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You know who else knew how to count things with computers? IBM. In Germany.


Perhaps inserting in-auditable black boxes into elections was a bad idea to begin with.


So, now along side "manufacturing", that's two things that Elon Musk knows more about than anyone else. All while tweeting 200+ times a day. How does he do it? Having a billion dollars must give you supernatural abilities to learn and produce more...

Or just spend your money convincing gullible idiots because you don't actually know anything.


> So, now along side "manufacturing", that's two things that Elon Musk knows more about than anyone else. All while tweeting 200+ times a day.

Don't forget being the best player in the world at multiple time-consuming video games!


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Future elections... I would say he is.


Yes. Did you see the earlier clip where he says they rigged it, explicitly?


No I didn't. In the same rally?


Given that Trump actually won Pennsylvania by 2%, he's casually bragging about something that isn't actually true - at least the "in a landslide" part isn't true.

But then, Musk knowing vote counting computers better than anyone isn't true either (though Musk may be arrogant enough to think it is).

So I think this is just Trump throwing out fact-free hot air that he thinks makes him look good.


Indeed. No sane person would let him know of a conspiracy to commit election fraud in his favor.

He's the kind of guy that robs a bank and comes to the office the next day driving a Ferrari.


Trump-scandals kinda killed Hanlon's Razor [0] for me.

A miasma inseparably blurring the lines between malice and incompetence, lies and ignorance, culpability and insanity, condensing into a greasy alloy which is definitely some amount of evil yet not worth anybody's time to separate and assay.

[0] "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."


Musk may not know vote-counting computers better than anyone else, but he certainly has the influence and leverage that would greatly help with such a task.


> though Musk may be arrogant enough to think it is

He is:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

Musk wouldn't trust a computer program to count votes, but he does want you to trust a computer program to drive a Tesla.


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Funny in a drunk driver kinda way, and there's 380,000,000-odd passengers in the backseat.


I am very optimistic for Russia and China.


A quarter of Russia's economic exports are still not fully sanctioned, and more yet are under threat from unmanned surface vessels that have (so far) respected the civilian designation of their tankers and freighters. Donald Trump could walk away the from Ukraine table entirely, but it would only push Putin closer to the proverbial red button.

China is facing the butt-end of a 30 year population crisis with a replacement rate below 0.5 in some provinces and has a subprime mortgage crisis that threatens to make 2008 look like a fairytale. They disproportionately rely on imports that cannot be sustained during a conflict and stockpiles that will not last their population even a month.

I'm sure both of them are optimistic too, but you overestimate America's influence if you think Trump is capable of saving them from the consequence of their own devices.


When has he ever been funny? He's orders of magnitude less interesting than Trump when it comes to comedy. He has the demeanor of a robot, pre-programmed to the emotional intelligence of a smart teen between his nihilist and existentialist years.


He is talking about Trump.


Previously said "He might not everyone's cup of tea but he is funny."




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