Everything Elon does is about power
There’s this fella named Philip Low who knows Elon Musk all too well. He has this to say about Musk and the Nazi salute:
Elon is not a Nazi, per se.
He is something much better, or much worse, depending on how you look at it.
Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else.
Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person — he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he believes he has all the solutions.
All his talk about getting to Mars to “maintain the light of consciousness” or about “free speech absolutism” is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla. His lust for power is also why he did xAI and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAI and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to undermine NV.
Elon did two Nazi salutes. He did them for five main reasons:
1. He was concerned that the “Nazi wing” of the MAGA movement, under the influence of Steve Bannon, would drive him away from Trump, somewhere in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, rather than in the West Wing which is where he wants to be. He was already feeling raw over the fact that Trump did not follow his recommendation for Treasury Secretary and that the Senate also did not pick his first choice;
2. He was upset that he had had to go to Israel and Auschwitz to make up for agreeing with a Nazi sympathizer online and wanted to reclaim his “power” just like when he told advertisers to “go fuck yourself”. This has nothing to do with Asperger’s;
3. There are some Jews he actually hates: Sam Altman is amongst them;
4. He enjoys a good thrill and knew exactly what he was doing;
5. His narcissistic self was hoping the audience would reflect his abject gesture back to him, thereby showing complete control and dominion over it, and increasing his leverage over Trump. That did not happen.
All very unreassuring, wouldn’t you say?
H/t Rob
Like Trump, he expects to get whatever he wants. Trump is a toddler; Musk is an adolescent. Neither of them should be in charge of anything in the government.
He fired Musk? I probably shouldn’t but I like this guy already.
Another thing to know about Musk… He thinks killing billions of people would be a useful thing to do. Not something he’s likely to say out loud anytime soon, but he’s thinking about it. Didn’t much matter before he got into the White House.
You know that how?
I’ve said it before, I see a lot of myself (the bad) in him. It’s why people are put off by utilitarians. There’s a kind of emotional response to things like ecological overshoot and rapid resource depletion that makes a lot of sense (just a *tad* simplistically) but marks you as an evil human being, as well it should.
I am a monster and know it; do you think anyone has ever informed Musk of that? Doubt it.
Nope, he’s thinking about it and he’s too close to someone that could make it happen. I know I’m frightened by it.
Seems like Musk is more interested in increasing the population, at least that’s what he’s been saying. “Low birth rates”, blah blah. Killing billions of people would be contradictory to that. Unless of course he’s only interested in increasing a *certain type* of population. Does Trump have at his command a nuclear arsenal capable of obliterating all of those “shithole countries?” You bet he does. Does Musk have Trump’s ear? Probably not, and besides, Trump is a lot of things, but he’s no warmonger.
Is it just coincidental, or does a swastika without the right facing serifs looks curiously like an X?
Of course, if BKiSA is right, I imagine Musk has no clue of the ecological damage that would be done by killing billions of people all at once. It’s tough enough with people dying at the normal rate, and using resources. Not to mention, if a lot of people died at once, say, in a bombing, and there was no one left to bury the bodies, that would leave dead bodies littering the landscape, and there are fundamental consequences for that many bodies all at once. Not to mention the toxins some of us carry around in various forms.