Elon Musk Catch-All | Trump: Musk hates someone in AI deal but “I have certain hatreds of people, too.”

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He doesn't really strike me as the neo Nazi type.

Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism'
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is "Jewish by association" during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

"I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. ... Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish," the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association."

The association organized the visit to address a worldwide surge of antisemitism after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.


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I mean, I guess she's agreeing with you, in the most embarrassing possible way for you.
 
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
 
I would cut Germany some slack here. Because of their history, too much criticism of Israel would likely be counterproductive.

That doesn't mean they have to support Israel but there are other world powers better situated to holding Israel accountable.
 
I would cut Germany some slack here. Because of their history, too much criticism of Israel would likely be counterproductive.

That doesn't mean they have to support Israel but there are other world powers better situated to holding Israel accountable.
Well, that’s kind of the point of the piece. I’d encourage you read it in full.

A full reckoning with their past would involve repudiation of their colonial legacy, which hasn’t happened. Instead, there was a narrow focus on the Holocaust as a singular historical event. The result of this is viewing Israel as the sole representative of the Jewish people. Thus they have aided and abetted another genocide through this narrow focus.
 
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I would cut Germany some slack here. Because of their history, too much criticism of Israel would likely be counterproductive.

That doesn't mean they have to support Israel but there are other world powers better situated to holding Israel accountable.
Are you going back to the German who sowed the seed or the Nazis?





At the beginning of his career, Martin Luther was apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. However, he expected the Jews to convert to his purified Christianity; when they did not, he turned violently against them.

Luther used violent and vulgar language throughout his career. While we do not expect religious figures to use this sort of language in the modern world, but it was not uncommon in the early 16th century.

The following are excerpts from Luther’s work entitled The Jews & their Lies.

I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God’s word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen.



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He did not call them Abraham’s children, but a “brood of vipers” [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, “He has a demon’ [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a “brood of vipers”; furthermore, in John 8 [:39,44] he states: “If you were Abraham’s children ye would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham’s but the devil’s children, nor can they bear to hear this today.
 
Just adding more to the mountain of evidence that it's NOT a cult.
Yep. Each member of the cult is falling over themselves trying to outdo the others in proving their fealty to Dear Leader. Any bets on how long it will be before a Congressional Republican proposes to rename Washington, DC as Trump City? And then another can propose to build a giant statue taller than the Washington Monument in the likeness of Dear Leader. I'm sure that our new plutocrat overlords like Musk and Bezos will gladly pay to build it.
 
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