#joshua haldeman

[contemplatingoutlander]

Technocrats argued that liberal democracy had failed. One Technocracy Incorporated pamphlet explained how the movement “does not subscribe to the basic tenet of the democratic ideal, namely that all men are created free and equal.” In the modern world, only scientists and engineers have the intelligence and education to understand the industrial operations that lie at the heart of the economy. Mr. Scott’s army of technocrats would eliminate most government services: “Even our postal system, our highways, our Coast Guard could be made much more efficient.” Overlapping agencies could be shuttered, and “90 percent of the courts could be abolished.” [color emphasis added] —Jill  Lepore , PhD, Harvard Professor of American History & Professor of Law

The historian Jill Lepore demonstrates how there are disturbing parallels between Elon Musk's recent political beliefs and that of his technocrat grandfather Joshua Haldeman.

According to another article by Davi Ottenheimer, Haldeman "fled" Canada to South Africa in 1950:

"Because he was under pressure following his 1940 arrest in Canada for being a part of an illegal political organization to destroy democracy called Technocracy. "Canada outlawed the political party as it had been determined to be a national security risk (anti-semitic, racist, and Nazi-adjacent)."

This is a gift🎁link, so there is no pay wall. It is worth reading, because it explains where many of Musk's peculiar beliefs about the importance of technocrats like himself taking over political systems. It also explains his weird fascination with "X."

Below the cut are some excerpts from the article.

Four years ago, I made a series for the BBC in which I located the origins of Mr. Musk’s strange sense of destiny in science fiction, some of it a century old. This year, revising the series, I was again struck by how little of what Mr. Musk proposes is new and by how many of his ideas about politics, governance and economics resemble those championed by his grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a cowboy, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist and amateur aviator known as the Flying Haldeman. Mr. Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as technocracy. Leading technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico. At technocracy’s height, one branch of the movement had more than a quarter of a million members. Under the technate, humans would no longer have names; they would have numbers. One technocrat went by 1x1809x56. (Mr. Musk has a son named X Æ A-12.) Mr. Haldeman, who had lost his Saskatchewan farm during the Depression, became the movement’s leader in Canada. He was technocrat No. 10450-1. [...]

Technocrats argued that liberal democracy had failed. One Technocracy Incorporated pamphlet explained how the movement “does not subscribe to the basic tenet of the democratic ideal, namely that all men are created free and equal.” In the modern world, only scientists and engineers have the intelligence and education to understand the industrial operations that lie at the heart of the economy. Mr. Scott’s army of technocrats would eliminate most government services: “Even our postal system, our highways, our Coast Guard could be made much more efficient.” Overlapping agencies could be shuttered, and “90 percent of the courts could be abolished.” [...] Nevertheless, technocracy endured. Its spectacles grew alarming: Technocrats wore identical gray suits and drove identical gray cars in parades that evoked for concerned observers nothing so much as Italian Fascists. Mr. Musk’s grandfather was a technocracy stalwart. In 1940, when Canada banned Technocracy Incorporated — out of fear that its members were plotting to undermine the government or the war effort — Mr. Haldeman took out an ad in a newspaper, proclaiming technocracy a “national patriotic movement.”

Weeks later, when he tried to enter the United States for a technocracy speaking tour, he was denied entry at the border, possibly because of a new passport regulation that barred travel into the United States to “an alien whose entry would be contrary to the public safety” (something of an irony, given the current administration’s border policies). In Vancouver, British Columbia, he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to a fine or two months in jail. He later joined the antisemitic Social Credit Party, becoming its national chairman.

Mr. Haldeman retired from politics in 1949 and soon began thinking about moving to South Africa, which in 1948 announced the policy of apartheid. In 1950 he moved to Pretoria, where he wrote and distributed typewritten conspiratorial tracts. (Most have disappeared, but in 2023 I discovered several in university and private collections.) In May 1960, for instance, he wrote a pamphlet called “The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship and Its Menace to South Africa,” a response to the unrest after the Sharpeville massacre. During those protests, Nelson Mandela was among 11,000 people arrested and jailed. Mr. Haldeman suggested the uprising had been staged.

He furthermore believed the West had been the subject of an “intensive mass mind conditioning” experiment, in which ideas he considered ludicrous, like the equality of races and the immorality of apartheid, were being spread by newspapers, magazines, radio, television and especially university professors. Convinced that the government was riddled with waste, he also proposed a finance committee to combat inefficiency, writing in all caps, “A watchdog financial agency is needed.”

That Mr. Musk has come to hold so many of the same beliefs about social engineering and economic planning as his grandfather is a testament to his profound lack of political imagination, to the tenacity of technocracy and to the hubris of Silicon Valley. [...] In 1995, after studying at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Musk left a Ph.D. program at Stanford to become a tech entrepreneur. He started a company called X.com in 1999. “What we’re going to do is transform the traditional banking industry,” he said. (Technocrats also planned to abolish banks. “We don’t need banks, bandits or bastards,” Joshua Haldeman once wrote.) Mr. Musk made a fortune when eBay acquired PayPal, which had merged with X.com, but in 2017 he bought back the URL, and it was at hand when he purchased Twitter and renamed it X, hoping to kill what he called the “woke mind virus” — echoes of his grandfather’s “mass mind conditioning.” Much that Mr. Musk has attempted to do at DOGE can be found in the technocracy manuals of the early 1930s.

Mr. Musk’s possible departure from Washington will not diminish the influence of Muskism in the United States. His superannuated futurism is Silicon Valley’s reigning ideology. In 2023 the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who helped staff DOGE, wrote “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto," predicting the emergence of “technological supermen.” It consists of a list of statements:

We can advance to a far superior way of living and of being. We have the tools, the systems, the ideas. We have the will. … We believe this is why our descendants will live in the stars. … We believe in greatness. … We believe in ambition, aggression, persistence, relentlessness — strength.

Mr. Andreessen cited, among his inspirations, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who in 1909 wrote “The Futurist Manifesto,” which glorified violence and masculine virility and opposed liberalism and democracy. It, too, is a list of statements:

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist. … We want to sing the man at the wheel. … We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism. … Standing on the world’s summit, we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!

Ten years after Mr. Marinetti wrote “The Futurist Manifesto,” fists raised to the stars, he co-wrote the founding document of the movement led by Mussolini: “The Fascist Manifesto.”

Muskism isn’t the beginning of the future. It’s the end of a story that started more than a century ago, in the conflict between capital and labor and between autocracy and democracy. The Gilded Age of robber barons and wage-labor strikes gave rise to the Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, the first Red Scare, World War I and Fascism. That battle of ideas produced the technocracy movement, and far more lastingly, it also produced the New Deal and modern American liberalism. Technocracy lost because technocracy is incompatible with freedom.

That is still true, but unlike his forefathers, Mr. Musk does have a theory for the assumption of power. That theory is to seize power with the dead robotic hand of the past. It remains for the living to wrest free of that grip.

[unita2org]

TRUMP E MUSK, CANADA, PANAMA E GROENLANDIA: UNA VECCHIA STORIA

di Thierry Meyssan Il presidente rieletto Donald Trump ha parlato della possibile annessione del Canale di Panama, del Canada e della Groenlandia. Progetto bislacco, già comparso su una carta geografica redatta nel 1941 da un seguace del movimento tecnocratico. Fu il ramo francese di questo movimento che inventò il transumanesimo, tanto caro a Elon Musk, il cui nonno fu il responsabile del ramo…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/joshua-haldeman-elon-musk-saskatchewan-tech-utopian-conspiracist

[bringbreakables]

Wild Wikipedia article about Elon Musk’s grandfather

Perhaps this is why Wikipedia is his new favorite target

“Haldeman was a supporter of South Africa's apartheid policies and the ruling National Party of South Africa, telling a reporter for the extremist Die Transvaler newspaper, a tool of the Nazis in South Africa during World War II: “Instead of the Government’s attitude keeping me out of South Africa, it had precisely the opposite effect—it encouraged me to come and settle here”.

[greenjudy]

Some excerpts: Lepore is always worth reading.

"... I was again struck at how little of what Mr. Musk proposes is new and by how many of his ideas about politics, governance and economics resemble those championed by his grandfather Joshua Haldeman, a cowboy, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist and amateur aviator known as the Flying Haldeman."

...

"That Mr. Musk has come to hold so many of the same beliefs about social engineering and economic planning as his grandfather is a testament to his profound lack of political imagination, to the tenacity of technocracy and to the hubris of Silicon Valley."

[coochiequeens]

So glad that reddit had her back and helped her see the signs of a hobosexual. This is also a good example of how the myths that have grown up around certain rich men downplay if not erase their privileged beginnings. If your not born into money or connections success will likely entail lots of hard work, not spending time and money on Dungeons and Dragons.

Bill Gates was born rich and connected.

Bill Gates' father, William Henry Gates II, was a wealthy lawyer. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (which later merged to become the firm K&L Gates).

Bill Gates' mother, Mary Ann Maxwell Gates, was a member of the Board of Directors for United Way in the 1980s. United Way is an international network of over 1,800 local nonprofit fundraising affiliates.

Bill Gates attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle. In an interview, he told his school friends that many students drove Porsches to school. Given that he attended this school, do you think Bill Gates was the son of a janitor?

Elon Musks parents may not have been wealthy when he was born but they were well connected.

The Musk family includes Maye Musk, a model and author; Errol Musk, a mine-owner, businessman and politician; ....... Maye's father Joshua N. Haldeman was a notable chiropractor, aviator, and politician who was a well known proponent of technocracy. 

And Donald Trump? He started by working for his dad who worked for the business his parents started

Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real-estate developer and businessman. He was the father of the 45th and 47th U.S. president, Donald Trump.

Born in the Bronx in New York City to German immigrant parents, Trump began working in home construction and sales in the 1920s before heading the real-estate business started by his parents (later known as the Trump Organization).[a] His company rose to success, building and managing single-family houses in Queens, apartments for war workers on the East Coast during World War II, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York overall. Trump was investigated for profiteering by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 and again by New York State in 1966. Donald Trump became the president of his father's real-estate business in 1971. Two years later, they were sued by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for racial discrimination against black people.

Contradicting Donald Trump's claim that he built a multibillion-dollar company using "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father, in 2018 The New York Times reported that Fred and his wife, Mary Trump, provided over $1 billion (in 2018 currency) to their children overall, avoiding over $500 million in gift taxes. In 1992, Fred and Donald set up a subsidiary which was used to funnel Fred's finances to his surviving children; shortly before his death, Fred transferred the ownership of most of his apartment buildings to his children, who several years later sold them for over 16 times their previously declared worth.

[darkmaga-returns]

Wednesday April 16, 2025 Truth Bomb

Karen Bracken

Exposing the Hidden Traps in the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty - the Soveriegnty Coalition brings in dignitaries and guests from all over the world discussing the WHO-UN-REAL ID and the most pressing world issues. This is the 7th Summit and there are 2 more already scheduled for the future. 1 hr. 30 min. VIDEO

Trump-Vance billionaire backer Peter Thiel sells ‘Smart AI warfighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China - Just like Obama was running the Biden administration I believe Thiel is way too involved in the decisions made in the Trump administration - ARTICLE

Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, and the Technocrats - Thanks to Victoria P - one thing not mentioned about Thiel. He is a homosexual. And the article also fails to mention that Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather was one of the originals that created Technocracy, Inc. while his grandpa (Joshua Haldeman) was living in Canada before he was thrown out of Canada for accusations of trying to overthrow the Canadian government and he was exiled to South Africa. Joshua Haldeman was a VERY strange person. ARTICLE

Dr. Paul Thomas: Vaccines Cause 97% of Sudden Infant Deaths - ARTICLE

"This is Worse Than COVID shots" – and the FDA Just Fast-Tracked It - the only way this will be successful for big pharma is if people roll up their sleeve and take the EXPERIMENTAL shot. Are you really OK with being the replacement for the lab rats? It ends when the American people refuse to take their poisons into our body. ARTICLE

Registration for “Freedom Project Academy” has started - if you have been considering pulling your children from public school and home educating I strongly recommend considering Freedom Project Academy. This is an on-line classical education program with live teachers. It is affordable. Everyone that I have recommended this program to is extremely happy with it and said the only thing they are sorry about is not doing it sooner. Registration has begun and when registration ends you will not be able to enroll for the current school year. They will also provide testing to insure your child is academically at grade level. They also now offer homeschool courses for parents to use if they do not want to enroll in the live teacher-led courses. You can sign up for the full on-line teacher led course or just select certain subjects. It is a very flexible program. They also used to have a scholarship program but not sure if they still do - FPE

Autism Rates Reach Unprecedented Highs: 1 in 12 Boys at Age 4 in California, 1 in 31 Nationally - Damn it…until they find out what is causing autism (it is really not hard to figure) STOP vaccinating your children. It is not onlhy autism…it is allergies, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and many many more illnesses our children rarely had until they escalated the vaccine schedule. It does not take a rocket scientist. Kids can’t go to school…..then move to a state that has an exemption and use it or a private school that does not require vaccines to enroll or educate your children at home. Sorry but it is your job to take care of your. kids …not your pediatrician (who makes out handsomely from vaccines) or your government. Grandparents, retired teachers pitch in and help parents educate their kids outside the indoctrination system. ARTICLE

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Elon Musk’s Grandfather Joshua Haldeman: A Legacy of Far-Right Ideologies and Racist Rhetoric

Joshua Norman Haldeman, Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather, was a chiropractor and political activist whose controversial affiliations and ideologies have drawn scrutiny. Haldeman’s life was marked by his involvement in far-right movements, the promotion of racist and antisemitic rhetoric, and support for apartheid in South Africa. His actions and beliefs provide insight into the ideological context of the Musk family’s history.

Affiliation with Technocracy Incorporated

In the late 1930s, Haldeman joined Technocracy Incorporated, a movement advocating governance by technical experts. While the organization claimed to focus on efficiency and scientific management, it was banned in Canada during World War II for being deemed subversive. Haldeman was arrested in Vancouver in 1940 for distributing materials seen as disloyal to the monarchy.

Leadership in the Social Credit Party

By the 1940s, Haldeman became a leader in the Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, known for its anti-communist stance and controversial monetary policies. During this time, he defended the publication of the widely debunked antisemitic text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, claiming it was relevant to global events. He also promoted the idea of an “International Conspiracy” involving Jewish bankers and warned against the “hordes of Coloured people” allegedly threatening white civilization.

Support for Apartheid in South Africa

In 1950, Haldeman moved his family to apartheid-era South Africa, praising the country’s racial segregation policies. In a 1951 interview, he described Black South Africans as “primitive” and unfit for responsibility, voicing support for the apartheid government’s handling of racial issues. He believed South Africa was at the forefront of defending “White Christian Civilization.”

Conspiracy Theories and Publications

Later in life, Haldeman authored self-published books that delved into conspiracy theories. His works, including The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship and the Menace to South Africa, alleged a global plot against white Christian values. He also criticized public health measures such as vaccination and fluoridation, viewing them as tools of a supposed conspiracy.

The Legacy of Joshua Haldeman

While Elon Musk’s views and achievements stand apart from his grandfather’s ideologies, the shadow of Haldeman’s far-right associations and rhetoric looms over the Musk family history. Understanding this legacy adds depth to discussions about the societal and ideological influences on one of today’s most influential tech figures.

#ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman #FarRightHistory #Racism #Apartheid #Technocracy #SocialCreditParty #FamilyLegacy

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Oh, this is a fascinating glimpse at the political and social underpinnings of that person whose name I don't want to type. Worth a proper read.

[jgmail]

El talentoso Sr. Musk: Rebellion entrevista a Faits & Documents

Entrevista realizada por Elisabeth Heine

Traducción de Juan Gabriel Caro Rivera

El boletín confidencial fundado por Emmanuel Ratier dedica un reportaje completo a la biografía de Elon Musk. Hemos pedido al equipo que nos haga un retrato de este hombre que encarna su época para nuestro número 102, a la venta en https://rebellion-sre.fr/boutique/.

Faits & Documents: ¿Cómo se explica la fascinación que provoca en mucha gente, incluso en la derecha nacional francesa?

En primer lugar, por su estatus de hombre más rico del mundo (por delante de Bernard Arnault y Jeff Bezos), y quizás incluso, según algunos, «el hombre más rico de la historia»; en segundo lugar, por su impacto en términos de creatividad industrial, que, según los comentaristas, lo sitúa entre Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun y Thomas Edison; y en tercer lugar, por su exponencial implicación política, que corre el riesgo de convertirlo en uno de los nuevos Césares del Imperio estadounidense (vía DOGE, de la que hablaremos más adelante). Más prosaicamente, sus arrebatos anti-Woke y sus denuncias de un cierto inmigracionismo europeo (denuncias que no perdonan a George Soros, hay que señalar) explican sin duda el interés de lo que usted llama la derecha nacional francesa...

¿Qué papel desempeñan sus orígenes familiares y su infancia en su carrera?

Hay varias cosas. A los conservadores les gusta señalar sus orígenes sudafricanos y, por lo tanto, su experiencia de una sociedad multiétnica y violenta; otros prefieren centrarse en su faceta de «niño solitario y reservado» o incluso de «niño maltratado» en su colegio; más recientemente, su autismo declarado parece estar convirtiéndose en una explicación global, sobre todo para sus detractores. Aprovechemos su pregunta para mencionar un hecho igualmente decisivo, pero generalmente poco subrayado: la influencia de sus abuelos maternos – y de su abuelo Joshua Haldeman en particular –, descritos como aventureros polifacéticos, amantes de la libertad, originales y apasionados. Para llegar al fondo de los orígenes de Elon Musk, hay que señalar que, en términos genealógicos, la sangre que corre por sus venas es inglesa, holandesa y suiza.

¿Cuáles son las raíces culturales de este ávido lector? ¿De dónde procede su imaginación futurista y su adoración por la tecnología?

La mayoría de sus biógrafos hablan de «una lectura amplia y diversa, que abarca muchos campos como la filosofía, la religión, la ciencia ficción, la programación, la ingeniería, los negocios, la tecnología, el diseño de productos y la energía», pero si queremos entrar en más detalles, queda claro que autores como Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein y J.R.R. Tolkien, así como personalidades como Benjamin Franklin y Albert Einstein, forman la base de su imaginario cultural.

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel (fundador de Paypal), David Sacks (gran inversor digital y antiguo empleado de Paypal): muchos de los principales ejecutivos tecnológicos de Sudáfrica nacieron bajo el régimen del apartheid. ¿Cree que esto influye en su forma de ver el mundo?

Probablemente, pero el hecho de que crecieran en la periferia de Estados Unidos y escaparan así a un cierto formateo ideológico (en el sentido más amplio) parece fundamental para explicar sus «diferentes» visiones del mundo. Al menos más que el determinismo racial y político...

Musk participó en el surgimiento de la industria digital como motor de la economía mundial. ¿Qué papel desempeñó en la época dorada de Silicon Valley?

Desde la muerte de Steve Jobs en 2011, Silicon Valley ha estado buscando un líder simbólico. Elon Musk, estrella emergente en la década de 2000, ha pasado de ser marginal en la década de 2010 a aspirante número uno al trono de líder de las Big Tech en la década del 2020.

Siguiendo la curva de una cierta «trumpización de las mentes», este ascenso de poder se ha ilustrado retóricamente por un lado (Musk ha multiplicado las declaraciones mordaces contra Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Tim Cook y Sergey Brin) y jurídicamente por otro (la presión ejercida por la administración Trump sobre las GAFAM durante su primer mandato). El equilibrio de poder se ha invertido ahora por completo, hasta el punto de que especialistas como Nicole Gnesotto hablan con horror de una «revolución ideológica» y de un «momento histórico muy grave» caracterizado por una «alianza estratégica entre Trump y la oligarquía tecnológica».

Su fortuna se ha hecho colosal. Paradójicamente, ha tenido muchos fracasos en sus distintos proyectos y le ha salvado la inversión pública (en el espacio y las nuevas energías). ¿Cómo define su modelo de negocio?

Musk no es sólo un empresario, tiene objetivos que van más allá de la economía. Como él mismo dice: «Me gusta participar en negocios que puedan cambiar el mundo». SpaceX pretende colonizar Marte para contrarrestar la «destrucción de la civilización», Tesla busca «conciliar el respeto al medio ambiente con la búsqueda del progreso», Neuralink pretende «optimizar a los humanos» y The Boring Company pretende «facilitar el transporte humano». En cuanto a Twitter, Musk afirma haberla comprado en nombre de la libertad de expresión. También hay que recordar que a principios de los años 2000 planeaba utilizar PayPal, de la que es fundador, como arma contra todo el sector bancario.

Pero si tenemos que definir su modelo de negocio en términos muy concretos, diríamos que Musk, con lo que algunos llaman «teslaísmo», está trastocando los códigos industriales del mismo modo que antes lo hicieron el fordismo y el toyotismo. Con su sistema organizativo basado en la velocidad, la experimentación y el empoderamiento, el modelo de Musk suele calificarse de «disruptivo» y no es menos cierto cuando le añadimos una increíble e inédita capacidad de «troleo económico» (por utilizar la expresión de Asma Mallha), que otorga a Musk un poder sin parangón para perjudicar a los mercados financieros.

En cuanto a su relación con el gobierno estadounidense, el acuerdo ganar-ganar que parece haber firmado con la administración Trump le sitúa en una posición igualmente ventajosa.

Inicialmente cercano a los demócratas, ahora se ha consolidado como partidario de Trump. ¿Parece que ganar dinero ya no es suficiente para él o, por el contrario, la política es una buena forma de hacer negocios?

Musk utiliza la economía y la política para realizar su proyecto de civilización planetaria. Algunos podrían considerarlo una forma de mesianismo, pero es su leitmotiv subyacente. Desde este punto de vista, Estados Unidos es para él un medio para alcanzar un fin. Al involucrarse con Donald Trump como lo ha hecho, está asumiendo plenamente el destino que cree que le corresponde: el de guía de una humanidad atormentada por la idea de la extinción.

Entonces, ¿tiene Musk una visión política propia?

Sería un error pensar que Musk es sólo un libertario ligeramente caprichoso. Tiene una agenda global determinada por la preocupación existencial que representa el declive demográfico humano. Toda su visión política parte de esta constatación. Para responder a esta amenaza, propone un enfoque conocido como «tecnología total», la automatización de la sociedad con el objetivo de mantener la productividad a pesar de la disminución de la población activa.

¿Cómo explica su «cruzada» por la libertad de expresión? ¿Considera que X (antes Twitter) es un auténtico espacio de libertad?

En sus propias palabras, su apego a la libertad de expresión es «absolutista» y se deriva de su concepción general del mundo: para él, X es «la plaza pública digital donde se debaten cuestiones vitales para el futuro de la humanidad». Dicho esto, X es algo más que una red social: es ya un medio de comunicación de nueva generación que está llamado a ocupar el lugar de los grandes medios de comunicación. Y el uso intensivo que Elon Musk hace de ella le ha convertido en el mayor influencer del mundo. La importancia de su conquista de Twitter se revela así ante nuestros ojos y revela una estrategia política sin igual...

¿Cuál es su relación con Donald Trump?

En nuestro perfil en profundidad, demostramos que Trump y Musk llevan colaborando estrechamente desde 2016. La reciente salida del armario de Musk como trumpista, que tantos periodistas cuestionan, es en realidad la expresión de una dinámica profunda que ha alcanzado su fase triunfal. El papel de Musk es esencial para el presidente: ya sea en los medios de comunicación, la economía, la energía, la geopolítica o el ejército, sus empresas (X, Tesla, SpaceX) son ahora esenciales para el mantenimiento y el despliegue del poder estadounidense. La prensa destaca regularmente la avanzada edad de Donald Trump (pronto cumplirá 80 años), pero el poder que ejerce lo comparte ahora con un trío de «jóvenes» manos derechas: Elon Musk, J.D. Vance y Vivek Ramaswamy. Un trío al que podemos añadir a Peter Thiel, más en segundo plano, pero igual de importante. Desde un punto de vista más «humano», es difícil calibrar la naturaleza de la relación entre Trump y Musk, pero parece que el sudafricano está firmemente integrado en el círculo familiar del republicano.

Todos los grandes jefes estuvieron presentes en la toma de posesión de Trump. ¿Crees que se trata de un acto de sumisión por parte de sus grandes financieros del wokismo?

Para estos grandes jefes, el wokismo era más una herramienta ideológica que un verdadero objeto de convicción. Al ver que el Estado federal se radicaliza ante sus ojos, abandonan de hecho esta herramienta para ajustarse al nuevo orden dominante. Queda por ver si esta inversión del equilibrio de poder durará, pero lo más probable es que hayamos entrado en una nueva era en este sentido.

Parece que Musk quiere apoyar a los partidos nacionales de derechas en Europa (en Alemania, Gran Bretaña...). ¿Hay alguna razón específica para ello?

Probablemente para presionar a los gobiernos y asegurar su lealtad a Estados Unidos en caso de enfrentamiento con Rusia.

¿Se está convirtiendo Musk, que es a la vez un líder empresarial y cercano al Gobierno, en uno de los diplomáticos no oficiales de Trump?

Es mucho más que diplomacia. Como jefe del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE), Musk se está convirtiendo literalmente en el elemento central de una reforma integral de Estados Unidos. Órgano de control paragubernamental sin precedentes, el DOGE sitúa a Musk en la cúspide del aparato estatal estadounidense y le confiere un poder político extraordinario: con un derecho teórico de vida o muerte sobre cada agencia federal, el multimillonario será el «limpiador» de Trump... Al amparo de una brisa libertaria, la purga autoritaria de la burocracia estadounidense se perfila como radical.

Fuente: https://rebellion-sre.fr/le-talentueux-monsieur-musk-rebellion-interroge-faits-et-documents/

[touchofhemlocktea]

Holy shit.

Someone on Discord just informed me about Elon Musk's family history

Wtf? How did I not know about this?!

[outoftheforestshow]

Tech-utopian, conspiracist and...

[princelysome]

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.