I was pretty sure he was a racist. Now, I’m on the fence about it.
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You mean the people in a group that have the highest racist members per capita outside of a klan meeting never called him racist? I am shocked. These are the same type people who would high five each other for beating a young black child or placing a noose on a black officers desk or locker — most likely on the same…
He couldn’t make an effective subway AND SUBWAYS ALREADY EXIST! Why would we trust him with space?
And one thing that concerns me about relying on Musk to fund space travel is: Sure, space science develops tons of cool stuff! When NASA develops that cool stuff, it benefits all of us. If SpaceX develops it, will it still trickle to the public in the same way or will it be too profit-driven to benefit people?
Don’t really care about Space X, Musk has always struck me as someone who thinks he’s a polymath when really he’s just a very smart engineer with an engineer’s sensibilities about the rest of society. Clearly he’s smarter than most of us, but even from a purely capitalistic perspective, he makes questionable choices…
These comments lol
You are so, so right. It’s even more than just how long people can expect to survive on these places. I hear all this talk about “settling mars” and “permanent habitation of the moon” and nobody addresses the inconvenient fact that everything - absolutely everything - that is needed by people to live on the moon or…
No one is arguing against the federal portion of the budget. They are arguing against “space someday” being an excuse for some individuals to hoard unreasonable amounts of wealth.
There certainly IS a way to do it, and it’s requiring Musk and his ilk to pay their full share of taxes and stop relying on government subsidies & contracts to pay for their research. Musk has SO much money, he can pour his own cash into R&D for a few years. And if he doesn’t generate anything saleable to recoup his…
These discussions often center around reductions to correlation in national drinking habits and stereotypes of national character. For example, the statement that children drink wine in France gives the practice credit for a cultural image of the healthy Parisian when France actually has major problems with alcoholism…
Commenters going around really arguing that ‘well, actually, he doesn’t literally own billions of dollars in cash, so this criticism is nonsense’ and ‘Musk’s answer is good, because space travel is necessary for the future.” The irony regarding short-sightedness is palpable...
Musk can’t even deliver his projects on Earth but I’m supposed to believe that chud can get us to another planet? And that he’d take anyone else but himself there?
If Elon Musk were the CEO of a company that made quartz necklaces and homeopathic dilutions instead of cars and rockets his statement would get the same sort of reception that it would if it came from Marianne Williamson.
I can’t believe the people legitimately out here saying that we shouldn’t tax Musk fairly (because, be honest, that’s what’s at stake here) just because this billionaire shithead wants to put people in indentured servitude on Mars. Like, that’s literally what he has said—if people can’t afford his space travel, they…
Man, fuck Elon Musk and pretending that his accumulation of an absolutely obscene private fortune, which he uses to collect 10,000 square foot houses the way I collect guitars I can barely play, and which he could not blow through in 20 lifetimes if he tried, is some sort of magnanimous selfless benefaction for…
Elon and Bezos intentionally miss the point because it makes them look like assholes.
A month ago we were lamenting and regretting how we’d all been complicit in exploiting Britney Spears while her mental illness was raging. Now here’s Claudia Conway. Why are we pretending this is ok?
I think another issue is the fact that DC needs to be able to call in the national guard without the approval of people who are possibly conspiring with the reason the national guard is needed.
They need that diversity consultant ASAP. Maybe a new PR team, too.