Six Lies Elon Musk Believed (in the last 24 hours)

[@cookoo4lyf]

I know this is cheesy but, "Already early voted gang" 👇 Also, this video just makes me thankful I finally got off twitter. I don't judge people who haven't, especially content creators or peoples whose livelihood depends on it. Even now though I miss all the software developers and artists I used to follow that were working on cool stuff that are not on the other platforms, but it's nice to not have elons tweets shoved in my face despite having blocked him day 1. I think if it was possible to actually block him and all the right wing garbage, your video about how its a place and him buying it doesn't make it his would have convinced me to go back maybe.

[@adon155]

if u want artists i heard a lot of them moved to bluesky after some AI related policy change

[@cablethelarryguy]

You feel how I felt when I quit Facebook in 2015 and Instagram in 2020 in height of Covid, quarantined, and nothing to do. You think about all the things you are going to miss but eventually, you get used to it.

[@WhiskerDooz]

I can't vote early in PA 😢

[@Redxiii304]

+

[@ryangooseling]

Stood in line an hour and a half to vote early in Alaska 😁

[@joshuaholtzman8344]

This is so important. Admitting you’re wrong doesn’t mean you’re not smart, it means you’re learning. And everyone is learning all the time.

[@kid.chocobo]

Yeah Elon musk doesn't understand this concept

[@ThePrimordialJunction]

I agree, science is partially predicated on learning what doesn’t work. Or identifying what is wrong. This is a way to corroborate discoveries.

[@Utoko]

In an Twitter space before he said something to the fact like "Retweeting isn't an endorsement, it's a vibe check. That is why we have community notes" and to it is to "spark conversation". Other standards for media then himself even tho he has 100 times the reach.

[@ajcrowIey]

choosing to accept and admit you're wrong is one of the best ways to grow as a person!

[@priyanshu1667]

Yeah but Elon just isn't smart

[@LegalEagle]

Wait, I can just play Connections mid-video to de-stress? Why didn't anyone tell me this?!

[@mrfigaloopierre9610]

A revolutionary idea

[@4ngeIwing]

LegalEagle commenting on HanksChannel. Guess that's one cool thing we can thank Elon for.

[@pogolaugh]

@@4ngeIwing *thank Connections for.

[@3runjosh]

because he had nothing to say against it believe me he would have said something if he could. It was only placed there to make people really rage. A finishing move you might call it just to keep people on board mixed with a mask of comedy to get you to subscribe for more.

[@laighacamren3061]

Lawyers are not allowed to destress

[@johnh.watson5087]

The funniest thing about Elon's accomplishments is after everything he tried to do with twitter, everyone still calls it twitter

[@liabowden8526]

It's like he tried to make it's name super short, but instead half the time people say a whole ass sentence instead: ".. .on Twitter, or I guess X or whatever you want to call it." Like, gee, good job elon.🤦‍♀️😂

[@voxvolhynia5400]

@@liabowden8526 But the new name, "X, The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter" rolls off the tongue so smoothly, don't you think?

[@nyalan8385]

@@liabowden8526 “X - formally known as twitter” is its actual new name lmao

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

The closest he’s ever gotten is when people say “X, formerly known as Twitter,” and I hope that continues into the future.

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

Also, the name change makes no sense. On Twitter, you tweeted. What do you do on X?

[@regflori]

How Elon's tweets work: 1. He sees some "fact" that fits his narrative 2. He qoutetweets it saying "Weird, isnt that interesting" 3. He feels proud of himself

[@monke8718]

4. He gets fact checked by his own site

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

​@@monke8718 5. he bans a trans person

[@azraelfish]

I fully believed that bears were fully unconscious all winter. Like they just slept and never woke up.

[@wiczus6102]

I believed that until I've read your comment.

[@lefishe5845]

I. Never questioned this...

[@darekmistrz4364]

Wait! They don't?

[@HellHunter00]

So are they like semi conscious, just chillin in the crib, watching Netflix or something?

[@kurjaesitys]

Basically (took this from google i didnt know either) they arent sleeping the whole time, they just dont eat or drink, and rarely "go to the bathroom". Which is due to the lack of food in winter. Its self preservation basically.

[@argus3091]

The irony of Elon musk getting fact checked by his OWN PLATFORM is the highlight of my day

[@mclovin2123]

shows that his platform is doing what he said is intended to do

[@kayjasmin4326]

He posts stuff all the time where he asks to get community-noted. He has also said multiple times that he just uses X as if he's a regular Joe and trusts community notes and replies to correct him if he's wrong or sharing misinformation, which evidently is exactly what happens. Now speaking of which, the thing about Austria was not a lie, but Hank's mental gymnastics to frame as such are. The FPÖ couldn't form a government, because the establishment parties are indeed conspiring against them - as they are doing across Europe. And measured by their politics, you can easily label the establishment parties, including those who are considered "center right", as left wing, because they've been uber-progressive and anti-nationalist.

[@kayjay135]

He regularly asks community notes to fact check him, but ok. He doesn't delete the stuff, because he wants to be transparent. You'll find tons of community-noted posts on his timeline. But I'm glad that he can make your day

[@johnshite4656]

​@@kayjay135 Funny how he doesn't learn then, eh? You would think that, being such a smart guy, he would learn to slow down, take a deep breath, and check before sharing. Except, he seems to be unable to do that. Like Trump, he has no self-control. It's all just thumb-based diarrhea. I remember a time when people expected more integrity and credibility, even from generic celebrities. Musk is one of the richest guys in the world, but he doesn't act like it. He acts more like a trailer park deplorable.

[@kayjay135]

@@johnshite4656 oof that's a set of opinions I don't agree with. I agree that he could learn from those errors and at least fact check things himself, but if I had the choice between being able to observe one of the most influential person's impulsive thoughts, but also have misinformation occasionally shared by him OR not having all that, I'll take the former. I'd wish all billionaires would do that. I also see very high value in the owner actually using and engaging with his social media platform as a normal user would. If I put myself in his shoes, I can imagine that he takes the instances where he got community notes as motivation to have community notes act quicker, so he can be informed about something being inaccurate before sharing it. Thinking about it - that would be such an Elon thing to do - incentivizing himself to improve fact-checking, because otherwise he'll keep suffering loss of credibility with every misinformation he accidentally shares. But I don't actually know. The man is so successful, because of his pragmatism and giving himself high-risk high-reward incentives. I used to be super sceptical of him, but at some point, I couldn't reasonably deny that there clearly is a method to his madness and that it is orientated towards actually manifesting good in this world.

[@goli8699]

9:20 Austrian here, that's not entirely accurate (though very close). The leader of the FPÖ wasn't given the task because the other two major parties had already made it clear they didn't want to work with him as chancellor, citing conspiritorial beliefs within his party, aggressive rhetoric and more. He wasn't given the chance not because he failed, but because it was obvious he wouldn't have been able to succeed and the president didn't want to waste more time before we actually have a majority government again.

[@AndrewGillard]

It sounds like very normal coalition stuff, tbh 🤷‍♀️ If the party with the most votes/seats/etc doesn't have a majority, but the 2nd- and 3rd-largest (or more) parties form a coalition that _does_ have a majority, that coalition can form a government instead. I can understand Americans not being familiar with that, as it doesn't really happen in US politics AFAIK, but that's no excuse for blindly amplifying misinformation 😕

[@teiraa_]

Yeah this is completely normal European coalition stuff, I'm from Spain and it's very similar (our current government is a coalition between the 2nd- and 4th-largest parties) - I don't know that much about Austrian politics but I read about it and I didn't think much of it because it's standard, that's what I was expecting already I don't fault Americans for not being aware of this but like, please look up how our political systems work if you're going to speak about it...

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

It is a very good practical example of a Cordon Sanitaire

[@neoc03]

I learned about this when it happned because I knew that the headline wasn't the full story. It took less than half a minute beyond a headline read to get the real story. The way people repeat information they hear as truth without having any evidence it is truth terrifies me.

[@foxesofautumn]

This makes sense. It's actually very similar in Australia when no party wins the required majority. The top two parties have to compete to form coalitions with other parties and convince the Governor General they can form a functional government out of the available elected candidates (Independents may also be included in a coalition.) In this case the party they comes second may end up in leadership but they won't have much of a majority in the House and will have to work more closely with the Opposition. If no one can form a coalition then the election is held again. (This is rare. Parties are usually pretty motivated to avoid this.)

[@Zyx_0708]

Hello, two things as a German here👋🏼: 1.The Nazis indeed presented themselves as socialists, as reflected in their party name, "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (NSDAP, or National Socialist worker's Party), to appeal to the working, lower and middle classes. However, this was merely a façade. Their regime followed fascist, not socialist, principles. Today, we clearly differentiate between socialism and national socialism, for a good reason. 2. Germany has a government system similar to Austrias. Parties that are voted into parliament and fail to secure 50% of the votes must form a coalition with another party (or parties) to reach a majority. This rule (at least in Germany) serves as a protective measure in our constitution against extremist parties, designed to prevent another Third Reich or DDR. If no other party is willing to form a coalition with them, it’s a strong indication that they shouldn’t have power in the first place.

[@poopy9172]

For correctness: Hitler's biggest "inspiration" for national socialism for germany was actually taken from his italian "BFF", Mussolini. The Duce (which means "Führer" in german) was actually a socialist with real socialist values (e.g. no religion and so on). At some point he went from far left tp far right and the italian king basically gifted him the parlament out fear for a communism regime, which would have lead tp the king getting dethroned. I am italian and have lived for 9+ years in Germany and to be honest I don't understand why we (italians) still aren't that ashamed for that regime (some are but most people doesn't get why they should), especially considering it became the base for far right, non-democratic governents in many europeam countries, including germany ofc.

[@frakis2771]

It's sad that many people don't understand this. Nazis weren't socialists. They hated and had bounties on real socialists, like Einstein.

[@Simon-gv4md]

@@poopy9172 Italy isn't ashamed of it's fascist past, because that would imply being ashamed of the fascist tendencies that exist to this day in Italian society. Not even 1000 people were punished for the fascist regimes crimes, and most of its criminals were happily given influential positions to defend against the communist menace.

[@poopy9172]

@Simon-gv4md I know, that's exactly what I meant. The fact that there wasn't something similar to Nuremberg's trial in Italy made things worse, even tho we, in Italy, had as well racist laws requiring the govt to send jewish people (among others) in the third reich knowing they would get annihilated in the concentration camps, and most trials in Italy from jews asking to be repayed for the damages and sufferings their parents/granparents or themselves had the italian court ruled for Germany to repay them and certain amount of money, but not Italy, even after and international court status that Germany wouldn't need to repay jewish anymore because enough time had passed, Germany changed and the war debts had been fully repayed.

[@owbu]

Hank explaining a normal parliamentary goverment, as if it's some weird alien tech was kinda hilarious :)

[@hankschannel]

Yall are absolutely weird aliens.

[@wta1518]

What makes a parliamentary government "normal"? Is it just that it's the most common in Europe? Edit: Just so y'all shut the fuck up: I am fully aware that there are Parliments outside of Europe, it's just that there are also plenty of non-Parliments outside of Europe, and enough that Parliments aren't just the "normal" form of government.

[@squireltag1000]

​@wta1518 idk the numbers, but there are parliamentary systems outside of Europe. They are sometime referred to ask constitutional monarchies too, although I don't think all are. Another example are the 'commonwealth' nations, aka former colonies of the U.k. Canada, our friendly neighbor to the north is one such nation.

[@inari.28]

@@wta1518 There are tons of parliamentary governments all over the world including Canada and also India (the world's largest democracy). There are probably a few more presidential republics but more than a billion people live under parliamentary systems which makes them pretty normal and commonplace.

[@wta1518]

@@squireltag1000 Yes, but they aren't the norm outside of Europe. And Canada is pretty much the only parliament in the western hemisphere.

[@jonp3674]

After "I don't know what purple prose is!" I was half expecting John to come bursting in the door like an avenger.

[@labellaflora....]

In a comment here @toyagirl1 wrote what it is: "Too formal, poetic, or wordy"

[@Deladus]

The things You say Your Purple Prose gives you away The things You say You're Unbelievable OH!

[@Jake9066]

@@Deladus And now I'm listening to some EMF. Didn't know where that was where today was going, but I'm down.

[@gregmark1688]

Someone causing me to hear the voice of "Dice" Clay in my head is nowhere on my bingo card

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

​@@DeladusEXACTLY. Hank, you should have known it from that one!

[@dibbled]

Connections being used to wind down from a frustrating topic was a great way to end the video, 10/10

[@mgmchenry]

Fred Rogers, Steve Irwin, Hank Green. That was the line I saw light up when he started modeling self care. I love it when people show the work of being good people.

[@DKdrop]

It was pretty stressful for me to watch, though. Especially the Purple Prose thing. But I'm glad Hank enjoyed it.

[@willbates2174]

And then get "Yellow Journalism" in the game....

[@onqproductions]

I haven’t worked that puzzle yet. Wish he would’ve given a bit more of a spoiler warning.

[@SaltyOwlAlmanac]

@@willbates2174 yes!! It made me chuckle, but in a very dark way.

[@Kozboz]

This should be a weekly segment.

[@ScouseJazmin]

There sure would be enough examples 😂

[@moffig1]

Agreed. I hope he does this more often

[@bryanburns4874]

yes Hank!! “Lies of the Week”!! Let’s go!!

[@LostLargeCats]

No thanks. I don't think I could take that much negativity. I already struggle with just stress from my life.

[@anomiesocial]

@@LostLargeCats you don't have to watch things you're not interested in

[@oberlurch-handimations8628]

Austrian here! You described it quite well! In Austria, we don't vote for the Chancellor, we vote for the parties who'll sit in parliament and make decisions. The Chancellor needs at least 50% of people who sit in parliament to support them, otherwise they effectively won't be able to do anything with the majority voting against them. The leader of the "Freedom party" has basically insulted every other party and the president, so the other parties made it very clear that they won't firm a government with this guy. The president acted very mindfully in that situation and told the head of every major party to talk to each other. After a week, they told the president that nothing has changed, so the president rightfully decided to give the party with second most votes the task to form a government and thus made the head of this party Chancellor. Sadly, even in Austria it's a common misconception that we vote for the Chancellor. Goes without saying, the populist freedom party loves to push their "victim narrative".

[@oberlurch-handimations8628]

The comment before me was correct too, the one with the time stamp.

[@laurapaglia8229]

It's confusing only because the US voting system is different than the voting system of the whole of Europe, and most other countries in the world. There's such little need to know of coalition governments, the most common governments in Europe, I guess. But we know how the US electoral college works!!! Yey!!! The world is still very much US centric, sadly. Even Musk, who's South African... a country with a coalition government😅 By the way, this is a very rare case in which I feel like touching my hat to the Austrian politicians, a united front would never have happened in other countries (like Italy, the country I'm from, or Spain, the country I live in). On the other hand, the fact that a right-wing party was elected in the country and "this" happened... there's something really serious going on in Austria right now, and has been for a couple of decades... I hope you can all sort it out soon, it can't be an easy situation...

[@eddy1537]

So if the parliment is corrupt it sounds impossible for a new non corrupt party to get voted chancellor

[@sejanus855]

German here, same with the Afd and the now coming elections for example in Thuringia....if you keep on insulting everyone and anyone. + Adding to that disrupt the normal day to day business with blocking stuff, trying to skip procedures, withholding the rights to pick X, vote for y to try and push your agendas against literally ANYONE. Why do they still believe someone will work with them? It's like me yelling and insulting everyone at work , disrupting their work flow to my benefit and then being all mad and salty no one wants to work with me lmao. Happily they don't have the majority to do all that stuff alone, the day this happens will be harsh and I hope it will never come.

[@fredtholarp563]

Yes, we have the same in Sweden or extremely similar at least. Basically Americans this is what happens when you have more than 2 parties and one party can’t get a majority by themselves. I don’t expect a self serving billionaire to know that though

[@Nikolai508]

"I'm just asking a question" is a common malicious way of pushing something you already know is a falsehood, but giving yourself a plausible defence when called out. Basically a workaround for getting in trouble for lying.

[@do9138]

Or "just sayin'." I HATE that. People only say it after they say something they KNOW they shouldn't have said. "Just sayin'" as opposed to what, beating me up? ALL WORDS ARE "JUST SAYIN'." That's how language works. Duh.

[@doomcookies]

I like to call that "JAQing Off"

[@AlekSchultz]

The most obvious way to tell it's bullshit is when they don't take the 10 seconds to Google it. Even if you don't necessarily trust whatever mainstream source first comes up on Google, it is always worth at LEAST knowing what a possible explanation is, but they don't take the minimum effort to find that out.

[@conor7154]

Whatever you do, DO NOT ask why people in the United States keep getting murdered by people who are in the country illegally and should have been, and have had the to be, removed. DO NOT ask that. It’s a completely ridiculous thing to ask…

[@Nikolai508]

@@conor7154 Case and point.

[@slouch186]

Something that is frustrating to me is that correcting outright false information will likely be seen as a partisan disagreement over opinion. These things are just flatly untrue, and in any reasonable society it should be at least a little bit embarrassing to be so wrong about issues of fact this often.

[@AmyZonkers]

Except it IS partisan. It is not a coincidence that virtually everyone who hates Elon Musk and seeks to "disprove" him is a leftist.

[@Canned.bread.25]

But you have scores of people who will not only parrot these falsehoods uncritically, but will reject on purely ideological grounds any refutation/fact-checking of the lies, regardless of how logically or empirically valid the refutations are. “The fact checkers are wrong/paid off/commies/the real threats to democracy” they tell themselves and each other, thus making it true in their minds.

[@Leffrey]

The idea that actually checking sources (or lack thereof) is considered politically left or as pushing an agenda (aside from truth) is just insane.

[@thedog5k]

Can I get an example? I generally agree with the idea, but ofc people use rules to try to implement something dumb.

[@thedog5k]

@@Leffreyit is when you consider sources: “fact checkers” only valid if your team owns them.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

"An allegiance to something else" A rich guy, a rich white guy, born into apartheid South Africa, who runs a car company with labour issues up to it's eyeballs and race based ones at that... No clues as to possible allegiances that might cause dishonesty here.

[@passerby4507]

You're very much part of the problem if the thing you immediately latch onto is he's a rich white guy.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

@passerby4507 do explain, oh genius

[@passerby4507]

@@Samstrainsofficially If you can't perceive your own problem even when presented to you, you failed even harder. The video is about reckless disregard for truth, and all you can see is identity politics.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

@passerby4507 oh my lord, what do you think motivates a disregard for truth, what is a common and repeated theme in the nature of the truths disregarded by this individual? Try think just a little harder champ.

[@JazzerciseJustice]

​@@passerby4507class war is real and happening, and the working class didn't start it

[@JoshuaPalmer-h5f]

So much seems to boil down to “I don’t understand how things work, there must be a conspiracy”

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Humans like the idea that the random events of life have some kind of agency behind it. Most people call this "luck" or "fate", right wingers call it "the international jewish reptilian cabal".

[@Humannondancer]

Concise

[@DrachenGothik666]

Well said.👍

[@Violaphobia]

Occam’s razor isn’t always the right tool for the job, but I find that by itself it undermines a majority of what my few conservative friends believe.

[@TheLastMisesian]

Also "Anything I don't like is because of those liberals. It's all their fault"

[@HappilyCarnivore]

Elon: You said you weren't going to fact check.

[@idrabohm3678]

Actual JD Vance quote from a vice presidential debate.

[@jjjfo1818]

@@idrabohm3678he knows…

[@50gens]

It was a half lie but it dissapointed me that he thought it was a reasonable thing to want in a debate.

[@ShadowWolf-mw1ko]

@@idrabohm3678 I think the intention was to nod to that as a joke not as a quote

[@ericstaples7220]

Bruh, you are deficient if you believed the fact checking in this video

[@Somebodyelse141]

The topic of this video, then getting "yellow journalism" in Connections. *Chef's kiss*

[@leeeorama]

Simulation confirmed.

[@jackwriter1908]

...what is yellow journalism?

[@bumimub]

@@jackwriter1908 basically journalism that’s more focused on shocking headlines and getting views than being truthful

[@BradTheProducer]

I immediately recreated the meme of Leonardo DiCaprio whistling and pointing at the screen.

[@jackwriter1908]

@@bumimub ohhh, okay I get it, thanks!

[@mr8balla269]

My initial reaction was to dismiss Hank and this video but as I watched it and listened it became clear that was a biased of my own and Hank was doing due diligence to come to the correct conclusion. Thank you Hank for being truthful!

[@Saga_Anserum]

Thank you for not following your initial reaction. I will try to do the same in the future!

[@LostLargeCats]

It's really difficult to. I only watched one video recently that I I didn't like what I thought the title was saying. In the end I think their argument was too based on emotion. But it's still hard to even try in the first place.

[@JWPSmith21]

Any of you feeling like this, I'm very proud of you! As someone who grew up in a very conservative household, that supported "real feminism" and was against racism, and believed in thinking rationally and logically, it was painful to reassess so many biases I had. Especially when I thought I was being objective, only to learn my biases were blinding me. I also believed in removing emotions from an argument, that they distract from "the truth", only to learn how wrong that was. Emotions are a fundamental part of the human experience. If I wasn't considering the emotional damage and impact decisions have on people, then I'm not actually being logical at all. I'm convincing myself that thinking like a computer makes me smarter, when in reality I'm just encouraging a lack of emotional intelligence within myself. Many times I would come across an idea, and I would get angry, and upset, and feel like they were missing all the important points in the argument. To be fair, sometimes they actually were avoiding all of the well thought out arguments for things, and only sticking to the loud moronic arguments that were easy to debunk. It felt like they were being dishonest, but just like everything else, there was a lot more to it. But, I also wasn't ready to process a lot of biases fairly yet. I needed more time to get there. When you live your entire life trying to be logical, but find out half of everything you believed was wrong, it's really, really painful and difficult to re-evaluate all of that and process it objectively.

[@iseeyouineverystar]

@@JWPSmith21 this is such a sweet comment to read! congrats 🩵

[@halalola432]

Why did u want to dismiss this?

[@juneBug412]

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

[@dawnv3436]

Imagine still thinking that it's a Democracy when in fact it's a Republic. It's the law. Quote dead men, but when they get it wrong too, they should be made fun of just as much. Because they're wrong and perniciously so such as to subvert the notion of established Law, especially the highest laws in the USA.

[@smallyberbigelbe7571]

“Trust the science” “I am the science” The loss of the American people at the hands of corrupt politicians will not go unnoticed. Faucci was bad during the aids chrysis, and he got even more people killed during Covid. NZT. Ivermectin. Both cheap life saving drugs that faucci didn’t approve in favor of alternatives that he got kickbacks from.

[@ElleH123-w7w]

And the funniest thing about this quote is that we are a constitutional republic. 😂

[@ElleH123-w7w]

But he’s not wrong otherwise

[@pierregravel-primeau702]

Asimov might have thought that ignorance is the lack of knowledge. It was a common believed in the 20th century. Now, we know that ignorance is a set of believe contructed to make people adopte a certain comportement. Why so many american believe in flat earth or yougn earth creationism? Because large and powerfull organisation want idiots to dig in coal mines and would hate to have a modern science based economy. You can look up for them : PragerU and many many other.

[@BabylonianB]

I think it *does* erode away your credibility, just not as quickly and completely as we may like. The fact that Elon has gone from being seen as a semi-messianic figure to a source of extreme controversy in such a short period of time is proof of this.

[@numberonedad]

for the RW, "believing" something is a way to signal your affiliation with your in-group and nothing to do with the truth.

[@nagualdesign]

Semi-messianic? 😂 I must have missed that episode.

[@Mentocthemindtaker]

It won't matter. Elon Musk is one of the super-wealthy ruling class and as long as he remains wealthy and friends with the right people then he is not only untouchable (not in the Indian caste system kinda way) but unaffected by public opinion of him. This is how society is now. If you are a member of the ruling class then you stay there unless they need a scapegoat.

[@ember9361]

@@nagualdesign just look back on how people felt about him in general like ten years ago. He thinks he's ironman.

[@nagualdesign]

@@ember9361 I always thought he was a knob.

[@scribblemyface]

"He has an allegiance to something else that he thinks is more important than the truth" -- what an accurate and terrifying assessment of Elon Musk

[@Pehz63]

How is it accurate? Elon Musk was giving his honest reaction to stuff he was seeing. How is that not an allegiance to the truth? Whether the stuff is real, imaginary, or exaggerated is irrelevant to his reaction being genuine. If he didn't have an allegiance to the truth, then we would be able to find interviews or something where he says "yeah I don't actually believe that stuff, I just like to post it for laughs" or something. But he does genuinely believe it, which is a truth of its own kind. Meanwhile, many people have a Twitter account that they don't even run. They have other people write posts for them. If those other people write true posts, is that showing an allegiance to truth? In some sense yes, but in another sense no.

[@xdr22]

Ketamine.

[@cvogt99]

Putin. The same goes for Trump and Tucker.

[@joechip1232]

@@Pehz63 Truth and honesty are not the same thing. I also don't think that he genuinely believes half of what he says. Or maybe he does believe it and he's even dumber than I thought.

[@majeedmamah7457]

​@@Pehz63why is he broadcasting far right propaganda without first fact checking to his millions of followers.

[@iseeyouineverystar]

“nazis are socialists” TELL ME U MEVER HAD A SINGLE EUROPEAN HISTORY CLASS WITHOUT TELLING ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@adaml8827]

There's an old saying, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on. There is a huge amount of effort involved in verifying and researching sources to determine what is true. There is much less effort involved in making stuff up. And there is zero effort involved in sharing falsehoods.

[@DreadX10]

The truth doesn't wear pants, it wears boots. The saying is about how fast something travels, making 'boots' relevant and 'pants' not so much.

[@linecraftman3907]

​​@@DreadX10makes sense it would be without pants because it's naked truth

[@adaml8827]

@@DreadX10 it's a metaphor, the truth is not actually a person so it doesn't wear anything!

[@PuppetMa5teR]

This is what happens when we get caught with our pants down! 😂

[@ashley_smith]

@@adaml8827 It's a quote from Sir Terry Pratchett, and it is indeed boots.

[@BarbarossaSC2]

"I sleep 4 hours a day." Elon says this like it's a flex, but nobody is surprised when they see his unhinged tweets.

[@AstralBelt]

"Unhinged" and it is just what normal people think

[@ConfusionCrew]

@@AstralBelt this is more of a confession than you realize my brother in christ

[@avealore]

⁠@@AstralBelt what eternally online people think***

[@bafelix89]

​@@AstralBelt elon is a ket head

[@oya4056]

*****what eternal online people believe ​@@avealore

[@toyagirl1]

“Purple prose is writing that is too formal, poetic, or wordy. It’s when too many adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors are used to describe things.” For you Hank!

[@dawica]

I know this term because it was used to describe my early writing 😢

[@toyagirl1]

@@dawica notice how you said early writing? Sounds like you kept going? I bet you’re doing great now

[@kiwi_2_official]

no such thing as too formal/poetic/wordy

[@OhJustSomeRandomGuy]

Referenced in the lyrics of "Unbelievable" by EMF. "The things you say, your purple prose just gives you away."

[@Templar462]

@@OhJustSomeRandomGuy I have never thought to look that up... and despite loving that song in the 90s, I always misheard that lyric. Thanks!

[@raybanz8218]

Hank, debunking public stupidity/lies is a thing we're going to need even more of in the near future. I'd like to see more, you might be able to help some folks.

[@bbrownlmao]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[@bbrownlmao]

To anyone who likes this I'm talking about the Dems and this fool. The left is so blatantly corrupt and untruthful the irony is quite amusing. Even funnier is how upset this guy gets about the truth and since he is so deep into the left nothing can change his mind. I'm not even right or left or religious or even American but anyone with any sort of logistical thinking skills can see this good vs evil and the left is definitely not on the good side

[@Kennystarfighter909]

Sure seems like a lot of doublethink going around

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

man i hate george orwell. also it's Nineteen Eighty-Four, not 1984, and it was written in 1948. your citation is very unclear

[@Aiuto-vk5tq]

It was written between 1946 and 1948 and published on June 8, 1949 and btw it was also published under the name „1984“ And besides all of that, if you were confused by the citation on KZbin, you are an idiot.

[@maxonite]

@@sydssolanumsamsysSpelling out the number is not a requirement for a quotation…

[@CarmellaCake11]

An English teacher in 8th grade said “just because you believe something doesn’t mean it is true.” That struck me in the moment and has stuck with me ever since!

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

Yeah some people do think just because they have a thought then that thought must be correct and valid and worthy. I always find that very self-centered and self-important.

[@tessacarstairs5998]

Brilliant quote. Will be reminding my anxiety disorders this.

[@Cv-yl7pi]

Ideally, given the authority on which your believe is founded, you shouldn’t be deceived when you decide to give yourself the means to check them. But given the last developments trustful authorities become rare if not inexistend. that’s a challenge

[@BigK-2001]

I’m 23 and it saddens me how much I have to say this to people, and I have to qualify it by saying “this applies to me too” so they don’t get defensive

[@Camo1177]

I have a quote that works as a companion to that from my college history professor, when he was just trying to have us tell us what is the definition of truth. One of the students said something along the lines of ‘If you can explain it, it must be true.’ My professor responded with ‘I can explain a lot of shit, that doesn’t make it gospel truth.’ Just because you can come up with a story of why it should be true, doesn’t make it true.

[@pedrostormrage]

4:59 "Nazis are socialists" Even if that were true (if every Nazi were a socialist), that still wouldn't imply every socialist is a Nazi (deducing the latter from the former is a fallacy called "affirming the consequent"). It's not just a factual inaccuracy, it's a logical error (which is even worse).

[@sasho_b.]

The union of factual inaccuracy and logical error has its own term. A liberalism. You can see the sheer quantity of libs in the comments dying on the hill that 'Well no actually they WERE SOCIALIST, Hank your wrong'. Its like arguing that white supremacy is actually empowering to poor white people - are you gonna trust the guys with the torches based on rhetoric or action? Because 26 million dead soviets do not speak of a great concern for the welfare of workers. Absorbing the german unions into extensions of private business or eradicating them outright doesn either. But liberals gotta liberal. To imply fascism is a home-grown outburst of capitalism and colonialism rather than the much simpler 'evil commies at it again' is much too difficult to conceive of for people who think America was the good guy in history.

[@menghao737]

It's also just plainly not true, just as North Korea isn't a democratic republic. Fascists wear guises. According to George Orwell, Stalin communists were fascists too.

[@dohnjoe9211]

If I had a nickel for every time I've been told the "Nazis were actually socialists," I'd probably have a few dollars.

[@derekfume8810]

Socialist ideology inevitably leads to the government gaining more power over the population, which leads to fascism over the time, because people become more dependent on government rule. Nazis were using the word "socialist" in their party name not as a disguise but as instrument to gain such power and acceptance from population, to sell the idea that everything they're doing is beneficial for the "society". Same thing was about communists in USSR, they used genuine communist ideology to make government more powerful, which led to the government related people whole new class of people with with benefits, the mere worker class could only imagine. So.... Nazis, in fact, were socialists, wether or not you like the idea that socialism is a good and easy one way to fascism.... I mean, how else do you imagine one political power could turn so many people into fascism? Your suggestions please...

[@A_itsar]

Nazis are better described as authoritarian not right nor left

[@itscristianodasilva]

i think it's funny that Elon's own platform called out his tweet as "not a real article."

[@coin5207]

As an Austrian: Some crucial context info you may missed on our election: - The far right wing party FPÖ had been on the rise for a few years. But it has had its fair share of scandals in the past, including a major corruption scandal in 2019 when it was last part of the government. - the party has been under fire for undemocratic behaviour - members of the party have on numerous occasions downplayed the severity of Austria's/ Germany's actions in WW2, _even just a few days before the election_ some were recorded singing an old song with relations to the "holy German empire" at a funeral - the party's leader Herbert Kickl specifically has demonstrated in the past he may not be able to work with politicians of other parties in a civil manner, due to his insulting and divisive nature For these reasons and more, even before the election took place, all the other parties publicly stated they would not accept to form a coalition with Kickl or the FPÖ in general. So the Austrian people already voted for the other parties with the knowledge that they don't want to work with the FPÖ to form a government. Which means 71% of Austrians are completely fine with the idea of this party not being part of the government (if they weren't fine with it they would have voted for them) In Austria a government needs a majority which the FPÖ was unable to get, so the task to form a working coalition falls on the next most voted for party, which happens to be the ÖVP, another right wing party (but decidedly not extremist right wing) who won the last election So Elon Musks statement that "the dictatorial left" did this is ridiculous. Austria had a right lead government (at least what's considered "right wing" in Europe) long before the election and it will have one after the election. This situation benefits the right wing ÖVP just as much as it does the left wing parties.

[@kayjasmin4326]

Well, the major corruption scandal turned out to be more misinformation than accurate, since they didn't release the bit of the secret recording where he flat out states that he's not interested in any shady dealings, which entirely changes the bits that were released initially and triggered the whole scandal. And I'll be surprised if the unsavory members of the FPÖ are anywhere near as many and as extreme as Europe's major left wing and green parties are, nevermind the far left parties. Lastly, downplaying Germany's crimes is not something I take lightly. It's one of the flavors of modern antisemitism. But that absolutely pales in comparison to being politically responsible for the situation where Jews can't feel safe anymore in most of Europe. It's no comparison whatsoever. So what I'm hearing you say is, that 70% of Austria again gave their vote to those who endangered jewish lives and did so because that other party has a few members who expressed potentially antisemitic things. Brilliant logic there 🤡

[@MrZauberelefant]

Schau, der Musk ist einfach nur dumm und in Amerika erzählen sie noch wildere Geschichten über Europa, wovon sie keine Ahnung haben. Aber ein einfaches: koaner wil mit die Nazis z'samma gaan ist vielleicht schon zu viel für den Ami auf Rechts-Twitter

[@SheilaCrosby]

Thank you. I appreciate the clarification.

[@camipco]

Indeed. Adding to all that, following their 2019 victory, the ÖVP could have formed a coalition with FPÖ and didn't.

[@rosslarsen1270]

Like them, hate them, right or wrong, they ended up with the most votes. Should they not be given the chance to form a government? from what I have read, the other parties refused and therefore they did not even get the chance. Also, EVERY politician does dumb things and lies constantly. That is a given. Is what they did so bad that 30% of the people still voted for them?

[@lewlewlewlewlewlewlewlewlew]

If they were socialist, then the democratic people's republic of Korea is a democracy.

[@ravenkrofft]

Underrated comment

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

thats very funny because the democratic people's republic of korea is socialistic

[@maxonite]

And I'm an Olympic gymnast because I call myself one

[@juser-abuser]

National-Socialist weren't socialists. OK.

[@DrakkarNoir86]

@@juser-abusercorrect. They were fascists.

[@ElectroBOOM]

Thanks for doing all the research to disprove Elon's beliefs. I always know almost all he says are inflammatory misinformation, but to really know with reason is at another level, and most of us don't have the time and energy to debunk his every tweet every second!

[@s73v36]

Always been a fan EB. Elon points to a lot of things each day. Not all is true. Honestly though, when he looks a a topic in depth he finds the real truth. Rockets started as farm silos. Twitter he was wrong for the first few months, then he figured it out. Model 3 was built wrong with too many parts. Now y is the best selling car on the planet. When Elon was excluded from ev summits, was lied to by the gov and when he uncovered the corruption at Twitter he acted. Now missinformation is sold as a reason for censorship. Elon is sold as a reason for censorship. Personaly I believe in personnel responsibility. I believe that I can navigate the world and not be a victim of some weird shit I saw on the net. I believe you are also capable of not believing everything you read. The only reason for censorship is because you believe others are incapable of deciding what's true. I always choose that my fellow man gets to decide what's true, never the government gets to make that choice on my behalf.

[@samcoote9653]

Hank Full Bridge RECTIFIED those quotes

[@CherryNerd27]

+

[@jasondodds2875]

Yeah, it would be fun to manually debunk public figure's tweets for money! I get the sense misinformation never has to be right, it just needs to be a conveyer belt of trash needing attention. This video is time well spent and should be a public service! I found a little gem of a concept yesterday - "media bias chart" . It has 'Political leanings' on the X axis and 'information accuracy' on Y axis. Helpful if true ^^

[@dwadd7528]

Newton believed alchemy. this fact does not change his genius. also does not make Elon a genius nor a fool. a person can not know everything.

[@TOAB-ik8fu]

getting fact checked by your own app is crazy

[@chillyman1459]

“You can skip ahead” Hank, you know we’re here for exactly this

[@defensivekobra3873]

Speak for yourself i'm here to watch hank play connectiond

[@PierceArner]

This is an important practice, because it helps make sure that you are checking your own biases BEFORE you broadcast those biases to others. You're always more likely to doubt an opinion you disagree with than what you agree with, which is why this has to be an active thing to be mindful of.

[@Xanderj89]

Not to mention more likely to double down out of indignation when you’re called on it, since he doesn’t want to be publicly seen as being wrong and will care more about saving face than correcting a mistake

[@Pehz63]

Hmmm, is this actually true or are you just SAYING it's an "important practice" because it confirms your biases? Lol I joke, but it is true. You're not doing research to find sources that confirm your claim that this is important. You're just asserting your bias. I hold the same bias and agree that people should be more critical. But if I just like your comment and agree, aren't I also just confirming my own bias?

[@PhiltheMoko]

​@@Pehz63I would say that OP is expressing an opinion, not trying to make a statement of fact.

[@PierceArner]

@@Pehz63 …It doesn't confirm your bias, it actively challenges them. You're inclined to challenge & research something that you disagree with, which is why it's important to be just as rigorous on things that you're inclined to agree with that don't trigger that same level of automatic scrutiny.

[@jasonhenson7948]

@@PhiltheMoko In my opinion, saying it's an important practice is an opinion. Whereas it is a fact* that confirmation bias is a well researched fact**. * Alarm bells ringing. ** I should check on whether or not confirmation bias could be classed as a "well researched fact"***. *** It is, as well as anything in sociology can be.

[@HoodlumCallum]

this could easily be a series lmao

[@liamobrien9451]

Honestly, he could do one of these every day with musk's tweets, I don't think people know how bad he is with intentionally pushing misinformation

[@thundark3736]

"Legacy media shares his opinion it must mean he's wrong" 🤡​@markt2609

[@MaxOakland]

I think Hank should make it one. It’s a public service

[@notchedbandit]

@@markt2609 So you want him to be a lying POS like Elon Musk?

[@UlyssesSGrant12]

Every 24 hours a day passes, and hence Elon creates an entire Hank Green video's worth of content.

[@janeczekdeliverservices7831]

Just like Thor said, more people in the new generations should play RuneScape, getting scammed would teach them about blatantly trusting what strangers online say

[@LostLargeCats]

I have some gear to trade you.

[@JKthejokerpersonthing]

@@LostLargeCatsReALlY

[@sage5296]

Musk: *actively spreading / perpetuating misinformation on twitter also elon: "why do people think twitter is full of misinformation???"

[@dwillbecancelledsoon4086]

Nah, it’s just no longer a circle jerk. Only pedo-loving shitlibs and globalists claim that it’s full of misinformation. Because they can’t control it anymore

[@johnnypancakes3]

Ur dumb

[@Artur-kp4hj]

What do you consider misinformation that is on x? Who defines what misinformation is in the first place? That was weaponized by former twitter to push their California influenced narrative to the whole world.

[@cptnraptor]

The Nazis = Socialists thing always gets me mad, like there's a whole poem that starts with "First they came for the Socialists...", WHO IS THE "THEY" IN THE POEM!?? NAZIS! NAZIS CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS FIRST!

[@qounqer]

Eh, the Nazis repressed literally any political activity outside the party. The “Nazis were socialist” thing is idiotic because they were socialists in a sense, but the vacation resorts for the working class wasn’t why people hated them. Like the implication seems to be that if Hitler was a socialist he must have gotten his genocidal ideas directly from Das Kapital, and socialism is actually just code for ethnic cleansing .

[@myownprivatejoke]

It was "first they came for the Communists", but the US changed it to Socialists bc "commies bad"..... Gee, I wonder if I should take anything away from that

[@CarrotConsumer]

The dumbest thing is that people think that the word 'socialism' in 2024 America has the same meaning as 'socialism' in 1932 Germany. Different time, different place, and different language. Context matters!

[@sergio-179]

You are wrong about left and right. This decision is predicated on economic freedom. By this standard - nationalisation and absence of private property rights is located on the left. Right is about full economic freedom and for private property. Third Reich is located on the left. Poem isn't a scientific evidence just as Bible isn't

[@shbehdin2289]

Stalin wasn't Communist, there's a whole historical fact that he killed Leon Trotski who was Communist.

[@Idefilms]

To your conclusion, Hank: the NYT reported that Trump promised Elon quite a bit of sway over the agencies that are contracting, regulating and investigating his companies, so I think that's some pretty big incentive right there-other than internet points, which honestly, genuinely have seemed to sway Elon over the years.

[@bayleev7494]

well that's absolutely terrifying (but unsurprising i suppose)

[@ericstaples7220]

Investigating Elon for what? Helping the climate with EV cars? How about you wake up and realize dems just weaponize the DOJ against their political opponents like a dictatorship would?

[@SophiaAphrodite]

HE is also sure to get no bid contracts for the military and NASA

[@Kokally]

Apparently you **can** be rich enough to buy the entire Executive Branch...

[@DigiNomad]

@@bayleev7494 The agencies that oversea your food, health, and water are already compromised by the industries they are supposed to regulate. That reality should be more terrifying than that supposition.

[@wubbdubbs]

Hank. Please never change. You are such a beacon of hope for so many people in a time when lies and misinformation are king. Watching you touch on subjects like this to inform other people brings me so much comfort. Thank you

[@Itsrooey_]

"He as an allegience to something else that he thinks is more important than the truth." is such a brilliant and succinct way to point out something so terrifying. I guess I'm gonna go play connections now.

[@Redkrovvy]

Yes. This.

[@Juan_lauda]

This is all just a performative act for Elon to get what he wants. Considering that he plainly expressed the desire to be the ruler of his imaginary Martian colony it is pretty easy to figure out that he just wants ultimate power. What is Ultimate Power? Now that’s the real line of questioning where you will yneed to bring in psychoanalysis

[@ChrisTaylor-NEP]

Elon's got no choice here. For electric vehicles to take over, the US power grid needs a massive upgrade, or Tesla's done for. He knows Harris will invest in that, but Trump won't commit unless Elon's calling the shots. If Elon doesn't back Trump, he's basically gambling with Tesla's future on a 50/50 chance.

[@perezcarballo7]

I didn't really get it, could you explain it to me?

[@Itsrooey_]

@@perezcarballo7 I can’t, sorry. If that isn’t clear enough then you need someone smarter than me to help.

[@Asha2820]

Oh darn. Elon doesn't understand multi-party democracy. 😅

[@Seff2]

He hardly understands anything...

[@Jeminids]

He might but he knows many of his followers don’t

[@daran0815]

Oh, he does, he is not Trump. He only lies like Trump.

[@ernisama3654]

@@Seff2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@bluesteel8376]

I think Musk is playing politics. He knows Trump is full of shit, but he also knows he can be a part of the government if Trump wins. He is purposely spreading misinformation.

[@mitchellradspinner4491]

Elon is a 60 year old Facebook aunt

[@BalthorYT]

That's disrespectful! ...to 60 yo Facebook aunts! At least they post Minion memes with their misinformation / bigotry!! Hahahaha :P

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

Who inherited an emerald mine and no proof of every achieving anything with his own efforts. Because when you start with this much money you start too big too fail.

[@icy_fire4080]

who transformed electric automobiles

[@GNMbg]

@@icy_fire4080 transformed the market, not the automobiles. And all thanks to government handouts, without them Tesla would have been long gone

[@jonhoge153]

Some guys he hired with his daddies emerald mine money ​@@icy_fire4080

[@marih5704]

This really aged like fine wine man

[@kingghidorah8106]

it is funny how elon musk is seen as a mad scientist when in reality he's just a rich kid that still believes in ghosts and pseudophysics.

[@cloudtdg389]

You don't believe in ghosts? They believe in us 😂

[@thebuilder5271]

He’s just modern day Thomas Edison, stealing shit and claiming it was his idea

[@scottll]

​@@thebuilder5271jealousy is a bitter trait.

[@yamchadragonball6983]

​@@thebuilder5271 more like Henry Ford

[@annmorgana2848]

isnt that the definition of a mad scientist?

[@Lyrictheac]

I'm a therapist, and it is so hard right now to try to encourage hope in my clients when I feel so little of it myself. It feels like we are on the edge of disaster with all the hate, outright lies, and just darkness in the world. November 5th is going to be an interesting day to say the least.

[@myboysd5772]

We are all completely f***ed and there is nothing we can do except enjoy the ride ❤ Nahh but seriously, its just social media and news in general, negativity gains more traction than positivity, things are not that bad honestly. We are living in the best times humanity has ever been in. Kinda : D

[@ssnowstarr4985]

A lot of mental health issues are caused or exacerbated by ongoing issues like poverty, climate change, and social issues. I imagine it's hard to be in that position because a lot of it is an understandable reaction to real events. My therapist is pretty understanding of the fact that many of my struggles are relating to feeling powerless and worried about the state of the world.

[@legionnaire5947]

As a therapist, I would hope you (and your clients) know that all of our lives go on largely unchanged on Nov. 5th. We overestimate how much power a US president has to influence our daily lives. Our focuses need to be pointed in the appropriate places, not solely on outrage...

[@lazypops3117]

this hits home for me. it is important to find your own support communities. MayII recommend Alfred Adler reading group, "what life could mean to you"

[@sharondesfor5151]

I didn't read Lyrictheac as meaning going forward with a new President. I read it as fear of social unrest on election day (and quite possibly during the two months following, culminating in the Congressional ratification on Jan 6.) There are so many lies and so much inflammatory rhetoric that people who refuse to research facts or consider consequences are far more likely this year to protest any election that doesn't mean a "win" for them. Violently. It already happened four years ago, I think it'll happen again.

[@burnte]

If you read any number of histories of the Nazi party in the 20s, Hitler ADMITTED he called his party Socialist only because it was in fashion in the 20s and he wanted to appeal to a wide group. He admitted he lied about being socialist. Nazis were never actually socialist and Hitler said so.

[@d_dave7200]

I believe there were actual socialists in the party at first, but they were murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.

[@bestlaptop_psn]

You would think his actions would speak for themselves that wasn't the case but I guess not

[@dboot8886]

People.still don't listen.

[@JRTFMSmithson]

@@bestlaptop_psn the problem is that so many people have been convinced that Hitler was a socialist that they believe socialism is facism and they point to Hitler as an example of why socialism is bad. In my experience most people actually believe it and some of them know better and are just using it as rhetoric.

[@bestlaptop_psn]

@@JRTFMSmithson yes. In fact most people don't even know the definitions for each

[@defnotthekgb8362]

6:50, as someone pursuing a degree in anthropology/archeology, there is actually some data to back this up. paleolithic societies did not seem to place nearly as much emphasis of sexual dimorphism in cultural rituals such as burial, or in specialization. Although the only actual information we have to suggest this is modern lithic societies, injuries on recovered paleolithic skeletons show a very similar rate of trauma related damage in male and female skeletons, suggesting at least they were often performing similar tasks. We know this is likely true because we see this well attested to in north American lithic societies as well as cultures still existing in primarily lithic modes of tool production(like some groups in the amazon). Even if there wasn't so much evidence in the form of injuries, it really just takes some thinking to understand this. think about the size of these paleolithic groups, most were about 300 individuals or slightly more. a good chunk of that 300 would be elderly, or young individuals, leaving much less healthy adults available for any given task. considering how often individuals would be injured, or sick that leaves even less from the "correct" age group. when you only have short windows to collect large amounts of food, everyone needs to be involved. we dont know exactly how women would have been included in this effort, although it is likely many of them did participate in the actual hunting, as well as drying and processing of carcasses. when you consider how sexually and economically egalitarian these kinds of societies tend to be, it becomes a lot less strange to consider that women and men would have worked together in hunting efforts(and likely, any task really). some basic sources: Harto Villén, Ana (2021) Funerary Practices in Western Europe from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic: A Multivariate Analysis. PhD thesis, University of York. E. Trinkaus, Late Pleistocene adult mortality patterns and modern human establishment, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Ocobock, Cara, and Sarah Lacy. 2024. “ Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”.” American Anthropologist this one is just a light reading article: www.scientificamerican.com/article/battered-skulls-reveal-violence/

[@humaux]

It is depressing to think about the amount of people who are willing to embrace the lies that are everywhere and abandon logic in support of hatred and greed.

[@Biggiecheese20]

So real

[@vixxcelacea2778]

We struggle to trust others, yet also in that same trust (which we lack) acknowledge that people can make mistakes and that treating that as okay, but still worthy of correction is a healthy interaction. It's actually okay to be wrong otherwise you can't learn from it. We're a very black and white society currently and a lot of fear concerns push us further to think that for safety reasons. Scared people don't think, they react.

[@skoniramont]

AUSTRIAN here! THANK YOU! For dedicating a huge chunk of you video to clear up the part about the right wing nazi successor party not beeing able to find a partner. Yes, they had a lot of votes, but over 70% of the country DID NOT VOTE them, and everyone refused to work with them stating that months in advance. The others may have different oppinions in how to run a country, but what they all agree on is, that populism, hatespeech, nazi rhetoric, defamation of minorities, and so on is NOT a way in which a country should be governed.

[@Xarx42]

I am happy the conservatives decided this way, however they worked together with the FPÖ in the past...

[@Beer_Dad1975]

Whereas America elects a rapist and convicted felon and says "Nah, it'll be fine!"

[@Grayson-tk5hn]

@@Beer_Dad1975 i still find it dumb that they let a criminal be the president

[@101-q6t]

A country does need rules and to be somewhat loyal to its citizens.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

@@Grayson-tk5hn IKR! In my country a politician trying to cover up their husbands misdeeds got thrown out of government, and that's how it should be! Anyone with that kind of power should be held to the highest ethical standards.

[@EveEvangel]

As Austrian I can confirm what you said and also add that the reason the far right wasn't able to form a government is that every single coalition partner straight up refused to work with their candidate because he is a nut job riding a wave of protest votes and Russian interference. Their agenda is to end the support for the Ukraine, close the borders (their slogan is 'fortress Austria'), leave the EU, end wokeness and everything else you can copy+paste from the Republican Party.

[@JasminemPolyanthum]

Tell the eventually formed Coalition Thank you on my behalf. Austria doesn't deserve more of that nonsense.

[@Goldfish_1313]

Aren‘t protest votes though. This narrative needs to stop

[@IceMetalPunk]

Last time an Austrian took over a government, closed borders, supported a war, marched against tolerance, and cut alliances with any political groups he deemed unworthy or impure... it didn't go well for the world. And eventually, it went extremely poorly for that man, too. I'm glad enough Austrian leaders still remember that enough to say "not again", but I'm concerned that the majority of Austrian voters have apparently forgotten it...

[@eshbena]

@@IceMetalPunk 23% is hardly a majority. Since 70% or more voted for other parties, it's obvious that while the nutjobs got more votes than were expected, the vast majority of Austrians were not in that camp.

[@frozenyogurth]

@@IceMetalPunk Yeah, Kickl straight up called himself "Volkskanzler" which is a title Hitler used for himself. You can't make this shit up. Everytime I saw FPÖ-election ads rage just ignited in me because they are so *obviously* using Nazi rethoric.

[@NWolfsson]

1:52 The first one having _the community note on his own app_ saying it's not a real article really drives it home for me.

[@hoo_maan8735]

Elon broke the 1st rule, he got high on his own supply

[@vybinvincent]

100%

[@antoniovital4298]

That's rule number 4, though

[@shakesrear7850]

@@antoniovital4298

[@CRneu]

his own farts?

[@whynot131313]

Don't think he's high, I think he's pushing product

[@richienolan660]

I am always fascinated with peoples (not all) readiness to believe super rich people are 1) honest/right and 2) have everyone else's best interest at heart.

[@JonBoneJonsey]

I am fascinated that some people think rich people have to know the absolute truth and never make mistakes.

[@77cluelesstooth]

I'm fascinated by people that think this doesn't apply generally to most people. The only people that can genuinely have your interest at heart is family. Any other expectations is just naive.

[@johannbauer2863]

@@77cluelesstooth Disagree. There are plenty of examples, where this isn't the case and where people sacrificed themselves for the betterment of the future. Also thinking that family is the place with your interest at heart is also just naive, as we can see with domestic violence.

[@77cluelesstooth]

@@johannbauer2863 I edited my reply. Please read it again so we can be on the same page. I see where my statement was lacking. I do not reject humanitarianism or aim to be cynical, although, in the context of the OP, it may come across that way. While I'd love to explain the sentiment behind my comment, I'll refrain from doing so, as it's admittedly kinda misplaced given the original context. However, I still believe that, generally, it’s wise to recognize that, unless driven by a higher purpose or goal, the only people who can genuinely have your best interests at heart are family.

[@ZZ-qy5mv]

It's probably because their religions teach them that the most good/godly people are gifted wealth in return. Don't ask me why they then think rich liberal Hollywood people are still evil though.

[@reynadelikat6410]

I really want this to become a whole series. Watching a scientist debunk misinformation is one of my favorites. Edit Can everyone who is in my replies debating take it elsewhere, you're not even talking about what I said.

[@enterpassword3313]

@@reynadelikat6410 the problem is his debunking isnt motivated by objectivity, its motivated by his realisation his political candidate was losing, so hes made A LOT of very basic mistakes. His analysis of no. 1 is basically backwards his complaints are so ironic

[@reynadelikat6410]

@enterpassword3313 I can see you found his video upsetting. I hope you manage to have a good day anyway 🙂

[@enterpassword3313]

@@reynadelikat6410 yes its upsetting because hank is supposed to be someone whos grounded in objectivity, but hes gone out of his way to mislead people under the false premise of fighting against disinformantion. So with no. 1, what in your opinion what is wrong with musks post? You honestly dont understand the problem with hanks reaction?

[@reynadelikat6410]

@@enterpassword3313 I didn't ask 😀

[@adweitaspams]

No. 1? I don't understand. You mean the first post he showed? ​@@enterpassword3313

[@Liam-o9e]

Generally in European politics you need 50%+ of the parliament on your side to start a government, obviously no other party wanted to go into government with the far right and so they couldn't get a majority

[@stevied667iswin]

When people say, "Nazi's were socialist, it's in the name!" Point them in the direction of the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"

[@authenticallysuperficial9874]

Do you really think "look at the name" is the only reason we know the Nazis were socialists?

[@Dejager3112]

Well de DPRK is indeed democratic in it's literal sense. Takes a while to explain

[@Silverwidows]

Russia was "socialist" as well, but it's a ruse to gain power for the real dictatorship to begin

[@jazzabighits4473]

democratic and republic lol

[@tomjohnson37]

The Nazis were socialist. They were fascist socialists. the idea that you can't have a fascist socialist government is incorrect.

[@kp.the.writer]

Lies I once believed - Elon Musk is intelligent. Elon Musk wants to help people. Elon Musk knows what he's doing. Elon Musk is my hero. MAN, was I WRONG!

[@ikeikeforty]

Intelligent people can believe dumb things. Elon has forgotten more about engineering than most people will ever know.

[@ZemplinTemplar]

It takes a genuinely intelligent and emphathetic person to admit "I made a mistake. I was wrong. I should have judged certain people more strictly, not with starry-eyed, rose-tinted glasses". I applaud you for being able to admit that you were wrong about a person like Musk, that you severely idealized him beyond any reasonable boundaries, and that you realized your mistake and maturely decided not to continue in that mistake. This is key. Thinking complexly, thinking maturely, thinking critically, utilizing our conscience and ethics and empathy. Not blindly following someone and thinking he can do no wrong. Not blindly following someone, in a childish, black-and-white, all-or-nothing, us-vs-them, cult-like mindset. This is very important. I'm very, very glad you realized Musk isn't what some projected on him (as their hopes) and that you need to view the person through critical optics, from a healthy distance, and not worship this person. Recently, Dr. Steve Hassan interviewed Dr. Cindy Blackstock. She made a wonderful observation at one point in the second half of the interview - and I quote: "When politics becomes an identity, I don't vote for those people. I vote for ideas, not for political identities or political parties." kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Ddhqysgaiff6s Words to live by. I have the exact same personal philosophy, and I'm now grateful to Mrs. Blackstock for putting it so succinctly. Humanity, empathy, reason. Not fanaticism.

[@elmerdeleeuw1569]

@@ikeikeforty The little twat never learned shit, never made his OWN money and never actually BUILT anything. All he can do is buy, buy, buy. With his family's blood diamond money. Even his own father admits as much. Elon is the only idjit that doesn't.

[@hunger4wonder]

@@ZemplinTemplar This is one of the best comments i have ever seen on this platform. Probably *the best* comment i have ever seen. "vote for ideas, not for political identities or political parties."

[@churblefurbles]

@@ikeikeforty Sums up this channel, but without the engineering knowledge to be forgotten.

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

Elon Musk making so many claims of election interference and then basically paying people to vote for Trump is incredible.

[@SPYK3O]

Not a thing, but sure, go off 😂

[@missoats8731]

To keep up with the theme of this video. He's not directly paying them to vote for Trump. But yeah, he's clearly trying to influence the outcome by giving people large amounts of money.

[@3nertia]

@@NotEnoughAttention Where is your evidence that he isn't? It's not really a far stretch for Elon Musk to do something like this and the only ones that would be surprised by this would be those simping for him (sycophants) because they put him and his ego on a god-like pedestal ...

[@nuknukisdead]

Did you watch the video? Truth is important. Don't spread misinformation. He's not paying people to vote for Trump, he's paying people through a lottery system where participants enter with their voter registration information. Basically, only people registered to vote can enter his contest to win the money. He doesn't require them to vote for Trump. However, this may still be illegal as it is in a grey area. There are statutes that prevent you from paying people to vote (even if you don't pay them to vote for a specific candidate), but he's not directly doing that. The DOJ and FBI are both investigating his contest. The DOJ has already sent a warning letter stating that it might be illegal, but has not confirmed as such yet.

[@niklasderzwote]

​@NotEnoughAttention what's incredible is you denying it. Being a fanboy make you blind for reality?

[@antonbeer]

One fun fact about the Austria tweet: In 1999 the Socil Democratic Party won the election, but since they couldn’t form a Government the Conservative Party and the Right wing Party that won the election this year got to run the government

[@EuropeanEmpireEU]

In Austria (and basically every European country afaik, the political system works differently than in the U.S. In the U.S., you usually have two major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, and one of them wins the election and can govern because they get enough votes to have a majority. In Austria, however, we have many different parties, not just two. In an election, no party usually gets over 50 percent of the vote by itself. This means no single party has enough support to form the government alone. This is where the concept of “coalitions” comes in. Imagine in the U.S., the Republicans got only 30 percent of the vote, the Democrats 25 percent, and other smaller parties each got 15 or 10 percent. No one would have enough votes to govern alone. In Austria, the parties would then have to work together to form a majority, meaning they need more than 50 percent of the vote combined. This is called a “coalition.” So, even if a party gets the most votes, they can’t automatically govern unless they have enough support. They need to team up with other parties. But sometimes, other parties don’t want to work with the party that got the most votes because they find their ideas too extreme or too different. In your example, the FPÖ (a far-right party in Austria) got 28.8 percent of the vote, but that’s far from the 50 percent they need. Since the FPÖ is considered extreme, other parties don’t want to form a coalition with them. This means that the second- and third-place parties might team up to form the government, as long as they have more than 50 percent together. It’s not just about who gets the most votes, but about who can find enough partners to reach over 50 percent and lead the government. Now, imagine there are four parties in a U.S. election: 1. The “Biden Party” (moderate Democrats): They get 25 percent of the vote. These are people who lean toward the center and want moderate left-wing policies. 2. The “Romney Party” (moderate Republicans): They get 30 percent of the vote. These are moderate conservatives who aren’t as far right. 3. The “Sanders Party” (progressive left): They get 20 percent of the vote. This party supports very progressive ideas like free healthcare and education. 4. The “Trump Party” (far-right conservatives): They get 25 percent of the vote. This party holds strongly right-wing positions. None of these parties has more than 50 percent of the vote. This means none of them can govern alone. Now, the parties must form coalitions to get a majority, meaning over 50 percent. • The Biden Party could team up with the Sanders Party. Together, they would have 45 percent. But that’s still not enough, so they might need to bring in a few moderate Republicans to get over 50 percent. • The Romney Party could also try to form a coalition. They might work with the Biden Party, even though they don’t completely agree on everything, but together they’d have 55 percent and could govern. • The Trump Party would have a hard time because many of the other parties would find their ideas too extreme and wouldn’t want to form a coalition with them. Even though they have 25 percent, it’s not enough, and they can’t find partners to get a majority. This coalition system forces parties to make compromises and work together to reach over 50 percent. It prevents a more extreme party from governing alone because they can’t get enough support.

[@benjamingardner5277]

Why is a coalition to reach majority mandatory though? Canada often has a minority run government, who may form coalitions to make things easier. But a majority isn't necessary for Government to form after the election. The party leader whose party received the most seats in the election is the Prime Minister. They only have to maintain confidence of the House. Meaning there isn't a successful vote of no confidence.

[@MrMaltavius]

Romney Party wouldn't work with the Biden party, they would work with the Trump party and govern and we'd have the Blue vs Red anyway.

[@DanDanDoe]

Great explanation, thank you!

[@fka-Kaya]

Only problem is, when moderate republicans and far right conservatives aren´t all that far apart and take over together, which in Austria the FPÖVP already did several times in the past, might still be doing nationally currently and ARE doing in several counties right now (and more to come probably). It´s also naive to believe the Romney part of Republicans would get 30% and maga only 25, the FPÖ just got almost 30% nationally too (and not for the first time either). The most discouraging about this whole situation in regards to Austria specifically, is that we already HAVE free education, yet people still vote for a bunch of lies and conspiracies, that use some marginalized group of "others" to blame for their problems, when actually it´s people like Musk, who are the real issue.

[@helenjohnston3178]

Minority governments need enough support from others via different mechanisms to get votes passed. There is also normally a 'vote of no confidence' option that can trigger new elections if all the other parties gang up on the ruling minority party.

[@stldiva76]

Ai has made me double my efforts to seek answers instead of believing ANYTHING I read online.

[@thatoneguy9582]

hey, at least that means one good thing came out of ai!

[@Biggiecheese20]

AI generation is everywhere, I hate it so much. A simple Google search, images, for some reason online articles, food brands, and of course music and art related shit. A waste of AI, we could literally see those things in real life, why fabricate an image

[@vixxcelacea2778]

@@Biggiecheese20 I'm enthusiastic about AI, but I can absolutely agree with your stance here. Especially because it's not always obvious or declared that something is AI generated.

[@TGIFridayy]

Saying that the Nazis were socialist is like saying the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic

[@aedandotcom]

This is a great example, I'm gonna use this

[@stephenpaul7499]

Even of the Nazis were socialist, their socialism was not the problem. (I'm no die hard socialist, just saying)

[@drehherd7394]

​@stephenpaul7499 yes but we don't really need to deal with this hypothetical since it is still not true (as you pointed out). There is also a debate about what socialist in the NS even meant. Despite the propapganda theory it might have meant "working together as a white race", so it was also the problem.

[@wesshiflet2214]

north korea has a more plausible claim to being democratic than the nazis do to being socialist lol.

[@Abedeuss]

@@drehherd7394 Even the "white race" part had an asterisk for them. "White race" was basically Germans, and that's it. Jews, obviously they hated. Then Polish people and other Slavs. They'd have went after the Italians and Spaniards too if they hadn't fucked up in USSR. Eventually every nationality and race and creed would be wiped out besides Germans.

[@carmineshannon4352]

we need to bring the word factoid back--> factoid, like humanoid, means something that is /like/ a fact, often something in print, that is misconstrued as fact. imo the loss of this word (usually used like fun fact) has made English speakers less equip to question what they read

[@beecurse7993]

when i did the connections today my first thought was "damn i wish hank filmed himself doing this one, i bet he is gonna love it"

[@mattbuchanan4330]

I feel your pain, Buddy. The stupidity and sheer manipulation of the public just gets to me sometimes.

[@LscottGD]

remember it doesn't matter how smart you are, if you were brought up misinformed you most likely will be 'stupid'

[@rampagegamingg8434]

It should anger anone who sees it for what it is. It angers me to my core to see the level of ignorance amd blatant apathy for learning the truth. Everyone thinks the truth they believe somehow makes them in the know amd smarter than everyone else. Like they see something no1 else sees. They think they are in on the joke.

[@ayoutubechannelname]

That’s the attention economy my dude. Tech companies are literally incentivized to mass produce engagement. Being right without being controversial is mundane and will not sell clicks. The more emotional people get, rightfully or not, the better it is for the Tech Bros. Welcome to the machine, cog.

[@devanarayans5131]

​@Lscott-fk2sn Applies Even if YN were brought up belirtrggcndw was "spectrum"

[@Ilamarea]

You are also stupid and easily manipulated. It's an evolutionary quality of our species; group inclusion was always more important for survival than reason so we evolved to be prone to shared delusions. Why do you think elections are always 50/50 if not for the fact that the exact same mechanism is affecting everybody?

[@FunkyJay]

What you explained within the first minute of this video is something that I think is severely lacking these days on social media. It is truly crushing how many people reshare things without even thinking before posting it.

[@Mentocthemindtaker]

It's severely lacking in news media as well, which is an even more crucial and critical issue.

[@hannahmcbride7670]

The silence at the end is deafening. Thank you Hank for your willingness to engage in challenging conversations.

[@ERFMXVCC]

I thought this was one of those clickbait-y videos of like "here's six lies you didn't know elon musk believed in!", then I saw the "(in the last 24 hours)", and then also noticed it was a new upload from Hank, now I'm very intrigued

[@88porpoise]

Went through the same thought process. There are very few people that I would have clicked on for this. I know Hank has some insights behind things and isn't just regurgitating "Look at the stupid, haha"

[@timstadlmueller58]

If Hank's willing to face the heat for putting this out, you *know* it's important.

[@BlackSun404]

1:45 The article may not have been real, but the message absolutely is. As a German, I DARE you to look up how H got into that position of power in the first place, and the way he talked in the years leading up to that. T literally quoted H in at least one of his rallies. Also wants "generals like H had". Both planted judges. Both had a failed run like your 6th, which mirrors the 9th Nov after which H was locked up and spent that time writing his famous book (you know the one). After he got out, he managed to get into office, proper. T just didn't get locked up, and didn't write a book. But he does seem to closely follow the handbook that H left behind, and seems to be horrifyingly successful doing it. But pointing that out just earns emotional responses. Y'all learned the fundamentally wrong lesson from WW II. It's not, be the hero that defeats the obvious monster. Rather, don't slowly become that monster yourself because the road there is a very, very subtle one and it happens so easily, like the boiling frog metaphor. Look at the state you're all in, right at each others throats, everyone is charged and primed. Look me in the eye, and tell me how that's fine. The dissonance is worryingly real.

[@flyingpugs3678]

Exactly. Hitler was only able to gain power because the people around him either thought they could use him or that he wouldn’t follow through with what he said. Nobody took him seriously until he was too powerful to oppose.

[@hamdepaf6686]

Oh H was also supported by rich capitalists fearing that socialist movements would take away some of their power.

[@pwwamankament]

I doubt Hitler wrote that book. I think history has given us enough material to show we only see puppets not the masters, but on this I'm proven wrong again and again.

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

@@hamdepaf6686 who mostly STAYED RICH btw, for anyone curious.

[@ewweg]

Yes i also remember when Hitler got power and then didn't do anything bad until he was reelected, oh wait... Also saying stuff like "he said the same thing Hitler said" says nothing, you might as well say Hitler breathed air, u breath air, E.G. ur now Hitler. If u actually mean what u wrote u would be a lot more worried about the democrats fx how they have tried to sensor and controle information like on facebook and twitter or are against voter ID.

[@MoonFrogg]

I love the straight transition into playing Connections instead of dealing with more BS from twitter hahaha. I'm everyday more grateful to have people like you analyzing and reporting on factual literacy in media, great video Hank!

[@mastermaguku7818]

Haven't seen you on tiktok for a bit so im happy to see your doing well

[@penguin32383]

I would not agree that Elon "believed" these stories. If they are true, or even if he believed it, is completely irrelevant. For Musk, all that matters is: "does this information benefit me?" and "will people believe it?"

[@xanderwusky]

I agree, same with Trump. I do not think he actually believes immigrants eat dogs and I do think he knows he as don’t most of what he is accused of. Just if he admits that he would currently be in jail, while if he doesn’t apparently that gets you a good shot at becoming president again somehow.

[@googiegress]

At first I didn't want to agree with you. But after mulling it over, I think it's a reasonable interpretation. Which is to say, I'd be fine being on the fence between "he believes the things" and "he might believe them or not but regardless he's doing it to be manipulative". I think, in general, the types of approaches a person would take in leading their life while holding either of those two interpretations would be similar.

[@gogeta667]

Many Democrats pushed the hoax that Trump faked his own assassination. Many of them still believe many things that are simply untrue. Harris keeps repeating lies as well. The Fine People Hoax, the 'Hitler' hoax, and etc. Hell, Biden stated outright that he only started his campaign because of the Fine People Hoax.

[@TinyShaman]

My observation might not be entirely accurate, but I think that the beginning of his very rapid right-wing shift corresponded with his frustration with California's regulations and restrictions during COVID-19, and it all went downhill from there. He strikes me as a guy who doesn't take no for an answer and has a rather erratic character, so his frustration might have easily turned from "factory not working bad" to "democratic governor bad" to "liberals bad" to "Trump is a good friend to have" to "I'm dark MAGA." 🤷🏻‍♂ Again, I might be wrong or oversimplifying, but it look like that. So yes, point is, he doesn't really believe those tweets. It's a... um, work necessity.

[@johnnye87]

Ah, he's a Bullshitter™

[@ChroniclogicalJeff]

If we could convert bullshit into jet fuel, Elon fuel a rocket to Mars and back, no problem.

[@Thomas-uc4sg]

maybe that's why he thought he could get people there 2 years ago

[@QuinnOsgood-c9v]

Musk could turn his ability to fail upward into a propulsion system

[@snooganslestat2030]

Underrated comment!!

[@ThatOpalGuy]

@@QuinnOsgood-c9v space elevator to uranus!

[@Lady8D]

No kidding! Between him & trump the energy crisis would be solved with tons left over for indefinite growth - if we could only turn their BS into fuel

[@DwarfFeats]

The average political literacy of the united states citizen is honestly terrifying.

[@marksmanmerc1]

We're genuinely marching towards our doom with his divorced from reality the majority of us are.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

Ironically, naturalized US citizens have good knowledge of civics and history since they need it to pass the citizenship test. I wish all presidential candidates had to take the test (it's administered orally) on live tv.

[@FacitOmniaVoluntas.]

There are approximately 50 million Trump voters in America and Musk has 200 million followers. What I’m trying to say is that many if not most of Musk’s followers are not American. Media illiteracy and low intelligence are global issues.

[@rad_rex]

@@rhyothemisprinceps1617 If that is true, than that more funny. Naturalized americans are more closer to americans in later half of 1900's.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

@@rad_rex If you are curious, you can see what is covered on the US citizenship test by searching on 'US citizenship test guide'; you will find documentation on how to study for it provided by the USCIS. I looked into it since I am a Canadian with permanent resident status and was considering finally becoming a US citizen. I decided against - maybe b/c I secretly hope to get deported and my US citizen spouse who hates snow will have to move to Canada.

[@simonstalberg1842]

The austria thing is pretty interisting. If i understand it correctly it sound like it works the same as here in sweden. I will try my best to explain it. Instead of the legislative and the enforcing part of the government being two different separate branches, the enforcing part, including the prime minister, is an extension of the legislative. So after every election, the biggest political party gets a chance from the speaker to put together a coalition that will have to be voted through the parlament in order to become legitimate. That's why even though our second biggest political party "moderaterna" has been able to appoint a prime minister numerous times even though "socialdemokraterna" has always been the biggest party in terms of votes. What I assume happened in Austria is that the far right party was so extreme that no one wanted to cooperate with them so they couldn't gain a majority in the perlament. We've had similar experiences of thet in sweden as well. Hope this helped someone even though it's a bit long :)

[@EZOnTheEyes]

I know you get lots of Love comments but I feel in this current situation with the next few weeks, this video is incredibly important. Thank you hank.

[@lisaashely7498]

Agree. Thank you!

[@AmyZonkers]

I don't think youtube videos mudslinging at political opponents is particularly important in any capacity.

[@ahall9839]

@@AmyZonkers "Mudslinging"? He just exposed multiple blatant lies that the wealthiest person on the planet just intentionally spread on one of the largest social networks that he took over in order to do this very thing, while suppressing opposing thought which will dramatically effect the most important election in history. But yeah, "mudslinging".

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

@@AmyZonkers Fact checking is "mudslinging" to you? Tells a lot about yourself.

[@jijitters]

@@AmyZonkers In addition to this not being "mudslinging," everyone should be alarmed by you (and people like you) referring to Elon Musk as a "political opponent." He is not, and should not be given the respect or power of one! This is bad!

[@homandbackyard008]

No. he knew those were lies. He just propagates them.

[@AugustSlaughter]

I feel like you give him too much credit, dudes a moron with far too much money

[@violetly_]

@@AugustSlaughterhe's definitely intelligent, but his actions are ruled by his emotions.

[@RyanPocketFluet]

He’s also a raging Ketamine addict so that might have something to do with it.

[@qwest9227]

doubtful to say that he knows they're lies, but he never fact checks anything as long as it aligns with his politics. much like literally every other right wing talking head.

[@enterpassword3313]

@@homandbackyard008 you mean like how hank knows the atlantic actually has been publishing a lot of articles making this comparison with trump? Oops, dont mention, just try and convince everyone its "fake" and dont mention the relevant context... that honest? Right? This whole video is such a transparent attempt to shill for a losing candidate

[@ExperimentarEnCasa]

Brought to you by the ministry of Truth, by a woke cancer survivor. What a time to be alive! My the real God have mercy on us and put end to this clown nonsence ASAP.

[@muffinconsumer4431]

6.63M subs? When did you buy this account lmaoooo

[@Willybillyminjay]

THIS MAN IS GOING TO BE IN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE AND HE CAN’T EVEN FIGURE OUT FAKE NEWS ON HIS OWN PLATFORM 😭😭😭😭😭

[@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b]

You have no room to talk if you voted for Kamala 😂 she can’t even fake a photo op well

[@qwest9227]

@@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b who would you rather vote for big boy?

[@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b]

@@qwest9227 Trump 🥳 already have peace deals happening

[@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b]

@ Trump 🎉

[@Femtoisbackandbetter-g1b]

@ we already have peace deals happening :)

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

An example for Americans on what the Austrian government thing is if in the US the various political parties were to split into 2-3 parties each (and/or the current “minor parties” that never get elected at the national level actually got people to vote for them instead of the Democrats or Republicans.) So let’s say we had congress made up of members of the Republicans, Democrats, Green, Libertarians, Working Families, and Constitution parties. Constitution gets 28% of the seats. Democrats get 26%, Green get 20%, Working Families got 9%, Republicans 8%, LIbertarian 7%. You’d think “Constitution got the most! They should get to make the government!” But they’re a fairly far-right party. And even with Republicans and Libertarian, they only make up 43%. So even if they convince the entire Republican and Libertarian to join them, they’re STILL in the minority. The Democrats + Working Families + Green, on the other hand, make up 54%. So those three making a coalition would have a majority, and get to control the government. Take the US Senate, for example. There are only 47 Democrats in the Senate. They don’t actually hold a majority. The Republicans have more with 49! Our Senate is currently run by “a coalition”. The 47 Democrats plus 4 Independent who formed the coalition with the Democrats. If the Republicans were to lure even two independents away, the Republicans could control the Senate. (Of the four independent, three are “firmly liberal”, two of them have run as Democrats previously; one is formerly a “centrist” Democrat who went independent.)

[@GiladPellaeon]

As a German (our system is nearly identical to that in Austria) i can say that this is a great comparison and explanation of the Coalition government. Only because one party got the most votes it does not automatically mean, that they can form the government. Since nobody wants to build a coalition government with the far right in Austria, why would the President give them the decree to form a coalition? Elmo can be as angry about it as he wants, but this is how the system works here when you have more than two parties that can have an impact in the political system.

[@Apple-rt3uh]

This is a great explanation! Thank you!

[@llynxfyre]

Funny seeing Americans being stumped by this (I am Australian and the house of reps work in a similar fashion) how much does the American education system cover other forms of government?

[@jacobisbell9388]

So this just a guess from me knowing history and how politics work, but I'm guessing there aren't a lot of far right politicians and parties in Austria, which means the vote for them is less divided compared to parties that share a lot of ideology, but they don't really have any "friends" in politics.

[@Sientir]

@@llynxfyre American here, and I don't recall learning in school about how any other governmental system actually works. Which, on reflection, is a massive oversight. Granted, I've not been in the public school system for...let's go with "a long while," and not everywhere is gonna have identical curriculum, so maybe things are better now, at least in some places?

[@atp_3249]

goddamn, that last conclusion was...... super depressing.

[@tcriswell81]

Once you realize the behavior is intentional, then you start to wonder why would someone want to deceive others like this. Then you think about people in history who have also done this. That is when you realize how dangerous Elon has become. And we saw Hank internalize that live.

[@ericstaples7220]

What is more depressing is the misinformation he spread by making this video. He is wrong in most of his fact checking.

[@jaiden9204]

@@ericstaples7220 Care to elaborate?

[@ericstaples7220]

@@jaiden9204 Uh, Germany was socialist in WW2, raising the debt ceiling does pump more debt into the economy, ect. This guy is using mental gymnastics to justify his hate for Elon is all.

[@seraph8]

@@jaiden9204 He does not. He's apparently in pretty much every comment thread in the section for this video, just being a general contrarian troll. Pay him no mind, he has nothing of value to offer.

[@jabuhrer1]

This is like fact-checking a bully’s fist as it punches you in the face.

[@horrovac]

Endurance cyclist here. Women absolutely do compete at an equal level. There are just not that many of them (yet). But once they start competing in numbers, us dudes are screwed. Most notoriously, Fiona Kolbinger won the international endurance race in 2019, with TEN HOURS advantage on the second best. She also took part in the Paris-Brest-Paris where I was too, and it was not even a suggestion of a competition. She was on her back leg before I was a quarter in. Women very likely are equal or better than man in endurance sports. The reason most commonly given is that the female metabolism is much better at converting fat reserves to energy than the male metabolism. I might have lost about 6 or 7 kilos during this 3-day-event, but I was still a fat fart after it - wit t**ts probably bigger then hers, because she'll have used hers up for propulsion. Raw performance doesn't matter. I'd probably decisively outsprint her, or leave her behind on a climb, but then I'd drop dead while she continues on to the finish. Don't laugh at women in (endurance) sports, because they'll be kicking all our butts before you know it.

[@sntslilhlpr6601]

You have a way with words, my friend. Converting boobs into rocket fuel is a novel idea to me.

[@klug24]

@ULTRAOutdoorsman to say women are inherently worse when it has been actually proven that they aren't, that humans are one of the least sexually dimorphic species, and that it indeed *is* true that most of the failures of women in sport has to do with bad trainers, harassment or starvation is sexist. men and women are not two different species.

[@ViewingChaos]

To also add, women aren't socialised heavily towards sports. That drastically makes a huge difference on the number that do participate, and the even fewer amount of women that excel in a given endurance sport. We'd be able to make better judgement on the biological differences in such a event- when there's an even amount of women participating

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@klug24 garentuee that man went to the wikipedia found a man and then that was it. Will have never competed or even care about the sport. He just wants to degrade women's achievement.

[@sarah.s.flanagan]

People also really underestimate how much competition drives people to do better. If you're well in the lead in your heat (separated by age, gender, previous race times, etc) you aren't going to push yourself as hard as when you're neck and neck with a competitor

[@prof.marius9379]

Hey, I'm Austrian, and here's the thing: stuff like this has happened before. First off, our president is mostly a ceremonial figure with limited actual power, except for dissolving the government and giving the mandate to form a new one (along with a few other responsibilities). In Austria, you need 92 mandates to form a government. If you don't have that on your own, you need to partner with other political parties. The far-right party is strong, but no other party right now in Austria wants to work with them. Their leader, Kickl, was quite aggressive before the election, and in my opinion, he's simply not competent enough to form a functioning government. So, the president had discussions with all the parties, asking repeatedly if they could work with Kickl. Every time, the answer was no. Given that, he did the only reasonable thing and gave the mandate to a party that can actually form a government. Otherwise, we would've had to wait for Kickl to fail-which he probably would have-leaving us without a government for several months, which isn’t ideal. I find it funny when the American right complains about this. Not only do they not understand how our system works, but 70% of Austrians actually opposed the far-right FPÖ winning. So, in the end, this process is more democratic. Just because you get the most votes doesn’t mean you automatically get to rule.

[@tristan7216]

Americans have a first past the post voting system and two parties, so one always wins a majority. We are unfamiliar with coalition politics and some of us don't realize that and shoot off our mouths about things we don't understand. Sorry 🤦.

[@ZashaMoon]

Hank Green fact checking Elon Musk was definitely not on my 2024 bingo card

[@benford1726]

Honestly? Feels like it should have been

[@joansmit5782]

From wiki: “In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style of writing, thereby diminishing the appreciation of the prose overall. Purple prose is characterized by the excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors.”

[@plufim]

His allegience is to all the taxpayer dollars he's been promised if Trump wins

[@katgod]

He is addicted to taxpayer money. This is a large reason why tesla has been so successful. $7500.00 rebate to those that owe a lot in taxes and buy a Tesla. Credits from other car companies that didn't or don't make electric vehicles. Without those I am pretty sure he would not have been successful and of course the occasional lie about self driving cars.

[@Quintonias]

​​@@AmyZonkersya know who could really use those spacebucks instead? Those guys who got us to the moon and parked a van on Mars. Also, Harris ain't in charge yet lmao

[@gsteezy39]

@@AmyZonkers dude… you watched this video (or maybe you didn’t), and then decided to comment something you believed that is wrong without fact checking yourself first. Trump claimed $1B was stolen from FEMA to deal with migrants. This is wrong, FEMA and the White House put out statements saying this is false. The disaster relief fund and the two funds for dealing with migrants are funded separately. Stop parroting bullshit.

[@anniejuan1817]

@@AmyZonkers "...Harris administration..." I really appreciate how you are speaking the future into existence. It's not the Harris administration yet. But on Jan 20 2025, it WILL be!!

[@angellacanfora]

Actually, Trump pledged to reduce and/or eliminate regulatory oversight, the kind that get Elon into hot water. Below is a list of fed lawsuits filed against Musk's companies; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration vs. Tesla Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Tesla SEC vs. Musk National Labor Relations Board vs. Tesla U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service vs. SpaceX U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York vs. Tesla Federal Trade Commission vs. Tesla Department of Justice vs. SpaceX Federal Aviation Administration vs. SpaceX Musk said that if Kamala wins, he's "fucked."

[@JackDD]

I like it when they refer to him as Barack _Hussein_ Obama. "oooOOOooohh! He's a Muslim, we decided!"

[@Chrnan6710]

It's such a cheap trick to ignite the inner Islamophobe in their base, why don't they call Trump "DONALD JOHN TRUMP" as often?

[@WhiskerDooz]

Identity politics are TIGHT!

[@adamgates1142]

He's a terrorist! Same name as Saddam? Coincidence?

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

As if "Barack" and "Obama" weren't ""exotic"" enough... 😄

[@lilpetz500]

Right? Like, when his middle name is brought into this, and no one else has their middle name brought up, it isn't worth the time. You just know that the arguer's real goal is to delegitimise that former president using weaponised ties to Muslims.

[@kaylaabenna]

Rarely do I leave a comment on a video, but I want this to be recommended to more people. This was important.

[@aatpg-vx5xm]

Second this

[@smsmsmsmsmsm]

Yeah I’ve never really watched hanks KZbin and this was a great video to make me watch more

[@IGoByKade]

Elon makes shit posts as a part of his job, he's not this ignorant 😙😙

[@TalysAlankil]

i'm just floored that you didn't know what purple prose is, it feels like such a common phrase to me. but then again i am a fanfiction writer lol

[@yuiitodoro7791]

I literally can't write a story man , how do u do it ? Do u daydream stories ??

[@garethbarnett6389]

6:44 Ultra runner here. Absolutely true that women out perform men in ultra endurance events. 100 milers 200 milers, triathlons, adventure racing.

[@TheSawyert]

Could it be that men have more fast twitch muscles than women? Fast twitch muscles are good for quick movements, but tire quickly.

[@talyahr3302]

Makes sense nature would balance that out. Men outperform in Strength events, women get the performance in endurance. Probably helps women if they can outrun bad men trying to get them.

[@jaimepujol5507]

@@talyahr3302 we're talking ultra endurance, no one is going to be chased during hundreds of km xD

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@pineapple7024 they are not though. a lot of the probably wrong assumptions that only men hunted in Paleolithic times comes from observing modern tribal cultures.

[@RunningMan1414]

I'm sorry but that's not an entirely correct representation of the truth. Some women indeed are the overall winners in some ultra endurance events, but that's almost always because of the depth of the men's field in the particular event. No woman is winning Kona, Western States or UTMB if the top 200 men & women show up at the starting line unless some freak coincidence that affect only the men happens.

[@blake..-]

One lie Hank Green believed: 12:13 Elon Musk “does a lot of cool stuff” when in fact he has failed upwards his entire career while taking credit for the work of actually intelligent engineers and scientists

[@sasho_b.]

Its called a meritocracy. The more merited a person, the more money. Thats why Marie Curie worked under a staircase and Tomas Edison made money by slapping a patent on another persons invention (in fairness not really but he is the go-to illustrative example of a businessman taking the works of others; better example for rich parasites would be the british monarchy or the Koch brothers)

[@r3dp9]

Enabling intelligent people is a valuable skill, even if the individual doing so isn't traditionally considered intelligent.

[@ZannyAisling]

@@r3dp9he barely even does that, though.

[@baore2422]

@@ZannyAisling SpaceX is a pretty glaring example of this. Im not saying Elon is a Thomas Edison or Da Vinci or even a particularly talented businessman, but he must be hiring the right people considering how far ahead they are compared to NASA and Blue Origin. For a time the same could be said about Tesla, though the competition seems to have caught up.

[@UserName-pi9no]

That's not true. He is unfortunately very competent.

[@Chaincat115]

Can I just say that I love how your "backdrop" is just a lived-in room. I feel like I'm at a friend's house having a fun conversation about some crazy rich guy's delirium.

[@spacecadet8612]

Purple prose is a "flowery" way of writing a narrative (in fiction). So sort of poetic, often considered kitsch. I looked it up to make sure, it is described as "prose that is too elaborate or ornate".