Tesla co-founder previously suggested Taiwan should become a ‘special administrative zone’ in China
Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter, was called out on his platform by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs after calling the island nation an “integral part of China” and insisting that he understands “China well.”
Mr Musk made the comments on the “All In” podcast while answering a question about China and the future of his involvement with the nation.
During the interview, Mr Musk said “I think I understand China well,” and notes that he’s been there several times and has met with high-ranking officials.
He then turns his attention to Taiwan, and compares its relationship to China to Hawaii’s relationship to the US, insisting it is "an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China”.
That comparison is flawed in two major ways: first, Hawaii is not a contested region, but is unquestionably a US state with all the same powers and freedoms granted any other US state; second, Taiwan’s assertion that it is its own state is not arbitrary, but instead a position it has held for decades.
Why does this tool have an opinion about absolutely everything?
That’s what having too big of an ego do to you
Truly smart people are happy to give opinions about topics they have some knowledge of and tend to not weigh in on things they know they’re ignorant about. Then there are people like Musk who seem to think they’re an authority on absolutely fucking everything.
How do I block articles about him from showing up?
You could try to Connect app ([email protected]), which allows you to filter posts containing an arbitrary string or regex.
Wow, Musk sure does love licking boots…
He does seem to have a few fetishes. Makes sense.
I’m just sitting here waiting for Elon to go bald so he can finally come out as Lex Luthor.
He wishes he was Lex Luthor lol
He already did. Then he paid a bunch of money to get the hair back.
Thats what $200 billion is for
I’m convinced that this guy gets off of getting his name on articles.
Which is why he bought Xitter
I’m surprised he was able to say all of that with Xi’s dick in his mouth
You would have thought his mouth was too full already stuffing Putin and The conservative nazi base’s dick in that mouth of his, first… boy this guy can sure deep throat… but he is a whore, so it makes sense
So Elon is basically now acting like a tankie?
This is fucking hillarious.
Elon and false communists both benefit capitalism
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a ‘tankie’?
It essentially is calling someone a communist supporter. In 1956 Hungry had an uprising against the soviet union (USSR) communist rule. The soviets used tanks to crush the revolutnaries swiftly and used a similar tactic in 1968 to quell similar events in Czechia. When members of the communist party of Great Britain showed support for these actions it became common in GB to refer to them as tankies referencing the attack on hungry. The term has now expanded its use from exclusive to brittish political discourse to more global/universal label for a sympathizer to opressive communist regimes.
Fuck of it is.
It’s calling out the authoritarian, imperialist wankers who think using force against the people is the solution.
Communism is fine, tankies are not.
Right…
So supporters of the US must be tankies too, right? Or is it the “authoritarian” part you’re angry about and not the “imperialist wankers who think using force against the people is the solution” part?
He sort of half listens to grimes sometimes and forgets where it came from
Extreme wealth and a love of authoritarianism, name a more iconic duo.
Elon should become a special administrative prisoner in some chinese gulag
This guy really doesn’t know when and how to shut up.
I’m just wondering why the U.S. DoJ isn’t doing anything about it.
Same reason the IRS spends all their time auditing poor people who made mistakes instead of auditing one billionaire for year. The metrics they’re graded on aren’t based on quality, they’re based on quantity. Going after a billionaire is expensive, and sure, it would have lasting positive impact, but they’re graded on number of cases closed
Sure, but poor people aren’t having influence over tense geopolitical situations.
Well certainly not with THAT attitude!
Exactly my point. We could spend 1 year auditing / investigating 1-2 billionaires and have way more government funding and way less foreign interference, but we don’t because the system is working as intended
It’s intentional
Yeah, I think people underestimating Musk is extremely dangerous.
Everyone underestimated Trump too and gave him 24/7 coverage because of how “stupid” he was.
Assume a powerful enemy is intelligent, or you’ll not understand how they got their power and will be perplexed as to how they grow it and how they will abuse it.
When relentless coverage of terrible people, and their insane words/actions, results in said people winning fair elections, I think the intelligence of the electorate might be the biggest problem.
But yes, that’s beside the point, as is their growing mental illnesses and instability. The wealth/power they’ve been allowed to accumulate will always make them a danger/threat that should be taken seriously.
Well…this musk person is a well paid shill so…uhm yeah
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you need to escape your arm. see my source
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Tesla co-founder? Since when?
Yeah my thoughts exactly. A lawsuit can’t change the truth of the founders.
The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13][14] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[15] Eberhard said he wanted to build “a car manufacturer that is also a technology company”, with its core technologies as “the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor”.[16]
Ian Wright was Tesla’s third employee, joining a few months later.[13] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2022) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2022) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[17][18][15] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[19]
A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–2004)
Since 6 years after it was founded… That’s just silly
How so? Tesla had no product, basically no employees, and no money. There are other things to hate on Musk for, but is there any indication that he wasn’t involved in the company like a cofounder would be?
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
People think this guy is an idiot yet there’s not a single day he’s not on the front page. Keep on fueling his popularity…
Even if I try to avoid it, I see reality stars on the front page of new sites everyday. Does that make them more popular to me? No.
I used to want a Tesla and loved catching SpaceX streams but this has all soured them for me.
I thought it’d be cool to work for SpaceX for a long time but…
Me too… To pour salt in your wound… Did you hear they’re only published on X now?
To get over it, I just remind myself that there are many other talented people working for SpaceX and Gwynn Shotwell runs the day to day operations.
Taiwan should simply not sell microchips to Muskian companies. Let him use 80s ex Soviet chips instead.
As great of a plan as that sounds, companies like TSMC wouldn’t dare to risk tanking their profits just to spite a single company run by an absolute dingleberry.
TSMC has sold out stock for the next 100 years. They will be fine.
TSMC will do nicely with other companies (re: Apple, which gets most of its chips anyway). Threatening a leading manufacturer is silly when there’s plenty of other companies desperate for premiere hardware.
Wait, what?!
Did that gigantic moron tell Taiwan is part of China???
He knows who’s buying 70% of his cars. And that’s not Taiwan.
