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As I Watch Elon Musk Slowly Sink Into Self-Destruction, he's taking Humanity with him...

No longer the likable "electric car guy" as Jimmy Kimmel said once, Elon Musk has become an unmitigated jackass with an ego too big for his brain and any accurate comprehension of the future...

By Marshall BarnesPublished about a year ago 5 min read
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Elon Musk looking as if he can see it too - the writing on the wall...

Even as I write this, Elon Musk sinks evermore into a mire of BS and narcissism driven by the self-reflective and reflexive magic 8 ball that is the social media of Twitter. Exactly what I warned him about in April of 2022. Both of us have other matters that can take our time and attention away from what should be our primary focus - the survival of Humanity. Twitter has absolutely nothing to do with that, despite what Elon may insist - which confirms my plunging opinion of him - and what his minions may proclaim - only solidifying my opinion of their status of mindless morons.

More Twitter evidence of Musk's management debacle in progress.

Musk's original concerns about the future, and his vision for SpaceX included, dealing with the threats from out of control AI, WW3, and Climate Crisis among others, suddenly appeared to take a back seat to his ability of being the Twitter troll Maximus, with its entire existence under his whim. His own opportunity to be in control of a true, simulated universe. Others saw what was happening, along with Tesla investors and board members and various other projects, that were his focus before he ever mentioned anything about Twitter, let alone owning it. Quite.

The fall out of Musk buying Twitter including mass firings, PR and publicity SNAFUs, and much more, including the loss of both advertisers and revenue, was nothing less than a business debacle. But some have tried to keep the faith, like major Tesla investor Ross Gerber, with whom I've communicated. Gerber has settled on the idea that Musk will be able to find a way to success, but only if he is not the face of Twitter and comes back to concentrating on being Tesla's CEO.

The truth about Musk and his business practices and dealings, however, would appear to insiders to be quite different from the public perception. Despite his "good billionaire" image which he had carefully crafted and has been a critical part of his success, many people view him otherwise, now.

According to critics, Musk's claims of extending Humanity far into the future are only a myth. They point to his seeming willingness to "crush people" via union busting, etc. that would tend to indicate that like many billionaires, he's really only out for himself. While he was once a darling of the Democrats, he has since taken a tilt to the right. A hard tilt. To far right.

Elon being mocked by Donald Trump for acting like a lap dog for favors. It would appear however, he was actually learning from the master's side.

Elon talks about a "super ap", one that you do everything on, such as China's We Chat. The thinking is that he might want take Twitter in that direction. The problem is it's just a way to track users and everything they do, know and have. It is a way of handing over all personal autonomy, and it's being promoted now in the West.

Elon's descent is now more terrifying than anything that I would imagine. I used to give him far more credit than what he deserves and now, from my perspective, he's in a long hard fall. I look at all the odd ball comments he's made, that I let slide, but see them now as signs of an intellectual defect. One I don't like. One I despise as enabling an overrated, wannabe to masquerade as genuine genius incarnate when he's actually little more than an idiot savant attempting his pantomime of a renaissance man a bit too far beyond his acting skill set. And trust me. It's all an act, backed by a big fat bank account which is now dwindling because his genius really is mere bollocks in bloomers.

When MIT's Technology Review says that Twitter is becoming "brain dead" since Musk's take over, that's serious but at least not surprising. A good portion of the site was dumb thugs, stupid students and conspiracy crackpots to begin with. Musk's take over, with an inane to pathetic understanding of what free speech is to begin with, was doomed to failure when he decided to let on carloads of bad actors and Nazis to the site.

And then we were treated to Musk's own brand of joining in.

Finally, I had had enough and I wouldn't just sit by for this malarkey anymore.

A Polish girl attempts to comprehend what just happened to her sister who was picking potatoes when a Nazi fighter plane flew by them and opened fire during WWII. But Musk has no problem providing access on Twitter for Nazi propaganda.

And so now, as if living through Donald Trump, Elon is floating, via his fan groups, the idea of he himself eventually running for president, an obvious disconnect with reality - if ever, seeing as how the Afrikaner wonder boy wasn't born in the US or even to Americans! Despite that, the article claimed that Elon had announced that he would be running for president in 2024 election. That in fact it had "happened".

No, it DIDN'T. I don't know what it is with these Musk Minions but they always LIE. This same headline was used on an article that I can only assume was directed at me, claiming that Elon had already invented time travel.

"Civilizational risk is decreased the more we can increase trust in Twitter as a public platform," Musk has said, which is just BS for more than one reason. First, by making it a free speech platform you reduce the trust because anything can be on there so why would you trust it? That goes straight back to the fascist Russian philosopher, Ivan Ilyan, and his idea that "facts don't matter". Twitter was a news platform only as much as it allowed for citizen journalism, the "man on the street eye witness to events". Beyond that it was the regular news media and politicians and sports, etc. But that was before Trump and the Russian war effort using disinfo against the US. As more users joined, more and more conspiracy theories became prevalent and all the rest of it. But Twitter as a free speech platform, where anything goes is, and always will be, a cesspool of moronic flotsam and jetsam as long as our country, and any other, is in a state of cold civil war and that's what we have here. Elon is too immature, ignorant and sometimes stoned to recognize that. He has in fact used drugs on camera to the thrill of fellow stoner and right wing sympathizer, Joe Rogan, and the chagrin of his Tesla investors.

And so, down he goes. Where he'll stop, not even he knows...

Meanwhile, some fanboy with money tweeted:

Shant Mesrobian

@ShantMM

Of all the humanity-saving missions @elonmusk has chosen to embark on — space, climate, population collapse — his mission to demolish the value of the blue check as an elite social currency is the most important of all. I'm proud to now join him on that mission. Happy New Year.

Marshall Barnes R&D

@MarshallRnDEng

·Replying to

@ShantMM

and

@elonmusk

Hey! NONE of the things you listed is "humanity-saving", primarily because WE'RE OUTTA OF TIME, and you're talking about bull shit blue checks? Space? Not even CLOSE. Climate is OVER. Ask NASA. Population Collapse? WEF is planning GENOCIDE. Who's going to stop 'em? Elon? LMFAO!

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The irony of it all is Elon admits many people may die trying to do settlements on Mars and just shrugs it all off with a laugh. I bet he won't be laughing long...

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