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Raw catfood has infected some cats as well.

Thank you. It's just so f'ing baffling how many people still think the right approach to Trump is to underestimate, ignore, or otherwise write him off. We know what happens when we do that. This lesson has been taught to us time and time again and it's carried Trump to the White House twice.

lol yeah that's not happening.

The potential host country could decline not to host the President and that's about it. Countries can do that right now and I wouldn't blame him, although I doubt Trump will be traveling much.

You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into.

If you're looking at a guy's resume and it includes graduating from UPENN and getting admitted into Stanford, then launching/guiding/acquiring multiple successful companies and you're then concluding "nah this guy ain't smart" or "i'm not sure if he's smart" it's a position you reached not through logic/reason.

The author is taking a shot in the dark on Musk's IQ and what the author wants it to be. 110 is normie. Isaacson, a very respected biographer, claims Musk's SAT was 1400, which would have put him somewhere around ~93 percentile. I want to see proof of that score, but I'd guess Musk' IQ is around 125-130 and around 95-97 percentile.

Trying to boil Musk's success down simply to lying is vastly underestimating him and playing in his favor.

On top of what everyone else is saying, he was also highly competent and looked out for his friends.

Well, ya know, it's primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren't likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won't have to worry about the flu.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.

Consider the 2016 election and the dangers of writing someone off.

Initially, the GOP establishment wrote Trump off as a flash in the pan. He'd enjoy an upswing, probably do something really dumb, and either way voters would come to their senses ahead of primary voting.

By the time the GOP establishment realized how big a threat trump was, it was too late.

Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign was pushing for Trump as GOP nominee, assuming he'd be an easy opponent.

We know how that turned out.

Trump is not Musk, it's not a direct parallel, but it illustrates the dangers of underestimating someone.

Everyone deluding themselves into thinking Musk is an idiot (or 100 IQ) are creating conditions favorable to Musk.

(I wouldn't be surprised if Musk is of above average intelligence but not a true genius).

"what the fuck" are you confused about?

I appreciated his general thoughts on poverty, inequality, etc. I haven't studied them in depth so admittedly I'm mostly going off statements here and there and shallow news coverage.

The molestation/rape stuff though can't be overlooked. The problems there go much, much deeper than any one individual and is a rot in a massive and wealthy institution that holds a lot of sway over millions of people.

And there are lots of old dinosaur thoughts in the church, like the idea that all "unnatural" birth control is wrong.

I do think Francis was probably a step overall in the right direction, but it was a small step and I'm left thinking that much more radical reform is needed.

Eh, I don't know. Lincoln was well aware that he was walking into a massively complex situation with nothing short of the future of the country 100% on the line. He knew he was doing it at great personal risk, and I am sure on some level he knew it could (and ultimately, would) cost him his life.

Lincoln's life was cut short so ultimately we never got to see what the next phase of his life would look like, but he persevered in the face of the greatest struggle this nation has ever faced.

Trump and friends may well create as dangerous of a scenario as the civil war, especially if Thiel, Vance, and the other tech authoritarians achieve their goal of radically overhauling if not outright destroying the country.

that's a good point. Musk has pissed everyone in the government off. I imagine that many of those sympathetic to Musk in the regulatory and law enforcement agencies don't appreciate the ways in which he's inserted himself in this conflagration and his immensely heavy handed approaches.