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Musk Retweet: Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People, Public Sector Workers Did

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So...Elon is admitting he had nothing to do with the successes of Tesla and SpaceX since it's the workers who did all the work? By this logic, we shouldn't be paying CEOs since they don't do any of the actual work.

That's like the ultimate pedantic nerd troll. Sure that's technically true that they themselves didn't do it but there's a key phrase a "responsible for" that is always implied when you indicate those leaders killed millions.

Unfortunately we communicate in sound bites and so this is the kind of statement you get from tweet length messages. I think there is a valuable discussion to be had on how people in the public sector enable the policies of leaders. In the military you are not to follow an illegal order. You are expected to be able to make that determination. This kind of discussion is better done in an essay form rather than a short one line message. So much gets lost in a short message around a complex topic but this is the world we have today.

Also, if you were really concerned about this then maybe you wouldn’t back a guy who fired everyone who might say no and replace them with yes men. I mean Pete Hegseth is explicit about this in the military.

Someone who literally said he needed generals like Hitler.

Presumably unaware that Hitler's generals needed to be bribed by Hitler to allow the destruction of their country via his insane policies to continue and several of them tried to assassinate Hitler.

C'mon man, our billionaires have been very loud about their explicit goal to roll back the New Deal.

It is not just short format. Unlike that tweet, you are trying to argue in a good faith.

At some point the Silicon Valley "hacker" class will have to reckon with the fact that they propped up guys like Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel as "geniuses" and "disruptors", for their own personal financial gain. A tough conversation to have with the grandkids, "I didn't know they would turn out like this"...

Ironically(?), a government where AI replaces most public sector workers would be able to implement the Holocaust much more efficiently.

(By the way, this asshole is still invited to YC’s AI Startup School, linked in the footer.)

So hypocritical of him

"Elon Musk didn't make a billion dollars, his employees did"

Great point sir I guess we should fire all of our greedy immoral public workers and rehabilitate Hitler

title modified to fit. Original: Elon Musk Retweet: "Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People... Public Sector Workers Did"

Some day...people are going to stop paying attention to every inane thing this guy does on twitter.

He's in the Oval Office, has the ear of the POTUS, and is having a major impact on both domestic and foreign policy. Only a fool would stop paying attention to him.

There's the "news" as in what you actually need to know and there is the noise we call the news. Discerning each is crucial for modern day life.

I don't disagree with that sentiment; however, one should pay attention to the things Trump and Musk says given the power they wield. What do I consider noise in US politics? Anything JD Vance says since he has no effective power. Ditto for Congressional Democrats. Obviously there's more, but that's a good start.

That's the big issue. People think he only does in on Twitter.

Employees at Tesla / SpaceX / xAI are just working their, and politics are their boss politics, etc.

Nope guys. This guy is in the Oval Office trying to either destroy or take over the governement - not yet clear which one is it, but there is no in between.

It's important to understand who and what he is.

Too many people are unwillingly to see and would much rather look the other way.

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