I allege that my opinion is that Musk should get the hell out of
geopolitics and international diplomacy, and concentrate on rockets,
starlink, batteries, and Tesla. At the end of the day going forward,
though, it's OK with me if he continues to party some - but literally
not too much. I mean, hey. What's the point of having all that money
if you can't have a little fun now and then? Just don't let it
interfere with your leading edge projects that are on the table and in
your to-do toolbox.

To paraphrase somebody - how you use the passage of time has significance.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/10/06/elon-musks-foray-into-geopolitics-has-ukraine-worried

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/10/13/taiwanese-military-stops-buying-teslas-after-elon-musk-supports-chinese-takeover/

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 2:49:23 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> On 10/13/2022 1:25 PM, bfh wrote:
> > I allege that my opinion is that Musk should get the hell out of
> > geopolitics and international diplomacy, and concentrate on rockets,
> > starlink, batteries, and Tesla. At the end of the day going forward,
> > though, it's OK with me if he continues to party some - but literally
> > not too much. I mean, hey. What's the point of having all that money if
> > you can't have a little fun now and then? Just don't let it interfere
> > with your leading edge projects that are on the table and in your to-do
> > toolbox.
> >
> > To paraphrase somebody - how you use the passage of time has significance.
> >
> > https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/10/06/elon-musks-foray-into-geopolitics-has-ukraine-worried
> >
> > https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/10/13/taiwanese-military-stops-buying-teslas-after-elon-musk-supports-chinese-takeover/
> >
> He reminds me a lot of Henry Ford, who also didn't invent
> anything, but couldn't resist dabbling in all sorts of things, including
> social engineering. Remember square dancing? We got a fair dose of it in
> our public schools.
>
> "How square dancing became a weapon of white supremacy against an
> anti-Semitic jazz dance conspiracy
>
> IMPACT
> BYJACK SMITH IV
> 12.15.2017
>
> “Jazz is a Jewish creation,” automative tycoon Henry Ford wrote in his
> anti-Semitic publication, The International Jew. “The mush, slush, the
> sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of
> Jewish origin.”
>
> Ford had a solution: square dancing. He saw jazz and its related dancing
> styles as a force for moral decay, and sought to cure it by bringing
> back traditional folk dances. In doing so, Ford rewrote the cultural
> history of the dance form and set the stage for a pantheon of racist
> ideas that still animate modern white supremacist movements.
>
> Most Americans rightly think of jazz as an African-American art form.
> But Ford, the only American personally praised by in Adolf Hitler in
> Mein Kampf, saw jazz dancing as part of a conspiracy to throw America
> into a dark age.
>
> Ford sparked a national movement in the by pouring a small fortune into
> revitalizing square dancing in the 1920’s, decades after it was
> abandoned by American pop culture. He funded radio shows and dance clubs
> and invited hundreds of dance instructors to his home. Thirty-four
> colleges added “early American dancing” to their curricula."
>
> "So where do Jewish people come into all of this? In The International
> Jew, Ford outlined a conspiracy wherein Jewish elites were attempting to
> re-engineer society to replace white protestants with a compliant black
> underclass. He wrote:
>
> If the conditions in America continue to develop along the same lines as
> in the last generation, if the immigration statistics and the same
> proportion of births among all the nationalities remain the same, our
> imagination may picture the United States of 50 or 100 years hence as a
> land inhabited only by Slaves, Negroes and Jews, wherein the Jew will
> naturally occupy the position of economic leadership."
>
> "Ford was a great innovator of racist ideologies that are popular today.
> The perceived demographic threat to white Protestants outlined above is
> still trotted out regularly by the far right in describing Europe’s
> refugee crisis. He also was an early articulator of the theory that
> African-Americans only vote for Democrats in order to expand the welfare
> state.
>
> The ultimate irony, of course, is that square dancing isn’t a lily-white
> style of dance at all. It was largely invented by slaves, who used the
> “swing your partner do-si-do” call-and-response technique to do away
> with the need for a dance instructor. White people found all of that
> shouting vulgar, until they’d fully adopted the dance style themselves.
> It’s a story of appropriation that’s repeated every generation since
> with blues, rock, rap and countless other black innovations.
>
> In an attempt to cure the United States of an alleged plague of immoral
> music, Ford re-enacted the same trope used by white supremacists
> throughout world history: Selling a vision of a racially homogenous
> future using a fable about an America that never existed."
>
> Dec. 19, 2017, 10:25 a.m.: This article has been updated."
>
> https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
>
> And it's still right up to date. Hell, Ford could have been a
> great retrumplican, if he lived long enough. lol We have always had a
> lot of rich guys who couldn't resist meddling with all sorts of stuff.
> Our "founding fathers" are a prime example.
>
> Elon loves to troll. It's really his biggest sales tool. No matter
> what he says he probably gains more customers than he loses. Or at least
> that's his most likely calculation. I doubt that he runs much of
> anything, except for his mouth and the people who run his companies.
> Right now he probably has his hands full figuring out what he's going to
> do with Twitter. I'm looking forward to it. It isn't likely to end well,
> but the most likely losers are the people he sells it to. He's a great
> salesman.
>
> There's a lot of competition for attention, so the big time trolls
> keep turning up the crazy. I don't expect any of them to have a sudden
> attack of sanity.
>
> TB

Just when I thought I was finally out of CRT - It pulled me back in! Thanks to those discouraging words from TB, the pinko... HawHawHaw!

I'm sure Henry Ford, and plenty of other Industrial Barons from a century ago, would be staunch Trumpers today!

Steve Bannon Jr.,