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Seth Christenfeld's avatar

I'm not certain that Elon Musk actually has any beliefs other than "please like me."

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Bill Landau's avatar

Sure he does - "please pay me."

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Hvvfagn's avatar

He believes he is right about everything.

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Melissa's avatar

he believes in money also

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COL Mustard's avatar

Clearly he does have other priorities, since he has something like 15 kids. Although I suppose that would fall into the category of “please like me”. He’s certainly a sick effer.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

His forebears were or certainly sympathizers of Nazism and he grew up in an environment which encouraged much of neo-Nazism. My take is he is some sub-species with much of the ideology tempered by the reality of having to make use of and do business with those "undesirables."

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Sam Mertens's avatar

He doesn’t think he is. But he hasn’t asked himself what the difference would be, besides the German accent.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Alexandra Petri is certainly earning her keep at The Atlantic. Yet another piece by her via a freebie link from archive today. As before, you may be asked to indicate you are a human before getting the article.

"11 Signs That the Call You Just Received From ‘Marco Rubio’ Was Actually AI

In retrospect, you probably should’ve known"

http://archive.today/dVyCl

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Gloria's avatar

She is brilliant.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thank you for your service.

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Nelsonsdad's avatar

Elon may or may not be a Nazi, but he is certainly racist. He hates black Africans so much he started his war on the Fed Gov by deconstructing USAID, which did more to save lives and alleviate suffering in black Africa than any other organization. As with Trump, together, they are complete and total racists.

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GAL's avatar

Elon very publicly and clearly did the Nazi salute a few months ago, so I am little surprised at the number of people giving him the benefit of the doubt

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SnarfyNewcomerOpinesBasically's avatar

not neo. just same old same old

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Karl Stoltz's avatar

Study his background. His mother's father, Joshua N. Haldeman, was born in Minnesota and emigrated to Canada and later South Africa. He supported Nazi Germany in World War 2 and made anti-Semitic comments repeatedly, defending the fabrication Protocols of the Elders of Zion as fact and complaining of a global Jewish conspiracy and "the hordes of Colored people" the "Jewish bankers who rule the world" controlled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman.

After his parent's divorce, Elon spent most of his formative years with his mother and is said to have idolized his grandfather, who died in a plane crash in 1974.

Apples do not often far too far from their trees, especially rotten ones.

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Lairbo's avatar

I voted "White Supremacist, Nazi's Too Far" but I'd like to add, "At this point in time". Let's see what his new party shapes up like.

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Helena Handbasket's avatar

“The surname Steinberg is stereotypically Jewish, and the ‘every damn time’ meme points to a perceived pattern where folks with such names pop up in extreme anti-white activism.”

Has anyone pointed out to "Grok" that Jews are, in general, white?

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Leslie G's avatar

Ashkenazi Jews are generally white, at least. And they are far in the majority, vs Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

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Charles Osborne's avatar

Part of your repartee with Grok reminded me of the opening scene from the film, Marathon Man.

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Robert Martin's avatar

We should be nice to Elon Musk. He can split the fascist vote.

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Jerry Slaff's avatar

Vee haf vays of making Jew laff. Jew will laff--and like it! (too much?)

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kenneth gallant's avatar

I wonder if the original “Steinberg” post, which sounds like it was pretty offensive too, was a plant? Maybe so the internet would bash people with names like Steinberg.

I have no independent evidence to this effect, but the reporter might want to check it out

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Gregory Dunn's avatar

Other sites are reporting “ the posts were made from an account with the username @Rad_Reflections and went with the name Cindy Steinberg. The account has now been deleted from X.”

Her account on X is @CindySteinberg_

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kenneth gallant's avatar

Interesting—do the sources say if Cindy Steinberg is real or anything more about the poster?

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Gregory Dunn's avatar

Nothing more about the poster. Cindy Steinberg is the National Director of Policy and Advocacy for the U.S. Pain Foundation and Policy Council Chair for the Massachusetts Pain Initiative. From uspainfoundation.org

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kenneth gallant's avatar

Hmmmm Such a person is unlikely to say what’s being attributed to her …

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

The actual story, not the NYT sanitized version, is so much worse.

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Pecos Slim's avatar

That interview was a gas!

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