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Musk’s Terraforming Masterplan Has Failed
Mars? No. Earth.
Why did Elon Musk transform from progressive to the wildly dangerous supreme vanguard of the alt-right? It’s a question that has been bugging me for years. Sure, as a billionaire, he should love Republican tax plans, but his entire empire has been built from a left-wing customer base and a series of government grants from the Democrats. So, as we have seen, this rapid shift to neo-fascism isn’t so much the equivalent of Musk shooting himself in the foot — it’s more like him taking a nuke to the face. But why? What motivated him to commit such a blatant act of self-destruction? Unfortunately, this isn’t a dodgy ’90s superhero film, so the supervillain isn’t going to explain his master plan in a grand soliloquy, and no caped crusader is going to ‘deus ex machina’ Musk out of existence. It’s up to us to figure out his overarching motivation from the clues this powerful moron has left behind and use what is left of our collective power to take him down. So, again, why has he done this? Well, after writing about this for years, I have come to only one conclusion: Musk knows he can’t have Mars, so he is desperately trying to terraform Earth instead, and this surrogate scheme is going down faster than a TNT-filled lead Starship.
Let’s get something straight: Musk is not a good businessman. He has a rich track record of…
