, 09:51:01 AM »
Yes, but "power-crazed monster who spreads disinformation and engages in othering on a global scale" isn't a very catchy title.
Megalomanic works for me.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #68 on: February 24, 2025, 04:58:19 PM »
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #69 on: February 26, 2025, 11:45:45 AM »
'Tesla shares slump after European sales fall'  - my heart bleeds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo

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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #70 on: March 01, 2025, 01:56:11 PM »
Here's something interesting.

For a long time Elon Musk has been persona non grata at Ars Technica, except in one area: space flight. Commenters could pile on Elon as much as they liked in threads about Tesla or TwittXer or whatever, but in the area of space flight, people trying to do that in the comments would get voted to oblivion.

Not anymore.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/spacex-readies-a-redo-of-last-months-ill-fated-starship-test-flight/?comments-page=1#comments

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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #71 on: March 07, 2025, 10:13:58 AM »
You were saying...?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/spacex-starship-explodes-musk
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SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

...maybe it's a better way to destroy Trump’s documents than stuffing them into a toilet?
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #72 on: March 07, 2025, 10:17:32 AM »
You were saying...?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/spacex-starship-explodes-musk
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SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program
...maybe it's  a better way to destroy Trump’s  documents that stuffing  them into a toilet?

It's the second failure this year. It's the eighth failure of Starship in total.
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #73 on: March 08, 2025, 01:43:03 PM »
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Re: Elon Musk: tech wizard or numpty?
« Reply #74 on: March 18, 2025, 07:19:41 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/donald-trump-president-america-great-nation-builder
Musk no longer a Nazi, now a numptyst.
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Elon Musk, Tesla’s share price has halved over the past three months, with the FT reporting today that hedge fund short sellers have made $16.2bn betting against it. Last week a JP Morgan note attempted to contextualise their grimly downgraded outlook for the firm: “We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly.”
...and strangly now Alone Musk, isn't ... erm,....alone.
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