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Musk has killed hundreds of thousands of people with his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...) and actively promotes white supremacy and race riots on Twitter. The Georges Ruggiu of social media.

Meanwhile, here in our little tech bubble, we pretend it's not happening -- that he's not spending half the day amplifying some of the literal worst people on Earth and blathering about how immigrants are coming to rape our culture. Just focus on the IPO. Don't look behind the curtain.

Where is a good chunk of this newfound money going to go? Into the pockets of AfD, Reform, and other far-right monsters around the world.

It's all just... abhorrent. Beyond words. Regretfully, I start to understand the state of society that can foment revolution. Never before have I felt such impotent fury at the state of things.

I can only hope his career ends as Ruggiu's once did: in shackles in front of an international tribunal.

You have to seek forgiveness and truly understand the nature of your transgression against your fellow man, not be like "welp, collateral damage is just part of the job."

That is not my call to make.

In a life-or-death situation, maybe a Christian could make the decision to take another life, then spend the rest of their life burdened by the guilt and sorrow of breaking the unambiguous 6th Commandment. There is room for repentance in this context.

That is *far* from the reality of the "defense" industry, however. Making widgets so that some dude at a computer terminal has an easier time drone-striking buildings full of kids halfway across the world is, essentially, evil.

I can't speak for anyone else, but as a Christian, it's really quite simple: any death that you help cause is a black mark on your soul. Maybe you can repent for it, someday. But it's not something that will just be let go when the day of reckoning comes.

Incidentally, I'd feel the same way about killing someone in self-defense.

Musk has killed hundreds of thousands of people with his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...) and actively promotes white supremacy and race riots on Twitter.

One of the absolute worst people to have this kind of money. He deserves to be in chains, not on top of the world.

I'd be *far* more concerned about living next to the Swiss equivalent of Tommy Robinson than a Muslim or African.

His unhinged attempts to destroy our government led directly to the deaths of thousands of Africans: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...

Possibly even hundreds of thousands: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

"Criminal" is far from the worst label that can legitimately be applied to this man. In fact, every article on Musk and his ventures should be prefaced with a note: "This vocal white supremacist has caused the deaths of thousands of people in third world countries through his reckless and destructive actions."

I think when the histories are written, his legacy will be more Kissinger than Ford.

Why is a typical public servant not allowed to accept even a $20 gift to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but the Venerable Judge Thomas can accept... <checks> ...5 MILLION DOLLARS worth of gifts, nearly half of all known gifts to the Supreme Court and many of them undeclared? What in the actual fuck?

Describe this situation to anyone not deep in a political bubble and see what they call it.

"gifts to judges from people not involved in cases is not bribery"

Uhhh, yeah that's a big <citation needed> there bud.

If a prominent party member gifts you lavish vacations and you subsequently decide cases along party lines, what else would you call that?

If the perpetrators are not dragged in chains in front of a nationally televised tribunal at some point in the future, we will have failed as a country.

Just as a reminder, Silicon Valley darling Curtis Yarvin recently said this:

"We have only one problem. The problem is: our billionaires are n—ers. They may be rich. But they're n—er rich. The nature and function of their wealth is profoundly negrous. You can probably name exceptions. I can too. But in every way, the exceptions prove the rule"

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/po...

And yet he still happily pops up at social gatherings with these elites.

Thanks for the completely content-free comment! You're a credit to the community.

Oh, then Bezos must be living a humble, middle-class life with very limited liquidation of his assets.

Surely, he’s not using loans, write-offs, and legal tricks to fund a Great Gatsby lifestyle while pretending to have no actual income?

Right?

Good, let them slowly sink into the ocean.

Meanwhile, America's tech CEOs are gifting the president with gold statues and accompanying him on diplomatic trips.

Gotta say, it’s kinda funny how many people here get triggered by this line of thinking.

"Yes, of course I'd make tools to kill people for money! How dare you unfriend someone for that?"

Telling on themselves.

Correct. He has unfathomable amounts of blood on his hands. And I don't have the links handy, but I read at least two articles that directly traced his criminally negligent dismantling of USAID to individual deaths.

Every article concerning Musk or his companies needs to forever be prefaced with this fact.

Well, Musk illegally wrecked half the federal government and killed tens of thousands of Africans in the process. Now he spends his days boosting and funding white nationalists and far-right politicians around the world. Why does everything have to be "good" or "bad"? Because some things are just pure evil and need to be called out as such, as well as thoroughly boycotted if the wheels of justice are too slow to turn.

This is not a nuanced case of "he did a few icky things, but also lots of good things." No. He is a fucked up, deeply racist megalomaniac who is doing his best to reshape the Western world in his fetid image. If he stopped with Tesla and SpaceX, maybe he would be penned differently in the history books, but alas.

More on the fascist beat: "FBI raids office of Dem state lawmaker in Virginia who led redistricting efforts"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-vi...

1) This is definitely the impetus

2) This will allow China to eat America's AI lunch, just as it's doing with renewables, automobiles, and manufacturing in general

Because the current government is a vindictive, murderous, proto-fascist government. (But you know that already.)

He is egregiously wrong, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a virulent racist. At this point he is quoting Stormfront rhetoric verbatim.

"A whole civilization will die tonight"

The trendy SV defense companies (Palantir, Andruil) seem to be all "killing is fun and good, actually" with an underlying current of white nationalism. We might need defense technology, but not like this. Super fucked up.

Yet he keeps going to his parties and schmoozing with his cronies. I don't recall Pichai or Nadella giving Trump a gold trinket to save their businesses.

Tanking Apple would tank the economy -- the one thing Repubs are afraid of. Cook could have used that.

Other, much smaller organizations have stood up to Trump and forced him to back down. So much for "courage."

There is no point in discussing an issue without also talking about its very obvious causal factors -- especially if the issue is something that would be desirable to mitigate.

Good riddance to an effective CEO whose entire legacy will be tarnished by a giant, gold-plated asterisk.