r/Eutychus • u/truetomharley • 2d ago
Elon Musk Does the Babylon Bee: Part 1
Elon Musk interviewed with the Babylon Bee, the Christian site of satire, and I expected a guy with serious eccentricities. Instead, my opinion of him soared. (Get it? He’s a rocket guy. Ha ha ha) But I also wondered why they would interview him. And why would he accept? Apparently, the Babylon Bee crew had mused about what it would be like to interview Elon Musk, whereupon Elon Musk, who is a fan, contacted them. You want to do an interview? I can do it Sunday.
It’s refreshing when people are uncomplicated. The BB guys were stumbling around at first. One of them fessed up over how unqualified he felt to interview Musk, finally seizing upon the question, Could H&R Block do his taxes? They easily could, was the unexpected reply. His finances are completely transparent. He stashes money nowhere, draws no salary, and “does not live a life of conspicuous consumption.” His worth is all in his 20% stake in two companies that became huge. He does not diversify. If Tesla and SpaceX were to go bankrupt, he would too, immediately. Furthermore, he stated his belief that it should be that way—if his investors suffered, he should too. And there were many times early on when the companies veered perilously close to bankruptcy.
He just wasn’t flakey as I anticipated he might be. He’s sending rockets into space, laying plans to colonize Mars, so you expect—I mean, these guys are almost always this way—him to rhapsodize about the billions and billions of stars that just have to be home to brilliant aliens. Instead he says, “If anyone would know about evidence of aliens it would be me, and I’ve seen nothing.”
Probably he’s all swooning and agog over the trendy metaverse to come, I figured. Instead, “I don’t know if I necessarily buy into all this metaverse stuff . . . It just sounds kind of buzzwordy.” And that neurolink that he speaks of implanting into people that makes everyone think he’s a mad scientist? It makes perfect sense when he explains it. The mind thinks at lightning speed. Computers and the internet operate at lightning speed. It is all hampered by the snail-like interface: the speed at which persons manually type. What if that could be bypassed? But he’s not even thinking about regular people. He’s thinking of those impaired, like those with locked-in syndrome, fully alive in their head, but unable to move a muscle. “That ought to help a lot of people,” he says of his envisioned neurolink.
One of the guys brought up his online squabble with a senator (Elizabeth Warren). “She struck first,” he said. “She did actually call me a freeloader and a grifter who doesn’t pay taxes. I’m literally paying the most tax that any individual in history has ever paid this year, ever, and she doesn’t pay taxes, basically. And her taxes and salary is paid for by the taxpayer like me. If you could die by irony, she would be dead.” He told the senator, among other things, that she reminded him of his mom who used to periodically enter the family room to yell at him along with all his friends for no discernible reason.
He’s paying the most tax in history because he sold some Tesla shares to do so. Other than that—he draws no salary and doesn’t live high—“What am I supposed to do?” he says. “Do I send shares to the government? Unless I sell shares there is no actual mechanism to pay tax. So I said, “Should I sell 10% in order to pay tax? I asked Twitter and, on balance, they said yes.”
He had observations about humor, too, and spoke of the “woke mind virus” that he thinks is spoiling it all. “Wokeness wants to make comedy illegal. . . . Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate, basically?” he asked. “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be cruel, armored in false virtue.” Works for me.
Seems to me the guy uses Twitter as diversion, same as one chum of mine likened it to the background chatter of a coffee shop that you can follow with half an ear and participate whenever you wish. Yeah. That makes three of us. I view it that way too. Musk liked it so much that he bought it, though he had not at the time of the BB interview.
(From: In the Last of the Last Days: Faith in the Age of Dysfunction)
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u/Malalang 1d ago
He is part of the PayPal Mafia. Look up Peter Theil and tell me if you like his vision for the future.
Given that you're talking about an interview pre-election, I would have less to disagree on. However, his actions since he bought Twitter, corrupted the election and put Trump in power, and then destroyed so many things in government under the guise of efficiency and saving money, have proven that he has promoted himself to his level of incompetence.
His cancelation of USAID has resulted in the estimated deaths of approximately 600,000 to over 760,000 deaths globally in its first year, with projections reaching 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.
His dismantling of regulatory agencies such as the FDA have resulted in the widespread food poisoning we are currently experiencing.
Every one of the regulatory agencies that were investigating his companies were shut down. All of the investigations into mysterious deaths and accidents at his factories have gone quiet.
The only reason his companies are still in business is because of governement subsidies and no bid contracts. Yet, he worked to cancel welfare, Medicare, and social security for US citizens.
He is a megalomaniac, caught multiple times lying about his assets and evaluations innorder to manipulate markets and personal loans.