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Elon Caught DELETING THIS after Huge Blowback · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Why would Elon Musk share and delete a tweet shifting the
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  blame for some of history's worst mass murders away from the
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  dictators who ordered them? Now a tweet that he had reposted
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  and then removed stating Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder
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  millions of people, their public sector workers did.
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  Now, that tweet's wording suggests an attempt to redefine
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  historical responsibility, implying that the bureaucrats,
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  military officers, and the executioners who carried out
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  mass killings were to blame, rather than the authoritarian
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  leaders who orchestrated them. But is this claim rooted in
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  reality, or is it a dangerous distortion of history?
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  And why would Elon Musk decide that this particular statement
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  wasn't worth keeping on his Platform X?
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  Now history makes one thing clear.
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  The regimes of Stalin, Mao and Hitler were not passive machines
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  that simply move forward under the weight of bureaucratic
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  inertia. These leaders created the
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  frameworks of terror that enabled their atrocities.
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  Their hands may not have always pulled the trigger, but they
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  signed the orders, gave the speeches, and designed the
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  policies that ensured mass killings would happen.
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  Now, Joseph Stalin's rule over the Soviet Union was defined by
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  paranoia, repression, and state directed mass murder.
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  The Great Purge of the 1930s alone saw hundreds of thousands
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  of executions and millions sent to Gulag labor camps.
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  The idea that Stalin was not responsible because he
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  personally didn't carry out these killings is absolutely
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  absurd. He not only issued the quotas
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  for arrest and executions, but also personally reviewed lists
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  of people to be killed. Stalin's purges extended beyond
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  political opponents to include entire ethnic groups.
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  His forced collectivization policies triggered the
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  Halimotor, a man made famine in Ukraine that killed millions of
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  people. His secret police, the NKVD,
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  carried out mass shootings and engineered terror on an
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  industrial scale to suggest that Stalin was somehow removed from
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  these atrocities. And that flame falls on lower
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  level officials, erases the deliberate choices that he made.
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  Now, Mao Zedong's rule over China is responsible for more
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  deaths than any other dictator in history, with estimates
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  ranging between 40 to 70 million people.
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  His Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1962 was a catastrophic
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  attempt to rapidly industrialize China, but instead it led to one
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  of the worst famines in human history, with millions starving
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  to death. Like Stalin, Mouse policies were
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  not just tragic miscalculations, they were enforced with brutal
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  repression. Peasants who tried to flee
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  famine stricken areas were often executed or sent straight to
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  labor camps. And the Cultural Revolution,
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  which is between 1966 and 1976, unleashed another wave of
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  violence where young Red Guards were encouraged to denounce and
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  attack class enemies. Teachers were beating the death
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  by students. Suspected political dissidents
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  were tortured and publicly humiliated before being
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  executed. This was not simply a case of
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  public sector workers going rogue.
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  Mao himself encouraged and praised his violence, only
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  stepping in when it spiraled beyond his control.
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  Now, Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime industrialized Mass murder
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  6,000,000 Jews were systematically killed in the
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  Holocaust alongside millions of others, including Romani people,
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  political dissidents, disabled individuals, and Soviet
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  prisoners of war. The Nazis didn't commit these
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  crimes in a bureaucratic vacuum. They followed a clear
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  ideological framework outlined by Hitler himself and Mein
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  Kampf, and reinforced through speeches and policies that left
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  no room for ambiguity. Now, the Nazi military was
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  deeply complicit in these crimes, and the idea that these
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  killings were merely the actions of overzealous government
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  workers ignores the fact that Hitler built a state designed
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  for genocide. The s s, the Gestapo, all played
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  their roles, and none of it would have happened without
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  Hitler's direct influence and leadership.
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  The tweet that Elon Musk reposted presents a logical
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  fallacy separating the leaders from the crimes committed under
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  the regimes. But history shows that
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  authoritarian states do not operate on autopilot.
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  Stalin, Mao and Hitler deliberately created systems
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  designed for oppression and mass murder.
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  The term public sector workers is also misleading.
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  It conjures an image of bureaucrats pushing papers, not
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  the trained executioner, secret police, and ideological
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  enforcers who carried out these killings.
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  The s s, Stalin's NKVD, and Mao's Red Guards were not just
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  ordinary government employees. They were carefully selected and
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  indoctrinated to enforce these regimes and also their most
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  brutal policies of murdering millions of people.
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  Furthermore, the claim ignores the concept of command
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  responsibility. It's a legal and moral principle
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  that holds leaders accountable for crimes committed under their
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  authority. If a dictator orders mass murder
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  and their subordinates carry it out, the leader is still
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  responsible. And a Musk did repost and then
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  remove the statement. There's several plausible
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  explanations for this. Elon Musk does not care, and
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  Musk's influence extends far beyond social media.
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  Though CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
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  His words carry weight with investors, regulators and
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  consumers. Public figures who appear to
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  downplay genocide or reframe history in ways that excuse
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  authoritarian rulers tend to face serious consequences.
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  Musk may have decided that engaging with this tweet was not
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  worth a reputational risk. I'm sure somebody at SpaceX or
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  somebody at Tesla text Elon real quick and said, what are you
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  doing? This is a horrible thing to do
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  with the stock price is going to crash.
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  You got to delete this. And as the owner of X, Musk has
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  spoken about making the platform a space for free speech.
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  However, even he understands that some statements cross a
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  line, or at least his investors do given the sheer reach of his
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  posts, may have realized that amplifying this misleading
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  statement was a step too far even for him.
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  It could be a dog whistle, too. Think about that, reframing
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  history in ways that downplay the direct responsibility of
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  dictators. It's not just misleading, it
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  disrespects the memory of the victims.
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  It also sets a dangerous precedent where mass killings
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  can be excused as the result of bureaucratic inertia rather than
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  deliberate policy choices and horrible, horrible people.
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  Murderers. Now, Musk often claims to
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  support truth and transparency, but spreading misleading
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  narratives, intentionally or not, undermines that stance.
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  And if he did delete this tweet, it was likely an acknowledgement
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  that some statements, even if they spark conversation, aren't
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  worth promoting. Now.
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  Let me know in the comments what you think about this.
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  Do you think Elon Musk wanted to dog whistle people?
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  You think he posted that to see what the reaction would be?
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  If it was positive, you would have kept it up, but if it was
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  negative, take it down so his investors don't go wild and
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  booed him off. As the CEO of Tesla, the board
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  can get rid of him if they vote him off.
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  It's a possibility that there could be an uprising at Tesla.
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  There could be an uprising in society against Elon Musk in the
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  billionaire class too. It was a horrible thing for Elon
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  Musk to do to even repost this. But I want to hear what you
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  think. Let me know in the comments.
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  Leave a like on this video if you like these kind of topics,
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  these provocative type of topics.
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  other. I'll see you in the next one.