Report: EVs Less Likely to Catch Fire Than Gas-Powered Cars - "Examining data from Tesla’s global fleet, Australia, Sweden, and Norway (the country with the highest concentration of electric cars), the paper found “the probability of being caught in an EV fire appears overall to be much lower than for petrol or diesel cars.”"
Left wingers mock those against electric cars because they catch fire more often as being ignorant, but at the same time they claim Teslas catch fire all the time
Axiomatic Enemy of the State on X - "So you're telling me that the folks who worshipped every lying word out of that rat-faced charlatan Anthony Fauci's mouth now have a problem with unelected people in positions of power in government?? Do I understand that correctly??"
Meme - Eric Moutsos @realericmoutsos: "The "I didn't elect him!" starter pack."
*Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Yuval Noah Harari, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Larry Fink (Blackrock), Reid Hoffman (Linkedin co-founder whose money funds Tesla 'protests'), Alex Soros*
It's ironic, because globalism bypasses national democracy to impose an elite agenda. But when it pushes the left wing agenda, that's good
Meme - *Side eye monkey*
"You can't drive a Tesla because it was created by a Nazi!"
"VW drivers:"
Meme - Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald: "Gross! The ordinary people and the unlicensed peasants are able to speak with and even influence elites in DC who are running the government. The NYT is horrified."
"On X, Conservative Activists Find a Direct Pipeline to Musk's Team. Prominent conservative activists with a presence online have appeared to wield extraordinary access to Elon Musk's team, and the power to sway policy through it."
Meme - "Biden buying $400M in armored Teslas before leaving office, just to watch Trump and Elon take the blame:"
Andy Ngo on X - "Leftists on @Reddit and other social media sites are sharing a video encouraging people to kill @elonmusk and other political targets similar to what Luigi Mangione allegedly did."
Andy Ngo on X - "A Tesla store in Salem, Ore. was shot up on Feb. 19. The same location was the target of an arson attack several weeks earlier. Antifa and the far-left have been calling for attacks on business interests connected to @elonmusk since his takeover of Twitter. Recently, they've repeated their calls for violence and have been joined by Democrats who are demanding an escalation as revenge against the Trump administration."
Andy Ngo on X - "The national legacy media and liberals focused days on end on hoax bomb threats from aboard in Springfield, Ohio. They have no interest in acknowledging that their shared political targets are actually being shot at and set on fire."
Meme - rudeboy_zq: "Interstate 64 near Louisville, KY. The Resistance is in full swing." Banner: "Wanted dead or alive *Elon Musk making "Nazi Salute"*"
Clear proof that the far right are dangerous and need to be arrested
John Podhoretz on X - "Elon Musk is not a Nazi and he didn't do a Nazi salute. But I guess we can see where you guys are going for the next four years and how little you've learned and how impossible you are to humble."
Meme - *Elon Musk saluting* *Barack Obama saluting* *Kamala Harris saluting* *Hillary Clinton saluting* *Palestinian supporter saluting* *Elizabeth Warren saluting*
"It's only bad when Elon does it"
Elon Musk discovered that when he fires the entire Tesla supercharger team, development stops. So, he rehired them : r/RealTesla - "I was wondering. Where are all the Elon Musk cancer centers? Where are all the Elon Musk hospital wings? Where are all the Elon Musk food banks? Where are all the Elon Musk educational grants & scholarships? What disease eradication efforts does Elon Musk support? How does Elon Musk use his vast wealth to help eradicate poverty? How does Elon Musk use his vast wealth to help eradicate hunger? How does Elon Musk use his vast wealth to improve access to health care? Does Elon Musk have any philanthropic interests beyond his own wealth and security? Where are all the testimonies and stories of Elon Musk's generosity and kindness to others?"
Weird how no one asked these questions of Jeff Bezos when he was the richest man in the world
TheRealThelmaJohnson on X - "Someone needs to tell Elon Musk that the hair transplant, the jawline surgery and the supplemental testosterone he has talked about are all examples of gender-affirming care."
No surprise left wingers don't know the difference between cosmetic surgery to enhance one's appearance and transmogrification to pretend to be the other sex
Meme - "This has to be it. Peak capitalism. Guy who's granddaddy owns all the central banks, whose family collectively is worth TRILLIONS bitching about some small money billionaire autist who makes rockets"
David Rothschild: "Rich white son of emerald mine owner who grew up in apartheid South Africa is the real victim in our society #ThoughtsAnd Prayers
Dude agreed to buy @Twitter for $44 billion: now trading at <$30 billion. In his public meltdown to get out of deal he can no longer afford due collapsing stock price of his core asset, electric car company, he cannot stop bashing Democrats, who subsidize & buy electric cars."
The impotent rage of the flailing woke elites - "So the Guardian has flounced off of X. With characteristic pomposity it announced this week that it will no longer post its articles on this ‘toxic media platform’. X has become a volcanic mess of noxious opinion since evil Elon Musk took over, say the crybabies of Kings Place. So they’re off, to Bluesky, whatever that is. Quite how X’s users will cope without such fine journalism as ‘My toddler is vegan. What’s the problem?’ and ‘What if the mega-rich just want rocket ships to escape the Earth they destroy?’ remains to be seen. The Guardian charges Musk with letting X be overrun with ‘disturbing content’. This once nice joint now simmers with ‘far-right conspiracy theories and racism’, it says. Let’s leave to one side the industrial-strength gall it must require for a media group that wanged on for years about how Brexit was the handiwork of a ‘shadowy global operation’ spending oodles of ‘dark money’ to accuse anyone else of being a conspiratorial crackpot. The more striking thing is the Guardian’s fantastically haughty refusal to hang out anywhere there are people who have a different opinion. Let’s be real: that’s what this hissy fit is about, this exodus of the entitled, this fleeing of the self-important from X. They just can’t abide being around people who like Trump and don’t like mass immigration and think lesbians don’t have cocks. Musk’s true crime, in their eyes, was to open X up to views that lie outside the fiercely policed parameters of correct think. Their ‘X-odus’ is an oik-avoidance strategy, a retreat from the madding crowd of lowly opinion-havers into the safety of the liberal echo chamber where everyone agrees Trump is Hitler, Brexit is ‘Brexshit’ and Eddie Izzard is a woman... One thing the Guardian really came to hate on X was the dreaded community note, which is when users can collaboratively correct a post they feel is misleading. Guardian posts on Brexit and Net Zero and other matters were often targeted by these organic swarms of sceptics. That’s the ‘glassing’ they feared – the shoving of the glass of public doubt into the face of elite ideology. Just imagine how painful it was for the posh and virtuous of the Guardian to have some sunburned bloke with the England flag in his social-media bio waging a war of community notes against their online blather. The horror! The least convincing thing in the Guardian’s smug justification for its retreat from X is its cry that Musk is using the platform ‘to shape political discourse’. Now, this is true, of course. Musk is not shy about his conversion to the cause of Trump. He took every opportunity to push Trumpism on X in the run-up to the presidential election. Yet the idea that the Guardian has some classically liberal hatred for billionaires using their swag and clout to shape politics is bullshit. The Guardian was fine with Twitter, as it was then, when a ‘nicer’ breed of Silicon Valley fat cat was using it to big up the Dems, silence pesky feminists and gag anyone judged to be ‘far right’. What really horrifies the Guardian is that its class of anti-populist, post-truth graduate hysterics has lost control of X. It hates Musk not for stomping his political bootprint on X but for erasing its own. The Guardian was fine with X when it was banning women for life for saying ‘he’ about a man who tried to pressure immigrant women to wax his bollocks. And when it was banning the president of the United States himself on a jumped-up charge of incitement to violence. And when it made itself the militant wing of the FBI by dutifully censoring ‘Russian propaganda’, which basically meant anything that might harm the Democratic establishment and the broader ‘liberal’ order. The vain fleeing of X by the Guardian and others is a temper tantrum of the politically entitled, a cry of impotent rage by a class of influencers who have watched as their influence has dwindled. Worse, as it’s been ‘glassed’ by the plebs."
Autism Capital 🧩 on X - "🚨TUCKER: "So how much pressure has there been on you to shut down X?"
ELON: "Well apart from multiple democrats saying they want to put me in jail, take away government contracts from my companies, nationalize my companies, deport me as an illegal, and have me arrested for apparently being Putin's best friend, nothing besides those things.""
ALEX on X - "The Leftist Media Machine is evil incarnate! Outrageous lies they shamelessly peddle: “Elon now embraced the xenophobia and outright racism around which Trump has built his political career – He’s been willing to back the most fascistic leader the United States has ever seen.”"
Elon Musk on X - "A major factor for why Ukraine was NOT overrun by Russia is the Starlink support I provided, at great risk to @SpaceX cyber & physical attack by Russian military forces. Starlink is the BACKBONE of Ukrainian military communications at the front lines, because everything else has been blown up or jammed by Russia. In the words of @ZelenskyyUa : https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1500246977086373891?s=46 And Vice PM of Ukraine confirms that I am an ally: https://vice.com/en/article/elo"
Thread by @shellenberger on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "On Sept 27 @nytimes accused @elonmusk of being “misleading” for criticizing a new California law to censor parody. “The laws have exceptions for parody” said the Times. Five days later a judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Why? Because it banned a video clearly labeled “PARODY”. On Oct 5, three days after the judge’s ruling, @nytimes published the false Sept 27 accusation in its *print* edition. The @nytimes has still not corrected its *misinformation* or, assuming it knew on Oct 5 that the accusation was wrong, *disinformation.* Who is the @nytimes reporter who spread the mis- and disinformation? Why he’s the reporter who covers misinformation! Because of course he is. Around the world, governments are trying to censor X. The way they want to do this is by letting newspapers like the NY Times decide what is true and false. Australia is about to pass a law doing this. It’s a recipe for totalitarianism. Governments almost always spread disinformation before demanding censorship. The FBI spread disinformation that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation and then demanded censorship on the basis of its disinformation:
On the one hand, anything can be labeled “misleading.” It’s just an opinion. On the other hand, the Times’ “misleading” story was egregious misinformation. The whole law turned on a specific video labeled “PARODY.” If the law allowed “exceptions” it would have been excepted "
Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense | Robert Reich - "The Russian people know little about Putin’s war on Ukraine because Putin has blocked their access to the truth, substituting propaganda and lies. Years ago, pundits assumed the internet would open a new era of democracy, giving everyone access to the truth. But dictators like Putin and demagogues like Trump have demonstrated how naive that assumption was. At least the US responded to Trump’s lies. Trump had 88 million Twitter followers before Twitter took him off its platform – just two days after the attack on the Capitol, which he provoked, in part, with his tweets. (Trump’s social media accounts were also suspended on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch and TikTok.) These moves were necessary to protect American democracy... Musk continues to tell his 80 million followers all sorts of things. I disagree with many of his positions, but ever since I posted a tweet two years ago criticizing him for how he treated his Tesla workers he has blocked me – so I can’t view or post criticisms of his tweets to his followers. Seems like an odd move for someone who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”. Musk advocates free speech but in reality it’s just about power... What “improvements” does Musk have in mind for Twitter? Will he use his clout over Twitter to prevent users with tens of millions of followers from blocking people who criticize them? I doubt it... Someone has to decide on the algorithms in every platform – how they’re designed, how they evolve, what they reveal and what they hide. Musk has enough power and money to quietly give himself this sort of control over Twitter... During his long and storied history with Twitter he has threatened journalists and tweeted reckless things. In March 2020 he tweeted that children were “essentially immune” to Covid"... Musk says he wants to “free” the internet. But what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now, when it’s often impossible to discover who is making the decisions about how algorithms are designed, who is filling social media with lies, who’s poisoning our minds with pseudo-science and propaganda, and who’s deciding which versions of events go viral and which stay under wraps."
Ironic. Censorship is bad in Russia but it's good in the US and censorship in the US "protects American democracy"
Left wing logic - when left wingers block people it's good, because it's to protect themselves from "harassment", but when people block them, it somehow is an infringement on free speech
Of course, the old Twitter controlling the algorithms, even when it was secretly censoring people in collusion with the government, was a good thing
Weird how Reich is ignorant about the science on covid
From 2022. Ironically, Musk is now changing how block works, so Reich should be celebrating
Robert Reich Calls for the Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship - "We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He also demanded that former president Donald Trump be banned from ballots as a “traitor” — all in the name of protecting democracy from itself. Last week, Reich wrote a column declaring Elon Musk “out of control” in his refusal to censor citizens and appeared to call for his arrest. Reich has long been a prominent voice in the anti-free speech movement discussed in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Indeed, he has given a voice to the rage in calling for others to be silenced or arrested. Elon Musk has long been the primary target of Reich and his allies after dismantling the censorship system at Twitter, now X. Reich called Musk’s purchase of Twitter with a pledge to reduce censorship to be “dangerous nonsense.” Notably, Reich’s friend, Hillary Clinton, was one of the first to call for a crackdown on Musk after his purchase of Twitter. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. Reich has always shown a chilling fluidity in how free speech is protected and argued that public interest should be able to trump the right of any citizens in espousing views that he believes are dangerous... Like Hillary Clinton, Reich is calling on foreign governments and censors to silence American citizens including Musk: “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.” He even appears willing to undermine national security programs to stop unfettered free speech. He called for the U.S. government to cut off contracts with his companies despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space. None of that matters to Reich who appears to view free speech as a greater threat to our nation... Reich’s call to regulate speech in the public interest is the Siren’s Call of every authoritarian regime in history. He will presumably tell us what speech is no longer tolerable for public policy reasons. Our “Indispensable Right” will, according to Reich, be safely in the hands of the European censors who can protect us from errant and dangerous thoughts. As he explained earlier, “the kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” In this way, speech regulations can keep us “moving towards how we recommend content and … how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.” The “healthy public conversation” with Robert Reich increasingly appears to be his talking and the rest of us listening."
NASA halts Boeing space missions following Starliner fiasco - "NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore launched toward the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner on June 5. The spacecraft - which was built and developed using over $4 billion of taxpayer money - had been plagued by helium leaks and thruster issues in the weeks leading up to launch, and even on the day of. Starliner safely delivered Williams and Wilmore to the ISS, but by the time it got there, it had sprung more helium leaks and five of its 28 thrusters had failed. Williams and Wilmore were originally supposed to spend only eight days on the ISS, but the technical issues with their spacecraft forced it to remained docked to the space station for three months as experts on the ground debated whether it would be safe for them to return home on Starliner. Ultimately, the spacecraft returned to Earth without its crew on September 7, leaving Williams and Wilmore stuck on the ISS until February 2025, when they should be able to return home with the Crew-9 mission that launched on September 28... In 2014, NASA signed $4.3 billion contracts with Boeing and SpaceX as part of the space agency's Commercial Crew Program, tasking them with developing spacecraft to carry crew and cargo to the ISS. At that time, Boeing had already established a powerful reputation in the industry, whereas SpaceX was just joining the commercial space race. But in the years since, SpaceX has proved a worthy competitor. Elon Musks' $200 billion company has already launched nine crewed missions to the ISS, while Boeing has yet to get certified for its first mission."
Time to hobble SpaceX even more because left wingers hate Musk
Meme - Elon Musk @elonmusk: "The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months. SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it. President Trump asked to bring them back as soon as possible and we are doing so."
@amuse @amuse: "NASA: Turns out Elon Musk was telling the truth. Biden refused to let the stranded astronauts to come home last year for political reasons."
"News: Astronaut Butch Wilmore, who went to the ISS on the Boeing Starliner last year, has confirmed that @elonmusk offered to help bring NASA astronauts back in 2024. He also stated that the return was delayed by the Biden Administration for political reasons."
ELON FACTS on X - "Many people think SpaceX receives subsidies from the American government. The reality:
- SpaceX has never received federal subsidies
- SpaceX won all its contracts with NASA because they offer a better service at a lower price."
Elon Musk on X - "Correct. In fact, SpaceX received only half the money that Boeing did to develop a crewed spacecraft, yet has done ALL the completed missions!"
Voices: Has Elon Musk just started a new war on women by binning the block button? - "The rolling-back of the tool will, in Musk’s words, mean the “block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public posts”. In other words, you’ll no longer be able to stop anyone from viewing what you share, even if they can’t directly reply to it. Oh well, that’s OK then. Why worry about tiny inconvenient details such as whom the ability to block actually helps and which of your users might be actively harmed by it no longer existing? That’s their problem, right? God forbid social media platforms should offer a level of protection."
The same people who go on about "white fragility" are so fragile that they cannot bear the thought of people they hate reading what they write
wanye on X - "I think there’s a fairly obvious steelman here, which is that blocking breaks the public conversation in important ways. Before Paul Graham mass unblocked everybody, for example, I was one of the people he had blocked. And Paul Graham is a significant figure in my part of the world, which means people in spaces I occupy were frequently talking about his tweets, which I had to log out of this website to see. That’s just weird. It made my experience as a user much worse for very limited benefit to Paul Graham, who it must be said, I’m not sure I actually ever even interacted with.
I remain blocked by some people in housing Twitter who I’ve also never interacted with. I’m sure those people think I’m annoying and would like some way to avoid seeing my tweets, which the site should obviously offer. That’s fine. I am annoying. I get it. But preventing me from seeing their tweets is of very limited benefit to them in proportion to how annoying it is when their tweets are being discussed in a way that’s visible to me, but obscured."
Ron Smith on X - "A lot of these obscure and random blocks were done when "liked" posts were public There was an app called Megablock that would literally block every single user that "liked" a post for you. So you almost certainly got caught on a megablock web"
Of course, Musk also got slammed for hiding likes, though it made people less afraid of left wing mobs who would descend on someone just for liking a tweet
Geoff Russ: Elon Musk could save taxpayers millions. Of course Liberals won't hear of it - "In the minds of the paranoid and possibly dereanged, Elon Musk lives rent-free. The mere mention of his name over the weekend was enough to make Liberals think like Enoch Powell and awaken a very tired and uniquely Canadian defence of protectionism. Last Friday, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that the federal government is extending a $2.14-billion loan to Telesat Lightspeed so it can “expand internet and 5G networks in communities across Canada, with affordable, high-speed broadband connectivity.”... Conservative MP Michael Barrett critiqued the plan by asking Elon Musk what it would cost for Starlink to provide rural broadband throughout the country. Musk replied that the cost would be less than half the $2.14-billion price tag. As expected, members of the unloved and increasingly bitter Liberal government attacked Barrett for his query, accusing him of selling out Canadian workers and industry for daring to suggest the U.S.-based Starlink might be a better option. A bit more surprising was how Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is usually regarded as one of the smarter members of the cabinet, derided Musk as a “foreign billionaire.” Remember that silly quote spoken by Justin Trudeau during the 2015 election, “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”? Well, Musk, who grew up in South Africa, inherited Canadian citizenship from his mother and went to Queen’s University. Yet the fact that he made his money in the United States apparently disqualifies him from being a worthy Canadian in the eyes of Champagne and some far less impressive members of the government. The suggestion that Musk’s Starlink might play a greater role in Canada’s infrastructure also awakened the comically Laurentian defenders of protectionism. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s chief of staff responded to Barrett’s tweet, writing: “Conservative MP being openly anti-Canadian space and tech business. Bold, brazen misjudgment!” Telesat working on networks that bolster NORAD and NATO is one thing, and the fact that a Canadian company has been contracted by the federal government for national defence projects is the right choice and should not be controversial. On the other hand, Canadians have every right to be skeptical of Ottawa’s influence in determining who wins and who loses in the telecommunications market for everyday consumers. Last year, Ottawa and the Ontario government handed over $215 million to Rogers Communications to expand its rural fibre-optic network in the province. Had Starlink been commissioned instead and connected about 66,000 homes to its satellite grid, it would have only cost $50 million... Attempts by smaller entities to gain a foothold have largely been snuffed out by acquisitions and mergers. The result is that Canadians pay seven times more per gigabyte for mobile data than Australians, 25 times more than the Irish and the French, and an astounding 1,000 times more than the Finnish. Air travel is another sector where Canadians are being gouged due to a myriad of protectionist regulations, including rules prohibiting foreign airlines from flying on routes between Canadian cities, and forbidding non-Canadian investors from owning more than 49 per cent of Canadian airlines... Protectionist policies are only defensible if they improve the lives of a country’s citizens. For example, it is not in the interest of Canadians to have the country flooded with intentionally overproduced, low-cost Chinese electric vehicles that would overrun the North American EV market and accumulate more power in the hands of a hostile state. The decision to slap 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EV imports was a rare sensible one, if only made in imitation of an identical move by the U.S. government. Neither Elon Musk nor the United States are hostile entities, and any attempt to equate them with the Chinese government is spurious. Speaking of China, it was the Liberal government that awarded a contract to provide RCMP radio equipment to a firm linked to the Chinese government. For that and a variety of other reasons related to their former and current friends in Beijing, the Liberals have no right to be accusing people of compromising Canada’s national security."
Left wingers denounce "xenophobia", but champion protectionism when it's good politics. Of course, taxpayers' money is free
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