elon musk hates chomsky because he called out how corporations suck off the state's teet, taking no risk and stealing tech developed by public funding, then make record profits, avoid taxes and underpay workers. thread on how tesla is a case study of what chomsky describes here
for elon musk to be what he claims, a real life tony stark brain genius, he has to have been a self-made man, not a product of a corrupt plutocratic society's military-industrial complex, which as chomsky notes functions like a welfare program for dull, talentless hacks like musk
so let's move to tesla. where does it gets it funding from? exactly as chomsky noted, the vast majority of it comes from the state, even the initial investment. when this was pointed out to elon musk he lost his shit and blocked the person who exposed his fake self-made man image
that exchange begins with a link to an article that's worth delving into. it details how elon musk is a pathetic grifter who sucks off the state's teet, intentionally using his fake image as a genius to scam the state out of billions in funding. he's the actual welfare queen
it gets worse. tesla wouldn't exist without scamming the state out of billions in funding, but you would hope they were running a profit, right? as chomsky said, the state invests in tech, takes the risk, but hey, at least the corporations made profits. not elon musk:
do you see why elon musk detests chomsky so much? why he can't stand the sight of him? he's been shitting on him for years while pretending he's a self-made man, a brain-genius who took the risks and succeeded through sheer will. he proves free markets work! but it's all a grift
elon musk is not a product of the survival of the fittest in a highly competitive market with a level playing field, where individual merit and talent is rewarded, as neoclassical mainstream economists claim in their pristine abstract models that have nothing to do with reality
he comes from a family of apartheid south-african emerald mine owners. his daddy gave him the millions he used to scam his way into silicon valley and pay PR firms to market himself as a genius while begging the state to fund his grift, as he keeps failing upward
in short, elon musk is the living embodiment of just how depraved and corrupt our society is, which chomsky had the gall to point out. and that is why musk can't stand him: because chomsky revealed the emperor, the real life tony stark galaxy-brain genius, to be naked
and see this piece for more on how elon musk exploits and abuses workers at tesla . some excerpts here: theguardian.com/technology/201…
new addition of chomsky destroying elon musk in this thread
everything being done by the Trump admin now to push the "turn on Israel/Netanyahu" line is pure misdirection aimed at re-establishing the element of surprise ahead of the imminent attack on Iran, which requires both a sustained air bombardment and a ground operation at the nuclear sites.
For the attack to have at least some chance of success, it is essential for the element of surprise to be re-established. The fake "negotiations" in Oman with the Iranians, the demotion of Watlz, the whining about "neo-cons" like in the Saudi Arabia speech, the fake "defeat" against the Houthis and all the fake "leaks" about how Trump is really very angry and feels betrayed by Netanyahu, are all intentionally designed to create a feeling of passivity among the Iranians and the belief that the attack may not actually happen.
Netanyahu's trips to DC was where they decided to adopt this strategy, and then immediately thereafter it was launched and the "Trump turn on Israel" propaganda began in full swing. The entire media class is of course playing along with it, with their "anonymous sources" giving them "leaks" that establish and launder the narrative.
Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf puppet regime is aimed at shoring up support among the US-NATO-Israeli empire's "Arab shield", and consolidate the inclusion of Syria's Erdogan-Jolani fascist puppets into it ahead of the attack.
As they have been desperately trying to re-establish the element of surprise with bullshit meaningless rhetoric, these are the actual material things that are being done to set up the preparations for the attack.
Trump's Zionist enforces have been heavily involved in Lebanon, demanding they do more and more to destroy Hezbollah and prevent its ability from being a deterrent against an attack. Again, Syria plays a crucial role in this, which is why they have now formally integrated it into the US-NATO-Israeli empire. This is not only to eliminate the land corridor between Iran and Hezbollah, but also to have the ISIS-fascist proxies serve as an attack force against them in the case they get involved, with an invasion of Lebanon from the East being threatened.
Similar moves are being made in Iraq, with Trump's Zionist enforcers demanding the state crack down on paramilitary forces that are not beholden to the US-NATO-Israeli empire but instead aligned with the Axis of Resistance.
What about the Houthis? The Trump Zionist regime realized that the bombing campaign by itself would not be sufficient to destroy them, and they needed to make preparations for a ground invasion with the aid of its Gulf proxies, the UAE and Saudis chief among them. To help establish the misdirection narrative of the "Trump turn on Netanyahu", they decided to come out with the fake leaks about how what was always intended to be a temporary withdrawal was actually part of the "distancing" between the US and Israel.
They will re-launch that campaign with the ground invasion in concert with the attack on Iran, or perhaps even earlier.
The Trump regime already made the decision before it came into office that the "Axis of Resistance", meaning the only material force in the region that withstands genocidal Zionist Israeli and broader US-NATO imperial hegemony, has to be destroyed by military means and that now is the perfect time to do it because, so the propaganda line goes, Hezbollah and Hamas have both been defeated and so are no longer deterrents, and Iran has shown itself to be a paper tiger that talks a tough game with red lines and operation true promises, but then never follows through so is fundamentally risk-avert and unwilling to retaliate with the required force which it certainly possesses.
This btw is another propaganda line they keep repeating, which is totally deranged and pure Mossad-CIA propaganda: The claim that Israel actually managed to destroy most if not all of Iran's air defenses and rocket building capacities in its pathetic irrelevant attack that in reality had zero effect on anything.
Yet if you read the NYT (Ronen Bergman the Mossad asset), BBC, Washington Post, CNN, AP, Reuters, Guardian, it is now accepted truth that Israel has already destroyed Israel's defenses, and so any attack on Iran will be easy, involves very little risk, and they'll be too weak to respond.
This btw is how the CIA-Mossad approached Trump with their war plan and got him to accept it.
This is of course the irony: To successfully establish deterrence, you have to show that you are willing to go to war. If you instead impose red lines and they keep being broken and you don't even follow through with what you said were the appropriate responses even below the level of an all-out war, like the bombing of Tel Aviv in exchange for the bombing of Beirut, then you have lost all deterrent value. You have convinced the other side that you are weak.
Iran's fundamental mistake was that they kept seeing their red lines being violated, and then they didn't follow through on what they themselves had said would be the response. The same with Hezbollah.
This is why Israel was emboldened enough to assassinate Nasrallah. They have admitted that they delayed it for a very long time because they were afraid of Hezbollah and Iran's response. Then they did the assassinations of Haniyeh, Fuad Shukr, and there was nothing. They did nothing. They just whined. They just posted videos of drone footage over Israeli military bases. And now Nasrallah is gone and they are tightening the noose around Lebanon and proceeding with its full integration into the US-NATO-Israeli empire.
take note that the entire Western media and political class, including all the pseudo-radicals, the "experts", the epic based "Israel critics", the Intercept and Drop Site writers, the Murtazas who btw is sincerely the dumbest motherfucker alive, are all going along with the "Trump turn on Israel" propaganda. They're either doing it because they're just as in the aforementioned case plainly stupid and always follow the herd (more on that here: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…), they believe whatever is published in the NYT and Washington Post and Guardian and always follow the State Department line as filtered through the liberal media class, or because they're intentionally part of the misdirection propaganda campaign, as is the case with Mossad asset Ronen Bergman at the New York Times (more on him here: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…).
These are the same people who went along with the "Trump turned on Netanyahu and got a real ceasefire!" bullshit in January. And of course when it predictably turned out to have been a misdirection ploy to get the "civilian" prisoners out and also try to identify the locations of the resistance through that process (both from debriefing the prisoners and the drones constantly hovering above), and they immediately went back to the genocide exactly as I said they would all along: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…
Now of course there are zero consequence for media class hacks when they go along with propaganda like this and they are all proven wrong because that's their function. They don't even admit they were wrong, they just pretend like their current participation in manufacturing consent is actually based on real deep insights and expertise and knowledge.
It's based on nothing other than being fucking hacks.
You'll see when the US launches its war all these people will again face zero consequences for having participated in the misdirection campaign, and start pontificating about the real meaning and significance of it as if they had known it would happen all along.
see also this recent thread where I made the same point: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…. Now what if my seeing through this blatantly obvious, just hilariously transparant bullshit fake "leaked" stories of "OMG LOOK AT US, WE ARE SO ANGRY AT NETANYAHU, OMG LOOK AT THIS EPIC LEAKED STORY IN WAPO AND WSJ AND NYT ABOUT HOW ANGRY WE REALLY ARE!" was actually incorrect and there is a real "Trump turn on Israel/Netanyahu"?
Well first of all, the standard for determining that is not the countless bullshit fake "leaks" you will see coming out in the next period that are nothing but empty words, rhetoric, meaningless whining, the purpose of which I have already explained.
The standard in actually determining that has happened is material action. Real, material action. And in this case, that means that there is an actual Iran deal that prevents a war, which will by necessity include a cessation of what is a war going on now by the US-NATO-Israeli Lebanese proxy "state" against Hezbollah and also the same in Iraq and Yemen, and also in Gaza with Hamas.
That will mean that an actual "permanent ceasefire" has been established between the US-NATO-Israeli empire and the Axis of Resistance, and there will be no war, at least not in the short-term, by which I mean by the end of this year.
Now if that happens, it means that the Zionist US-NATO-Israeli empire is actually much weaker than I had assumed it to be, as it had determined that it is incapable of fighting a war with Iran, and it was convinced that an attack on its nuclear sites would lead to a war given Iran's retaliation to it.
But so far I have only been wrong in the other direction, in overestimating the deterrent capacities of Iran and the Axis of Resistance, which has turned out to be much weaker than I had thought it to be, and that was based solely on the unwillingness of Iran to actually follow through on its own stated claims, not due to any lack in material capacities. Btw, the Mossad was definitely behind the killing of Iran's president too, and that entire list of deranged Israeli actions just went completely unanswered. They even participated in covering up the killing of their own president because they didn't want to have to be forced into actual retaliation by admitting it was Mossad.
Yeah, that's actually pretty shocking. I was wrong there, and I admitted I was wrong in the wake of Nasrallah's assassination which was the direct result of this.
And this only strengthens my view that the US-NATO-Israeli empire will definitely imminently attack Iran, and actually, I'm not even sure that Iran would follow through on its red line and do a real retaliation to it.
It's very possible they will just do another bullshit symbolic "True Promise" strike and leave it at that, in which case it's just over. To be fair, it was pretty much already over with the assassination of Nasrallah and the lack of any real response to that, but by that point you can just accept that there is no such thing as an "Axis of Resistance" and that Iran has been decisively defeated as a counter-force to US-NATO-Israeli Zionist hegemony in the region of any significance.
to be clear Hamas was entirely justified in eliminating the Zionist Israeli rape-soldier concentration camp guard Eden Alexander on October 7. The fact they didn't but instead sustained him as their own people are genocided, starved and raped shows how humane and moral they are
it's amazing how the entire Western media and political class transforms genocidal Zionist rape-soldiers who are enforcing an illegal occupation into Holy Saints, and if you dare touch a hair on their head it's the worst crime in history. Bernie Sanders:
one of the tactics they use to launder these genocidal Zionist rape-soldiers is to only show them in civilian clothing. So rape-soldiers are Holy Saint Innocents, but everyone in the Palestinian resistance is a Pure Evil Monster who must be mass murdered
Ben Affleck calls out the depraved racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionists like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, and explains how this dehumanization is used to justify the mass slaughter and rape of Arabs and Muslims, as is happening now with Palestinians
the crucial point is when Ben Affleck says: "We've killed more Muslims than they killed us by an awful lot, we've invaded their countries, but somehow that's not a reflection of who we really are." Exactly the same applies to Israel. Glenn also destroyed Bill Maher on this:
Ben Affleck also called out the grotesque racist Islamophobia of genocidal Zionist war criminal John McCain, who unfortunately lived long enough to impose on all of us his grotesquely depraved daughter and her unhinged Zionist mania
can you imagine Bernie Sanders calling for military action to break the genocidal Gaza siege? Instead he does speeches with feigned performative anger at "Netanyahu's government" while saying Israel has the right to defend itself and refusing to even recognize the genocide
I keep having to repeat this because Bernie Sanders and his Zionist handlers like Matt Duss keep lying about it: Bernie Sanders opposes sanctions and an actual arms embargo. He refuses to recognize the genocide. He launders Zionist atrocity propaganda:
and again this is essential: All of these positions Zionist Bernie Sanders has are in direct opposition to all of his own base, the vast majority of liberals/democrats, and a significant majority of the general American public. HE IS THE PROBLEM. IT IS HIM
Happy Victory Day. Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Red Army who played a decisive role in slaying the Nazi beast that was nurtured by capitalism and inspired by American racism: "We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it." And they never did
the greatest accomplishment of the Soviet Union remains its destruction of the Nazi empire, sacrificing 27 million lives. This is from 1938. Those you see here are among the brave and heroic Red Army soldiers who went to the front to fight and slay the Nazi beast
meanwhile the New York Times was writing puff pieces about Hitler, dismissing his virulent anti-Semitism as mere populist rhetoric and praising him as a great leader who would bring calm and stability to Germany and Europe
a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it's anti-Semitic and genocidal.
He responds: "Actually, I agree with that." And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones.
here a hysterical Zionist angrily asks Chomsky about the "Hamas charter" and if he is horrified by it and it proves they and Palestinians are to blame for not having peace. He responds: Actually the charter is irrelevant and Israel and Zionists are to blame for everything
a reporter asks Chomsky if Hamas and Hezbollah are evil terrorist monsters who are to blame for all the violence, as is claimed by the entire Western media and political class. He replies: Actually the real terrorist extremists responsible for the violence are Israel and the US