Opinion | 'Megalomaniacal, Narcissistic Tyranny': The Mars of Elon Musk

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Opinion | 'Megalomaniacal, Narcissistic Tyranny': The Mars of Elon Musk
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'Musk gravitates towards Mars because it's tabula rasa: a place where laws, taxes, and other pesky phenomena won't interfere with megalomaniacal, narcissistic tyranny.'

that tracks Musk's private jet using publicly available data. When the bribe didn't work, Musk resorted to blocking the teenager.

On Mars under Musk, taxes would also likely be nonexistent—at least for multigazillionaires like him who have traditionally been loath to contribute even the tiniest fraction of their wealth to US government taxes ostensibly collected on behalf of the public good. Naturally, Musk and his companies have never hesitated to receive billions of dollars in public subsidies and government contracts.

To be sure,"free speech" hardly applies to the antifascist journalists and activists who are currently being purged from Twitter in order to allow right-wing extremist delusions to more efficiently take flight and orbit the digital world. For an example of Muskian"democracy", meanwhile, consider his reinstatement of Trump's banned Twitter account, which transpired following a 24-hour"poll" of Musk's Twitter followers.

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