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Elon Musk hosting @nbcsnl May 8 isn& #39;t a bad idea, if you like sociopaths who fund deadly coups for profit, illegally bust unions, deny COVID, oppose pandemic relief, & support technofascism. After all, the last non-athlete non-entertainer to host SNL was--Donald Trump. 1/
On one hand, Musk is part of a long US tradition of innovator-as-asshole. Henry Ford was an anti-Semite, Edison a thief, Steve Jobs a paranoid who disowned his daughter, and Zuckerberg is, well, Zuckerberg. But Musk is his own flavor of a visionary/psychopath crossbreed. 2/
Start with Bolivia, where Musk helped underwrite the coup that overthrew President Evo Morales, tweeting "We will coup who we want to coup." Why? To snatch Bolivia& #39;s lithium supply to guarantee cheap components for Musk& #39;s lithium-ion Tesla batteries. 3/ https://carbuzz.com/news/bolivia-says-elon-musks-tweet-sparked-a-coup">https://carbuzz.com/news/boli...
Then, there& #39;s Musk& #39;s illegal attempts to stop unions from gaining a toehold in his car factories. 4/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/musk-labor-board.amp.html">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
Musk has also been at the forefront of COVID denial, threatening to move one of his factories out of California over the state& #39;s pandemic restrictions. 5/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/03/13/elon-musks-false-covid-predictions-a-timeline/?sh=4ab93f265b6d">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joe...
Musk also attacked pandemic stimulus relief to individuals and small businesses after his companies raked in millions in taxpayer COVID aid. 6/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/tesla-received-government-coronavirus-bailout-elon-musk-stimulus-relief-criticism-2020-7%3famp">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
Musk runs the world& #39;s most valuable car and space companies. He also runs NeuraLink, seeking to implant computer links into humans. He believes *his* vision of the future is the only one worth considering. And he wants to force it on to the rest of us. 7/ https://www.autoevolution.com/news/inside-elon-musks-world-hes-going-mad-and-everyone-knows-it-151392.html">https://www.autoevolution.com/news/insi...
I& #39;ve spent decades in TV. SNL wants Musk b/c of the freak factor. He& #39;s the world& #39;s 3rd richest person. He& #39;s a genius. He launched a Tesla into deep space. He& #39;s weird. He& #39;ll draw eyeballs. Outside of the genius and rich parts, SNL thought the same about Trump. I won& #39;t watch. 8/
