It's not too soon to talk about Henry Ford being a whole racist who bought a newspaper just be extra-racist and who that reminds me of, right? Wow. But anyway, Elon Musk on the social media site he purchased to pretend to be a nonpartisan free speech warrior endorsed AfD which is pretty outstanding neo-Nazi stuff. They are pro-Putin and anti-NATO compared to the rest of Germany for the most part. The big thing is the neo-Nazi thing, though. They are even against climate change science, which I thought the head of Tesla would understand is crucial!
I don't think we should be so quick to define Musk. His own father tells us he isn't exactly what we think he is:
But I think I get him. He's my generation. He's the guy who doesn't understand Fight Club or American Psycho. He took STEM and couldn't pay attention in Lit, History, or civics courses. He's apparently the guy who is just like the people who don't understand 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale are dystopias--not blueprints. Maybe he's read S.M. Stirling and doesn't understand that the Draka are the baddies.
(For many reasons, I'm positive he's read Heinlein. He fails to understand the resources required of the Mars pursuit and thinks it can possibly be colonized through continuous resource transfers and """human resources""" who will probably not understand what their role in the earth diaspora really is. Until they get there. i.e. slavery. Planting and digging potatoes and raising sheds and breeding untermenschen to serve the high-status arrivals.)
Anyway, this evening a car rocketed through a crowd of people at a German Christmas market. Imagine it: the hot chocolate and stollen and the stalls of shopkeepers and people out doing the last minute shopping for their families or enjoying the Christmas atmosphere with their family, and suddenly--a horror.
A man from Saudi Arabia? An asylum seeker?
An AfD supporter. An anti-Muslim bigot.
I'm not telling you what conclusions to draw--this man seems inconsistent and insane. But in the right light, so do the political positions of the very wealthy man who has Trump's ear. And he has the means to be very destructive, indeed.
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