News/Politics thread by @SethAndrewsTTA

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This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment.

While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1)

Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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(2) Elon has happily buddied with the cretinous Tucker Carlson. In this clip, Carlson was pitching his interview with the more cretinous Andrew Tate.

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(3) Here, Elon speaks about the empty atheists, secular religion, and childless hedonism. (Those child-free folks are selfish and myopic.)

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(4) Elon claimed that the border security bill was a trojan horse to stack the Dem vote.

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(5) Pot, meet kettle...and a conspiracy theory.

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(6) Genius Elon weighed in on climate change.

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(7) Remember the antisemitism?

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(8) Never learn about history or world governments from Elon.

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(9) A man of political conviction (urp).

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(10) Elon spat in the faces of the Sandy Hook families, welcoming Alex Jones back to X with the excuse of "free speech."

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(11) His world is a junior high locker room.

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(12) Never take vaccine advice from Elon Musk.

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(13) Elon doesn't know how internet archives work.

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(14) Elon spread the myth that understanding the racism of our past = hating white people.

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(15) Remember when Elon teamed up with Joe Rogan to bait Dr. Peter Hotez in the wake of the awful RFK Jr. interview? This resulted in hate mail, death threats, and a guy showing up to Hotez's home.