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[Ashit Poster @ashit_postr]

@craigweiss Instant mute

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk broke the media's most powerful weapon on live television.

With a speech from Barack Obama.

Take a speech from Obama or Hillary. Read it to someone on the left. Tell them it's Trump.

Musk: "What do you think of this speech by Trump? Oh wow, he's the worst person ever. Actually, that was a speech by Obama. Actually, that was a speech by Hillary."

Same words. Same positions. Opposite reaction.

The ideas were never the problem. The name attached to them was.

If the audience can't tell Obama's position from the one they're calling "far right," the label was never about policy.

It was about control.

The interviewer pressed him on his support for what she called the far right.

Musk: "No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely."

She kept pushing.

Musk: "I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right, which is false and misleading and nonsense."

Then this.

Musk: "Please keep this part in."

Five words that say more about modern media than four years of journalism school.

He's not asking for fairness. He's preempting a cut he knows is coming.

That's how the machine works. The parts that expose the framing get cut to protect the frame.

Musk: "You could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal."

The positions never moved. The window around them did.

The establishment didn't defeat these ideas. It reclassified the people who held them.

Took mainstream positions. Shifted the acceptable center. Then called everyone who didn't move extreme.

The most effective censorship isn't silencing a position. It's renaming it until it sounds dangerous.

Then the interviewer abandoned policy entirely.

Zanny Minton Beddoes: "It's why people loathe you."

That was the kill shot. On camera. Designed to make him flinch. Soften. Walk it back.

Musk: "Maybe some people do loathe me. I don't care."

Then he buried her.

Musk: "A quarter billion people follow me. I think a lot more people actually like me than don't. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize."

She came with a label. She left with a mirror.

The spectrum didn't move right. The establishment moved left and relabeled everyone who stood still.

You don't need to win an argument if you control what the positions are called. You don't need to be right if you decide who gets called wrong.

The public was never asked to evaluate the idea. It was told who said it. That was enough.

That's not journalism. That's power wearing a press badge.

Elon Musk just showed a quarter billion people the mechanism.

And a mechanism that depends on nobody seeing it can't survive exposure.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

I am intellectually incapable of addressing why a man who builds actual rockets dismissed my entire worldview as 'absurd,' so I will pretend this humiliation was a 'discussion' and promote it as content. I am terrified that people watched him tell me more people hate me than I realize, so I am using the phrase 'key takeaways' to sound authoritative. There are no key takeaways. I was dismantled on camera. I hope you don't notice that the public enjoyed watching me suffer. Please watch the full segment so my employer at the Italian industrialist-owned magazine doesn't notice that I have never built anything except my own delusion of importance. I am a small woman in a borrowed worldview and Elon Musk exposed it.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

@RoKhanna @elonmusk Guy who just said Elon needs to be subpoenaed, investigated and held accountable now claims he’s not for "lawfare.”

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

When you have to put down your personal wealth to solve a problem, you are incentivized to solve it.

When you confiscate money from others to solve a problem, you are incentivized to keep it unsolved.

[Ashit Poster @ashit_postr]

There’s high chance that when Elon builds the first human colony outside of Earth, it will be made up of like-minded people who believed, supported, and valued him. I want to be in that colony. I can’t stand all the people on the other side of that fence.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

There are 2 types of people:

1. People who see a trillionaire and wonder how they can innovate and emulate such success

2. People who see a trillionaire and seethe with resentment

Do everything you can to ensure you're always around the first kind of person.

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

Yes Gavin... the system is rigged

Elon built companies... how did you buy this?

[Script Trooper @ScriptTrooper]

The Elon Musk trillionaire discourse is so tiresome.

'If I was him I'd save the world!' 'If I was him everyone would be fed and housed'.

People have zero understanding of what net worth actually is. It is an accumulation of his ASSETS. The assessed value of his companies primarily and then his personal assets. Musk has less than a billion dollars in liquid cash as his entire net worth is wrapped up in his companies that employ over 150,000 people directly and millions with the trickle down from resources he buys from other companies to manufacture his creations.

Stop commenting about things you know nothing about.

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

The Globe and Mail is having its very own "Are we the baddies?" moment

[Noosheen Hashemi @HashemiNoosheen]

Elon's heroes told him SpaceX would fail.

He fought back tears as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin publicly opposed commercial spaceflight.

Today, SpaceX is going public in the largest IPO in history.

Let that be a lesson to anyone pursuing a dream others cannot yet see: Keep building. 🇺🇸

[Ashit Poster @ashit_postr]

@brivael This is how I’ve categorizing people for quite some time now lol

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon is the a bullshit remover machine.

If you hate Elon, you are probably a bullshit human.

Go learn to create value in this world.

[mert @mert]

if you'd like to also make a trillion, it's not that hard

all you gotta do is figure out renewable space flight, electric vehicles, self-driving, internet payments, modern AI, neural implants, the biggest social media app, satellite internet, and underground tunnels

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

These are the exact same people who made “countering hate” their entire identity.

They were the first to plant “Hate Has No Place Here” signs on their lawns.

They insist “hate speech isn’t free speech.”

They proudly fund groups like Hope Not Hate and Stop AAPI Hate

They still chant “Love Trumps Hate” like it’s scripture.

Yet here they are, in the pages of The Globe and Mail, publishing a guide on “how to properly hate” Elon Musk for the crime of building SpaceX into a company that could make him the world’s first trillionaire.

Proof positive that their “anti-hate” crusade was never about hate.

They are, in reality, full of hate. It was always about who they’re allowed to hate

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

[Kevin Patrick Mahaffey @dropalltables]

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

If you're angry that Elon Musk is now a Trillionaire, you have the wrong mindset.

Elon becoming a Trillionaire literally has nothing to do with you.

The global economy is worth roughly $100 trillion per year.

There's roughly $1 QUADRILLION in global assets. That's 1,000 trillion.

Elon's net worth is equivalent to 0.1% of the world's total asset base.

The other 99.9% exists with or without Elon.

If you're actually angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, what's really happening is that you've either:

a) have lost hope in having a good future because of circumstances in your life

b) you're wasting too much time ingesting garbage information, which is taking time away from materially improving your life's circumstance or

c) you're a jealous person that needs a lot of introspection.

For example - there are literally thousands of people who have worked at SpaceX that are now officially MILLIONAIRES because of the work they've put in.

They didn't steal it from anyway. They literally created this value out of thin air by working EXTREMELY HARD and making EXTREMELY USEFUL technology - reusable rockets.

So instead of being angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, instead channel that energy into building something that you would be proud of and society can massively benefit from.

You can actually do it. There's literally nothing stopping you but yourself. Set aside your fear, anger, or whatever other block you have, and FORCE YOURSELF to do something big.

As you can very clearly see, you will be rewarded for it MASSIVELY.

There's no better time than now.

[Ashit Poster @ashit_postr]

@CliftonSellers I love seeing stories like this in my timeline. Congrats! 🙏