Elon, the fucked up little dude.

Imma be honest here. I'm Gen-X. The X is somehow appealing to us dudes of a certain age, I don't know why. There's a root to it somewhere in the entertainment we watched or read as kids. 70s and 80s were full of the machinations of the previous generation. Elon and I are very similar.

I don't love that idea, it's just that I sort of "get it." My parents loved me. I was very poor, we had time of some wealth, then back to being poor. There was never "prosperity" or generational wealth, it was just industrious parents who made money in real estate before the markets tanked.

I'm smart, but not that smart. I can figure things out. I can reason. I'm not on any drugs. I have a painful amount of empathy that I have both weaponized and found to be a huge weakness at overcoming obstacles. I was a punk teenager, I treated people poorly, and have regrets (of the very few that I carry with me today, those are the ones that sting.) I grew up, I changed, I had an awakening in 2003 after many years of trying to get outside of my own brain. I drank too much, but it was pretty controlled. I used it to deaden the sensitive guy that couldn't face the world. It worked. I changed. I see the world differently.

Now, I can imagine, if I had money. Family money. I had the ability to just say things and manifest them with little regard. I did so many stupid small things, and in retrospect, they were almost suicidal things that could have ended so poorly, but they didn't. What if I never was held accountable? What if I had so much money that I didn't have to answer to anyone and I could come up with an idea and people would just go along with it? Now imagine that I did drugs. A lot of drugs. Then I read online trolls, and sort of "got it." I started to believe my own bullshit? What if I never woke up in 2003 and instead just headed down a road of complete and utter self abandonment?

You would get Elon Musk. The man who has demonstrably killed thousands of children in the global south, in MONTHS. The man who has brought American democracy to its knees. He doesn't believe that USAID did anything good for the world. He's been red-pilled by the Kremlin and people online to believe that everything he's done he has done for the right reasons. Also, he's on drugs. He's a guy who believes he's not the bad guy (like most of us believe, even as we actively do bad things to other people.) Elon thinks HE is the hero, the main character... the one on the Hero's Journey.

He's not. He's a killer. A murderer. He's ruining so many lives all over this country and all over the world. He's broken Democracy and American soft power in the world, which weakens us as a country and as an ideal. He's gotten into every government computer system. He's added backdoors to all of it. He's moved data from HHS, CDC, FDA, SSA, CIA, FBI, and whatever other agency they broke into to XAi or a staging datacenter being used to feed data to his LLM. Every American's data will be mined and kept live in one of his AI models to be used however he sees fit.

The problem, is that he didn't do it for bad reasons. He's just high as fuck and thinks AI is going to be the answer to the techno-fascist world view of how he and a cadre of billionaires are going to run the country efficiently and without all the people. Add that onto their Eugenics plans, deportation plans, and forced birth plans and you have one of the wildest imaginings of a country that has ever been seen.

Right now you have Trump believing that he's in control, and no one is going to disabuse him of this notion. Behind the scenes though, the plans are being made to remove him from any real sense of control. Miller, Musk, Vance, Thiel are all working to whitewash the country while exfiltrating data from every agency to figure out what to do with us. Techno-fascists don't really care if it is a police state. They are billionaires and already live completely outside the system. They don't shop at Ralph's, they don't buy trinkets for their children. They plan on the end of the world as we know it and how they are going to be comfortable.

I understand this. I don't have the autism spectrum disorder of Musk, but I "get it." I get what he's doing. I also know he's oblivious to what he's doing and the damage he's causing. If you sat him in a chair and made him watch an infant take their last breath because of starvation or HIV and could show him the paper trail of how it leads back to his first days with Trump, he would be aghast. He wouldn't believe it. He would turn to Twitter and start a poll on whether "Musk is killing children in Africa?" Then he would take all the right wing losers, Kremlin hackers, and Chinese bot farm's opinions and feel justified as he injected another dose of Ketamine to help hide the child that grew up to be a fucking monster.