Elon Musk is not a genius - he’s the afterbirth of apartheid wealth, suckled on stolen labor and colonial myth, incubated in a delusion where whiteness is worth and arrogance is intellect. 1/8 - ThreadSky

patriotprogressive.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Elon Musk is not a genius - he’s the afterbirth of apartheid wealth, suckled on stolen labor and colonial myth, incubated in a delusion where whiteness is worth and arrogance is intellect.
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darida2023.bsky.social•24 days ago

rhizomaticon.bsky.social•25 days ago

If you read what he said/wrote 20, 10, even 5 yrs ago, you will notice that he has gotten turned at some point recently. His deeper past no doubt contributes, but it was not motivating him long ago. If you can find out what turned him you will go much farther in understanding our predicament.

mikemikeymichael.bsky.social•24 days ago

Greed. It's not that deep.

He wasn't a billionaire 20 years ago, though he likely reached that around 15 years ago, but definitely wasn't one of the top 100 wealthiest people at that point. He had $12 billion ten years ago.

rhizomaticon.bsky.social•24 days ago

No, too simple. And he's said he doesn't care about money, he will burn it all to instantiate his vision. What would cause him to completely flip politically, go MAGA, when he used to be the poster child for SF Bay Area progressive developers?

mikemikeymichael.bsky.social•24 days ago

Five years ago, his wealth grew from $28 billion at the start of the year to $170 billion at the end of the year.

Everything he's ever said and done has been in pursuit of more and more wealth.

mikemikeymichael.bsky.social•24 days ago

Sources:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-elon-musk-during-every-130036338.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2015

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/elon-musk-net-worth-2020/

manolly.bsky.social•24 days ago

He might have been radicalised recently, but he never was too bright. Anyone who knows a bit about engineering will realise quickly that he has been telling a lot of nonsense for quite some time.

rhizomaticon.bsky.social•24 days ago

Yes, precisely. The teleprompters with awkward presentation at Tesla events were clear give aways. And it's precisely because he's an undereducated hollow man that he could go from wanting to completely transform transportation to completely unraveling US democracy. He was an easy mark.

theranot.bsky.social•23 days ago

He recently claimed he has "negative brain chemicals." No such thing. He may mean when he isn't currently using drugs it's an absence of said chemicals.

rhizomaticon.bsky.social•23 days ago

I do think 100% the ketamine is a major factor in his turning. Nothing like having an addict needing a fix on your payroll...

theranot.bsky.social•23 days ago

And with his hands on nearly every agency in the government. Even worse, Trump appears to be conned into believing he's a genius.

rhizomaticon.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, this is the fraud Elon has been cultivating for years, decades. He doesn't originate his companies, only buys them. He needs teleprompters at Tesla events. He's just a greedy slave driver, nothing more.

wpichickenhawk.bsky.social•24 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/wpichickenhawk.bsky.social/post/3lhxevgk6ck2v

ian-nearly.bsky.social•25 days ago

One question :
What new theory or invention can we attribute to him?
I don't see any.

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

He slithered from South Africa, swaddled in emeralds and entitlement, landing in America like a parasite with a pitch deck. From there, he inflated his myth through spin, subsidies, and a public all too eager to confuse volume with vision.
2/8

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

He is not an innovator but an opportunist, a tech-fascist emperor wrapped in cosplay and cult branding, vomiting fascist memes from his digital palace like a toddler with matches and no supervision.
3/8

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

He fancies himself a world-shaper, but what he shapes is destruction - safety nets torn apart, labor crushed beneath AI dogma, and democracy gasping under the weight of algorithmic hate and pay-for-play propaganda.

Musk profits not just from chaos, but from the normalization of cruelty.
4/8

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

His obsession with eugenics-era pseudoscience and "free speech absolutism" isn't intellectual curiosity - it's ideological rot. Every layoff, every Twitter purge, every alt-right signal boost is a calculated act of violence against equity, empathy, and truth.
5/8

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

He leeches billions in public subsidies, then turns around and mocks the people funding his empire - teachers, union workers, public servants - while demanding worship for reinventing mass transit as a tunnel for rich people’s Teslas.
6/8

patriotprogressive.bsky.social•25 days ago

He didn’t build rockets to lift humanity; he built them to flee the ruins he helped create.

Musk is a digital despot in a fleece vest, cosplaying as a genius while gutting democratic norms, trampling civil rights, and platforming the very ideologies that once torched the world.
7/8

eliseflynn.bsky.social•25 days ago

Toddlers destroy. Adults (re)build.
Musk is the same toddler as Trump.

They're breaking everything and thinks that's 'leadership'. It's selfish, "look at me, mommy" childish behavior.

theranot.bsky.social•23 days ago

Please set this straight:

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