Alluding to rampant crime along with a large population of drug-addled vagrants, woke mind virus foe Elon Musk described the area where X (formerly Twitter) is located as a zombie apocalypse.
The dystopia seemingly was the result of the far-left “niche San Francisco/Berkeley ideology” that the previous Twitter hierarchy sought to propagate with a geographically unconstrained “technological megaphone” to the rest of the entire world, the visionary and quirky entrepreneur told Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan during a wide-ranging nearly three-hour interview.
Musk insisted that the technologists who created Twitter were not as radical as those who seized control of it.
In October 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in the name of free speech and he explained on The Joe Rogan Experience why.
“I mean, this is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried that [Twitter] was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having a bad impact and, I mean, part of it is that it’s where it was located, which is, you know, downtown San Francisco. And while I think San Francisco is a beautiful city, and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco, if you walk around downtown San Francisco, right near the X/f.k.a. Twitter headquarters, it’s a zombie apocalypse. I mean, it’s rough,”…It’s crazy….what philosophy led to that outcome? And that philosophy was being piped to Earth…”
Likening the platform to Pravda in the former USSR, so-called old Twitter operated as a censorship arm of the federal government, Musk asserted, which raises potential “severe” First Amendment violations.
He insisted that Twitter/X is currently the only platform that “is not kowtowing to the government” and that “the only media that does not have crazy censorship at this point is X.”
According to Musk, “There was basically oppression of any views that, even I would say, be considered middle of the road. But certainly, anything on the right, and I’m not talking about far right, I’m just talking mildly right.”
Musk also claimed that “Republicans were suppressed at 10 times the rate of Democrats. That’s because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far left. It was, like, completely controlled by the far left.”
Later in the conversation with Rogan (who was wearing a wig for Halloween), Musk maintained that “Anyone they didn’t like, they censored, or what’s called de-amplify.”
Twitter now “has really just moved to the center, but from the perspective of the far left, it’s moved to the right, so everything’s relative.”
The social network “should represent the sort of collective consciousness of humanity,” he noted, including views with which users disagree.
In between Rogan’s somewhat annoying interruptions, Musk also assailed the billionaire open-borders zealot George Soros who has used his massive checkbook to de-stabilize the West in various ways.
The Soros influence is particularly felt in the U.S., for example, for funding the political campaigns of soft-of-crime district attorney candidates.
“Soros actually, you know, he is I believe the top contributor to the Democratic Party….And Soros, I don’t know, I mean, he had a very difficult upbringing. And in my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity…he’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization. You know, getting DA’s elected who refuse to prosecute crime…That’s probably the problem in San Francisco and L.A. and a bunch of other cities. So why would you do that?…Soros realized that you don’t actually need to change the laws. You just need to change how they’re enforced. If nobody chooses to enforce the law or that laws are differentially enforced, it’s like changing laws. That’s what he figured out.””
Among other things, Musk also warned that ChatGPT is programmed to be woke.
They took a break from the interview so that Rogan could shoot Musk’s new cybertruck with an arrow. During the stream, they chowed down on an unconventional pineapple-and-anchovy pizza discussed (not disgust) and then ordered.
