The Problem With Elon Musk

The Billionaire Who’s Not Like Other Billionaires
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Is Elon Musk a net positive or negative for society? We spoke to people he’s worked with and researched his childhood, past business ventures like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X (formerly known as Twitter), and what he’s currently working on to answer this question.
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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
00:00 Intro
01:34 The Rise
04:29 The X Factor
12:05 Musk’s Playbook
21:23 The Pivot
22:48 Twitter
38:07 Conclusion
41:10 Credits
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[@johnnyharris]

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[@gozfit5410]

How is this video 1m ago, and u send this 10 days ago. is my screen glitched lol

[@nattybelay9747]

Daniel 7 KJV - ዳንኤል 14: And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

[@nattybelay9747]

Daniel 7 KJV - ዳንኤል 14: And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

[@JMArchives]

@@nattybelay9747 abortion is evil and pride is a sin

[@BIGprepper]

You and Elon musk are both government pawns

[@AmitSingh-jj7ho]

Pls make the same kind of video for Bill Gates

[@goden8884]

Bill Gates is on another level of megalomaniac.

[@hydoffdhagaweyne1037]

He will make it

[@user-qo8xj7bx2b]

his ture devil

[@AdminXLSD]

Do it, you won't 😂

[@AureusApps]

Bet he won't

[@RickyRyanRay]

The fact that they didn’t name his perfume “Elon’s Musk” makes me sad

[@nasheofficial]

Broo such a waste😭😭

[@IRosamelia]

The perfume should have been musk scented too. What's the use of burned hair scented perfume? 😅 Even Kramer's Beach perfume was a better idea 😂

[@WhizPill]

Lol disgusting

[@Marc_Gagne]

Who would buy this so-called perfume?

[@IRosamelia]

@@Marc_Gagne your mom 😜

[@jackreacher4297]

86k likes /20k dislikes for those who cant see the dislike button due to censorship.

[@FRM101]

how did you come by this Intel?

[@TheSmiesko]

​@@FRM101there should be some extensions, before it was visible in the app.

[@GamerBoyRobby]

You don't know that. I imagine there are more dislikes

[@menocorde]

The 20k figure is from the dislike database not youtube's. Imagine if the button actually showed youtube's dislike count.

[@danieldsantiagorodriguez4955]

​@@FRM101There's browser extentions that lets you see them.

[@sourshoes1465]

Artificial amplification of one persons tweets is no different than censoring someone else’s.

[@GSRCAOR]

I dislike that at the beginning of the video you suggest there will be interviews with former employees and even show a 5 sec clip of one. Yet, for there are none throughout the remainder of the video. I watched this whole 40 min ordeal just to not even see that part that had me interested in the first place. After scanning your references, they don't appear to be in there either. So idk why even bring them up in the video if you don't actually reference them or showcase them in any part of the video.

[@joes.customs]

First comment I saw that actually brought this up, legit thought I missed this too

[@BioTheHuman]

Thanks man, I forgot about them in mid-video 💀

[@dragondragon5974]

I was also surprised and disappointed that they weren't in the video

[@jtaylorb88]

Bait and switch, he's no better than all the other news outlets.

[@yossarian67]

Lame! Unsubscribing due to lack of integrity

[@zuferik]

Musk after watching this video: How much for KZbin ?

[@crow578]

Why? I'm a quarter of the way through & it seems like a puff piece. I've heard many of Musk's lies repeated verbatim with no critical analysis...

[@the0ne809]

he does not have the money to buy youtube. he literally had to borrow 13 billion in other to buy twitter and sell billions in shares. KZbin costs a lot more.

[@LestatTravesty]

i hope so! i'd do a got dam legit back flip if that ever happened lol

[@watup3494]

He is working with Turkish government.

[@tw8464]

Nailed it

[@jocelynmanwill4333]

The whole Twitter and Tesla push is easily explained...data, data, data.

[@RCL802]

Glossed over how he became ceo of tesla...

[@LarryBert87]

I want to see Ground news bias meter on this one

[@user-wj9si6wu8n]

Exactly why I decided to watch a video from this guy

[@bseffrood]

From the first few minute it’s not looking good for Johnny.

[@JordanAF808]

I wonder why he never mentioned the failed hyperloop, instead he’s distracted by being the last person to figure out the boring company joke. P.s. it’s just another tunnel boring company, he didn’t innovate shit.

[@ryanwould6597]

This video is indeed biased.

[@thulyblu5486]

@@JordanAF808 Yes, also the claim that Musk invents "unprecedented" feats of engineering when he's really not, just trying to improve existing ones: making rockets cheaper, make electric cars more popular etc... Some details in this video are downright false like Musk allegedly trying to buy the Soviet ICBMs in order to "rebuild" them when the plan was to just shoot one to Mars with a camera and a flower pot and claim "life on Mars" as a marketing stunt - no rebuilding was planned. Very superficial and poorly researched video unfortunately.

[@andrewehyang]

“Elon buying Twitter is like a cigarette addict buying a cigarette factory” Nilay Patel

[@ElonMuskDailyLife]

well, twitter is how he built the massive followers he has and the MASSIVE influence he has around the world unlike other billionaires. He has enormous wealth, massive influence and big public support from around the world...

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Jonny's take on Musk's Twitter is Liberal-slanted, no surprise. Even if Musk censors Liberals, it does not even come close to balancing the tide of censorship that is directed against Conservatives. I've seen it used against myself plenty.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Johnny's take on Musk's Twitter is Liberal-slanted, no surprise.

[@Rock_Appreciator]

Nice

[@jerynturner4626]

It’s all about perspective

[@iAM2AM]

I can't call this video super honest. Why didn't you show the interviews? This still basically just looks like what YOU think.

[@carl_poppa]

Completely agree. Very biased opinions.

[@kofidrng]

What you say doesn't matter if you do something else after wards, the guy who made this video was more focused on these actions, instead of the stuff Elon rambles all day

[@bigshooter461]

Welcome to the "Little Johnny" Harris show. Next week we dig into the lie of "Milk and Cookies" and how it was all a master plan of the racist, misogynist, patriarchy.

[@scherija]

You may do it better so try it, and let others have and present their ideas, ok?!

[@iAM2AM]

@scherija Oh, look, guys. The Defense Police arrived. Yeah, I forgot, in 2024, everyone is an entitled prick who thinks no one can make comments anymore without One Upping the person we commented on. And they police us by One Upping our comment with something completely idiotic like this. Everyone pay attention to this guy, he REALLY REALLY wants attention. Don't worry. We're all paying attention now. Say something. We can't wait! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Mcfreddo]

Do they get severance pay? Over here in Australasia, you get redundancy pay, your holiday pay paid out and your superannuation is transferable.

[@hamburger512]

42 minutes on Musk? Strap in boys

[@DubDTube]

Popped over to the conclusion, seemed underwhelming, might circle back to watch, altho thus far it seems... political

[@afghanica]

@@DubDTube scared much

[@DubDTube]

@@afghanica 😂

[@afghanica]

@@DubDTube bleep blurp oil bot : )

[@StarlordStavanger]

no, no i don't think i will.

[@OMDAT]

I bet Elon really enjoyed this video until 18:10

[@therealJoeAmerica]

Where Johnny starts crying about Elon being a big mean bully head

[@oui2611]

@@therealJoeAmerica its his mormon roots coming out

[@ColinKip]

​@@therealJoeAmerica lol, top tier musk glazing😂 cope

[@just4fun607]

bro save Elon 18 mins from filing lawsuit

[@Rubbit2024]

Looks like it 😂😂😂 bro perhaps u may be Elon in disguise

[@jamwest3146]

After watching this I feel that I know more about Harris than Musk.

[@jmg9509]

Lol fr. I practically already knew all of what he mentioned about Elon. But hey, I learned a heck of a lot about Johnny Harris!

[@folms110]

Exactly

[@CJSmith-yz8hq]

Exactly this is his platform same non sence he attacked X

[@user-agreement-disengaged]

It may be sugar-free but you're still sipping the Kool-Aid, my guy...

[@Kmlcvlk999]

I can not stress enough how important twitter is for turkish opposition. Twitter is only social media platform in Turkey that is widely used and you can interact with. It is the organizing place of Gezi Park Protests,it is the place where journalists publish their investigations,it is the place where people who had forced to escape Turkey get their news and share their beliefs and information with Turkey,it is the place that international news enter to Turkey unfiltered. It is vital. It is the radio of 3rd world countries.

[@vincentmatthis]

Internet is dead for humans, especially with AI on the move. We need to go back to paper.

[@Kmlcvlk999]

@@vincentmatthis I don't think that paper communication could gather several thousand people to occupy the Bosphorus Bridge in the middle of the night because 50 protesters were brutally beaten in a random park in Istanbul, and that just 7 hours after the incident in the morning, it could mobilize one of the country's largest universities in full force and trigger a protest that almost resulted in the seizure of the parliament building.

[@mjouwbuis]

Will ex-Twitter remain that way under Musk? He might give parties that are favourable to him, some kind of advantage for example.

[@lynnefox4892]

​@@Kmlcvlk999Yes. That is why he bought it.

[@Kmlcvlk999]

@@mjouwbuis I hope it stays like this but I don't think so. There are several reasons. First, Musk avoids conflict with Erdogan and shuts down opposition accounts upon request, especially accounts of the Gülen movement and whistleblowers from the more "dark side" of the Turkish State. Second, the bot game is big in Turkey. Each party has its own unofficial but somehow related bots and trolls (this may be an effort of that party or it may be a reaction to Erdoğan from the party's mass, especially its youth branches). But Erdoğan and his party use bots and trolls on a completely different scale. Even if the old Twitter couldn't solve this problem, it at least curbed it. Musk isn't even trying.

[@maracbubamarac]

Antozent- they are selling around 150 self help books for the price of one (you’re welcome)

[@Warclimb64]

If you read 150 self help books you're gonna really need help

[@michaelslater6839]

Think of the money you will make if you worked hard instead of spending the time to read 150 books… You’re Welcome 😊

[@NutellaCrepe]

@@michaelslater6839 Think of how much more money you can make if you even read a few of those books to help you become more productive. Then think of the happiness you can achieve when you find time to read a few more.

[@ZoldicsDiaries]

Just as Elon announced he would be supporting Trump's republican this election- CIA stooge 'Johnny Harris' is obviously NOT happy with this.!!

[@sandune222]

​@@Warclimb64lol

[@BrentNally]

I’ve been following Elon closely since 2010. This was a decent attempt for someone just recently trying to learn important details about Elon but you missed lots of important details about Elon that were publicly available that would help people understand Elon much better.

[@rileysmith606]

Don’t leave us hanging mr stalker guy😩 seriously tho like what

[@balobreached]

Some of the points you made towards ‘why Elon bought Twitter’ in criticism of them are valid, however I also question the contrast since you showed a bias towards disproving his motives and didn’t present any successes.

[@sterlthepearl1000]

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell

[@LastbutNotFirst]

orwell becoming the most quoted author in history at this point. the man was on point.

[@martinasommer1306]

Oh boy😢

[@rorogexceluk9530]

Spot on

[@Lukewright426]

Y'know, I'm not a fan of orwell quotes because they're too ideologically ambigious. Too easy to shape into a specific belief and use as a reputable basis for a movement. Even when it's not. (doesnt really apply to this situation but whatever)

[@dopecat4012]

1984 is a warning about the democratic party.

[@SliceOfFish]

8:08 "Patents were not copyrighted" That's not how patents work. Patents and copyrights are two distinct forms of intellectual property protection, patents can't be copyrighted.

[@reed6514]

He also didn't "open source" anything as far as i know. Open source means there is an explicit license granting rights to use, modify, and redistribute. Harris didn't show any open source licences or suggest that any existed for Musk-owned products.

[@TheAsianRepublican]

@@reed6514 incorrect, open source does not mean what you said, there's 1000 different open source licenses, Apache, MIT, ...that are actually very restrictive. Open source does not automatically grant you the right to modify or redistribute. Why you must know the license terms of the Open Source

[@asherstribe5695]

I really hope he misspoke or he is clueless. You’re correct they are two very different and distinct forms of ownership protection.

[@Validifyed]

@@reed6514 Be careful not to confuse OS with FOSS.

[@MaskedMammal]

I remember digging into the claim that Tesla's patents were open for any company to use and pretty quickly found the catch. I don't recall the details, but it hinged on a total non-starter of an agreement you had to sign onto if you wanted to use their proprietary charging solution. Car companies had other options that didn't involve basically giving Tesla an automatic competitive advantage and went for that instead. Almost universally. The outcome (almost nobody in the market taking such a generous offer back when Superchargers were pretty much the only name in town) should speak volumes as to the value of the deal on offer. Sure, they eventually dropped the requirement and now we have car companies declaring support for NACS charging standard over the next few years, but the idea Harris presented that Musk left the patents wide open and free for everyone is just straight-up propaganda (at the time it happened). It's an incredibly misleading narrative that ignores the massive strings attached. If the patents were genuinely open and available, it would have been a big PR win and a huge move forward for the industry - instead it was just a free PR win at the expense of setting back EV infrastructure development and making sure Tesla remained the only viable option as long as possible.

[@DustinTheWhite]

Well, that's 25 minutes that I'll never get back.

[@varunmenon854]

you are going to be electrified and put up in space with this video 😂

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

Elon: “make the algorithm reduce Johnny Harris’ tweets reach by a factor of a thousand”. 🤣🤣🤣

[@startek119]

Johnny is definitely lying about that seeing as how the X algorithm and community notes are both open sourced

[@mathewhosier9739]

He removed most of the algorithms, he hates manipulation, the dude is a free speech advocate, something that liberals used to believe in

[@johannesdewet6367]

lol

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@startek119 problem is, who in the company will dare turn on the community notes on head chief in charge. No one wants to get X’d 🤣😂

[@startek119]

@@BatsiraiMusuka He’s already been community noted and the entire algorithm and all its data is open sourced.

[@jasper265]

"the patents weren't copyrighted" That's... an impressive level of not understanding the terms you're using.

[@richardhamilton-gibbs6360]

This guy doesn't get it. He's never heard of Matt Taibbi and the Twitter files? He's so far left he can't comprehend anything.

[@VestaRoleplay]

my thoughts exactly

[@Entertainment-]

It’s not surprising coming from ex-Vox media. Reminds me of when Vox published a video about TikTok claiming they made $16B profit when the article shown clearly shows revenue.

[@lachlanB323]

Open patent. He just used non copyrighted for some reason.

[@brandonburns5365]

​@@richardhamilton-gibbs6360no he comprehend. He's just doing what he's paid to do. He's a propagandist

[@R4ks0]

Bro I don't think even Elon Musk can glaze himself as much as Johnny just did... He omits so much of his early history that no wonder he is confused about how Musk "changed"

[@DeMesstados]

Which early history?

[@mariabarrientos-quincy868]

'Opinions are like ... everyone has one.' Enough said.

[@chriscolgan120]

Pov worlds richest guy falls into crippling media addiction

[@JonCollier-jr1fx]

He sold more E trucks than ford and chevy, launched more rockets that all other countries combined, used Starlink to help Ukraine, Starlink provides internet to the most desolate places on earth. Creating jobs for hundreds of thousands across the world, saved HK Battery company and all the jobs they provided, making renewable energy possible with the powercells he produces, first reusable rocket, took America back to space on our own soil. BUT, he lets people say whatever they want without censoring them on X. He must be evil........FFS. Be humble and take an L ever now and then, It will make you understand the world better. You might make some friends along the way.

[@intiorozco5063]

The brainrot got to him.

[@kokushibyō-f9i]

@@intiorozco5063 It wasn't when he was dating super young actresses, marrying and divorcing them multiple times ...twitter did it. >.>

[@raypatson8775]

Lol love Elon but that's funny 😁

[@xryanv]

That isn't the case he just has different values than the people who disagree with him.

[@zachloveringlive7419]

Would you consider it to be a conflict of interest that 5 of the authors from the study you site worked for Twitter at the time??

[@Hekamiah112]

Thanks for writing this comment. Now I know to take all the opinions about him told in this video to mostly not be true.

[@ar71498]

Well wouldn't those people have the most accurate information?

[@x.x..x.x]

if they were honest, perhaps ​@@ar71498

[@B.D.E.]

Lol what? That's the opposite of a conflict of interest, that's insight. Interesting to note there seem to be a lot of bots commenting in favour of Musk though, including one responding to your comment above my reply.

[@THijnekamp]

@@Hekamiah112 Lol that study wasnt even about musk. Thanks for letting everybody know you cannot think for yourself.

[@NimLeeGuy]

Its odd, that he still seems to be fully on board with musk's humanity onward and upward stories

[@kailash4799]

This isnt Johnny's first with spreading paid Propoganda.

[@rexmann1984]

37:00 is the only sensible thing this guys says

[@ivosalvador3374]

This comment section is going to be fire

[@bsg1372]

I'm sure not a single bot will be here

[@ivosalvador3374]

@@bsg1372 elon and is army

[@deleted01]

@@bsg1372 well you're here

[@theblackspark2644]

It's sure convenient to write off everyone who disagrees with you as a bot.

[@monzerfaisal3673]

Claiming my spot rn! 3 hours in

[@JoepSwagemakers]

I really love that you, very honestly, put in the video that you only got the Boring joke just then!

[@rupertcornelius]

asks THE QUESTION fixes his hair and say IDK LOL

[@GTAVictor9128]

Another fact that wasn't mentioned in this video is that Elon Musk personally admitted how Hyperloop was just a ploy to divert attention and funds away from high speed rail construction in the US, which has ongoing for decades now. He publicly branded Hyperloop as a new revolutionary mode of transport, but privately it helped sabotage potential competition to Tesla. And that is a common trend among Silicon Valley "tech-bros" in general, where they try to reinvent the wheel coming up with "innovative" ideas to attract investors and ignoring much simpler and cheaper solutions to the same problem. For example, inventing an AI algorithm to match car drivers taking similar routes and having these cars be transported by a specialized truck to free up road space and reduce traffic. But there's a much simpler solution: public transport.

[@Kernelhazzard1]

he said before, he gave any of his companies a 10% chance to succeed. And they spent billions on a high speed rail and not even a mile has been completed. You think musk is the dirty one???

[@marcd7332]

Yes, very disappointed with the lack of research Jhonny did

[@charliehonduran]

He said Elon "eventually became CEO of Tesla" but failed to mention that Musk strongarmed the two founders out of the company and started telling ppl he was the founder when he wasn't. He also failed to mention that the original X company didn't become PayPal because of Elon, the original X was a shit company that got bailed out by Peter Thiel.

[@vakey]

The last point about AI driving vs public transport. Though I would love public transportation to be the norm in the states, it's def not a simpler solution because it requires huge infrastructure and cultural changes in America where politics and the government need to be involved, and that is anything but simple especially compared to AI driving that aims to build on top of the existing infrastructure.

[@KafshakTashtak]

Honestly, I don't understand how that works. Like he brought up an old idea, and suddenly everyone stopped working on the rail projects?

[@wimpieeeeee]

He should have named his perfume "Elon's Musk"

[@Alex-gj2uz]

That one got me with my guard down 😂

[@DrNoSpectre]

Sounds stinky

[@BreadcrumbStyle]

60% of the time, it works every time

[@lildubuoy]

You've been sitting on this one for a while haven't you?

[@norah4892]

Please, don't give him ideas😂

[@mattmcintosh4337]

26:40 cmon Johnny, really… you basically could’ve said, “I don’t actually have any proof of this just believe me.” That’s bad journalism and you know it. There are similar instances all over this video.

[@Chastity_Belt]

If you use twitter, you know it is true. Because suddenly his tweets appears in every user's feed. I was forced to ban him, because "do not recommend this" didn't work on his tweets. It appeared again, and again, and again.

[@badaxtion1878]

These commenters don’t even love themselves as much as Musk. I heard there were fanboys but damn…

[@Jorge351X]

“Either you die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”

[@comic1263]

Good one

[@sfguzmani]

Perfect quote for Johnny Harris as well..

[@KevinKickChannel]

Is this why we rarely see Tom Scott and Michael from Vsauce anymore? They took a step back at a point when we desperately needed videos like from those

[@littlecaesar1842]

"to see urself..."

[@gabrielsilvas692]

No shit, who put him up to this there's like 2 more extra level he didn't need in here ​@@sfguzmani

[@oldschoolben438]

Hey Johnny, you’ll probably never read this comment but I think I know why Elon had his pivot. I’ve been a shareholder way longer than most Tesla stans and have been watching Elon’s progression in real time, before most people had even heard of him. The pivot came because of the pandemic but it was the final straw of 4 events I see as formative to his current world view. There was the jury trial Tesla lost regarding racism and resulted in a gigantic jury award (later overturned). Elon prides himself on being race-agnostic, and as a youth, he was much more willing to be friends with black South Africans than other whites. He was very confident Tesla was going to win the trial, and likely blames the “woke mind virus” for the unjustifiably high award. Then there was his daughter coming out as transgender. There are few details about this but I think it is safe to say Elon did not take this well. They have no relationship with each other and again Elon likely blames woke ideology for this. He keeps saying that he “is a liberal”, but he thinks the political spectrum has moved so far left that it makes him look like a conservative. Then there is his sense of betrayal by the Democratic Party,(which he voted for up until either the 2016 or 2020 election) which has never embraced him despite the fact that he made the electric car happen (along with improving large-scale electrical storage). Because Tesla is not unionized, the Dems cannot get too close to him for fear of alienating their union base. He has been repeatedly shut out or ignored by the Dems on many initiatives, whereas e.g. Mary Barra was given undue credit for innovating in the EV space. Lastly, the pandemic happened, and as someone else here had mentioned, he was angry that the government had the power to shut down his factories. He himself had a different view of the seriousness of the pandemic, and felt that he was being muzzled and censored for his view in the early months and days of the pandemic.

[@communitygardener17]

You have described someone who needs approval and is terrified of criticism. Without taking in feedback how can he get the course correction one needs to avoid going over the waterfall or over the cliff?

[@a.b.4251]

I think it is hard to take any other criticism seriously if you are in charge of so many lives. At the pinnacle of power you will choose the most trustworthy to be your sole advisors.. Otherwise you will go wrong all the time..

[@cygnusx-1800]

So it's "all about him".

[@Apprendre-Photo]

"Not taking well" that his daughter is transgender is already conservative ideology, making all claims he's liberal untrue. He seems to generally reason from first principles and has historically been pretty rational to build Tesla and Space X to where they are, but on societal issues he's clearly dogmatic. If he wasn't, he would know basic facts, like gender affirming care has a wildly positive effect, or that there are physiological differences in the brain of transgender people which align more with their gender than their biological sex. The only explanation I see is he's so conservative he's blinded by his values.

[@pinkstor]

One correction to this above comment " the political spectrum has moved so far left that it makes him look like a conservative." Many studies have show the the political spectrum hasn't moved left at all, but the right has gone much further right. I suspect that due to your reasons above (and others) that he has taken a wild lurch to the right.

[@DuitserSwart]

His father was an engineer and had a construction company in my home town Pretoria.

[@AnimeinSession]

You make it seem like Twitter was amazing before Musk came in. Biased much. Not saying Elon's a hero either. IMO I think he's a grifter but you, Johnny Harris also did not come out unbiased here, you're just saying one side of the story. Kinda bummed that you didn't talk about Neurolink tho.

[@psecdocumentary]

One of the most annoying and polarizing things I've seen, is that many Conservatives have become convinced that all Liberals are all hard core leftists. And of course equally on the flip side, many Liberals have become convinced that all Conservatives are far right. You all basically want mostly the same things, but both sides act as if the other wants entirely opposite things. The average person, regardless of their political side, is not so unhinged. The minority does not represent the majority, but the minority speaks the loudest, and the majority never speaks at all. Thats the problem..

[@frankvazquez5974]

Yes, and when someone as influential as Elon stokes these fires and has the legion of fan boys on here as he does.....that can't even see the issues this guy is bringing.....we are f*cked. These are suppossedly educated nerds, most of them.

[@doctaflo]

ahh, the Silent Majority-old as Nixon. definitely agree media incentives amplify the most insane voices, but i don’t think we can just “both sides” this; i think there really is a disparity between American right and left in terms of who’s more unhinged-remember Kellyanne Conway and the “alternative facts” community? i can’t remember sources, but here and there you pick up results of surveys, like 60-80% of voting Republicans genuinely believe the 2020 election was stolen, whereas less than 20% of voting Democrats are Progressives. tldr: qanon >> woke

[@jorgeenchilada]

they have become convinced of that because Donald Trump's teacher in politics was the attorney for Joseph McCarthy. You know, the same McCarthy who was one of the greatest demagogues the US ever had, who claimed there was a communist hiding behind every corner. Using the same rhetoric Trump and the republican party have become the source of modern day McCarthyism. It's far more devious than most people know.

[@IkeVictor]

The general left is farrr more left than the general right…..

[@aspacelex]

​@@e.b.1115So your examples are healthcare and a nazi conspiracy theory.

[@VLove-CFII]

He didn’t spend 44bn dollars to censor himself.

[@lolzu]

He doesn't have to. But boosting himself artificially doesn't make him good

[@B.D.E.]

And yet he does censor himself, at least when the Chinese Communist Party demands it anyway.

[@Jonathan-gi7df]

@@lolzu sure but he created fact-checkers, which correct his account very often, so this image of him being immune to critics is simply not true

[@THijnekamp]

@@Jonathan-gi7df Very late very often. after it was already seen by thousands

[@lolzu]

@Jonathan-gi7df no he didn't, it just got initialised after he came in. it was an existing idea in development for a while. I've also been on twitter long enough to see those community notes get removed in less than 24 hours, or Elon removing the post totally. Multiple incidents of this happening. Especially when he falsely called a Thai diver who rescued a football team a pedo, or that time he reinstated an account that openly posted CP. (TWICE. IT HAPPENED TWICE.) Those two incidents I've mentioned have directly been reported on by multiple news outlets. So you can easily Google it.

[@RandyKirk_YouTubeChannel]

It's not a pivot -- it's sequential -- it's an incredibly difficult problem, which you have asserted that he loves.

[@JoepSwagemakers]

You're missing one point about Musk buying Twitter. He mentioned in some interview that if he could buy twitter it would save him 5 years of his grand plan. This might be related to training an LLM, for which Tesla now has the fastest AI supercomputer in the world.

[@efedevirgen5835]

Little info on the Turkish side: if you try to check those accounts, you can see them but in turkey they are blocked so we can't see them

[@Oblivisci........]

VPNs aren't hard to get.

[@brenohds]

Fun fact, I'm watching this video using Starlink ❤

[@johnnyharris]

Haha awesome

[@thomasmagaha280]

You and me both brotha 💪

[@StarlordStavanger]

gross

[@baronvonbarbeque]

​@@johnnyharris cheers for this one. I'm watching this from a "borrowed" starlink connection from my neighbor. Don't tell him.

[@BarrGC]

​@StarlordStavanger Right, the potential for every single person on earth to have access to high speed internet is "gross"....

[@jannettemorris7540]

It’s so sad and scary that some of the leaders in our country are victims of abuse now we all suffer with them 😢

[@MotherofOdin]

People who mass more wealth than they can possibly spend in a lifetime become arrogant money barons. The bullied became the bully. They believe they’re superior to everyone else. There’s so much good he could do, instead he’s bored; therefore, he turns to chaos, hatefulness, and greed.

[@djo_shorts6154]

​@@MotherofOdin exactly mate, there's a level of wealth a person gets to that literally their dopamine and pleasure receptors in general is beyond screwed and how they feel any form of purpose or meaning is to do insane sh*t with said wealth.. and musk and making humans interplanetary among other things.

[@eugkra33]

Even as a Musk sympathizer, I still love this video, and love the actual attempt to stay unbiased. Maybe it's not entirely, but it's close enough, and done in good faith. I don't sense any hate for Musk here at all from the creator. There was a good attempt made, even if maybe there could be some bias here. Not that I can specifically say which things have bias.

[@adisario]

The pandemic was the pivot. He HATED that the government could tell his employees to stay home.

[@jamesconner3437]

Pretty difficult to assemble things from home. Especially cars and rockets. The neighbors are not gonna like it.

[@yex666]

Is the first video? I’m very disappointed in so far they’ve been good honest unbiased.. how do you do your research and not know that his pivot point was Covid? I love how you says I don’t know what he’s thinking so it will be on for me to assume. And when he starts talking about Twitter, that’s exactly what he does. Come on Johnny do better!

[@arun279]

esp since other automakers had already resumed production lines but since most of tsla domestic production was in california at the time, he was at the mercy of local unelected officials who had different ideas than Detroit counterparts.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

@@jamesconner3437come on now, if Tony Stark could build an iron man suit in a cave from a box of scraps, I’m sure Elon Musk could do it! He always wanted to be like Tony stark

[@c87kim]

Uh yeah… the govt shouldn’t be telling any of us how to run our business or live our lives

[@Jwats96]

You can really tell who didn’t watch the full video in this comment section

[@salvador.garcia]

"All those who don't give their opinion exactly as I do do is because they have refused to analyze the same information as me 😭" Sure, because your mind is the only neutral supercomputer without biases 😉

[@Nclk619]

Exactly! People can't stand even to wait to hear the whole story to actually know what it is about.

[@Ziperino]

If half of the video looks like ragebait, you cant blame people while they overreact

[@Jwats96]

@@salvador.garcia I never said or implied that, don't put words in my mouth. Also not sure how that statement is even relevant to the observation I made.

[@salvador.garcia]

@@Jwats96 It's obvious from what I said that you're going to believe you didn't say that, but to a large extent you did. Even if your criterion for classifying comments as written by people who haven't seen the entire video is that they contradict the content of the video, that doesn't prove that they had not seen or understood it, only that they don't agree with all the opinions or all the "facts" in the video.

[@user-cb8mp4nf4z]

44 BILLION for twitter is insane

[@aftech7268]

He banned me from twitter for talking crap about him turning republican

[@jackiecooper9439]

Point of correction. BBC doc was on Indian PM, not Prez. Prez is powerless and is always an uncontroversial figure.

[@Insert_generic_username]

Yeah it’s a understandable mistake - different Countries have (probably for historical reasons) a different name for the ‚head of government‘ role, it can get confusing.

[@MrZZsharka]

Yeah it depends on the country e.g. in Russia the Prime Minister is nowhere near as powerful as President Putin.

[@callipysapricots5531]

Much of this analysis is difficult to reference or qualify because it describes Elon or his conduct in abstract terms. I appreciate that brevity requires generalizations, but there’s a whole lot of psychoanalysis with barely any qualification. As a lawyer I also got set off 17 different ways by the statement that his patents weren’t copyrighted and that explains their being open-source + publicly accessible. This is incoherent, it’s common knowledge that patents and copyrights are completely separate forms of IP protecting different aspects of a work - a “copyrighted” patent doesn’t mean anything. Besides, patents are always publicly accessible, which doesn’t say much to a patent-holder’s charitability. If Elon liberally licensed or otherwise gave away his companies’ patent rights that would be noteworthy, but there is no reason to spend money and resources on getting a patent if you are simply going to give it away - so I assume this didn’t happen as described. I appreciate this might seem nitpicky, but I’m not describing a complex legal technicality, and to the extent that the thesis of this video essay is based on such generalized facts that are either ambiguous or blatantly wrong, I can’t say I learned much of anything concrete except what Johnny Harris thinks of Elon Musk’s mindset. How to convey information in an essay is a personal choice, but I find such basic mistakes to be a gross journalistic oversight. Nevertheless, I appreciate the effort and hope to catch you on a train stop some other time! Toodles! :P

[@aryanchaudhary4400]

Teach me law, seriously.

[@wildbear2472]

Thank you for the insight on patents vs. copyrights. Regarding trying to assess some of Elon Musk's conduct, I don't it's a matter of abstraction. For example...when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked, and then Elon shared a link to a conspiracy theory website that lied about it, and then Elon later deleted the tweet without correcting the misinformation...that is just bad behavior. A man with one of the biggest platforms in the world (artificially boosted by him) should be even more careful about spreading lies. In addition, if he allows someone onto the platform that outrageously lies (e.g. Alex Jones), he then becomes complicit in spreading the lies. I'm not saying Elon is an evil dude. Like everyone else, he's a mix of good and bad. But one of the things that bothers me about free speech absolutionists like him (other than hypocrisy) is how some view free speech as this moral ideal, and then go on to express themselves in bad ways (lies, misinformation, etc.). Regarding freedom, humanity would fare better if we remember the counsel of Viktor Frankl (paraphrased): next to the Statue of Liberty, should be built the Statue of Responsibility.

[@VideoKillah]

It's not nitpicky of you, that's the basic critical thinking Johnny missed on this video because he just doesn't have the time for those details. Most people who are into tech and culture just don't care about the legal details.

[@wildbear2472]

Thank you for the insight on patents vs. copyrights. Regarding trying to assess some of Elon Musk's conduct, I don't think it's a matter of abstraction. For example...when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked, and then Elon shared a link to a conspiracy theory website that lied about it, and then Elon later deleted the tweet without correcting the misinformation...that is just bad behavior. A man with one of the biggest platforms in the world (artificially boosted by him) should be even more careful about spreading lies. In addition, if he allows someone onto the platform that outrageously lies (e.g. A. Jones), he then becomes complicit when Alex spreads misinformation. I'm not saying Elon is a really bad guy. Like everyone else, he's a mix of good and bad. But one of the things that bothers me about free speech absolutionists like him (other than hypocrisy) is how some view free speech as this moral ideal, and then go on to express themselves in bad ways (lies, misinformation, etc.). Regarding freedom, humanity would fare better if we remember the counsel of Viktor Frankl (paraphrased): next to the Statue of Liberty, should be built the Statue of Responsibility.

[@grantwatson3824]

"most of this analysis is difficult to reference..." Seriously? Sources were referenced throughout, or shown to us directly, like Musk's own words. Did you perhaps sleep through some of the post?

[@joshsinclair8761]

So you haven't had a single conversation with Musk or anyone that has, yet think you're an expert on him ? Interesting...

[@aleph2d]

Who is Johnny Harris?

[@Southeast_Asian_Devil]

What can be, unburdened by what has been. Ring a bell?

[@gavinquinton9184]

Really cool to see how Johnny took criticism of his fact checking process and has just quietly improved and overhauled his sourcing to the point that he’s footnoting every assertion and sharing it with readers. Investigative reporters employ this level of scrutiny, but the practice of sharing sourcing in this way is exceedingly rare in journalism.

[@Patricia-b]

Idk man, the story about paypal is still not correct, and it's one of the most debunked and known lies of the musk origin story. Insane that he missed that.

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

He still has a lot of errors throughout. Both in pro and anti Elon parts.

[@cbs1710]

The whole video is literally skin-deep. Never delving into actual truths or what really happened (i.e. once it was eventually surfaced, but the news cycle never picked that up again), etc. The accolades you sing are undeserved, they are the barest minimum of a proper reporting (which, sadly, is a commentary onto itself how low the everyday journalism had fallen).

[@TimothyCHenderson]

@@cbs1710 Journalism has always been a mixed bag.

[@oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656]

True dat

[@andychow1970]

"The patents were not copyrighted" - that statement makes no sense.

[@jaykayin]

That's right you cannot patent the copyright to my book!. Patent-free Books!

[@delasias9153]

It does make sense. Copyright & patents serve different purposes.

[@jaydy71]

​@@delasias9153 Sure they have different purposes, but that statement still doesn't make sense, or at least it was not what was meant. Patents are by nature not subject to copyright restrictions.

[@Scarviii]

​@@jaydy71 likely, it was just an error in writing.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Rubes dont understand the difference between copyrights and patents.

[@finaltouch998]

I Grew up in San Francisco my whole 50 years of life. Elon is absolutely right about the city. It’s not the place I grew up in anymore sadly.

[@ZelfFS]

So you are mad about Elon taking Twitter but the real question is. Was Twitter censoring back in 2020? Was Facebook? Wasnt almost every media outlet? Please stop pretending to be this unbiased just informative person. When you can make videos about these other platforms negatively censoring thing to fit their narrative as well. Maybe I'll listen to your videos.

[@TrggrWarning]

31:40 data suggests and echo chamber narrative always right… NPC Johnny sez so!

[@mmoonnkkeeyy]

Elon is like a teenager in his 40s who just discovered 4chan

[@jesse_-]

There is no shortage of teens in their 40s. They are called liberals.

[@smiler9028]

He’s such a bratty man child

[@smiler9028]

He’s such a bratty man child

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Does this cite support free speech? Many of my clean comments were goned. Signed, an intelligent Conservative.

[@alexg9727]

cope

[@leondalegardens]

South Africa is in the southern hemisphere, he was born in winter.

[@lm_b5080]

mate i've had several discussions with americans where they're pretty surprised to find out that the weather and season is the opposite from theirs in the southern hemisphere. their education system skips a few things

[@lucasbrown2656]

@@lm_b5080no they don’t skip it, I know this and I’m from America, the issue is most Americans can’t pay attention without action packed shit going on lol. They think of history and science as a Michael bay movie for some reason.

[@chriscotton4207]

@@lm_b5080 Christmas music in July? Only in Australia! They celebrate in the summer! I heard this before and I was perplexed enough where I just had no words. I figured you may like this quote from a college graduate in America.

[@Raderade1-pt3om]

@@lm_b5080 no wdym opposite

[@lm_b5080]

@@Raderade1-pt3om if its winter in the southern hemisphere, its summer in the northern hemisphere. earth has 2 hemispheres, the USA is a country in the northern hemisphere

[@pierre-claudemeriot6562]

18:45 ok here's your trophy 🏆

[@martingill5399]

Johnny is a leftist

[@primedeviation]

You somehow forgot to mention community notes. Why?

[@TKUA11]

Because that doesn’t take away from his point of censoring people he doesn’t like and that he loves to cave to authoritarian states

[@apeblackberry3641]

@@TKUA11 Twitter did the same except it was way worse. Lefties tasting their own medicine is a sweet feeling.

[@ExtremistOnboard]

Because of Johnny Harris' bias.

[@javiervasquez8797]

Community notes is imo the greatest “innovation” for sharing and distributing news on social media.

[@SolRC]

@@javiervasquez8797 you mean letting the popular people do your work for you instead of the nerds. You are short of critical thinking skills, any community notes ever tell you that?

[@SirScarface69]

30% Elon back story. 69% Twitter crap. 1% SpaceX.

[@davinjimeno8095]

tis not my politics is a dOcUmEnTaRy

[@mightytitan1719]

exactly buddy is THE SCIENTIST but post on twitter after every 2 hours

[@newstartusa2]

I would really love to know how you calculated your percentages and what’s the correct story in your opinion?

[@aristotle6510]

@@mightytitan1719he’s not a scientist lmaoo. Just a lame with money

[@Cody_Bryant1776]

​@@aristotle6510he does have a degree in physics lol

[@jeffinjohnson17]

Please do one about KZbin and Google. These are the companies that are manipulating us the most, not Twitter.

[@kristillana]

Musk: government censorship = bad, Musk censorship = good. Fascist: 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thank you

[@janak132]

As an autistic person myself (diagnosed), I think Musk sounds like what happens when an autistic person with relatively high self focus/"other people are means" understanding (like my daughter) also is rich enough that he can get away with it, only having to care about the sanction of law, but not social rules. Most relatively severely affected autists only want to do, in fact only manage to do, what they like to do. My daughter has a kind heart, but if she wants to spend time gaming she will not be able to take other people's plans/situations/almost anything else into account. It is not hat she doesn't care, just that the urge to do what she want to do is so much stronger. I can moderate her when necessary, but only because she has to rely on me for certain things. Musk doesn't have to rely on any specific person. He can replace them. This also shows in how he treat his girlfriends. He is rich and single sided; either he gets it his way or they're out. They even have to sign a girlfriend contract. He is in a position where he can't be forced out of his autistic mode, so he only gets more locked into his way being the right way, regardless of what anyone else say. Remember; I'm an autistic person (diagnosed). I know that if we get moderated in a good way, we can learn to moderate ourselves healthily. at least to some extent. This has never happened to Musk. He doesn't moderate himself unless he sees that it would give him an advantage.

[@maramclaine830]

YES ! One of our New Bohemian HumanX talents Hyper focus. And it's also Kryptonite for others and at times ourselves. I AM Nuero divergent what is called a High Masking Autistic Woman. I am Gifted in Language and pattern recognition. I got kicked out of my first Organization at age 4. Kindergarten didn't appreciate me Tryon to teach the other children to read. Then Ballet, I have Spatial disabilities can't tell R from L. Made up my own dancing. Then Girl Scouts for punching the leaders daughter that's when I learned about racial hate. Then the Choir and eventually public High school. I took over 500 students out with me too on a protest. My last flaming arrow. I AM a person with unusually high empathy. If not I could have done a GREAT deal of damage. I have little Inhibition nor fear response.

[@Trey-TV]

What if this is just normal? Could that truly be the case?

[@lilacsandobsidian]

@@Trey-TV define normal

[@Saiputera]

john harris think san Francisco is a Conservatism place lmao

[@jered877]

He ponders things carefully, so your analysis is flawed. He just arrives at different conclusions, and yes how others feel in the moment isn’t high on his concerns in an eventual decision.

[@invisiblecollege893]

Its very strange how quite a lot of people form their opinions from media headlines instead of listening to the person actually speak in long form

[@justdiane5]

Yes, because a lot of people have the attention span of a gnat

[@dfdf-rj8jr]

@@justdiane5 So American liberals? Like Johnny Harris?

[@Jonathan-ex3sl]

@@dfdf-rj8jr grow up. smart people can disagree with you and still be smart.

[@BreakneckTrent]

Tis the times.. Attention span... SQUIRREL! 👀

[@dfdf-rj8jr]

@@Jonathan-ex3sl Yes, and what makes you think the OG commenter was smart?

[@007Bond_James]

Make one about the speculation and concern over former president Obama’s control over the Democratic Party and his influence in Washington.

[@Sinyao]

It's weird how Harris has a whole team dedicated to fact checking only hy conveniently ignoring a lot of his flaws.

[@yesitsme8943]

Johny didn’t need to tell us he’s living in San Francisco to let us know he’s living in San Francisco.

[@JesusDelapaz-gj9vx]

Bro was bias towards the end calling Elon names instead of just saying what happened as well as glazing him at the beginning

[@numinous2506]

His voice makes me feel like I need to check for needles and human waste before I step away.

[@OsirisIxchel]

We caught Elon's act early here in the bay area. Hasn't paid rent since he walked in with that sink and stiffed the workers who created Twitter. Men passing out on the Tesla line from overwork in that Freemont plant. What A guy!! kzbin.infoba7dnCu_GH4

[@franciscoalvarez3861]

​@@JesusDelapaz-gj9vx pero si te ha enseñado datos para absolutamente todo😂😂

[@davidkeetz]

Yah…I like Johnny but even he doesn’t realize how much his starting supposition that conservative ideas are “dangerous” is so ingrained in him by the people around him. He just rattles off as if it’s an accepted fact and that ….right…..there…..is his blind spot.

[@stap1er]

Johnny didn't realise you're not supposed to go by the PR material when researching someone lol

[@ftt2757]

Well I'm at 50% of video and I hear Elon PR guy and nothing more

[@danielecostantini8722]

There is no way in hell that old twitter didn’t have a liberal bias

[@beepoboopo546]

The users leaned to the left, but Jack Dorsey is a Libertarian Crypto boy, he recently endorsed RFK JR to be president, but was largely non-political when he ran the platform. Musk on the other hand is now a major right wing influencer, and uses the platform to push that messaging.

[@parthasarathibehera8463]

How do any platform has biases dude they feed an liberal algorithm or what? XD. If such a huge scale bias existed, why didn't any employee from Twitter actually exposed these biases? Even now twitter is the same just that Elon boosts his accounts and have god awful services. People still argue like idiots and just blah blah. The platform was mostly had liberal users hence it looked so. Their is no objectivity of that claim it's just conspiracy nonsense.

[@keshav.918]

Even though twitter has a lot of problems but seeing google and meta censoring the other side this week makes me realize that twitter is really important for calling out what's wrong Elon could make twitter much better but even without that twitter is much better than platforms of meta, but this doesn't mean that we shouldn't criticize twitter for its shortcomings

[@azureous_akashi]

Hey, Johnny. WE NEED YOUR HELP I am from Bangladesh. You already did an amazing video on it previously. And we need you again. This time it's much worse. We need international media coverage for this issue. We (Bangladeshi) students are currently peacefully protesting against unfair job quota,but Student League an organization of the government ambushed us.Nearly two hundred people were injured and many were killed in the attack. At this time we need you very much because the journalists of our country are on the side of the government.They have no news on this issue.They have not promoting about on this issue.Seeking freedom has now become a crime for us. #Save_Bangladeshi_students #QuotaReformProtest #বাংলাদেশ_কোটা_আন্দোলন #কোটা_আন্দোলন_২০২৪ #no_more_quotha #protect_students #save_students #bangladesh_quotha_movement #focus_on_bangladesh

[@meissenboedeler_3674]

Godspeed!

[@newmankind]

S A V E B A N G L A D E S H I S T U D E N T S ❤

[@azureous_akashi]

@@cristiancatalan833 did I mention anything that might make you use this emoji?

[@azureous_akashi]

@@cristiancatalan833 what is here to laugh about? Since when people dying and suffering is funny?

[@tshepangvincent3960]

@@azureous_akashi Welcome to the internet

[@aidankenny2218]

At 32:10 i thought he was about to say Twitter wasn’t being censored by governments and i almost spit out my drink

[@TheCaj2012]

No replies?

[@Lokeydin7]

People and governments do try and censor as much as they can, its just that simple.

[@miller1240]

@@TheCaj2012 They are being censored by the government.

[@Boldwine]

@@TheCaj2012 no need

[@stevemartin7464]

I would have too, what happened at Twitter pre-Musk is abomnible, this makes me wonder about this video; if he does one on what was being done at twitter before Mr Musk bought it I would feel a bit better; do a comparison. Also, where do you get some of your stats? Like the 85% one?

[@Jezzmond22]

Johnny going on a "deep dive" .. comes up with icing on the cake!

[@alexcoleman8983]

Don't forget he was a nerd growing up. He stopped caring about what you think about him when he cashed his first million dollar check.

[@omidnorozi5921]

That's free speech if you have 44 billion dollars.

[@namei8967]

What is "that"?

[@omidnorozi5921]

@@namei8967 the fact that he boost's his own account to get more reach on his own 44 billion dollars company.

[@namei8967]

@@omidnorozi5921 first, how does he boost his own account? Second, why he needs "get more reach" when he already has had a few dozen million fans? Third, why he needs to spend 44 million dollars to have free speech when his any speeches were attracting huge attention over the world?

[@omidnorozi5921]

@@namei8967 you haven't watched the video,have you? He said elon after buying x gathered 100 engineers to boost his account in x so he could reach to All. I say he paid 44 billion dollars not millions to buy x, it's his company he can do whatever he wants with it. If he wants to boost his account he has every right to do so.

[@namei8967]

@@omidnorozi5921 you still don't answer my questions. Even with 1000 engineers, how to boost his account? Any his words can draw world attention in most platforms, why he needs to pay 44 billions?

[@classyknight9513]

Please do not use the term "Open Source" so loosely. It is an industry term with a well defined definition. Using the term "Open Source where it does not apply degrades the importance not only of the term, but of the underlying movement that built it.

[@cowboyninja9002]

So using the words "open source" in vain is like a sin?? Whats the meaning?? Why is it so important?? Who's the leader of the movement??

[@johnnyharris]

Thanks for the feedback. I'd love to learn more. Elon uses "Open Source" when referring to his Tesla patents. is this not the correct use of the term?

[@blox4513]

@@johnnyharris Musk uses the term in the same way as he calls the driver assistant upgrades on a Tesla "full self-driving". If one tries to modify the firmware on his Tesla, the company would come after them pretty hard.

[@lordrichardson4447]

No dude. “Open source” has become a more broad term… used in a sort of slang way to just say “no patent”

[@MattHuey]

Okay Professor!!💯😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@AIBotPlaceniK]

Big Elon commercial

[@finaltouch998]

He took the woke goes broke out of Twitter. You got to love it 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😆😆🇺🇸😆🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@elituttle8798]

Sorry, you'd mentioned Starlink & Ukraine, but you didn't finish that topic.

[@NotADuncon]

This story is full of surface level reporting. It's the worst researched story from Johhny because it seems to me he doesn't want to dig too deep because he starts courting a specific viewer - first Joe Rogan, now this.

[@andriib9390]

​@@NotADuncon So what will he find if he digs deeper?

[@NotADuncon]

@@andriib9390 for example Elons first company was saved by his moms friend who hired to fix elons horrible code and then sell the company. Without that man the company would not be sold and Elon would not make his first big cash. Elons X also didn't become paypal it merged with paypal which was a larger company. Elon was outsted as a CEO of Paypal since he was mismanaging the hell out of it. Starlink is a topic for a very long treatese.

[@counterguardian6145]

I think that's in the Ukraine video...

[@pouya8638]

​@@NotADuncon its about Elon not Ukrainian

[@SeaBassTian]

Very insightful but you forgot the part where he tried to back out of buying Twitter then the courts forced him to go through with the deal!

[@290revolver290]

Exactly! That was definitely intentional, among other things. That way most people can label Musk a bad guy.

[@whatacrazyride1658]

Yeah, I guess the fact that Twitter misrepresented the number of Bots that were members in their estimates wasn't of enough of an issue to give Elon at the very least a more accurate valuation number to overpay for the privileged. Or maybe, his discovery during the standard kinds of due diligence in buying a public company showed some kind of drama with the Federal Government that would have to be cleaned up or lived up to, might have made him a tad more hesitant, once the final show and tells we're going on. The Bots alone should have drastically reduced his buying price, and the only reason the stock price held when it was announced was the offer on the table..... Jesus that court order could have gone the distance had he wanted it to.

[@ashesmandalay1762]

@@whatacrazyride1658 Elon pretended to want to buy Twitter in order to get access to that kind of info so he could publicly reveal it, prove his assertions that his critics were bots for months right, and back out of the deal. Elon didn't find anything like that, which is why he was forced to go through with the sale.

[@lindadonald348]

@@whatacrazyride1658he offered without diligence, sold as seen, in Delaware courts thats a slam dunk

[@milescoleman910]

Same judge tried to stop his agreed upon pay structure earlier this year. Citing the time he spent at Twitter as a reason he doesn’t deserve a paycheck from his own company after increasing its value 1000 percent or so. The dude is different. Says dumb things. Does amazing things. And when you compare him to other people worth billions he is a clear outlier.

[@nousernamesarevalid]

A big part of the way Elon reduces costs is reducing the cost of labor. He pays employees shit wages while treating them like slaves. And he doesn’t use that reduction in cost to reduce prices. He keeps the difference for himself.

[@benmoore701]

People like u r who make our country like mission street in san fran. Ekon got my vote

[@boinksi]

There’s a lot of details missing from the X/Twitter section of this video…

[@16ktsgamma]

Not to mention missing details of the Cyber Truck and the sportster for Telsa.

[@ZeusTalks]

Yes this is honestly pretty biased and badly researched

[@jamestidwell]

Yeah and how you can’t make the connection of everything he does and then buying twitter with alterior motives and naming it X is almost willfully negligent . They put it in our face. The esoteric value of X. As above so below. Triangle pointing up and triangle pointing down. There’s two X’s on your screen now. What do they do. Exit out of comments and exit out of video. So the richest man in the world whos apart of an elite club who believe the world is over populated catapults the vehicle industry into electric vehicles wants to use a company the government used to wield power? Now China is set to have the best and most affordable Electric vehicles. He now backs Trump who started a trade war with Chinas while he helps Ukraine fight its proxy war with Russia. Wake up. Order out of chaos.

[@frankvazquez5974]

@@ZeusTalks You need to be more specific than that. He has presented an incredible amount of FACTS and RESEARCH. Where is yours? That is how genuine academic dialogue functions. Please engage if you are actually able.

[@Jackson_Zheng]

@@frankvazquez5974 Where's the facts? News articles with contradictory quotes and a research paper than did a study over a span of only a couple months? Did you even read the sources he provided in the description yourself?

[@dfkjbdfondfngg]

Okay, I'm afraid people won't agree with me. But this video is too shallow. Just quoting other people about how Musk felt at different parts of life. I doubt if Johnny even read the biography. Sorry for being blunt.

[@thejammod]

And got government subsidies wrong. Tesla received a loan from the dept of energy which they paid off early.

[@lumberBT]

Agree, its way to shallow.

[@Gutz1204]

I agree too although I usually like Johnny’s work wether I agree or not. This piece didn’t sit right.

[@war5561]

I really doubt he ‘didn’t read his biography.’ I’m pretty sure you also know that’s a blatantly false accusation. It’s fine to disagree I’m not an Elon fan but.. your argumeant needs some more meat.

[@therealJoeAmerica]

It’s like diving into 2 foot of water

[@jazznutz]

This seems like a fair and eye opening outlook on Musk but 27.20 gets pretty judgy about what is bad. It hard to not hear what this video is pointing out though. All in all a very thoughtful thesis.

[@fabriciosobenes9853]

Cover Venezuela man please. They’re killing us over here

[@bastianrivero]

The twitter hunger games 😂😂😂

[@RaikiDas]

Elon is becoming the embodiment of the quote "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

[@deleted01]

He's in his hero arc

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@deleted01 Bahaha! nice meme

[@robertdietz1732]

@@deleted01nope

[@Ar1AnX1x]

@@deleted01 are you one of the nazis he unblocked on twitter? lmao

[@crypticmystic3489]

He was always a villain

[@gibsonguy5240]

Bill Maher states..."why would Elon Musk embrace the worst people on Twitter". That's Bill's OPINION. But he would censor any one he did not like or agree with. THAT'S A BIG PROBLEM.

[@1tiredmomma2013]

This is how villains are born