Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

Are we on elrond or L. Ron now? Come on rsl m8... what's the word boss?

Anyway, if people wonder why I've been reading the Eye for a few years, this is an example of their work...

The humorous take on a serious subject





The background of the related story...

 

The National Socialists would not fit nicely in the American or modern Western right/left dichotomy.

He was certainly not a progressive socialist and he was certainly not a free-market conservative.

 

Well, no... he was a fascist

He would use ANY group or system to extent his control of power.

 

Correct, which makes fascism hard to define. Anything is used.

 

I mean, the word for "free market" is "liberalism" which when it began was the opposite of the conservative monarchal system where the king granted charters for businesses. The word kind of morphed in meaning in America.

 

It sort of has to. If an American conservative goes nationalistic then they have to go back to the roots of the founding of the US which are chock full of classical liberal ideas - free speech, private property, rule of law, etc. If they go religious conservative then again it's back to sharing many values of classical liberalism since Protestantism was part of the development of those ideas.

 

All political terms are subject to interpretation. For instance liberal means centrist or lefty politically but righty economically. The UK Labour Party still pretends it's socialist but it's more of a social democratic/socialist alliance.

I guess Hitler was a populist even though he won power with 37% of the vote.

 

Is Elon Musk really a god-tier gamer? Or is he just paying other people to "boost" his accounts so he can claim to be god-tier? Well, we may have an answer to that. A game called Pillars of Eternity 2 was just recently released and Musk's character in that game is max level and decked out in the best equipment. This is something that would require hundreds of hours playing the game. However, in a stream Musk recently had on X, it appears like he doesn't really know the game.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...n-musks-characters-are-clearly-being-boosted/

The PoE community is kind of up in arms about this because boosting and account sharing are against the games Terms of Service and some are demanding he be banned. The issue with this is that having Musk play the game is incredible free advertising. He has a huge following on Twitter and everything he says there gets boosted quite a bit. Also, his core followers are also well within PoE's core players, so are definitely likely to pick up the game and spend tons of money on the game.

 

I'm wondering if Germany's next round of EV subsidies will be limited to EU produced models. The German Tesla factory only builds the Model Y.

 

That's not because "liberalism" changed its meaning, but conservatism changed what it was trying to conserve. Liberalism of commerce inevitably lead to liberalism of thought because they are connected. But when commerce became the center of power instead of kings, the people with that power went from being agents of change to agents of keeping things like they were.

 

I'm actually a little disappointed. I thought it was funny that Musk claimed to be a great father and hard worker when he actually devotes most of his time to gaming and his Twitter addiction.

So now we only have his Twitter addiction.

 

https://www.hna.de/politik/alice-we...te-greifen-und-strafe-folgen-zr-93505562.html

Musk-Interview live auf X mit Alice Weidel: EU hat Mittel, Plattform zu bestrafen
Auch die EU verfügt durchaus über Instrumente, um Musk zwar nicht am Weidel-Interview zu hindern, aber ihn immerhin im Nachhinein dafür zu bestrafen. Deshalb wird ein Team von 150 Personen das Live-Gespräch zwischen Musk und Weidel genauestens verfolgen.

Weniger geht es dabei um Inhaltliches, sondern um Technisches: Die EU will kontrollieren, mit welchem Algorithmus X den Livestream mit Musk und Weidel an seine mehr als 100 Millionen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer in der EU verbreitet, heißt es in einem Bericht des US-Magazins Politico.

So, let's see what happens.

Denn: Innerhalb der EU gibt es Regeln für Online-Plattformen wie X. Aufgeschrieben sind sie im Social-Media-Gesetz der EU und im Digital Services Act. Die EU verfügt demnach über „weitreichende Befugnisse“, um zu kontrollieren, ob Musk diese Regeln im Fall des Livestreams mit Weidel befolgt. Sie kann Büros von X durchsuchen, interne Korrespondenz einsehen und Zugriff auf den Algorithmus zur Verbreiterung des Weidel-Interviews verlangen.

Musk könnte nach Weidel-Interview auf X zu Geldstrafe verdonnert werden
Strafen für Musk werde es nicht sofort geben, falls er gegen EU-Regeln verstößt, heißt es. Doch während des Live-Interviews mit Weidel würden eventuell Beweise gesammelt, um ein laufendes Verfahren der EU gegen X zu untermauern. Die Europäische Gemeinschaft beschuldigte Elon Musk im Juli 2024 offiziell, EU-Regeln auf X nicht eingehalten zu haben. Eine Entscheidung der EU-Kommission dazu soll bald kommen.

 

I mean, supporting a fascist to become potus is one thing. Investing in china where the Uighur are being opposed by the chinese authorities is another. Even interfering in European politics to push conspiracy theories is bad enough... but THIS is completely unacceptable...







What an absolute fecking dork

 

He's annoyed Steve Bannon

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

 

I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.

 

Bannon probably doesnot know the founder of Apartheid, Verwoerd, in the 1920ies toured the southern states of the USA and learned about the segregation, in law and behaviour, there and thought that was a good idea to copy.
For those who don't know...Apartheid is the Afrikaan translation of segregation.

 

Elon is not going anywhere because he controls X and was a big part of getting Trump elected. Anyone angling to be the Republican's 2028 candidate will be working with Musk at some level.

 

Are you ********ing serious?

HE LIVE-STREAMED HIMSELF PLAYING THESE CHARACTERS!!!!

 

Interesting.

Elon Musk has become even more unpopular in the UK following his interventions on child grooming gangs

Favourable: 20% (+2 from Nov 2024)
Unfavourable: 71% (+7)
Net: -51 (down 5pts) pic.twitter.com/qEDlnXgCOV

— YouGov (@YouGov) January 13, 2025