I'd forgotten that he had said this, back in 2014. But it's the purest expression of necropolitics anyone could utter. - ThreadSky

davidrvetter.bsky.social • 25 days ago

I'd forgotten that he had said this, back in 2014. But it's the purest expression of necropolitics anyone could utter.

#ICYMI:

“Fuck Earth! Who cares about Earth?” - Elon Musk

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happypanda1990.bsky.social•25 days ago

And sometimes it's hard to figure out who's a bigger threat to us: politicians who are ignorant of climate change and don't believe it can happen, or powerful folk that do know it's a major existential threat, but their response is to try speed it up thinking they can simply escape to bunkers/Mars.

tringdriventhing.bsky.social•24 days ago

The sooner he fucks off the whichever planet he thinks is "better", all the more benefit to us.

jemaintiendrai.bsky.social•25 days ago

Its a sad man. I thought he understood things when I heard him tell Journalists he read Asimov... Turns out. He didnt get understand the books for one bit.

jemaintiendrai.bsky.social•25 days ago

If anything he was the Bail Channis in the story.. A bad actor which was completely derailed

jemaintiendrai.bsky.social•25 days ago

He was influenced it by the mule.. Need I say more ?

jenksy.bsky.social•25 days ago

When the likes of Putin, Trump, Musk, etc, take their turn to shuffle off this mortal coil, I hope it's sudden and unexpected.

Because the thought of any of those three being given a terminal diagnosis gives me the absolute shits, because they will do something Bond-villain mental on the way out.

silkabelli.bsky.social•24 days ago

Necropolitics - I love this. It is exactly what it is

pastapete.bsky.social•25 days ago

He is loving his exposure to the world … you realise that, surely.

skulking-loafer.bsky.social•25 days ago

Someone who's spent too long inside gaming perhaps🤔

anmle.bsky.social•25 days ago

And to think people believed he was a climate change champion to root for. Venn diagram is smaller than investors anticipated.

Evangelicals, seeing climate change as an early-stage rapture would never buy Tesla.

Tech-accelerationists want collapse fiction fusion.

Tech-utopian bros want FSD.

georgeorted.bsky.social•24 days ago

This is so sad.

ronsteenblik.bsky.social•25 days ago

Exactly. It almost seems part of his messianic plan to speed up humanity’s colonization of the universe, starting with Mars: make the Earth uninhabitable.

All thanks to his retreating into the fantasy world of Isaac Asimov ‘s “Foundation” during an unhappy adolescence.

goatsfoot.bsky.social•25 days ago

Mars can't even be terraformed, the dude is cooked. COOKED.

ronsteenblik.bsky.social•25 days ago

Extreme cold; unbreathable air; toxic regolith; ; no natural vegetation or cute animals; no Van Allen belts to protect people from cosmic radiation; surface gravity only 38% that of Earth's.

What's not to like?

goatsfoot.bsky.social•25 days ago

I've patiently tried pointing this out to his zealots. A while ago, mind you. It's like some weird cult. The really toxic endpoint of the Enlightenment project.

yigruzeltil.bsky.social•25 days ago

Posthumanists have pointed out how classical humanists devalued any form of life that was not ”rational”, as those humanists presumed themselves to be, hence their justifications of colonialism. Nazism and techno fascism are merely ultimate consequences of this.

davidrvetter.bsky.social•25 days ago

Coincidentally, I'm working on something about exactly this!

marksugrue.com•25 days ago

If they were serious about developing teraforming technology they would be trialing it in places like the sahara or remote parts of Australia.

goatsfoot.bsky.social•25 days ago

Why? Anywhere underground would work. You can't really shield against that radiation above ground, not long-term. Bunker bitch is either delusional or really wanting people to be out there mining underground for him.

lorifontanes.bsky.social•25 days ago

"necropolitics"-- is that your neologism? excellent word, used well, alas 😔

yigruzeltil.bsky.social•25 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolitics

davidrvetter.bsky.social•25 days ago

Heavens no!

https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics

lorifontanes.bsky.social•25 days ago

tbh i didn't want to google it! thx for the link!

kevlarunicorn.bsky.social•24 days ago

I would gladly support him going to Mars and without a suit.

coconnor8.bsky.social•25 days ago

Beyond parody

https://bsky.app/profile/coconnor8.bsky.social/post/3l7ih5cm7hs2o

coconnor8.bsky.social•25 days ago

See

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

void0reason.bsky.social•25 days ago

“If we can establish a Mars colony…”

Quite a big “IF”.

Perhaps Spaceboy can take a trip to Mars to demonstrate its habitability. He can personally design all the equipment.

pr-gary.bsky.social•25 days ago

Nothing wrong with ambition and goals, I suppose... but this sounds like something a nine year old would think/say.

Or maybe somebody who really doesn't like the outdoors.

pr-gary.bsky.social•25 days ago

and does anyone wanna take a stab at what the "Earth-to-Mars economy" could be in anyone's wildest dream?

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