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Paywalled, unfortunately, without an archive link currently available.

Unpaywalled article: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon...

Bonus, DOJ is trying to sweep this lawsuit under the rug: https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/xai-memphis-trump-d...

"In the memo accompanying its motion, the DOJ characterizes the NAACP’s lawsuit as a national security threat—Colossus powers Grok, an AI model that the Department of Defense uses in military operations—and contends that enforcing the Clean Air Act against xAI is not 'consistent with federal policy and the public interest.'"

This is for unpermitted construction polluting nearby neighborhoods.

"Thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates"

Bonus, DOJ is trying to sweep this lawsuit under the rug: https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/xai-memphis-trump-d...

"In the memo accompanying its motion, the DOJ characterizes the NAACP’s lawsuit as a national security threat—Colossus powers Grok, an AI model that the Department of Defense uses in military operations—and contends that enforcing the Clean Air Act against xAI is not 'consistent with federal policy and the public interest.'"

This is for unpermitted construction polluting nearby neighborhoods.

Archived: https://archive.ph/20260712222347/https://www.newyorker.com/...

Musk has been aggressively suckling the federal teat for years at this point. Most recently: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/22/trump-rural-broadba...

So yeah, according to Occams razor, grifting liars gonna grift and lie.

He lied, just like he always does. The deaths are directly traceable to his "wood chipper" approach.

There is ample evidence of many other deaths directly caused by Musk's actions, unrelated to Ebola. For example, sudden withdrawal of critical medical care and food supplies. People were relying on aid to survive, the aid got cut off suddenly and without any tapering period or notice, and people died. There were a number of articles with journalists speaking to family members of the deceased, e.g. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

The hundreds of thousands of deaths he is directly responsible for will be the defining part of his legacy, as others race to create better electric cars and spaceships and social platforms. The amount of pain and suffering he has caused is immeasurable. There is no coming back from this.

(He knows this, too, given his recent panic on the subject.)

The white nationalist parties are *far* more of a threat to democracy in Europe than these very scary, adjective-laden immigrants.

Ensure?? Oh man, you're gonna blow a gasket with your ultrawoke kids. How do you think we ended up with hippies from such a conservative generation?

Actually, they do admit it: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-mad-teen-pre...

It's not an accident.

My posteriors are based not on some perceived virtue of brown immigrants (wat) but my experience with nativist parties: they are, to the last, full of despicable, immoral hucksters who will stop at nothing to accrue and consolidate power, including blasting out endless streams of vile propaganda that eventually takes hold on a population level. So forgive me for demanding some fact-checking before considering any action based on this sort of nebulous "polling."

Billionaires always have the option to un-parasite themselves, quite trivially.

Nobody is calling MacKenzie Scott a parasite.

"you find that 80%+ of them hold highly regressive views"

Question is, does this info come from reputable pollsters? Or is it just a factoid propagated by right-wing media?

Also, impossible to square with a conservative white base *also* holding similarly regressive views. (Speaking from a US perspective, not a Euro one, but the same people yelling about regressive immigrants are also genuinely trying to disenfranchise women in favor of male-headed family units, and other things in this vein.)

What was wrong about their conclusion that isn't equally wrong about the conclusions of these other white nationalist parties?

It's pretty clear to me that all these parties have racial animus (not ethnic identity) as their core, and we all know where that leads.

The exact same argument would apply to the racial politics of Nazi germany or the Jim Crow South.

They see themselves as revolutionaries, genuinely. Plow over everything in the way of the goal & fuck the human cost. I shudder at the thought of having a beer with these people.

I mean, OK, to echo Capricorn2481, "this is such a bizarre soup of dog whistles it's not really worth replying to." Big scary mooslems gonna eat your babies. Blood libel all over again.

I prefer to keep living without this quivering fear of my neighbor and will continue to vote for multiculturalism. See you at the polls.

Except: exactly the same rhetoric is being used by the far-right in America as it is in Europe and the Anglosphere. Strength or weakness of identity is irrelevant to the white nationalist project.

"Quran says that you have to convert everyone to Islamic faith"

Hey, remember the Crusades? This is not unique to Islam. Any religion can be made into a tool of peace or a tool of war. Wicked leaders will interpret their sacred texts however needed to further their political goals.

"Violent white supremacism is a symptom of multiethnic societies."

All modern societies are multiethnic societies. Once white supremacy is done with the obviously foreign-looking people, it will start to eliminate those who are not white enough, resulting in an existential and violent battle over determination of the "volk". As a descendant of white immigrants whose ancestors would not have been considered fully white in my country, I would not want to live in this environment. No doubt that I would be on the chopping block at some point for not sharing x% blood with some arbitrary progenitor.

"Overall the solution is simple: muslims can have their own countries where they can do what they want, and other people can have their own countries with their own rules."

Well, as a white person in a historically white country, I say Muslims are welcome to be my neighbors, and anyone who disagrees can go live somewhere else.

A racist white guy knifed a bunch of innocent people in the UK recently. When do we say "enough" to that?

I'm actually a Christian from a conservative branch of the faith, but thanks for your input.

I share the same(-ish) religion and ethnicity as white supremacist terrorists. Does this make me complicit in their degenerate world views? Obviously not.

All the same stuff was said about Jews in pre-Nazi Germany. It's always bullshit. Neither Muslims, nor Jews, nor white people, nor any broad group of people ever acts as a united bloc. Again: most people just want to live in peace and ensure a good future for their children.

What do the Bataclan terrorists have to do with 99.9999% of the Muslim population? Absolutely nothing. (Or, at least, as much as neo-Nazis have to do with the native white population.) Fact is, most people are extremely normal and just want to live in peace.

I'll be on the side of my nice Muslim neighbors (who did nothing wrong to anyone) against the red-faced white supremacist mobs. It is very obviously the correct moral position and will be viewed as such by our descendants.

In the US, the most heavily armed communities also tend to be the least diverse. It is largely a consequence of insular paranoia and hatred stoked by right-wing media.

The violent protests in Ireland were explicitly enflamed and coordinated by Musk and other right-wingers over social media: https://newrepublic.com/article/211936/elon-musk-race-war-be...

Civil strife? If it comes to violence, I (a white person) certainly won't be on the side of the white nationalists. Same for most of my peers.

Many of us love living in multicultural societies and will fight to protect our neighbors and our way of life.

I come from a family of recent immigrants. We're considered white so we get a pass for behaviors that our nonwhite peers get side-eye for. My ethnicity has its own enclaves. Those enclaves get treated as a cute cultural artifact rather than a threat -- even worth visiting on a tourist trip. My ancestral culture lives under the protective umbrella of "Western culture," but in practice, the overlap with prevailing Protestant/Anglo culture is minimal along almost any axis.

And yet, we are all American by almost any reasonable definition. If anything, the people beating their chests for having some random ancestors on the mayflower or whatever are the impostors here. What have they actually done for this country?

Also, I'm kind of surprised that you believe these things as a black man. You do realize that a large percentage of the country doesn't consider you "true" American either, right? They can't kick you out, but they will do everything in their power to disenfranchise you and turn you into second-class citizens. The signaling could not be any more clear.

How much context do you need for a quote that uses "walk[ing] over corpses" as a virtue???

Just don't be surprised when your children refuse to talk to you.