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Six lies Elon Musk believed in the last 24 hours

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    hobbes64
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    Good video. I guess I'll spend a few minutes saying a few obvious things related to the video. First of all, the TLDR of the video is "Elon must know these things aren't true, he must think...

    Good video. I guess I'll spend a few minutes saying a few obvious things related to the video.

    First of all, the TLDR of the video is "Elon must know these things aren't true, he must think something else is more important than the truth".

    Now the obvious thing I'm going to say is that billionaires are extremely harmful to society. Elon is constantly in the news for like:

    • Turning Twitter into a huge source of disinformation, especially the type that favors Russia and other enemies of the United States. And magnifying the words of literal nazis while suppressing negative comments about him or topics he doesn't like.
    • Talking directly to Putin about starlink and other things that affect the national security of the United States and it's allies and interests, specifically in respect to Ukraine and Taiwan
    • Being a huge public supporter of Trump and the right wing in general, while apparently breaking laws against election interference
    • Lying to stakeholders about the capabilities of Tesla, including the capabilities of self driving, for years
    • Manipulating the stock market and crypto in various pump & dump schemas

    Another Billionaire, Jeff Bezos, is in the news for destroying the reputation of the Washington Post. He bought The Washington Post for $250 million, which is how much money he makes in about 9 days.

    Final obvious thing: Right wingers cried for years about George Soros contributing to liberal causes but seem to have no problem with Musk and Bezos.

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  2. aphoenix
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    I love Hank, and the previous video that he talked about - four lies that he believed - was also really good. This one was more depressing. The Connections that he did was one of my favourite...

    I love Hank, and the previous video that he talked about - four lies that he believed - was also really good. This one was more depressing.

    The Connections that he did was one of my favourite Connections of all time. I also got it, also in the order that he did it, and I had a similar reaction, though I knew what purple prose was. Also Devin Stone (LegalEagle) in the comments talking about casually doing connections mid-video was fun.

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  3. Mackapoot
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    The very end was rather bleak, but unfortunately true.

    The very end was rather bleak, but unfortunately true.

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