<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:35 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3834779045486642548WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">On Apr 26, 2022, at 8:25 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">>>… Ja. But there are more than two sides. Musk is African American and a libertarian (oh what a fine example of a libertarian is he, the modern John Galt.) spike<br><br>>… he’s hardly a John Galt. Dan<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">### Is Musk a "scion of a wealthy family"? Did he step his way up the financial ladder via dipping into the tax fund? Rafal <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is what Elon actually said:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="width: 4.1458in; height: 4.5104in;" id="gmail-m_-3834779045486642548Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1806987bc586917eb1" width="398" height="433" border="0"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rafal, people appear to be second-guessing Musk’s intentions and then arguing against the intentions they assigned to him, in flat contradiction to what he actually said. When people do that, I judge the detractor as contradicting what Musk actually said. I believe he means what he says. So… detractors are arguing against the notion that free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, arguing against making Twitter better with new features, arguing against increasing trust, against defeating spam bots, etc.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Think about that. The detractors attack the man for perfectly irrelevant reasons, assign him motives based on speculation, ignore his actual words. I still haven’t seen a single sound argument against the intentions clearly outlined in the comments Musk actually made. It looks good to me. Can anyone find something bad in there? What?</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Elon Musk is a smart and strong person who gets shit done instead of whining all the time. In today's sad parody of culture, this is a capital sin.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3834779045486642548WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Fun aside: if Elon-haters inside the company wanted to destroy 44 billion dollars in Musk-wealth, could they not just block everyone? They have about six months, the estimated time to close a deal that size, to completely destroy the value of the company. They could burn the place down on their way out the door. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know how software configuration control works in media companies. Anyone here know? Is there some kind of lock-down procedure? If they were shadow-banning, is there a way to un-ban and cover their tracks? Or can Elon go back and figure out if the conspiracy theory is true? It would be interesting to see if they really shadow-banned anyone who suggested that covid-19 originated in a research lab in China.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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