One of the stupidest men of all time got lucky and landed in wealth. His shitty opinions were picked up by lots of people. I had to see them on the internet so many times that I eventually went insane. And that’s the story of how I became the Answer Your Telephone man in Kansas City.
There is nothing to unpack here. Stop trying to be oh-so-goddamned-clever, as if engaging with the constant barrage of pronouncements by these social parasites is a productive or meaningful endeavor.
Back when he was only known for electric cars, space tech and his plans to provide free internet to the whole world with starlink it wasn’t as bad if someone not knowing better thought that he intends good.
Then came all that anti union shit and his far right statements and childish behaviour with twitter and a lot of other stuff.
If after all that one still thinks elon means good they are either blind fanboy or really fucking stupid
His trans kid went out of their way to say how shitty he was, once people caught on he just stopped trying to hide how much of a shitty person he is because he can gain a fervent base by saying honestly stupid and immature shit.
You’re just saying things you want to be true because it feels good, if you can’t see the huge difference between parties then you clearly haven’t been paying attention
One is business as usual neoliberalism, as the climate actively breaks down around us. The other is open fascism, while the climate actively breaks down around us. Third option is we collectively overthrow our capitalist overlords and redistribute our wealth globally and try to reduce our impact on the climate as much as possible, while the climate actively breaks down around us.
The climate is a huge issue for sure but things really aren’t as bad as doomers want you to think, we can turn this corner and as unlikely as it seems humanity is actually taking it seriously and working on it.
The water wars are a favorite example of mine, pretty much all the areas in the list of places we were told to expect water wars now have solar powered desalination plants. Some of them have other wars but that’s beside the point.
Renewables are now significantly cheaper and easier than fossil fuel so we’re going to see that transition continue at an increasing rate as markets mature- we’re also seeing huge energy saving developments like heatpumps and leds dominate markets. Even America now has more solar than coal and real plans in operation to improve rail systems, etc.
There are some big projects to automate freight for example which could greatly increase the efficiency and utility of trains thus making it a much more popular option and helping end the dependency on road vehicles. And that’s just the things already underway, we’ve still got a few decades before we really need to have control of emissions so there’s plenty of other developments to help us as long a we can keep the ball rolling.
I feel like I’ve written a lot you’ll want to yell about so I’ll save why I think a better, freer, people powered future is basically inevitable and that the best and only moral thing we can do is try to fold capitalism away neatly by building the replacement out from under it.
And yes I know your heart yearns for hate and destruction of the capitalist bastards but you have to realize that is capitalist and imperialist thinking which is incompatible with a better world. Focus not on those you hate but those you love, work for solutions that help people live better and we’ll all lift the capitalist yoke off together.
I know I’ve been there, it’s nice because you don’t have to face the anxiety of the future if you can pretend it isn’t going to happen.
The problem is you end up spiraling into darkness, it’s only when look up at the light and hear the sounds of everyone else having fun that you realize you need to crawl from the mire you’ve wallowed in too long.
The world is a great place, enjoy it and look for positive things, you’ll be surprised how many there are.
You have no argument beside empty snark, you call me ignorant but it’s very clear you’re the one with nothing backing your opoon other than a strong desire for it to be true.
Yeah but do you know that the climate models expected this within the +2c range due to combined factors including El Nino? This isn’t a sudden spiral to unexpected doom it’s a statistical bump we knew was coming, during la Nina the right wing will be saying that upward trends haven’t continued and then we’ll all have to suddenly remember how trends and cycles work…
And yes two degree warming is scary, it’s not climate collapse scary though based on all the science we know and it’s something we can solve if we continue to transition away from fossil fuel. The transition is going pretty well too, even the US has more solar with California recently having more production from renewables than demand. EV transition is going great too, globally it’s starting to make a small but visible dent in oil demand, electrification of heating with efficient heat pumps likewise is affecting gas demand in many areas - those trends will continue and fossil fuel usage will decline.
It’s genuinely likely that a child born today won’t see an operational gas station on the road by the time they start driving, if they drive because pushes to increase public transit are increasing as labour and materials costs fall due to automation.
We’re also moving into energy abundance where things like solar are so cheap and easy.that technologies like carbon capture and storage become viable on scales which make significant differences - especially if the carbon is used in construction or fabrication, by 2100 we might be making laws restricting people from extracting too much carbon.
Accelerate compared to which other realistic option?
Acceleration only exists in relation to a reference point. With no voting system that allows for more than two parties that have a chance, Trump is the one who would accelerate things.
Him wanting to die on mars is the only thing he’s said that I’m like " yeah that does kinda sound cool" more just for the feeling of being born on one planet and dying on another feels kinda cool to me, everything else that comes out of his mouth is batshit crazy, but dying on another planet does seem cool to me.
His mission is hype-based businesses that fight unions as hard as possible. Even if goals like affordable space travel and electric vehicles are good goals, he’s not going about it the right way. History tells us the way you do things also matters. Building the transcontinental railroad system was a great project that helped unite the USA, but that doesn’t justify the way the white worker’s grievances were ignored or the mistreatment of Chinese migrant workers.
He has no good goals. It is just a massive grift. Everything he touches will either shut down or turn into a “conventional” company the moment he leaves. It is just hype to drive sales or the next capital raise.
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