Special Report with Bret Baier – Monday 18 April
On tonight’s episode of Special Report, Bret highlights a federal judge scrapping the mask mandate on public transit. The CIA also found data claiming the Trump-Russia connection was implausible.
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New York writer Jill Lepore added herself to the list of media critics opposed to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
On Monday, Lepore appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Consider This” podcast, where the topic followed Musk’s recent offer to buy the Twitter company for $43 billion. She previously described this behavior as a form of “muskism,” which she referred to as a similar form of colonialism.
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In this photo illustration the Twitter logo seen displayed on a smartphone showing Elon Musk’s official Twitter profile. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“I think that Muskism and its vision of colonizing Mars came from the age of imperialism, when British imperialists were colonizing countries around the world and science fiction writers like HG Wells denounced British imperialism by telling stories about Space colonies told and how wrong it would be to take other people’s land and enslave the people there,” Lepore said. “And for Musk, you can kind of revive those stories and kind of justify colonization. So there’s always this extreme capitalism in Muskism , almost a sort of ironic twist.”
Lepore detailed Musk’s love of science fiction, claiming that his perspective of utopia is actually rooted in dystopian fiction.
“But what they wouldn’t see is that their origins in science fiction are actually origins in dystopian fiction. So what many people like Musk and others celebrate as their great futurism has, for one thing, enormous origins in the past. And on the other hand, what they often celebrate as utopian has its origins in dystopia,” said Lepore.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for more than $43 billion and take the social media company private.
Although the podcast acknowledged that Musk has presented nuanced political perspectives, such as Lepore questioned Musk’s true intentions to buy Twitter.
“What he would say or has said is that he must take over Twitter to save civilization, but where is the evidence that Musk was ever interested in democratic discourse? He regularly trolls people online. He had an often hostile relationship with the free press. He doesn’t think someone as rich as he has to pay taxes,” Lepore said.
“There’s just not a lot of evidence that his big priority was a healthy democratic society,” she added.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk smiles during a news conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, February 6, 2018. (REUTERS/Joe Skipper)
Lepore later described Musk’s behavior as a form of “extreme capitalism” that despises any state interference.
“It’s a kind of uncontrolled capitalism that insists that government has no practical role in regulating economic activity. On a cultural level, he’s really busy selling the public the idea of futurism as a means of imposing economic conditions that stem from the very deep past,” Lepore said.