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I though the 4D chess explanation was that he bought it (was forced to buy it by courts) because he was entering politics and wanted to be able to ensure the deaths of half a million children in Africa:

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=inte...

It looks like he succeeded wildly at that.



There is a better 4D chess explanation of why Alon bought twitter and i hate to bring it.

When he bought it, right wing publications all over world got excited because twitter was the global / official communications channel for alot of entities and largely considered left leaning. When your plan is to disrupt that bubble and amplify right leaning narratives (he helped trump1 getting elected with it), you better cover your tracks and make that purchase look like an accident.


I think this is spot on. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be King, king ain't satisfied till he rules everything.


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Your overly simplistic graph about population growth omits steady falling birth rates and more importantly, why they are falling.

But why should i explain when your mind is occupied with africa when mentioned in a side note and that it comes with an article opening like this

> To understand what’s at stake regarding the Mediterranean

... occupied with africa and implying harmful migration without ever basing it.

But a cheap 100 year projection expressed _in a single graph_ in a way does fit into a conversation about overconfident stupid people.


Straight to the white nationalist racists to back him up, this guy gets where Musk is coming from and approves.

Citing this guy:

> Steven Sailer is an American far-right writer and blogger.[1][2] He is a columnist for Taki's Magazine and VDARE, a website associated with white supremacy.[3][4][5] Earlier writing by Sailer appeared in some mainstream outlets, and his writings have been described as prefiguring Trumpism.[2] Sailer popularized the term "human biodiversity" for a right-wing audience in the 1990s as a euphemism for scientific racism.[2][6]

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

On this site:

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

> The Unz Review is an American website and blog founded and edited by Ron Unz, an American far-right activist and Holocaust denier. It is known for its publication of far-right, conspiracy theory, white nationalist, and antisemitic writings.[1]




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