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The doomerism has two primary sources:

1) Political - The ideology/party spreading the doomerism promotes that they're the ones that can "fix it", if only you vote for them.

2) Adversarial countries, primarily China - Using the internet to convince members of western civilization to hate their civilization, hate their economic system, hate their history, hate their compatriots, adopt a no motivation defeatist attitude, etc., etc., and they can get our population to destroy itself from within without having to go to war with us.

Reject the doomerism, reject the negativity. Build. Invent. Create. Do your part to contribute to your civilization, to contribute to humanity, to move us forwards.

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The people who build rockets and computers and the Internet are the good guys of history. We should do more of that. That statement shouldn’t have a political valence—people who subscribe to that idea can argue whether taxes should be higher or lower. But if you reject that concept you’re rejecting civilization itself.

It has a political valence when one party is campaigning on punishing and stopping them from building. "Should" is a meaningless word unless I have agency to change that, and I don't.

> The people who build rockets and computers and the Internet are the good guys of history

Does no one read history anymore?

IBM and the Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

The V-2 rocket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket

"The V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the development name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first practical, modern ballistic missile and suborbital launch vehicle.[4] The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities."

Nazi's are the good guys only when they work for the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky would like to have a word with you for saying that rockets were first developed by Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

IBM was a US company, just because the Nazis used their computers doesn't make computers bad.

Just because something was once used by bad people or for bad things doesn't mean that it is bad.

After all, books were written by Hitler and the Nazis and I would hope that you aren't willing to paint all literature as being in the same light.

How come you are not addressing the most obvious reason?

People hat the troll. From all around the political spectrums (well...maybe not on their far edges), people have been disgusted by what Musk has become and everything around him has became toxic because of it.

You don't have to make it about politics. It's just about being a morally civilised human.

3) Elon Musk has fascist leanings and many people don't want to live in a world where such a person has ever increasing wealth, influence and power. Especially since he has no qualms about using that same wealth and influence to subvert and distort elections, both domestic and foreign.

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