Let's talk about Elon Musk

[Pete]

I come from nearly entirely German heritage. The hardest working motherfuckers that I have ever observed in my entire life.

I do not think that they were genetically predisposed that way. I think they came from a culture of that attitude and focus and shared values. I think that there are many other similarly effective cultures around the globe both today historically. Many have likely gone extinct over history.

For those that have gone extinct, I wonder why they are extinct? Did all of them go extinct as a result of being conquered outright and eliminated by a foe?

[mocat]

https://x.com/barakravid/status/1883210731845550324?s=46


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This was like worse than the Nazi salute.

Think about that sentence!

Regarding the Nazi salute stuff, tell me how it was materially different than this:

Is this legitimate and a not AI?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFLgagXSAPw/?igsh=MWQ2N3ZrOHZhem9uNw==

In each case. Everybody knows what they saw man

[Pete]

https://x.com/barakravid/status/1883210731845550324?s=46


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This was like worse than the Nazi salute.

Think about that sentence!

Regarding the Nazi salute stuff, tell me how it was materially different than this:

Is this legitimate and a not AI?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFLgagXSAPw/?igsh=MWQ2N3ZrOHZhem9uNw==

In each case. Everybody knows what they saw man

How would you rate the coordination and athletic ability of Elon Musk after having watched him jumping on stage at that Trump rally? Would you say that it is a person who is in command of exceptionally nuanced expressions?

[Pete]

Listen gang, there is a difference between being an empathetic and loving citizen of the planet Earth and being a woke pussy. I am not accusing of CNS or Michigancat of being a woke pussy, but your future AI overlord may arrive at a different conclusion.

[mocat]

Pete

[michigancat]

I don't know if you all watched the full clip but he also talked about the importance of "German values and culture" and the danger of losing that through "multiculturalism that dilutes everything". He stopped himself just short of keeping the bloodline clean.

The "we shouldn't feel guilty for sins of, oddly specifically, our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents" was also bad, but felt less specifically tied to Nazi ideology.

What sins do you suppose were committed by the grandparents and great-grandparents of the German people? Were they bad about leaving the water running when they brushed their teeth?

Point taken.

However, I wonder if you dudes have ever attributed any positives to the culture of Germany? I sure have.

Is it your opinion that positive cultural attributes are eternal and immutable?

There have been plenty of great German contributions to global culture but it isn't so great that they like need to keep their bloodlines clean or pretend like the Holocaust wasn't also a major part of their cultural contributions.

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Pete

 

[Pete]

I don't know if you all watched the full clip but he also talked about the importance of "German values and culture" and the danger of losing that through "multiculturalism that dilutes everything". He stopped himself just short of keeping the bloodline clean.

The "we shouldn't feel guilty for sins of, oddly specifically, our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents" was also bad, but felt less specifically tied to Nazi ideology.

What sins do you suppose were committed by the grandparents and great-grandparents of the German people? Were they bad about leaving the water running when they brushed their teeth?

Point taken.

However, I wonder if you dudes have ever attributed any positives to the culture of Germany? I sure have.

Is it your opinion that positive cultural attributes are eternal and immutable?

There have been plenty of great German contributions to global culture but it isn't so great that they like need to keep their bloodlines clean or pretend like the Holocaust wasn't also a major part of their cultural contributions.

Who is saying that stuff?

[Pete]

Waltz’s gesture was literally identical to Elon’s. Both were smiling. Only difference was Elon said my heart goes out to you before he made the gesture and walz wasn’t mic’d up. Was Walz saying white power as he made the gesture? We do not know.

[Pete]

Guys, I really recommend forgoing being a woke partisan $!#*. Root for America. Accept that crap head oligarchs can be useful and have proven to be over and over throughout American history, and world history.

Life is much, much easier when you try to accept what you can’t control and focus on the silver linings and ways to make the most of it.

[mocat]

You're trying to control what everyone saw plainly with their own eyeballs. I didn't need any of those clips filtered through any partisan media to tell me what I saw.

[Pete]

Honestly, examine the global technological landscape and the probable future ahead of us. If you do so, it is my very firm belief that any rational person will conclude that the future success of the United States of America, and perhaps the very notion of democracy, depends upon the success of American tech bros versus America’s ideological foes in China, Russia, and elsewhere.

[Pete]

You're trying to control what everyone saw plainly with their own eyeballs. I didn't need any of those clips filtered through any partisan media to tell me what I saw.

Then you’re quite clearly telling me Walz is a Nazi or a super big fan of Nazi gestures.

[Pete]

For the record, I think every single rough ridin' one of the tech bro oligarchs is a piece of crap.

And I thank baby rough ridin' Jesus that they are American pieces of crap and not Russian or Chinese pieces of crap .

[mocat]

You're trying to control what everyone saw plainly with their own eyeballs. I didn't need any of those clips filtered through any partisan media to tell me what I saw.

Then you’re quite clearly telling me Walz is a Nazi or a super big fan of Nazi gestures.

I don't think a single person on earth thinks that, including both of us.

[Pete]

You're trying to control what everyone saw plainly with their own eyeballs. I didn't need any of those clips filtered through any partisan media to tell me what I saw.

Then you’re quite clearly telling me Walz is a Nazi or a super big fan of Nazi gestures.

I don't think a single person on earth thinks that, including both of us.

So it’s your opinion that Elon Musk was fully and intentionally trying to use a Nazi gesture? Given all of his stated goals you feel like this guy felt the right move was to purposefully forward Nazi propaganda?

If so, what is your opinion about how Elon thinks that that will help all of his goals be reached ?

[Pete]

I mean, I guess we just have to take on faith that while Walz and Elon’s gestures were absolutely identical that they mean 100% different things?

[star seed 7]

The nazi salute seems very overblown imo but it's still a really puzzling action considering elon's past. He's completely demolished any reasonable doubt because he's a professional boomer troll now.

It's sad to see Pete cape up for this man just because he builds rockets.

[Pete]

I’m not sure what cape means but I will use it because I am a context learner and I think I have a handle on it. I also cape for the rough ridin' Nazis that we stole from Germany to help us build our nuclear bombs and made us the most powerful country in the entire rough ridin' world has ever seen in the history of humanity. We didn’t give the bombs back because the rough ridin' Nazis helped us build them.

[Pete]

Don’t be little bitches.

[star seed 7]

How does Elon being a professional boomer troll help him accomplish his goal of saving the species? Maybe that isn't actually his goal?

[Pete]

maybe I’m in the wrong thread is this thread about tech stuff and how tech stuff should or shouldn’t be used to help America? Or is this a thread about stuff we don’t like about tech bro oligarch’s and how we wish they were nicer? Maybe it’s both maybe both things can be in the same thread at one time? I don’t know perhaps this is a point of goEMAW Parliamentary procedure.

[Pete]

How does Elon being a professional boomer troll help him accomplish his goal of saving the species? Maybe that isn't actually his goal?

I suppose the only thing that we can all agree on is the lengthy list of accomplishments that he has

[Trim]

Fair chance he was trying to do something subtle that magas/nazis would catch as a shout to them but that regular people would be oblivious too, but he’s too physically incompetent to have pulled it off.

[mocat]

I mean, I guess we just have to take on faith that while Walz and Elon’s gestures were absolutely identical that they mean 100% different things?

I think it's in bad faith to say the gestures are "absolutely identical". Like the walz and kamala videos both obscure their hands, for example. Kind of important if you're going to claim the two are identical to elon's stiff non hand waving salute. I've never seen a sig heil with a waving hand, have you?
I don't think we can go any farther if you actually believe what you're saying here and aren't just playing devil's advocate or doing a bit.