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Well, you should.  It's a false premise.  A person who is incapable of violence of any sort is by definition "peaceful".  This would include some of those who are incapable of "great violence".
It's also just pandering.

Meh. I think that empathy, kindness, and being protective are a good package deal. The problem is when you use your capacity for violent protectiveness as an identity and a badge of legitimacy. Which is what these fake alpha bro types (who Elon fancied himself one of, he’s pathetic) fancy themselves as.
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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Meh. I think that empathy, kindness, and being protective are a good package deal. 

Yeah, so?  That doesn't mean one must possess the "protective" characteristic (much less the capability of "great violence") to be peaceful.

It was a dumb statement, it is fundamentally wrong, and Elon is a twat who must likely lacks the very trait he imagines himself possessing.

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7 minutes ago, ultimaton said:

Mark Rober about to be designated a domestic terrorist 

The dude is really into science and a former NASA engineer so a good chance he was already thought of in that capacity. 

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

He’s about to go through his Ayn Rand phase. 

Remember when this guy was the one blabbering about Ayn Rand? 
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1 hour ago, ultimaton said:

Mark Rober about to be designated a domestic terrorist 

 

58 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The dude is really into science and a former NASA engineer so a good chance he was already thought of in that capacity. 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

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42 minutes ago, YChang said:

 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

How did he not see the hate coming? Elon turned Twitter into a hate machine to be deployed at anyone who says something he doesn’t like. 

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7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

How did he not see the hate coming? Elon turned Twitter into a hate machine to be deployed at anyone who says something he doesn’t like. 

I’m sure he likely expected it and he was still disappointed by it. 

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10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, you should.  It's a false premise.  A person who is incapable of violence of any sort is by definition "peaceful".  This would include some of those who are incapable of "great violence".

It's also just pandering.

Moreover, there are plenty of peaceful folks that were not "harmless."  Ghandi, Jesus Christ (although I suppose Pops is capable of great violence), MLK, Bonhoeffer.

He acts as though he's spouting undiscovered main truths, when it's just inaccurate memeshit only undiscovered because his uncritical followers are morons.

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1 hour ago, YChang said:

 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

I’m sure a lot of the hate is that the video is showing Autopilot but not Full Self Driving. The point is that this camera-only technology is bullshit and dangerous. LiDAR is the future and the Waymo + Uber partnership is adding to Elon’s downward spiral. 

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22 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Cringe posting in the middle of the night. 
 

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19 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Nah he’s wrong. His cat vs human is dumb because if you get that cat in a bad spot it will do what it can to survive and you better believe that is great violence.

his real mistake is that he thinks weakness means you are hopeless and you're not. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug and can save your ass when you need it to. 

I've said it before and I'll say it again; so much of Elon's worldview is crystal clear when considered as that of a powerless young boy looking to his father for how to please him and earn his approval.

Regardless, he is promoting the hallmark fashy perspective wherein violence is "normalized as a legitimate form of political expression."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html

They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration.

A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines.

And a biochemist and engineer who had recently joined the agency as head of the team that enforces safety and environmental standards at a Texas plant that assembles nuclear warheads was fired.

In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

Since the last year of the first Trump administration, the agency has been desperately trying to build up its staff to handle the added workload. Though it was still hundreds of employees short of what it had said it needed, it had edged up to about 2,000 workers by January.

Now, with the Trump administration’s buyouts and firings, the agency’s trajectory has gone from one of painstaking growth to retraction.

More than 130 employees took the government’s offer of a payout to resign, according to internal agency documents obtained by The New York Times that have not previously been reported. Those departures, together with those of about 27 workers who were caught up in a mass firing and not rehired, wiped out most of the recent staffing gains.

Engaged in top-secret work, tucked away in the Energy Department, the agency typically stays below the public radar. But it has emerged as a headline example of how the Trump administration’s cuts, touted as a cure-all for supposed government extravagance and corruption, are threatening the muscle and bone of operations that involve national security or other missions at the very heart of the federal government’s responsibilities.

Free link for rest of article detailing specifics and how it hurts: https://archive.is/htd1I

A couple of quotes:

The [Energy] department has said that most of the fired employees handled administrative and clerical tasks that were not critical to the agency’s operation. But an analysis of the internal documents by The Times, coupled with interviews with 18 current and former agency officials, shows that is not true for the bulk of people who took the buyout.

Many who left held a top-secret security clearance, called Q, that gave them access to information about how nuclear weapons are designed, produced and used, officials said. The offer allowed them to go on administrative leave with pay through September, then resign.

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“This whole process of trying to downsize the government is being handled in the sloppiest, most irresponsible kind of way that one could imagine,” Mr. [Senator Angus] King said.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Many who left held a top-secret security clearance, called Q, that gave them access to information about how nuclear weapons are designed, produced and used, officials said. The offer allowed them to go on administrative leave with pay through September, then resign.

I just hope they find work with a western European country.

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