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Elon Musk is a danger to civil society [1]

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Date: 2025-02-10

See this video on the plans of Project 2025 and the billionaire cabal:

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From the description, this specifically looks at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin. Their steps are:

Campaign on Autocracy Purge the Bureaucracy Ignore the Courts Co-Opt the Congress Centralise Police and Powers Shut Down Elite Media and Academic Institutions Turn Out the People

So what do we do if Musk ignores the courts and continues destroying the federal government? They have already started making noises to that respect.

To start with, we need to shape public opinion so that it becomes toxic to associate with him, even for Republicans. (Why isn’t this already the case after his Nazi salute? Because Democrats can’t throw a hissy fit! Possibly, Musk may be obsessed with “X” because it is a hidden Swastika and DOGE seems to be following a similar Nazi purge of their civil service).

Some of this opinion-building is happening already, along the following talking points

Nobody elected Musk

Richest person in the world is trying to steal your money

Donald Trump is Elon Musk’s patsy

Do you want to be ruled by a weirdo billionaire?

Elon Musk has gone crazy and lost touch with reality

Apart from the usual public actions, can we get social media influencers to spread this message, especially in the red states?

Many people think that Musk is a genius, having led Tesla and SpaceX, but consider the following:

The Model 3 was originally meant to be named Model E, so that the all the models would spell S, E, X, Y, but Ford had the trademark so they had to go with Model 3. Add to that his “joke” of walking in with a sink on the Twitter aquisition. So a deep thinker he is not. (Then he made the same “joke” about buying the White House)

He has a history of pretense and self-mythologizing, e.g. his claims of having a background in physics, and his dubious immigration history. More recent petty insecurities show in his Twitter boosting and video game cheating. Both at Tesla and SpaceX, appparently his involvement hurt as much as it helped, and there is a long history of broken promises (e.g. FSD). It seems he cannot attend all meetings at SpaceX, because he doesn’t have the necessary security clearances due to his drug use. I have read that there used to be a layer of management that protected the rest of Tesla or SpaceX from him, and I guess now that is gone in Tesla, so we got the Cybertruck. TSLA is likely a meme stock, boosted by Musk through Xitter bots.

People who were close to him, like Philip Low and Sam Harris tell us that he is only about himself. Apparently, he shut down USAID because they were investigating Starlink's contracts in Ukraine (and also maybe because they helped end apartheid in South Africa), and he got the FAA director to resign because he fined SpaceX due safety violations. He thinks that he is superior to everyone else, and others should not have the audacity to hold him accountable (sort of like Trump-squared here). Likely a lot of the hagiography about him is something he fomented himself, and he has gotten high on his own supply, resulting in a shallow comic-book megalomania.

We have to keep in mind a few things if we want to fight this back:

I will leave you with the following two pieces — one from Seth Abramson:

From DOGE (executive authority) to Starlink (mass comms), from SpaceX (offworld and interplanetary authority) to Tesla (green energy), from xAI (AGI) to Neuralink (bioengineering), from the Boring Company (mass transit) to Optimus (robotics), from his clandestine outreach to the worst autocrats on Earth (international diplomacy) to Twitter (global propaganda), from Dogecoin (encrypted currency and markets) to the idea of “X” as an “everything app” (networked global transactions), Elon Musk seeks to create a situation in which no government is willing to brook him via regulation or criminal enforcement because they depend on him too much; no group is willing to oppose him because he can frivolously sue them out of existence; no person is willing to cross him because his fans are borderline psychotic, and may soon become over-the-borderline homicidal (through his own deliberate radicalization of them via persistent disinformation online); and no industry required to digitally map and then download a consciousness to a robot infused with artificial intelligence and bioengineering-based enhancements enabling superhuman capabilities isn’t under his control.

and the other is the Don Lemon interview:

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