Saturday, December 17, 2022

Two antithetical billionaires - Victor Davis Hanson

Two antithetical billionaires - Victor Davis Hanson
"...SBF may have been a sloppy, immature fool, but he was no dummy.
He had learned early on that loud leftist talk, big promises of philanthropy, and huge cash infusions to the media and leftist candidates – all under the veneer of "effective altruism" – ensured de facto immunity for his Ponzi schemes from both bad press and government investigation....
  • In contrast, consider how the Left now despises Elon Musk as much as it once worshiped Sam Bankman-Fried.
...Musk's mortal sin was not just buying the money-losing Twitter and reinventing it as a free-speech platform...
Musk's crime was far worse.
First, was the sin of betrayal. 
A month ago, all those Teslas on the streets of Palo Alto, Austin, and Cambridge were virtue-signaling proof of green moral superiority. 
Then suddenly, these still wonderful cars are seen as fuel for the prince of darkness...
  • The hatred of the accomplished Musk and the worship of the hollow man Bankman-Fried are sad commentaries on how liberalism has descended into progressivism and ultimately into Stalinism.

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