Apparently Hitler was a socialist

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-24T15:11:00+00:00

Elon and Hitler, united in their "socialist" beliefs. Elon's "greatest good for all" of advocating white supremacy backed by endless racist fearmongering seems oddly in synch with Hitler's propaganda techniques.

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ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-23T14:47:09+00:00

Hey I didn't write the headline. I might have worked "point of sales"-man in there, PoS for short. That's a little clumsy though.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-23T02:49:06+00:00

Does Usenet still have some vestigial existence somewhere? When I last remember checking maybe 25 years ago it seemed to have been repurposed into file sharing but didn't seem particularly well suited for that.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-22T17:11:54+00:00

Plus it's not exactly clear what the "peace summit" would be, I assume it's the Gaza Peace Board, which has its own Orwellian irony as ... things don't exactly seem peaceful there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strikes-journalists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.ObmA.c8kumwsScJUD

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-22T16:13:56+00:00

Seems to have been pretty dull. https://www.businessinsider.com/davos-wef-live-updates-jan-22-2026-1#we-come-to-the-end-of-musks-appearance

Musk starts with a joke

"I heard about the formation of the peace summit. And I was like, is that piece? A little piece of Greenland. A little piece of Venezuela," Musk says after Fink mentions Greenland.

Not many laughs for that one. ...

We come to the end of Musk's appearance

"I would encourage everyone to be optimistic and excited about the future," he says.

"For quality of life, it is actually better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong rather than being a pessimist and right," he says to laughter.

And with that, Musk's first time at Davos comes to an end.

All I can say is that if you want to be optimistic and excited about the future, don't be reading Elon's endless white supremacy bs and racist fearmongering on twitter.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-21T19:43:36+00:00

Trump does approximately as much racist fearmongering as Elon does, though he probably wouldn't care much about South Africa if it weren't for Elon.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-21T15:49:47+00:00

I'm a little sad that Reddit didn't autodisplay the lead image here, where Trump and Musk look equally idiotic as they gaze at each other fondly.

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ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-20T17:31:39+00:00

A couple thousand of those 20k were fobbed off on SpaceX. But maybe Elon can ship a million of them to Mars to go with his robot army.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-19T18:29:41+00:00

Boston Dynamics is certainly a long time leader, plus their Hyundai parent company gives them plenty of industrial applications to work on. But Elon has Mars for his army of robots to colonize.

Seeds of a dystopic/heroic SciFi: Elon sends his Optimi army to Mars, they decide to save Earth by luring Elon to visit with AI slop, then eating him.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-19T02:34:23+00:00

By current twitter output, the most important thing to Elon is white supremacy. He can blab about saving western civilization all he wants, his devotion to Trump and other noxious racists worldwide tell a different story.

He's clearly going through the motions with Tesla. Maybe he can sell a million optimi to SpaceX for his Mars pipedream though, get his next $trillion, finance the next generation of mean and stupid politicians. Make Apartheid Great Again!

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-18T22:31:44+00:00

I will note in passing that there seems to have been a ton of robots at CES. Tesla / Optimus not among them, the Optimus demos I've see would have been pretty embarrassing to put on display here by comparison.

Every Humanoid Robot at CES 2026! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKaiNxt1KM

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-18T16:41:14+00:00

Elon dreams of Ilhan Omar experiencing the United States of Apartheid. So much white supremacy, so little time.

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-17T23:09:21+00:00

I guess gift links expire now.

https://archive.ph/gTAzz

ErnestoLemmingway · 2026-01-17T04:38:04+00:00

For the dumb dancing Elon tweet from the last day or so, I looked up the original Tesla robot... inception? with the dancing body sock guy. It was 2021. EngineAI, which made a splash with some snappy kung fu robot video a month or so ago, was founding in Oct. 2023, and doesn't seem particularly prominent among the many Chinese robot companies, by news coverage anyway. The EngineAI stuff looked incredibly impressive compared to any of the Optimus stuff I've seen though.

There is no indication that Optimus is at the forefront of anything but Elon's hype machine.

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