Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies
The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris’s voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.
The problem with persons born into wealth, which is how Musk got his starter money, is that they have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement and think rules and laws only apply to other people. Not himself.
I questioned his character when he rejected lydar in the Tesla self driving systems. Lydar makes self driving cars much safer, and most of the reported accidents when Tesla cars were in self driving mode would most likely have been prevented in lydar was integrated into the system. However, Musk balked at the expense, meaning he put profits before people's safety. Even with several accidents caused by failures of Tesla delf driving systems to recognize obstacles, Musk still stands firm on not using lydar and has no plans in the future to implement it.
Almost all other car companies developing self drivign systems integrate lydar as a part of their self driving system. When self drivign cars come out, Tesla will be poorly positioned when it comes to safety ratings ...
Of course Musk is more concenred with developing space flight to be able to escape the planet when it become unlivable due to climate changes or some other man made disaster ..
Elon is the epitome of the dangers of inherited wealth.
Like most very rich, he doesn't believe laws and regulations apply to him. They are for the masses and common people.
It's a private platform that he owns so.....
The video is meant as satire. If you'd actually watch the video rather than just share articles because of the headline, youd know that. This is embarrassing for dems. It is beyond obvious it is satire and meant to make fun of harris. I'm laughing at all the idiots in these comments who make judgements when they didn't even watch said video. If you did watch it and it went over your head, I question your intelligence
You have no intelligence to be questioned.
@anglophone says the person that's thinks someone should go broke over satire. You didn't watch the video that you're commenting about and I don't have intelligence. You aussies get too much sun
@Tejas You have the emotional intelligence of a rotting fish.
@anglophone look in the mirror
@Tejas Your ability to project is amazing!
@anglophone , @Tejas......can we stop this public dick-waving, please?
I couldn't get this as one needs to subscribe to the NY TImes. I did look elsewhere and it has come out it was a fake and wannabe Fuhrer Musk admitted it was only intended as a parody. My big problem is why, knowing what a hypocritical POS Musk is do so many still use 'X'? Why give this guy more credibility and money knowing what kind of jerk he is. Are we so stuck on following the same internet networks that we don't see the danger many pose!?
This guy has 10 kids and the environmental footprint he and his family has would probably equal that of many developing countries. In this fools mind (he touted this some time ago) the excess human population could be sent into space on huge spaceship colonies. One reason for so much interest in Mars is to try and make it habitable for humans. This is they kind of thinking of people whose minds are composed only of money.
I also noted the term DEI was mantioned. A jounalist Danny Westneat, from the Seattle TImes had an editorial about how that term (meaning Diversity, equity and inclusion) had actually backfired here in Wash. State. I suspect when this is more understood it will also help Kamala and make Musk look the fool he is. Every time I see a Tesla I see this is how he got his start. An article also mentioned many are seeing this and either not buying Tesla's (there actually better alternatives on the market) or giving up the ones they own. I blame the SCROTUS ruling in Citizen's United as being the cause of all these problems. Kudos to Obama for chiding the court for this STUPID ruling.
DEI is the new trigger word for the right. Once critical race theory was explained and the fact there is no simple acronym the far right media lost interest in using the term. DEI is right up their alley and they love using it.
@silverotter11 Like sooo many things in their weak minds it must be bad and something no could possibly want. I strongly suspect it is something of which most MAGA maggots have no idea of what it means. Sort of like antifa. I once told an (ex) friend the MAGA crowd was so stupid they didn't know what it meant. He pretended to think and then asked, what does it mean? I then knew he was either totally clueless or one of them.
We all know there are special rules for the BIG MONEY boys...and regular rules for those of us who actually pay their taxes.
Noooooo. Say it isn't so........
All one needs to do is look around at the things they propose. Here there is a moneyed guy, Brian Heywood, from Arizona who moved here and started a voter initiative to get rid of our Climate Change rules and eliminate the capital gains tax for tow of several. Some were tossed out as being against the laws. Bill Gates started countering this guys attempts. The guy then complained he was being targeted by big money? Talk about hypocritical and laughable! Here's a link to one of his initiative's [ballotpedia.org]
@pamagain Their egos are so huge they think they are a gods gift to humanity. Problem is, they are totally unaware of the real world.
Years ago I attended a book discussion by a couple. The book was titled "Common Fire." I was about how evolution tends toward more complexity and more and more humans become specialists in a certain field to deal with the complexities. However, focusing on a certain aspect of a subject one misses the bigger picture. One literally focuses on a tree and misses the forest. The topic became so popular it was re-written but different authors. A lot of moneyed people have focused on acquiring wealth but cannot see what that wealth does to their persona or the affect on the wider world. Money is their focus and not the wider world. Notice one item by these wealthy conservatives is a total denial of climate change or any other environmental problem.
Elon is an asshole and he still thinks things like this will pick him up more supporters.
Accuses Harris of trying to sound black and doing Obama impressions. Since when? Other vids of this type claim Harris is not even black so she must have lied. BTW, Obama is half black. Facebook has similar things where I am cussed at profusely for saying We The People means all of us and not a select few. Distraction to extremes wants you to time travel backwards to prove a point. Do not fall for it. Trump and Project 2025 must be stopped.
well said!!
So is Obama ever described as half white? musk was raised before apartheid ended in South Africa and that influence shows - imho.
Trevor Noah talks about being raised under apartheid, what a horrible system. Not all but some white people are so disappointing.
NYT is paywalled for me. Here’s another article:
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Thank you for this. One thing I noticed is political ads must disclose they are AI generated. So here's another case for the small, fine print hidden at the bottom of the screen.
I think Elon has his own personal version of racial bias and misogyny. He creeps me out.
He is starting to creep a lot of people out. I guess with 10 kids his wife (or harem) is not one of the childless, cat ladies.
If true, then Elon Musk is morally bankrupt, and he needs to be financially bankrupted.
This is what money does to some people. It would be interesting to know of his family upbringing. Bill Gates' dad was wealthy but advocated to the wealthy to be a force for good in a society. Their foundation seeks to do just that.
Watch the video moron
@Tejas Far cough, I'm becile!