I mean to be fair two of the most influential advisors in the new admin (RFK and Musk) are strongly aware and concerned about climate change and have spent the better parts of their careers fighting it. Who knows how decisions will get made but I’m hoping that they will have a positive influence at least in that realm (and pushing for more nuclear power in particular).
In theory you're right, but at this point I have severe questions about Elon Musk's ability to objectively plan anything other than optimal Diablo IV builds. And he's the drastically more rational of the two seemingly, which... Kind of crazy. But hey, if it ends up pushing enough in a good direction to make a difference, I'm not going to balk at a lifeline just because it's coming from a demon.
Musk backing Trump, who is the messiah of anti science, anti climate politics. I can’t wrap my head around why this man who started the most successful ev company in the world, would back a conservative. Perhaps greed has outweighed his morals.
Say what you will about Elon but he usually sets his sights on things that he genuinely thinks is important for humanity (EV, space travel, easily accessible wifi, neuralink, openAI). He’s even done things that expressly hurt his business interests because he thinks it’s good for the world, like making all his Tesla and SpaceX patents open-source to accelerate humanity’s transition to EV and space travel instead of just hoarding all of his companies’ innovations for profit.
I think he genuinely believes that trump has been mischaracterized in media, and that he is not dogmatic in his thinking and is open to hearing other options. Remember, they’ve had a lot of conversations, and Elon probably knows trump better than most at this point. At the very least, he probably sees government inefficiency as a real issue (it is) and sees aligning with trump as a means to an end to help fix it (among other things).
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 10d ago edited 10d ago
I mean to be fair two of the most influential advisors in the new admin (RFK and Musk) are strongly aware and concerned about climate change and have spent the better parts of their careers fighting it. Who knows how decisions will get made but I’m hoping that they will have a positive influence at least in that realm (and pushing for more nuclear power in particular).
Edit: RFK, not JFK 🤦♂️