If Elon didn't exist as a human embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism it would be necessary for communists, socialists, and anarchists to invent him.
Elon Musk: "Hey Twitter, should I step down as CEO?" [Vote is overwhelmingly 'yes'] Elon Musk: "Oh, must be all the bots... let's redo the poll with a shorter time frame" [Vote is still decisively 'yes'] Elon Musk: "Well- let's restrict the vote to people who have paid $8/mo for a blue checkmark." [Vote is slightly 'no'] Elon Musk: "Ah, I will not step down as CEO of Twitter. Meritocracy lives on!"
Are you saying that the only reason we know who he is is his daddy's emerald mine money which he used to buy pre-existing companies and then cosplay as some sort of real-world Tony Stark?
He really has no choice but to push meritocracy as the way things should be. If we live in a meritocracy then that by definition means he's the best in the world, since he's the one on top. But if we don't, and he isn't, then he has to deal with some uncomfortable questions about why he is where he is and what he's doing.
@@LimeyLassen Do not kill the cringe. That is impossible. Instead, recognise that you are cringe. befriend the part of you that is cringe. Master the cringe, only then can you overcum.
The idea they can't see themselves as indoctrinated is what I find facinating. AR15s Kill more kids than Drag Queen's. And killing us won't solve inflation.
My favorite stations in GTA have always been the talk radio shows. The Blaine County talk radio has discussions on the morality of artificial insemination, gender neutral names and how they are destroying America, and also how to repurpose roadkill into a delicious meal. Woke mind virus is right at home with these hard hitting topics.
- What do you know about him? - Well he was a slave owner. - What else? - He used physical coercion to make them work on his plantation for his economic benefit.
They want apologia for slave owners because otherwise they would have to admit that what they want for the working class is edging closer and closer to slavery and that this perhaps it's not a good thing.
Thanks to modern media, I also know that he used false criminal charges combined with judicial corruption to sentence poor farmers into conscription against their will. He also used English-only contracts when working with Dutch immigrants--they thought they were signing the deed to a farm, but what they were actually signing was conscription papers. He raised an army to fight the King, but he was VERY immoral about it (in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with slavery).
"We should be wary of anything that is anti meritocratic and anti free speech" -Elon Musk Irony meters across the galaxy exploded in a simultaneous deluge that shattered reality and the multiverse
yeah, the son of a emerald mine owner who *actively* quashes speech on his platform because he doesn't like it while letting *literal* nazi accounts post without consequences thinks he's all about merit and free speech.
He also recently collaborated with the Indian government to ban all mentions and uploads of a BBC documentary that exposes Prime Minster Modi's past crimes and atrocities
@@sekedad4819 I don't want to be in charge cause I'm smart. I know I'm an idiot. THATS why I want to be in charge. That awareness can literally be life saving. And you're right. Elon has none of it.
A key problem with "meritocracy" is that most of the people who think it's A Good Thing™ don't seem to be able to tell the difference between people who built themselves up and those who were just born wealthy/privileged.
Meritocracy is a great concept. But the loudest voices in favor of it think that the status quo is meritocratic and it makes you realize that what is meritocratic has a vastly different meaning between people. They are "self-made" despite being enriched by the fortunes of their parents and their continued success, on the backs of the generational wealth accumulated before they could form a coherent thought, is simply a result of hard work that just about anybody could do (As the myth goes...)
Some people assume that the world is already meritocratic and that the wealthy people are wealthy because they're that much better than everyone else (hence anything that threatens to dethrone them is an "attack".) But that's not why they're wealthy. They're wealthy largely because of the work of other people and/or access to resources most people don't have.
Those that were born wealthy are genetic extensions of the ones that built themselves up. My own genetic extensions are more important to me that you are.
I can’t help but chuckle every time a conservative says “free speech is dying because we can’t say X anymore”… As if he didn’t say it right in that sentence or as if he was afraid that he might be sent to jail any day now.
@@TsunamiNR Yeah, they're basically the same chuckle fucks who complained that they couldn't say the N word anymore. As is often the case, racist whites will throw a tamtrum when minorities gain rights.
@@TsunamiNR If I call someone the n-word, people won't want to associate with me! Cancel culture strikes again!" Self-described "Free speech absolutist" conservatives, probably
honestly I feel like one of the biggest reasons why Bill Maher is so insufferable isn't just his shitty political views; it's also the fact that he is so damn SMUG about having them.
@@schmiddi5768 He's not the worst but he would lick the boots of the worst people in a heartbeat. He's like the nasty little underling of the Big Bad Evil Guy.
My favorite part of this is that if you polled the audience in that room they would have done no better than that student did knowing the names of the presidents
@@krombopulos_michael his son was also president, immediately putting a bullet in the idea that America might be a meritocracy, free of political dynasties every bit as anti-democratic as the European monarchies.
Exactly. But the kid knows the first president of the USA and that he owned slaves, I'd say that's not bad, most people struggle coming up with only the first part.
Wow, my man here really thinks he has merit. The guy who has singlehandedly convinced millions of people that meritocracy doesn't work through his own example. I'm speechless, I just can't...
It's just bizarre that he fully believes in meritocracy, and is angry about things that make it not be the real system this world works on, when he could look in the mirror and find another one.
@@heilmodrhinnheimski the fucking weird thing is that literally all of us feel like Elon is *SPECIFICALLY* 12 years old. like, not 14, not 10, but 12. I'm gonna go full conspiracy brained and speculate that his parents did some REALLY heinous shit to him when he was a boy. But I still wouldn't feel sorry for him.
I imagine after his incident at the Chapelle gig that audience was Nord strictly vetted than the audience at a Kim Jong Un rally. Only the sort of Elontologists who would give up their firstborn for an opportunity to lick the sweat off of Muskie's taint were even considered for a seat in that audience.
@@PinkCatsy it’s a thing with Maher’s audience in general. They don’t treat it as comedy, they just wait for something they agree with and then cheer wildly.
@@zoesilver5828 No one said it's fine. The point is this: There are things you do RIGHT NOW that will be universally considered evil in 200 years. Just because you're not thinking 200 years ahead of time doesn't make those actions okay, right? That would be moral relativism. So if you're going to take this moral high ground position, where moral relativism is stupid and everyone should be held accountable under one grand ethical standard for all the past, present, and future, then you should stop doing those things now. I'm talking about things like eating meat & dairy products. I guarantee you're not vegan.
“Meritocracy” as used by Elon here is just the same thing as Divine Right. “I’m the richest man in the world, therefore I must be worthy of all the stuff I have other I wouldn’t have it.” It’s the same ex post facto argument that kept people fighting for 12 year olds having absolute power.
God sometimes I wish for a ruling class that was at least interesting in its stupidity, like old school aristocracies that were just like "Fuck It i'm directly descended from the sun god and that's why i should be your overlord." like it was clear that they were just making shit up as an expression of physical power and for fun. much less banal and insulting than the modern schtick "Uh actually I got a 15 billion dollar net worth from hard work and gumption : )"
@@chriss780unironically, same. it would be super fun to have discussions about which of genghis khan's several million descended children should get his 114th land parcel in uzbekistan on tv instead of seeing the apartheid emerald man say he's a "meme dealer" before cackling to himself on national television shit like having some random family in siberia go on tv and start calling their rival dynasty stinky shitbutts because they had a peasant in their line a generation ago is at least transparent in its cynicism and completely hollow grandstanding, everyone understood that that shit was dumb, now we have the same system, with a veneer of control, and people eat the shit these powdered dickheads say up like it's gospel. at least the average person understood that no, the man with the gold hat isn't chosen by god, and what he says is bullshit. meanwhile they see modern bourgeoisie tell them to go after the dirty poors for ailing them and not the literal cartoon villains at nestle, tesla, amazon, or the banks, and say "yeah sounds about right, thanks for the $10 prime discount bezos"
Is it really that hard for Conservatives to stop defending and excusing slavery no matter what time it took place? Because it seems REALLY hard for them to do that.
@@KickinRadTopHat Yeah Elon supports working people to death. He praises Chinese workers for working 15 hours a day, and shits all over American workers.
Because their world view (how they wish the world to function) would completely collapse without slavery. Their ideal utopias literally cannot function without it.
Hold on just a second... Art in the background... Steady video and good audio quality... Calm and non-erratic demeanor... This is a BIG Joel video!! I want my money back!!!!
"if you're not rich and successful, obviously it's just that you're not *good* enough to be successful, so just get comfy in your sad, low paid job and find happiness on pennies a day compared to what I make"
The George Washington anecdote is so wild. Like if some adult was asking condescending questions like, "who was the first president" when I was a teen I'd probably respond with "the guy that your mom is banging on the side" or some other sarcastic answer because talking down to me that hard would warrant it.
"My horrible friend told me a fake story about their child who definitely hates them" is definitely the most pressing threat to society for a lot of people.
God that meme dealer joke is just emblematic of Musk's whole personality, isn't it? He thinks he's a fucking comedy god because he has a bunch of sycophants like himself who find everything he says hilarious while everyone else just has to stand by and laugh awkwardly.
Bill Mahr has a strange obsession with trying to police speech about George Washington. He doesn't want us to talk about Washington owning slaves. It's so childish. These guys can't take criticism.
You mean George "Devourer of Villages" Washington? Whose great-grandfather, John Washington, engaged in massacres and earned his family that name by murdering five indigenous chiefs who had come to him under a flag of truce? That George Washington? Who also owned slaves? The same one? Devourer of Villages, Conotocaurious, the same George who happily referred to himself by that title in letters, as if it were a cheeky *joke* when he was making diplomatic overtures to the natives? Fuck it man, I will never stop repeating this. If they want free speech so bad, I'm gonna freely speak about how shitty our founding fathers were. What are they gonna do to stop me?
An honest appraisal of Washington needs to mention his ownership of slaves. We don’t commemorate him for that, but it’s part of the historical person. To do otherwise is immature and narrow-minded.
@@warlordofbritanniaok but you have to understand, these people learned three things about him fifty years ago and let it form their entire perception of the man. What are they supposed to do, incorporate more evidence into their understanding of the world? Orwellian!! Practically double think! (Apparently as clarity is needed, this is satire. Like the perma-erect half horse guys)
i’m always shocked when i remember what elon actually sounds like because i always read his tweets in a ‘nasally smug 14 year old boy giving the worst and most poorly informed political takes you’ve ever heard with complete confidence in an online server’ voice
Can you imagine being the type of person who nods their head unthinkingly when you hear “woke mind virus” and completely fails to be skeptical about an obviously made-up anecdote like the one here? It’s honestly unfathomable to me.
Maher by now is just 100% blinded by his confirmation bias and grandiose narcissim. Every single interview he is just probing his guests to agree that GenZ and Millenials are just the worst and everyone except his little elite circle is so damn stupid. Before Covid he at least sometimes had a smart interesting take that wasn't just ranting boomer gibberish, but the pandemic has completely melted his brain and brought all his worst character traits to the front. He has become absolutely insufferable.
Just as mind melting as people who think they're sticking it to the status quo by supporting a hyper wealthy billionaire like Musk who just sat and demonized students and talked about how telling the truth about the founding fathers is somehow anti-free speech on literally a TV show.
The fun thing about knowing the original AAVE definition of 'Woke' (not the rightwing boogeyman definition) is that someone saying they're "anti woke" or "against wokeness" is basically an admission of willful ignorance.
This comment section is a great example of the mind virus at work. And the video itself. His premise is that free speech and meritocracy are being attacked, first we need to determine if this is true or untrue. I believe it is. -- Isn’t that a large part of what cancel culture does? It gets people fired and ruins their lives for saying things that are “racist” or “sexist”. But this is according to totally new standards of what racism and sexism mean. It’s a form of mob justice where artificial outrage is used to silence and dehumanize people who don’t speak the party line. By the way I see very little response to his premise- it’s pretty much all ad hominem attacks on musk. I don’t give a damn about musk- I want people to prove that they can discuss ideas
My favorite part of these videos is that split second in between you saying everything you wanted to say, and you mentally confirming to yourself that you've said everything you wanted to say, and then going "mmk bye" and the video abruptly ends. No idea why, I just like it 🤗
My favourite moment from this was when Musk didn't really know how to end the George Washington story and it just kinda fizzled out, but then the audience started applauding, and there was one guy just giving it everything he had. Most of the others almost sound like they were clapping just to be polite, this guy was putting every fiber of his being into those claps. I don't know why, but it's so unbelievably funny to me.
That's probably because you're infected with it. One of the symptoms of the woke mind virus is a complete inability to engage in self reflection. It removes any capacity one might have had for the rational or objective evaluation of one's actions, such that it becomes impossible for them to see what an insufferable asshole they've become..
Which would be worse, Elon Musk is your father, or Bill Marr is your father. Keep in mind that whichever one you pick, the other is now your sleep paralysis demon.
@@jeffreywilliams3421 I’m already estranged from my own transphobic father, so might as well trade him with someone who will be mocked on Twitter as the guy who’s had not one, but TWO trans kids who cut off all contact with him the second they reached adulthood. And meh, Bill Maher is about on par with the average demon so it checks out.
I suspect that the dedication that he shows defending founding fathers who benefited from the exploitation of black people may have something to do with his literal father who also benefited from the exploitation of black people.
Elon always gives off vibes of a drunk guy trying to sound sober. Not in the sound of his voice, but in his overly forced appearance of concentration and focus in which he talks a lot without saying much, or at least, enunaciates ideas without fully thinking them through
Probably seems useful to mention that although there was indeed "slavery throughout history", chattel slavery was created specifically by European colonisers. Also the transatlatic slave trade involved an amount of people that literally prevented an ENTIRE CONTINENT from developing for several centuries. But hey let's just make the hugely egregious claim that "everyone did it anyway!"
Transatlantic slavery was so evil even to the people at the time that they invented the entire concept of race to justify why it was ok to treat other human beings like that. The idea that everyone was ok with it is a fantasy.
Yeah, the scale is just incomparable. The Portuguese kidnapped and trafficked more people across the Indian Ocean in a few centuries than all the Arab nations did in over a millennium. That's completely leaving aside the Atlantic slave trade, and other European nations' involvement in the Indian Ocean/East African slave trade.
Not chattel slavery-that’s ancient-Europeans created the peculiar institution of plantation slavery, where it was often more viable to just keep buying more slaves than trying to keep them healthy on your Jamaican sugar plantation.
They literally don't like empathy. And, of course a man who comes from a family that exploited Black Africans would defend slavery. (I loooove your painting)
Their main line is always "If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain." which is genuinely incredibly reflective of their beliefs. They're so incredibly ignorant of reality that they genuinely believe empiricism is the only method of epistemology
0:21 Its crazy knowing that "woke" is, literally, going to be a historical vocab word in one/two hundred years. Realize its the same type of reawakening-word as "The Enlightenment". Insane, and awesome.
inheritance is still meritocracy, that's wealth that was earned by the family and the parent decided to give it to their children also....that's false, he made most of that himself, he didn't come from the richest family on earth
It is mind-boggling to think some people reacted to that Musk and Maher talk and went "very profound. such brilliant minds. so true. i hate the woke mind virus." Just... seriously reevaluate how and why you find validity in either of these two when they say stuff like this.
Oh it's more than people meaning it when they say it--the woke mind virus is a legitimate cultural phenomenon. It exists, despite your flippant disregard of the reality of that fact..
Dude bought out the biggest speech platform in the world and shoved his tweets on every screen. I'm sure he thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread
Dear Joel, I would respect your entire channel more if you were to name all of the presidents from memory, as well as a few (NOT WOKE) facts about them. Recently, your posts have been indicative of an infection with the woke mind virus, unlike your posts on modern classics such as Adam Sandler's hit film "Click". Conclusions, -Trey
I love the pause after "maybe they should know more than that" like everyone was expecting him to finish his thought and say something intelligent After a few seconds of silence they all just start clapping lmfaoo
The guy who was the son of a guy who owned an emerald mine is concerned about meritocracy being “erased” -_- no he’s only worried that poor people will be able to have a standard of living good enough so they don’t feel the need to orbit him
Thats what yo moms said to me right before I violently pumped out the very load of heated sea men that made' you into a person after eatin' that egg and growing up to be a big strong boiiiii!!! (__)_)::::::D~~~sea~men~~~ 🥚=
Woke mind virus infected my wife. Her sin cavern became dampened and she started talking about pronouns and how she wasn’t an object. Please bring my wife back
While I knew Elon’s story about why wokeness was BaD would involve high school girls, and it’s not the worst way I could have him talk about them, but hearing him say “teenage girls” is still fucking harrowing
Elon musk genuinely earned his wealth through the merits of his skills… those skills of coarse being so infuriatingly annoying and arrogant that every owner of the company he buys into with his fathers money literally just says “f$&& it” and walks away just not to be near him. When Elon joined pay pal and then Tesla, both founders literally just left it behind, left the money on the table because they couldn’t stand his Hiroshima levels of cringe.
People who think American chattel slavery was the same as all the other forms of slavery all over the world for all of history don’t know very much about American or global history.
Yeah exactly how common was it for Black slaves to be freed and for their former owner to become their business investor in exchange for a lifetime of loyal service like could happen in ancient Rome
@@sidhackney8831 the Kingdom of Mali has entered the chat (one of the Mansa - their emperors - was elected precisely because he had been the bonded/enslaved advisor to the three previous rulers)
Every time I see clips from Bill Maher, I just get this intense desire to lobotomize every single person that claps and laughs along God, never allow me to have dictator-like power
Wow I read all the comments about the "meme dealer" joke and it was do SO much worse than I couldve imagined. The fact that it's given as a sort of punch line to the set-up of "you're a card dealer" rather than just an off-the-cuff self-label. The fact he looked SO happy about that joke. And the fact that that room of people cheered just because an immensely rich man mentioned memes. Musk is literal anti-comedy. He is one of those people so devoid of personality and humour that he fills that space with memes.
i skipped past the clips and just watched the commentary because no amount of respect for joel will make me want to listen to musk’s voice for any amount of time
I can't wait to see the EU starting to apply fines on Twitter for violating the Digital Services Act, with fines that can go as up to 6% of the company's annual revenue.
the "my conservative friend said" story reminded me of when my very conservative/maga great-uncle asked me and my two siblings (he'd likely refer to us as "woke") if we even knew when pearl harbor happened. which, lmao, but we all immediately answered and it really flustered him.
4:17 quick thing, yes slavery was all over the world. but americas legal institution of chattel slavery, was so much worse and dehumanizing, and in much larger numbers.
Elon continuing to pretend to be a champion of free speech when he has such a long history of harassing and silencing journalists that say anything negative about him will never stop being infuriating to me.
According to his world view, purchasing Twitter reinforces his belief that he is the best and since he is the best he is qualified to police free speech Edit: and make people pay for it
George Washington was a complete failure. He was appointed a Colonel in the army by his rich father, he didn't earn it. On his first mission to ease tensions at the Canadian border, he attacked the Canadians for no reason and got his entire unit slaughtered and the White House got burned down. In the Revolutionary War Washington lost most of his battles and failed to defend the capital (Philadelphia at the time) twice and it got captured by the British. After the war, Washington used his wealth to commission tons of propaganda that portrayed him as a strong leader and tactical genius such as paintings and books. Basically, George Washington was the Elon Musk of his time. Also, Washington died of an illness (probably pneumonia) because he decided to go chop down trees in heavy rain after his wife told him not to.
BREAKING: Rich man from apartheid South Africa is a slavery apologist 😮
LOL
Shocking, ain't it ?
Who would have ever guessed 💀
'Willy Billy' is from South Africa?
Elon Musk complaining about people being anti-meritocratic is a funnier joke than anything a human being could write on purpose to be funny.
If Elon didn't exist as a human embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism it would be necessary for communists, socialists, and anarchists to invent him.
It's like a line from a Spitting Image skit
Elon Musk: "Hey Twitter, should I step down as CEO?"
[Vote is overwhelmingly 'yes']
Elon Musk: "Oh, must be all the bots... let's redo the poll with a shorter time frame"
[Vote is still decisively 'yes']
Elon Musk: "Well- let's restrict the vote to people who have paid $8/mo for a blue checkmark."
[Vote is slightly 'no']
Elon Musk: "Ah, I will not step down as CEO of Twitter. Meritocracy lives on!"
@@A_Swarm_of_Waspcrabs literally bringing back voting property qualifications
Are you saying that the only reason we know who he is is his daddy's emerald mine money which he used to buy pre-existing companies and then cosplay as some sort of real-world Tony Stark?
Spoiled 50 year old toddler believes in free speech so much that he bought an entire social media platform in order to stop people making fun of him
and it only made people make fun of him more
(and he also did loads of shitty stuff like profiting from apartheid)
The fact that Elon Musk is the richest person in the world might be the single best proof that meritocracy is not a thing.
Thank you for saying the obvious. People seem to be clearly missing it.
Also that he inherited all of his money from apartheid South African emerald mine owners.
He really has no choice but to push meritocracy as the way things should be. If we live in a meritocracy then that by definition means he's the best in the world, since he's the one on top. But if we don't, and he isn't, then he has to deal with some uncomfortable questions about why he is where he is and what he's doing.
Well put ... well put.
Elon Musk disproves a lot of yesterday's BS. Namely, every single fucking word Ayn Rand ever shat out.
son of a white south african emerald mine owner very worried about people gaining prominence without merit
you make it sound like an onion article (which, well, who’s to say the onion isn’t real news nowadays anyways?)
being an adult saying "woke mind virus" seriously is so embarrassing
It really is. It is worse than "brainworms"... Which may after all, be real and explain the unbelievable insanity of the GOP.
Really. Painfully cringe.
"Woke Mind Virus", as opposed to "Asleep Body Vaccine"
@@doggytheanarchist7876 Even cringier than using "cringe" as a generic term for "bad".
@chearththecactusbros name is Jonnypopstar 😭
Elon calling himself the dealer of memes is giving me a mind virus.
This is what happens when you kill the part of you that cringes
@@ProxyFox45 We must kill the cringe.
giving me a sleep mind virus… wanna just go back to bed after hearing that
More like the target of memes
@@LimeyLassen Do not kill the cringe. That is impossible. Instead, recognise that you are cringe. befriend the part of you that is cringe. Master the cringe, only then can you overcum.
"We should be afraid of anything that is anti-meritocratic"
- a man with no skills or ability that is somehow the richest man on earth
"Somehow"
Let's not act like it's a mystery, he's the white son of a millionaire who grew up in apartheid South Africa.
I bet he has some decent skills in there somewhere.
@@SuperKeithers Exactly, he is an unbelievably good liar
I mean tbh no onr else knows how to steal 7 year old reddit memes and pass it off as their own as elon musk can
As someone with the woke mind virus, I really hope they find a cure soon. I just can’t stop trying to suppress people’s free speech 😔
I too am woke, and think this comment reached a bit too far. I have reported it in hopes of suppression.
@@dylanherron3963 what the hell dude, why would you say that?! Reported to the Woke Secret Police
@@idontwantahandlethough You back the Woke Secret Police? I am calling in to the Leftist Hivemind to have you cancelled.
@@idontwantahandlethough My dad donates directly to the WSP Union, I'll get these comment reports easily removed.
@@dylanherron3963 wow, nepotism 🙄 smh
"woke mind virus" is the type of stuff you would hear in GTA parody world
Plague inc. mod when?
The idea they can't see themselves as indoctrinated is what I find facinating.
AR15s Kill more kids than Drag Queen's. And killing us won't solve inflation.
My favorite stations in GTA have always been the talk radio shows. The Blaine County talk radio has discussions on the morality of artificial insemination, gender neutral names and how they are destroying America, and also how to repurpose roadkill into a delicious meal. Woke mind virus is right at home with these hard hitting topics.
We're living in one
GTA is an interactive documentary series made by time travelers from the future, and you can't convince me otherwise.
- What do you know about him?
- Well he was a slave owner.
- What else?
- He used physical coercion to make them work on his plantation for his economic benefit.
They're so mad that their waifu isn't that historically significant.
They want apologia for slave owners because otherwise they would have to admit that what they want for the working class is edging closer and closer to slavery and that this perhaps it's not a good thing.
Remembering slave owners as just that and nothing more is awesome actually
Thanks to modern media, I also know that he used false criminal charges combined with judicial corruption to sentence poor farmers into conscription against their will. He also used English-only contracts when working with Dutch immigrants--they thought they were signing the deed to a farm, but what they were actually signing was conscription papers. He raised an army to fight the King, but he was VERY immoral about it (in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with slavery).
Didn't he also have artificial teeth (dentures) which were made of teeth of his slaves?
"We should be wary of anything that is anti meritocratic and anti free speech" -Elon Musk
Irony meters across the galaxy exploded in a simultaneous deluge that shattered reality and the multiverse
I actually had to laugh when he said that. Just so little self awareness.
yeah, the son of a emerald mine owner who *actively* quashes speech on his platform because he doesn't like it while letting *literal* nazi accounts post without consequences thinks he's all about merit and free speech.
He also recently collaborated with the Indian government to ban all mentions and uploads of a BBC documentary that exposes Prime Minster Modi's past crimes and atrocities
Right? Since when does Elon have Merit?
@@sekedad4819 I don't want to be in charge cause I'm smart. I know I'm an idiot. THATS why I want to be in charge.
That awareness can literally be life saving.
And you're right. Elon has none of it.
A key problem with "meritocracy" is that most of the people who think it's A Good Thing™ don't seem to be able to tell the difference between people who built themselves up and those who were just born wealthy/privileged.
Meritocracy is a great concept. But the loudest voices in favor of it think that the status quo is meritocratic and it makes you realize that what is meritocratic has a vastly different meaning between people. They are "self-made" despite being enriched by the fortunes of their parents and their continued success, on the backs of the generational wealth accumulated before they could form a coherent thought, is simply a result of hard work that just about anybody could do (As the myth goes...)
Some people assume that the world is already meritocratic and that the wealthy people are wealthy because they're that much better than everyone else (hence anything that threatens to dethrone them is an "attack".) But that's not why they're wealthy. They're wealthy largely because of the work of other people and/or access to resources most people don't have.
It's essentially, "The status quo must be good because my life is good."
I'd call it survivorship bias, but maybe it's just narcissism?
A true meriticracy, of course, would be one in which every person is born in the exact same circumstances and with the exact same opportunities.
Those that were born wealthy are genetic extensions of the ones that built themselves up. My own genetic extensions are more important to me that you are.
Conservatives be like "it's anti-free speech when free speech is used against us"
"Free speech is when disagreeing with me is punishable by breaking on the wheel."
I can’t help but chuckle every time a conservative says “free speech is dying because we can’t say X anymore”…
As if he didn’t say it right in that sentence or as if he was afraid that he might be sent to jail any day now.
@@TsunamiNR Yeah, they're basically the same chuckle fucks who complained that they couldn't say the N word anymore.
As is often the case, racist whites will throw a tamtrum when minorities gain rights.
@@TsunamiNR If I call someone the n-word, people won't want to associate with me! Cancel culture strikes again!"
Self-described "Free speech absolutist" conservatives, probably
@@tjenadonn6158 hey I think I saw you in Jammi Dodgers comments!
We're reaching atomic levels of cringe between those two; it's like the detonation mechanism of a nuke where it goes supercritical
I am become cringe, etc.
Le cringe bomb is behind me, isn't it?
Its not as bad as the far left do.
I have disintegrated & am no more, it's simply too much
It's like they knocked the lid off the demon core and we're all getting rended on a subatomic level, I hate it so much lol.
honestly I feel like one of the biggest reasons why Bill Maher is so insufferable isn't just his shitty political views; it's also the fact that he is so damn SMUG about having them.
He's definitely not the worst person alive today, but he's a strong contender for the most punchable.
Even if I agreed with him I would find it insufferable tbh
It's astounding he's still so popular.
It's so much simpler than that: Maher is just another grifter, and he always was. It's just that he USED to grift in a slightly different way.
@@schmiddi5768 He's not the worst but he would lick the boots of the worst people in a heartbeat. He's like the nasty little underling of the Big Bad Evil Guy.
My favorite part of this is that if you polled the audience in that room they would have done no better than that student did knowing the names of the presidents
Wait you don't have to list all the American presidents in your every day work?
@@Hemostat I barely know the names of my coworkers
I don't think there was ever a time in the past 100 years when most people knew much about John Adams
@@krombopulos_michael his son was also president, immediately putting a bullet in the idea that America might be a meritocracy, free of political dynasties every bit as anti-democratic as the European monarchies.
Exactly. But the kid knows the first president of the USA and that he owned slaves, I'd say that's not bad, most people struggle coming up with only the first part.
Wow, my man here really thinks he has merit. The guy who has singlehandedly convinced millions of people that meritocracy doesn't work through his own example. I'm speechless, I just can't...
Elon is the best propaganda anti-capitalists never asked for.
he has merit! convincing all those people was a lot of work! /sarcasm
I'm sorry, but Elon Musk works VERY hard. Elon Musk said so himself!
@@gwen9939 You know you can trust Elon because his word is worth its weight in gold!
It's just bizarre that he fully believes in meritocracy, and is angry about things that make it not be the real system this world works on, when he could look in the mirror and find another one.
The Meme-Dealer Moment made me want to sink into the floor. I can't believe there's a person like that in real, human life.
He is an actual 12-year old possessing a middle aged man
AND THEN THAT THE CROWD CHEERED😭
@@heilmodrhinnheimski That's insulting to twelve year olds.
And he wonders why his daughter switched to her mother's last name
@@heilmodrhinnheimski the fucking weird thing is that literally all of us feel like Elon is *SPECIFICALLY* 12 years old. like, not 14, not 10, but 12. I'm gonna go full conspiracy brained and speculate that his parents did some REALLY heinous shit to him when he was a boy.
But I still wouldn't feel sorry for him.
Musk laughing at his own joke is bad enough, but the audience wildly cheering is just bizarre.
Right? I had to rewind, thinking I'd missed something.
I imagine after his incident at the Chapelle gig that audience was Nord strictly vetted than the audience at a Kim Jong Un rally. Only the sort of Elontologists who would give up their firstborn for an opportunity to lick the sweat off of Muskie's taint were even considered for a seat in that audience.
Ig we just don't deal dank enough memes to get it 😔
I think that's why he laughed - I haven't seen the whole thing. But I think he was extremely pleased that his joke landed
@@PinkCatsy it’s a thing with Maher’s audience in general. They don’t treat it as comedy, they just wait for something they agree with and then cheer wildly.
"Ugh guys come on! They all had slaves, get over it!"
"stop doing things just because everyone else is doing them! and also if everyone does slavery it's fine actually!"
*Bursts into applause
Yeah, it's not just emerald barons!
@@zoesilver5828 No one said it's fine. The point is this: There are things you do RIGHT NOW that will be universally considered evil in 200 years. Just because you're not thinking 200 years ahead of time doesn't make those actions okay, right? That would be moral relativism. So if you're going to take this moral high ground position, where moral relativism is stupid and everyone should be held accountable under one grand ethical standard for all the past, present, and future, then you should stop doing those things now. I'm talking about things like eating meat & dairy products. I guarantee you're not vegan.
@@verbatim7508 why?
“Meritocracy” as used by Elon here is just the same thing as Divine Right.
“I’m the richest man in the world, therefore I must be worthy of all the stuff I have other I wouldn’t have it.”
It’s the same ex post facto argument that kept people fighting for 12 year olds having absolute power.
you're so right about this
More precisely its a secular variant of the Prosperity Gospel (a.k.a the capitalist successor of the divine right of Kings).
@@RememberTheDead great catch. It’s disguised in lower-case “l” liberal phrasing like the mask on a Scooby Doo villain.
God sometimes I wish for a ruling class that was at least interesting in its stupidity, like old school
aristocracies that were just like "Fuck It i'm directly descended from the sun god and that's why i should be your overlord."
like it was clear that they were just making shit up as an expression of physical power and for fun.
much less banal and insulting than the modern schtick
"Uh actually I got a 15 billion dollar net worth from hard work and gumption : )"
@@chriss780unironically, same.
it would be super fun to have discussions about which of genghis khan's several million descended children should get his 114th land parcel in uzbekistan on tv instead of seeing the apartheid emerald man say he's a "meme dealer" before cackling to himself on national television
shit like having some random family in siberia go on tv and start calling their rival dynasty stinky shitbutts because they had a peasant in their line a generation ago is at least transparent in its cynicism and completely hollow grandstanding, everyone understood that that shit was dumb, now we have the same system, with a veneer of control, and people eat the shit these powdered dickheads say up like it's gospel.
at least the average person understood that no, the man with the gold hat isn't chosen by god, and what he says is bullshit.
meanwhile they see modern bourgeoisie tell them to go after the dirty poors for ailing them and not the literal cartoon villains at nestle, tesla, amazon, or the banks, and say "yeah sounds about right, thanks for the $10 prime discount bezos"
Is it really that hard for Conservatives to stop defending and excusing slavery no matter what time it took place? Because it seems REALLY hard for them to do that.
Its because they don’t have a problem with it.
@@KickinRadTopHat Yeah Elon supports working people to death. He praises Chinese workers for working 15 hours a day, and shits all over American workers.
It's only a matter of time before one of them calls the 14th Amendment woke.
Black people started slavery and white people ended it. You're welcome.
Because their world view (how they wish the world to function) would completely collapse without slavery. Their ideal utopias literally cannot function without it.
It's like cholera had a conversation with dysentery, arguing who is the sickest, and could make the victim shit more.
Excellent analogy
Hold on just a second... Art in the background... Steady video and good audio quality... Calm and non-erratic demeanor... This is a BIG Joel video!! I want my money back!!!!
The video was also longer than 5 minutes.
he doesn't cackle maniacally even once
We've been snookered
It can't be more obvious than this that 'meritocracy' is a fable told by rich people to keep employees quiet.
"if you're not rich and successful, obviously it's just that you're not *good* enough to be successful, so just get comfy in your sad, low paid job and find happiness on pennies a day compared to what I make"
Tell me you're a loser without telling me you're a loser..
Mayer: "So you are clearly one of the smartest men on the planet..."
Musk: "BIG CHUNGUS, am I right? hahaha"
The George Washington anecdote is so wild. Like if some adult was asking condescending questions like, "who was the first president" when I was a teen I'd probably respond with "the guy that your mom is banging on the side" or some other sarcastic answer because talking down to me that hard would warrant it.
"My horrible friend told me a fake story about their child who definitely hates them" is definitely the most pressing threat to society for a lot of people.
God that meme dealer joke is just emblematic of Musk's whole personality, isn't it? He thinks he's a fucking comedy god because he has a bunch of sycophants like himself who find everything he says hilarious while everyone else just has to stand by and laugh awkwardly.
He's like if 2012 internet was a person.
Why does Little Joel have Big Joel's microphone?
And Big Joel's painting
hes a little thief
the elusive medium joel has secretly taken over the channel
Stole it in an effort to shift to focus off the oompla loompa drama
I have a crazy fan theory that Little Joel and Big Joel are actually the same person.
Bill Mahr has a strange obsession with trying to police speech about George Washington. He doesn't want us to talk about Washington owning slaves. It's so childish. These guys can't take criticism.
You mean George "Devourer of Villages" Washington? Whose great-grandfather, John Washington, engaged in massacres and earned his family that name by murdering five indigenous chiefs who had come to him under a flag of truce? That George Washington? Who also owned slaves? The same one? Devourer of Villages, Conotocaurious, the same George who happily referred to himself by that title in letters, as if it were a cheeky *joke* when he was making diplomatic overtures to the natives?
Fuck it man, I will never stop repeating this. If they want free speech so bad, I'm gonna freely speak about how shitty our founding fathers were. What are they gonna do to stop me?
An honest appraisal of Washington needs to mention his ownership of slaves. We don’t commemorate him for that, but it’s part of the historical person. To do otherwise is immature and narrow-minded.
The deification of the founders is one of the worst symptoms of America brain.
@@warlordofbritanniaok but you have to understand, these people learned three things about him fifty years ago and let it form their entire perception of the man. What are they supposed to do, incorporate more evidence into their understanding of the world? Orwellian!! Practically double think!
(Apparently as clarity is needed, this is satire. Like the perma-erect half horse guys)
@@bbgncntrl
I don’t think it’s Orwellian, just good ol’ willful ignorance lol
i’m always shocked when i remember what elon actually sounds like because i always read his tweets in a ‘nasally smug 14 year old boy giving the worst and most poorly informed political takes you’ve ever heard with complete confidence in an online server’ voice
I can never forget what he sounds like, because occasionally he cameos in a show or a movie and gives the absolute worst performances known to man.
i literally forgot he sounded like this n i was shocked 2 hear him speak
As soon as he opens his mouth I remember the fake stuttering affectation and rush to turn the volume down
Can you imagine being the type of person who nods their head unthinkingly when you hear “woke mind virus” and completely fails to be skeptical about an obviously made-up anecdote like the one here? It’s honestly unfathomable to me.
Conservatives often try to sound smart when they’re shitting out their mouth
Maher by now is just 100% blinded by his confirmation bias and grandiose narcissim. Every single interview he is just probing his guests to agree that GenZ and Millenials are just the worst and everyone except his little elite circle is so damn stupid. Before Covid he at least sometimes had a smart interesting take that wasn't just ranting boomer gibberish, but the pandemic has completely melted his brain and brought all his worst character traits to the front. He has become absolutely insufferable.
Just as mind melting as people who think they're sticking it to the status quo by supporting a hyper wealthy billionaire like Musk who just sat and demonized students and talked about how telling the truth about the founding fathers is somehow anti-free speech on literally a TV show.
The fun thing about knowing the original AAVE definition of 'Woke' (not the rightwing boogeyman definition) is that someone saying they're "anti woke" or "against wokeness" is basically an admission of willful ignorance.
This comment section is a great example of the mind virus at work. And the video itself. His premise is that free speech and meritocracy are being attacked, first we need to determine if this is true or untrue. I believe it is. --
Isn’t that a large part of what cancel culture does? It gets people fired and ruins their lives for saying things that are “racist” or “sexist”. But this is according to totally new standards of what racism and sexism mean. It’s a form of mob justice where artificial outrage is used to silence and dehumanize people who don’t speak the party line.
By the way I see very little response to his premise- it’s pretty much all ad hominem attacks on musk. I don’t give a damn about musk- I want people to prove that they can discuss ideas
My favorite part of these videos is that split second in between you saying everything you wanted to say, and you mentally confirming to yourself that you've said everything you wanted to say, and then going "mmk bye" and the video abruptly ends. No idea why, I just like it 🤗
"Witches' Sabbath" by Goya is the perfect visual representation of the public fear of this woke mind virus.
Ah, here it is. I've been scrolling for some cultured commenter to explain this to me.
Reverend Bizarre anyone?
wokeness aka neo marxism is the most dangerous thing to ever exist in history. communism has killed more than anything else.
"Go ya, go broke."
Am I a bad person for feeling absolute repulsion for the people who clapped at Musk's anecdote or laughed at his shitty joke?
I laughed too. It's hard not to laugh at him, it's uncomfortable otherwise.
No
if it helps, bill mahers audience literally laugh on command like the scene in shrek with the cue cards
Reminder: talk show audiences are instructed to laugh at certain moments. Also, they're often paid to be there (even if it's just a snack)
@@danheboy Plus I'm sure in this case it was stocked with Musk fanbots.
My favourite moment from this was when Musk didn't really know how to end the George Washington story and it just kinda fizzled out, but then the audience started applauding, and there was one guy just giving it everything he had. Most of the others almost sound like they were clapping just to be polite, this guy was putting every fiber of his being into those claps. I don't know why, but it's so unbelievably funny to me.
Friendly reminder that if you have 0 sexual harrasment cases, and no children that have disowned you, youre doing better than Elon Musk.
"oh no" was my whole reaction to learning this convo happened
It astounds me that when Marr says “Woke Mind Virus” there wasn’t just a huge audience laughing fit
That's probably because you're infected with it. One of the symptoms of the woke mind virus is a complete inability to engage in self reflection. It removes any capacity one might have had for the rational or objective evaluation of one's actions, such that it becomes impossible for them to see what an insufferable asshole they've become..
Based on the title I was expecting this to be a conversation between my father and my sleep paralysis demon
Which would be worse, Elon Musk is your father, or Bill Marr is your father. Keep in mind that whichever one you pick, the other is now your sleep paralysis demon.
@@jeffreywilliams3421 You sir, are the devil.
Even worse: it is.
@@jeffreywilliams3421 I’m already estranged from my own transphobic father, so might as well trade him with someone who will be mocked on Twitter as the guy who’s had not one, but TWO trans kids who cut off all contact with him the second they reached adulthood. And meh, Bill Maher is about on par with the average demon so it checks out.
I suspect that the dedication that he shows defending founding fathers who benefited from the exploitation of black people may have something to do with his literal father who also benefited from the exploitation of black people.
He wasn't defending them though. Woke mind virus makes people dumb - you might wanna see a shrink, js..
Elon always gives off vibes of a drunk guy trying to sound sober. Not in the sound of his voice, but in his overly forced appearance of concentration and focus in which he talks a lot without saying much, or at least, enunaciates ideas without fully thinking them through
😂 right?
"University culture." Who woulda thought learning makes you smarter, oh god, we are doomed.
Probably seems useful to mention that although there was indeed "slavery throughout history", chattel slavery was created specifically by European colonisers. Also the transatlatic slave trade involved an amount of people that literally prevented an ENTIRE CONTINENT from developing for several centuries. But hey let's just make the hugely egregious claim that "everyone did it anyway!"
Transatlantic slavery was so evil even to the people at the time that they invented the entire concept of race to justify why it was ok to treat other human beings like that. The idea that everyone was ok with it is a fantasy.
Good point indeed.
Yeah, the scale is just incomparable. The Portuguese kidnapped and trafficked more people across the Indian Ocean in a few centuries than all the Arab nations did in over a millennium. That's completely leaving aside the Atlantic slave trade, and other European nations' involvement in the Indian Ocean/East African slave trade.
just try explaining this to a conservative, they just say "nuh uh, all slavery is equally goo- I mean bad!"
Not chattel slavery-that’s ancient-Europeans created the peculiar institution of plantation slavery, where it was often more viable to just keep buying more slaves than trying to keep them healthy on your Jamaican sugar plantation.
They literally don't like empathy. And, of course a man who comes from a family that exploited Black Africans would defend slavery.
(I loooove your painting)
Their main line is always "If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brain." which is genuinely incredibly reflective of their beliefs. They're so incredibly ignorant of reality that they genuinely believe empiricism is the only method of epistemology
0:21 Its crazy knowing that "woke" is, literally, going to be a historical vocab word in one/two hundred years. Realize its the same type of reawakening-word as "The Enlightenment". Insane, and awesome.
It's beyond hilarious to hear Husky-Musky talk about meritocracy as if he didn't inherit everything he has from his daddy.
inheritance is still meritocracy, that's wealth that was earned by the family and the parent decided to give it to their children
also....that's false, he made most of that himself, he didn't come from the richest family on earth
It is mind-boggling to think some people reacted to that Musk and Maher talk and went "very profound. such brilliant minds. so true. i hate the woke mind virus." Just... seriously reevaluate how and why you find validity in either of these two when they say stuff like this.
No Bill, slavery hasn't been practiced by everyone since the start of time.
Is "woke mind virus" not an ironic meme? Do some people actually mean it?
It was started by conservatives as a serious talking point, and then became a meme, I believe.
if the real virus can be fake then the fake virus can be real
@@DustyHoney Well that's special of them.
Oh it's more than people meaning it when they say it--the woke mind virus is a legitimate cultural phenomenon. It exists, despite your flippant disregard of the reality of that fact..
Elon's love of meritocracy implies that he believes himself to be the singular best person in the world
and he thought we wouldn't notice
Dude bought out the biggest speech platform in the world and shoved his tweets on every screen. I'm sure he thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread
Elon musk is like Tony Stark in the sense there is something wrong with his heart
Elon Musk is like Tony Stark in that being blown up by a missile would do him good.
Tony has one Elon doesn't
“My teenage son trolled me and that’s why civilization will collapse.” ~ Elon
Dear Joel,
I would respect your entire channel more if you were to name all of the presidents from memory, as well as a few (NOT WOKE) facts about them. Recently, your posts have been indicative of an infection with the woke mind virus, unlike your posts on modern classics such as Adam Sandler's hit film "Click".
Conclusions,
-Trey
"CONCLUSIONS" 🤣 10/10 post
@@pr0v0cative4pple :P
Bill Maher feels like the real life version of the adults from Charlie Brown talking
that part where bill just goes “that is the woke mind virus” and then everyone claps is like something out of a 30 rock sketch
The NPC's all laughed at the CEO's unfunny joke and clapped.
I love the pause after "maybe they should know more than that" like everyone was expecting him to finish his thought and say something intelligent
After a few seconds of silence they all just start clapping lmfaoo
The guy who was the son of a guy who owned an emerald mine is concerned about meritocracy being “erased”
-_- no he’s only worried that poor people will be able to have a standard of living good enough so they don’t feel the need to orbit him
Trick is, this guy *has* to believe in meritocracy. Otherwise, what right does he have to his place in the hierarchy?
woah that got so much more unhinged than i was ready for
Thats what yo moms said to me right before I violently pumped out the very load of heated sea men that made' you into a person after eatin' that egg and growing up to be a big strong boiiiii!!! (__)_)::::::D~~~sea~men~~~ 🥚=
Woke mind virus infected my wife. Her sin cavern became dampened and she started talking about pronouns and how she wasn’t an object. Please bring my wife back
While I knew Elon’s story about why wokeness was BaD would involve high school girls, and it’s not the worst way I could have him talk about them, but hearing him say “teenage girls” is still fucking harrowing
“He owned slaves”
“Yeah but what else did he do 🥺”
Thank you elon Rowling
Elon musk genuinely earned his wealth through the merits of his skills… those skills of coarse being so infuriatingly annoying and arrogant that every owner of the company he buys into with his fathers money literally just says “f$&& it” and walks away just not to be near him.
When Elon joined pay pal and then Tesla, both founders literally just left it behind, left the money on the table because they couldn’t stand his Hiroshima levels of cringe.
Wrong way around on Paypal; they made a deal with *him* so that *he* wouldn't be part of the company
People who think American chattel slavery was the same as all the other forms of slavery all over the world for all of history don’t know very much about American or global history.
Makes the slavery in Vinland saga look chill
Yeah exactly how common was it for Black slaves to be freed and for their former owner to become their business investor in exchange for a lifetime of loyal service like could happen in ancient Rome
@@sidhackney8831 the Kingdom of Mali has entered the chat (one of the Mansa - their emperors - was elected precisely because he had been the bonded/enslaved advisor to the three previous rulers)
Spain, Portugal: [sweating profusely] i hope nobody notices us
Man whose daddy owns an emerald mine: "WE LIVE IN A MERITOCRACY!"
This video feels more like it should be on Medium Joel's channel.
“Terrible: Two of the Worst People You Know Did Not Make Any Good Points”
Every time I see clips from Bill Maher, I just get this intense desire to lobotomize every single person that claps and laughs along
God, never allow me to have dictator-like power
I mean, they might already be lobotomized if they like bill maher
My knowledge of the life and times of George Washington has yielded me exactly nothing.
I love when apartheid emerald man talks about meritocracy 🙄
what about it? he is still a savant at rocket engineering. he did that all on his own.
@@007kingifritElon Musk is a "former physicist" without an engineering degree-his job is managing the talented engineers his company hires
@@izd4 you sure do like to make other people's achievements sound simple. probably because you have none.
@@007kingifrit 😂
@@izd4 npc emoji, i expect nothing more substantial from a commie
Elon probably wants people to not think about the founding fathers' slaves because of his daddy's situation.
The guy who's parent's owned a South African dimond mine, duning apartheid, talking about a meritocracy is some great shit.
is it? elon musk is a genius. he did accomplish alot in rocket science, he clearly has merit. don't act like he doesn't
@@007kingifrit*he paid alot of people to accomplish things in rocket engineering
@@kiwo579 no, if it was that simple he wouldn't have been able to it as someone else already would have
@@007kingifrit He has the money to fund it for one thing along with everything else wrong with the sentence you typed
@@Loribulon your sentence wasn't well written there either buddy
heartbreaking: the worst guy you know talked to the other worst guy you know
Wow I read all the comments about the "meme dealer" joke and it was do SO much worse than I couldve imagined. The fact that it's given as a sort of punch line to the set-up of "you're a card dealer" rather than just an off-the-cuff self-label. The fact he looked SO happy about that joke. And the fact that that room of people cheered just because an immensely rich man mentioned memes. Musk is literal anti-comedy. He is one of those people so devoid of personality and humour that he fills that space with memes.
I think its hilarious how seriously they are discussing a completely unserious subject
the meme dealer line made me physically recoil
Yes elon musk is rich because he is so talented and smart. And not because he inherited an emerald mind. Very meritocratic
Nothing will ever be more "seems like satire but is real life" like two cis conservative white guys discussing wokeness going too far
My bad two *filthy rich* cis conservative yt guys
He complaining about wokeness cuz he wants to be racist without getting called out. Like look at what he tweeted yesterday.
i skipped past the clips and just watched the commentary because no amount of respect for joel will make me want to listen to musk’s voice for any amount of time
It’s such a struggle with these types of videos because I want to support the content but I just cannot tolerate people like musk whatsoever
As another Joel, I *do* actually claim that conservatives pose an imminent threat to society
Damn it, you're cheating...but...I'll allow it, this time. But only because you're correct.
I can't wait to see the EU starting to apply fines on Twitter for violating the Digital Services Act, with fines that can go as up to 6% of the company's annual revenue.
the "my conservative friend said" story reminded me of when my very conservative/maga great-uncle asked me and my two siblings (he'd likely refer to us as "woke") if we even knew when pearl harbor happened. which, lmao, but we all immediately answered and it really flustered him.
4:17 quick thing, yes slavery was all over the world. but americas legal institution of chattel slavery, was so much worse and dehumanizing, and in much larger numbers.
That crowd had to be picked months in advance
the crowd boos, groans and disagrees all the time, you just are narrow minded
Isn't being able to buy whatever you want anti-meritocratic...?
.....no? the 2 ideas have nothing to do with eachother.
Joel I gotta say I really like you casually sitting next to Goya's El Aquelarre. It's a really cool painting.
It does my head in how someone could say "woke mind virus" and expect to be taken seriously.
Elon continuing to pretend to be a champion of free speech when he has such a long history of harassing and silencing journalists that say anything negative about him will never stop being infuriating to me.
Bro is talking about meritocracy and free speech like he didn't just buy twitter and make everyone pay for their tweets to be visible
According to his world view, purchasing Twitter reinforces his belief that he is the best and since he is the best he is qualified to police free speech
Edit: and make people pay for it
I don't know if Maher is divorced but he certainly is in spirit.
elon’s scary villain laugh was extremely jarring. i’ve never heard him laugh before and i don’t want to hear it again.
This would be a better interview if it were little Joel interviewing big joel
George Washington was a complete failure. He was appointed a Colonel in the army by his rich father, he didn't earn it. On his first mission to ease tensions at the Canadian border, he attacked the Canadians for no reason and got his entire unit slaughtered and the White House got burned down. In the Revolutionary War Washington lost most of his battles and failed to defend the capital (Philadelphia at the time) twice and it got captured by the British. After the war, Washington used his wealth to commission tons of propaganda that portrayed him as a strong leader and tactical genius such as paintings and books. Basically, George Washington was the Elon Musk of his time. Also, Washington died of an illness (probably pneumonia) because he decided to go chop down trees in heavy rain after his wife told him not to.
meritocracy is when i (elon musk the best person in the world) become the richest person in the world
He was born rich through his own merit. He earned that.
I think this painting works nicely in junction with this video
Thank you for watching this for me. I was curious but could not bring myself to watch this for more than 5 seconds
Bill Maher is upset he can't make n word jokes anymore😾