@@ApexGale Yeah this has been so widely debunked by so many zoologists. Even if wolves were, for some reason the model we should be living by (???), they function closer to communism than anything.
The thing that drives me crazy is that we have ALWAYS known that trusting public institutions to oligarchs with no civic interest in them is a bad idea. I understood this as a 10 year old, as did everyone in Social Studies. This was how you got warlords
And the United States used to be much much better at weeding out the goofy little god-kings who were not interested in adhering to the rules. That's how we ended up with companies like Raytheon. You never hear much at all from them publicly. They do what they are paid to do, and they don't rock the boat. They're still evil, but at least they are predictable.
This man needs his government contracts taken away. We absolutely do not need him, he needs the government. Taking away communications in the middle of war is disgusting. He has taken the position of pro-Russian war criminals
The war could have been over at that if Musk didnt fuck it up, then he complains that his tech is being used for war when he himself is helping the war be prolonged. hes a disgusting excuse of a human being.
@@alphana7055The US isn't involved in the war. It is giving military aid to a friendly country. It did that all the time with Israel and Pakistan and you haven't spoken until now.
Given Musk's apparent admiration of the Russian political system, it's very unkind of America to deny him the full oligarch experience of a thrilling free dive off a tenth floor balcony.
I never understood these billionaires with their wishing for the overthrow of society or their dreams of bunkers. Why do they possibly think that anarchy would benefit them? Why would your mercenary guy let you roleplay super villain when he could just kill your pudgy ass and take your stuff? Why do they think they would retain their power if they installed their little dictator Trump? Why wouldn't he turn on you? He's literally never been loyal to anything in his entire life. It's the status quo that keeps Elon even remotely secure. Social anarchy would topple him.
This really enforces the notion that capitalism is just a detour route to authoritarianism. Hell, I feel like it’s even worse because he’s like, isolated enough from everything that he doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of his decisions but still powerful enough that he can enforce his geopolitics on an international scale
Indeed. The notion holds quite a lot of water. Another case example is the voraciousness with which capitalism embraced colonialism, readily carving out what were effectively police states while the imperial center was a liberal democracy (say, the UK, or Japan between 1890-1930). Alternatively in the same vein one could use the British East India Company's takeover of India as an example of what happens when it is specifically capitalism (arguably one of the very first modern capitalist entities too, and the first multinational megacorporation) that was the ruling mechanism as what used to be the Mughal Empire, Maratha Confederacy, Mysore, and numerous other countries were all turned into the private property of a corporation (the key turning point in the East India Company's path to seizing India was when they forced emperor Shah Alam II to issue diwani, the right to collect taxes in the name of the Mughal Empire, and tax exempt status to the Company, this would be the framework in which the Company would take over rule of India as their mercenary army defeated their enemies) until the Company's bankcruptcy led to the British government to take control of the Company's assets (that is to say, India). The damage the Company inflicted in its desperate attempts to maximize profit (and as bankcruptcy suggests, eventually just make profit) was staggering. And indeed, the readiness at which business magnates have tried to cooperate or co-opt fascist movements to preserve their power (which rarely turns out well for them, the German steel magnates for example had no idea who they were dealing with when it came to Hitler).
You're not wrong. There are just some competing interests involved here. If the govt steps in and cuts off taxpayer money to musk entirely, then he is monumentally screwed, but that will have negative impacts on the economy. On the other hand, if he becomes a serious problem in their attempts to maintain American hegemony, at some point that will no longer be tolerated.
Or SpaceX, or Tesla. SpaceX is a bunch of former NASA engineers who came TO HIM. That's probably why it's the only thing he does that mostly works for a shit, when he stays out of the decision-making. Because rocket science is really beyond him.
Regarding the Nazis, here in Germany we had a split where a part (minority) supporting Ukraine clashed with the ones supporting Russia. Similiar Situation as with the other extreme, you have some people on the far left where Israel is sacrosanct and some that are totally hostile toward it (and more falling in between).
There is only 1 reason Elon doesn't face more backlash and financial consequences for his public behavior. That reason is his business dealings with the government. SpaceX is and will do major business with the U.S. defense department. Rockets and starlink.
@@Absol7701 Musk made me do many things i would have never been able to do. Like: Root for Zuckerberg, hate cars and support the idea of the goverment taking away someones assets. He truly does inspire and motivate.
@@Absol7701 Nope like Vaush talks about it, USA is not at war with Russia. But what this now creates is a conflict of interest with regards to Musk. They could start an investigation in secrecy ( I am sure if they do they wont say it in advance), and then terminate Musks contracts in future quoting that CI risk and vulnerability. Very likely they will do that sooner a competitor to spaceX shows up.
didn't a NASA director get sacked for favoring other corporations (with proven track records) other than SpaceX (the startup), sounds like the nation should have kept that NASA director
@@Wheatthin21 the sacking was for the moon mission, which the proven companies are showing to be the better choice. I guarantee Elon and SpaceX will be parting in 5 years or less
NASA bet the whole Artemis program on Musk getting Starship to work on time. It's not going to happen, so that moon landing they planned might not either. They really should've gone with one of the more conventional proposals for the Artemis Moon Lander. Instead, they bought Musk's implausible concept based on a sketch, without a prototype in sight.
@@Pushing_Pixels they weren't going to the moon any earlier without SpaceX i can promise that, the same way there is still virtually no internet company available where i live apart from starlink which i was promised years ago.
Financially, SpaceX already is nationalized. At the end of the day, if (or more likely when) the government decides to pull the plug, Musk is going to implode in spectacular fashion.
For Starlink in particular there was a Beau of the Fifth Column video about a while ago indicating that the DoD is sick of it and is making their own replacement. Hopefully that means they're either actively or going to phase him out. Low stability hurts readiness and Musk has only gotten more unstable
As far as I'm aware the DoD replacement for Starlink is Starshield which is still a SpaceX product. Starshield will basically be a specialized mini Starlink constellation fully controlled by the military but bought from SpaceX.
Nah. Most of these people don’t follow the news and have no idea what Elon is doing. They just think he’s a cool businessman with some Tony Stark aspirations. They don’t know about all his lies, bad takes and plain dumb ideas.
"decided that praise from the grossest people was more important" Actually you are more like what you describe, minus the talent and accomplishments. If you lived in WWII you would be praising the NSDAP or singing love songs for Stalin.
Telling your partner you're the Alpha is bad enough, but doing it just after you married, is a big sign of there being something totally wrong with your personality.
Another day, another example how we need to decouple corporations from Government influence… (To be fair, I’m not saying all corporations should be under total control by the Gov’t [i.e. China] but we need strict guidelines and ethics that prevent these situations from happening)
Oh, easy my fishdude - the people who think that are INFINITELY more stupid than he is. A terrifying prospect, I know. There are a lot of them. I blame the public education model
I thought he was like tony stark when i was 12, then I grew up an learned he was a total geed with no real achievements besides being a trust fund kid, then I grew up again and learned media analysis and realized he was in fact exactly like tony stark all along lol
God reminds me of a comment section here on RU-vid I had seen about a news of him there where so many people calling Elon an engineering genius. I was perplexed that these people still exist
Said it before, I'll keep saying it, Musk has been allowed to write his own press releases for years. It's why he's been seen as some sort of visionary tech-bro. I guess he's still seen as such by some fringes of society but you know, idiots exist in every society.
Yes, every press release is written by the person that writes it ... there is no regulation or control. You can write them too. I think we agree on that. The problem part is (social media aside) is the "press". In a good world, the press is intellegent, analytical etc and sifts through your and Elons's press releases, asks further questions and publishes a better balanced story to sell... But there is also the problem ... the press is either just shovelling out press releases cut and pasted word for word, or worse, only those that grab the most attention from the "customer" streams that generate them the most cash ... And then there is the need for the press to push the political "keep me rich" agendas.
How petty must a person be to be so wealthy that no amount of more money would change their lifestyle and yet still feel the need to use that money to reshape the world to make things worse for so many others.
Watch him in that clip saying that in this moment he knows more about car engineering/manufacturing than anyone else alive. I hope I remeber it correctly.
Could at least just nationalize the satellites. One dude should not personally control thousands of satellites flying over major cities, with the goal of personally controlling the global Internet. Let him continue using them for his company, but ultimately the government should control these satellites. There are also major problems with future space debris. We can’t just let him throw up as much as he wants into orbit lol that’s freaking insane
We're still spending billions on building 40yr old jets that have been obsolete for decades, just so the billionaire that owns the company can suck on that budget dick.
The biggest question I have is how a person with such an extremely stunted intellect managed to get himself into this position, was he just the right moron at the right time, did he have some competent advisors, does having money just trump any and all intelligence???
3 things I think - lots of money yes (hello emerald mines as a starting pack) allowing him to fund promising ventures, and to gain the good publicity later if it succeeds - lots of ideas, good, bad, unimportant as long as there are some good ideas in the lot - good enginners in the team who will discard the bad ideas and implement the good ones, and in the end the public only sees the good ideas implemented, which are credited to Musk Points 2 and 3 work well when they go together, but when the 3rd point disapear, as in "X", the public can realise than he goes in fact in all directions.
He played a roll the liberal media needed at the time (Totally cool future Tony Stark electric car huwhuw) and has been living off of it ever since. He is a creation of CNN, MSNBC and the neoliberals in government.
If anything you would expect Musks economic interests to be firmly anti-Russia since they are a major launch provider and produce a lot of oil. Musks companies benefit from people switching away from gas cars and from Russias launch capabilities being under sanction. So his friendliness towards Russia is extremely likely to be just ideological, he does not really benefit from a stronger Russia in any way I can see.
The reason the US dosent sieze SpaceX and Tesla and whatever else, is because it would set precedent, and prove the US Government couldve been doing this for ages.
Musk already visited Russia to negotiate a deal with Russian military about some rockets back in early 2000's, and Russians literally laughed and spit towards him. Still, he wants to talk with then, sounds like a masochist.
Never, EVER let a single corporate entity control an integral part of your life. This is advice meant for like, watching Marvel movies as your only hobby, I didnt think the fucking US MILITARY would need to hear it
The problem isn't that US government is closely tied to SpaceX it's that the communication services provided by SpaceX were being provided on a voluntary basis. If there was a contract between Pentagon and SpaceX that Musk was refusing to follow then it would be a legal matter. There wasn't. So Pentagon was just relying on Musk's charity for the duration of the war.
The ability of any person to influence politics proportional to their wealth shouldn't be surprising, but if the capriciousness of collective persons is something to be feared then the waffling of the wealthy should be terrifying. If some of a million choose not to pass their dollar, it's a lost battle; if a millionaire chooses not to pass their dollar, it's a lost war.
This feels like old news to me, but what I do find delicious about the StarLink situation is that the Universal Law of Assholes decrees that the one inarguably good thing Musk was doing is of course something that he's going to hate having to do before long.
NASA needs way better funding. They have decades of institutional knowledge and experience. Only reason space x is half as competent is the fact that they work with nasa. It is one of the most efficient and useful government agencies we have and we chose not to fund it better. It shows our priority that we chose to develop weapons and bombs rather than exploring the world and create new technologies that help society.
A lot of the knowledge is with the contractors that build stuff for them, they're doing a lot of the research on their own end too. That's part of why SLS exists, they were losing their workforce knowledge and capabilities of building any rockets without starting from zero again. Right now, a lot of modern rocket engineering is at SpaceX. Building an advanced rocket motor like the Raptor is something NASA has never done, technically they didn't build the RS-25 either but that's still missing a lot of novel stuff that has never been tested in depth that's on SpaceX full flow stages combustion cycle. Avionics experience is coming from industry vets coming from places like Honeywell and others, plus fresh engineers. You'd be surprised how much knowledge is sourced outside of NASA institutional knowledge.
I think it's pretty clear what has happened here and it's not as sinister as it may appear at first glance. When Musk started handing out Starlink equipment in Ukraine at the start of the war he wasn't doing it to support the Ukrainian government, he was doing it because he believed a large number of the civilians that came to rely on Starlink for internet would start paying him at some point when things returned closer to normal. He never planned for Starlink to be the backbone of the Ukrainian military's field communications. He may genuinely be unhappy that his company has been re-purposed for the military. Why is he keen to placate Russia though? Because it is probably the largest potential market for Starlink in the world. Russia might only be a middle-income country economically, but demographically it is huge, and it has vast, sparsely populated areas where terrestrial internet services are just impossible to build. Russia is home to potentially millions of Starlink customers. There are whole cities in Siberia dependent on satellite services for communications. He could end up making a lot of money providing those services, but if the Russian government sees him as a willing participant in the war in Ukraine, he may be blocked from selling his products in Russia after the dust settles. This is about money; he doesn't care who's right, or who wins. It's business.
You do not get it, Starlink is "civilian material" Elon can sell it to whoever he wants, if it become "backbone of the Ukrainian military's field communications" its transfrom Starlink to "military material" and he need to obtain a licence from US goverment to export it, and people will need a licence to import it. Hence he must have a "tough stand" agenst Ukraine for using Starlink for military aplication. There are Starshield the military variant of Starlink, ask yourself why the US goverment do not send Starshield to Ukraine? If Russia become a civilized peaceful democratic nation, the fact that SpaceX did suport Ukraine during the war will be irrelevant. If Russia continue to be a totalitarian nation, Starlink will be prohibited, becuse it allow Russians to use internet outside the control of the Russian state.
@@kirgan1000 So, in other words, you agree with what I said. He never intended it to be used by the military, he intended it for civilians cut off from the outside world. The US government clearly isn't bothered about him not getting an export license and they won't force him to because it's so important to the Ukrainians. He is worried about being shut out of Russia, which is one of, if not the largest market in the world for Starlink. Russia doesn't look like changing anytime soon. Even the opposition parties are hardliners, so a change of leader wouldn't do much. Even if change did occur, most Russians aren't going to forget all the lives he cost them. As for Starshield, the US isn't going to let anyone else access it because it uses their classified encryption systems. Letting others use it could compromise its integrity and reveal its exact capabilities. NATO probably won't even get access to it.
This is rather disturbing. I used to work in the finance department of a public company that serviced the satellite network in the 90s. I need to go through SO MUCH government security checks just to work a job in finance (i.e. an office job). Are you telling me that someone with his ego needs can view, let alone manage these things sporadically?
People always criticizing big government but take no care to find out if there is power beyond that is why the saying not looking at the forest beyond the trees became a thing.
I could tell from Musk's change in rhetoric that he was getting council from some russian officials, maybe deputy ambassador level; but he was getting his talking points from Sauron himself.
Not to defend Elon Musk, but I heard/read somewhere (quite some time ago, not sure where anymore) that bots on Twitter automatically follow accounts based on the amount of people that interact with/follow an account. They do this to appear more like legitimate accounts. Since there has always been (for multiple years) a lot of traffic around the stupid things Elon tweets about, it is quite logical that a lot of bots follow him. But then again, he still might just buy followers
I always thought the problem was him being a hyprocrite and constantly complaining about bots but doing nothing about them because they inflate his following. Not so much him directly buying bots. Wouldn's surprise me tho.
I believe the $13 billion bank loan is collateralized by his Tesla stock. I think it's only a matter of time before Twitter and Space X go bust and Musk loses most of his wealth due to losing Tesla stock.
Ngl, I kinda wanna see news headlines one day of Elon blasting off into space on one of his rockets and tweeting out “Uh, oops lol 🤷♂️” before losing contact and we find out later there was some kind of catastrophic failure because of a stupid decision he made.
For all their faults at least the government made GPS global and completely free. Imagine the government just shutting down GPS for a while. That would be crazy. I mean I know they can’t do that because it’s not how GPS works but still.
What do you mean, they absolutely can do that. Which is why Russia, Europe and China all have their own independent satellite navigation constellations
@@Rokreder The reason other countries make their own is because the GPS system doesn’t work for high altitude or fast speeds to prevent it to be used for others militaries. The limitations are built directly into the devices rather than into the signal.
@@dylandreisbach1986 the other militaries can just not implement the CoCom limits in their receivers. As you say, the limitation is not in the signal. Selective Availability is no longer a feature of GPS, but was a major reason for other countries to develop their respective systems. I do think they could still shut it down and leave only the encrypted military signals up if they really wanted. Either way they for sure have capabilities to do area denial of GPS
Several great channels, like Thunderf00t, Common sense skeptic, and Adam Something, have been pointing out how full of shit he is for years, but most people kept seeing him as a genius. I'm just glad that's finally over and now most see what a clown be is.
Wait - isn't Thunderf00t that weird reactionary dude who couldn't stop reeing about women and SJWs and feminists? Did he become based or is it just a broken clock situation?
@@Lex-dw7ng he has his quriks about feminists and sjws (to be fair, sjws sometimes deserve it). His debunking about Musk and technology is excellent though.
@@unholyiiamasI used to like him. The SJW stuff turned me off. Nowadays he tries to get on the Elon hate bandwagon, but he's actually failed a fair amount towards SpaceX. He tries to be "nuclear scientist knows better", but a lot of stuff he's pointed out has been wrong. If he's commented on nuralink he may have done better, but ultimately I feel like he's just going to bandwagons for money. After looking into his old history on forums, he's a shit poster and as much as asshole as Musk is. Of the 2 SpaceX failures he's commented on, he was wrong for both, and both he thought was a common dome failure. For hating on reusability he pointed at fixed costs like infrastructure and staff overhead, and that half the cost per booster recovery is insignificant. Failing to realize that reusability is what gives them sub week average turnaround capability for launching. Having a stable of 8-10 boosters rotated through and slowly replenishing with new makes things a lot faster. Now those fixed costs are getting better utilization with lower cost launches.
I am Ukrainian myself, and it's crazy how someone in his age can switch sits so easily. After shit that russia done, and continues to do. When russia was destroying civil infrastructure, Starlink was an only way to communicate with one another. We can only guess how much money ilons opinion costs, but it's very clear that the morality of his actions does not interest him at all.
I wouldn't say they are always good or always bad, but treated in the wrong way it can cause a lot of issues. The idea behind government monopolies is generally to provide a lot of something cheaply, where if it wasn't a government monopoly it would be more expensive, or, to regulate something. However, since the US government does have deep ties into corporations its hard for me to always assume that the government ALWAYS has the consumers in mind and not capital. If a government has a monopoly on something like electric or water, they can still chose to higher the prices knowing consumers don't really have many other choices. Monopolized goods are still goods you need to pay for, so making sure monopolies don't abuse that power is really important. I'm not exactly sure where I stand on government level monopolies as a whole, but I could easily see how they can be abused. By limiting consumers options to the point they rely on something, it becomes important that they CAN rely on that thing. And its completely possible for governments to act in irresponsible ways.
The congress doesn’t do that whole “declare war”. They outsourced that responsibility-and the consequences and accountability-to the imperial executive.
Musk is looking more and more like the James Bond villain. Quantum of Solace anybody? The rich guy own all the technologies and a private army he needs to take on whomever he has a bone to grind with.
