Posted on 01/09/2021 9:44:30 PM PST by Beave Meister
In times of social crises in America, big tech billionaires are often amongst the first to speak up—though how they do so varies. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, unlike many of his peers, didn’t directly speak about the riot that erupted in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. But the second-richest man in the world did make it clear that he was watching the news and indeed had a strong opinion about the surreal events that transpired at the U.S. Capitol.
Late Wednesday night, after police had cleared protestors from the Capital ground to allow Congress to resume vote counting and certifying election results, Musk tweeted a meme showing bricks lining up like dominoes. The smallest front brick was labeled “a website to rate women on campus”—a reference to the early version of Facebook—and the largest tile in the back was superimposed with a tweet by The New York Times Magazine correspondent Mark Leibovich that read: “The Capitol seems to be under the control of a man in a Viking hat.”
His message was clear: The shocking rampage on Wednesday was the culmination of years of political and ideological polarization fueled by social media platforms, primarily Facebook. “This is called the domino effect,” Musk tweeted alongside the meme.
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Facebook needs to be twittered
It wasn’t a riot.
Nope. That is government regulated and tracked too. It's no more free than the so-called "free press" is in China.
It wasn't war when the US used covert press manipulation to convinced the Russian public to vote for Boris Yeltsin.
The war that I see is the US government in rebellion against the public. Because the government writes and applies the "rules of law," it can never unreasonably or illegally or even uncosntututionally oppress the people.
I’ve seen a few interviews and he’s got a pretty good sense of humor. Pretty down to earth for a super rich super genius. I know at one time he believed in socialism as long as it was fairly run. By his political commentary since then, I would think he realizes by now that it would never be run fairly. Moving from CA to TX was a helluva statement.
“ Zuckerberg squats to pee. I hope he loses every dime of his new found fortune... ”.
Can I have his Kauai multi acre compound on the beach? 😆
“ “But the second-richest man in the world”
He’s now the first .. as of a day or so ago.”
Correct....and for now. These things can be fleeting.
Musk is becoming one of my favorite African Americans as he continues to become aware and push back.
Interesting. I figured Musk was no different from the other tech billionaires in being anti-freedom.
well, socialism appears to be a great system to the inexperienced, until they learn about human nature, and the human spirit. The ones who can acknowledge the realities of both, drop the idea of socialism as a way of life.
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