Sociopaths view other people as replaceable interchangeable meat puppets. They don’t value human life. Our society will not improve until we remove sociopaths from power and make it impossible for them to pursue it.
“I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn’t that bad?”
That’s great. That’s great.
Yeah so it’s not as scary as people think
Apparently, this is true.
Just WTF.
Mr Musk was talking about nuclear power with the former president when he said people have an unfounded fear of nuclear electricity generation. It is the “safest form of electricity generation”, he argued.
“People were asking me in California, are you worried about a nuclear cloud coming from Japan? I am like no, that’s crazy. It is actually, it is not even dangerous in Fukushima. I flew there and ate locally grown vegetables on TV to prove it," he said during the interview on his social media platform X on Monday.
Sensible people: Nuclear power is quite safe, likening it to a nuclear bomb isn’t really a valid comparison.
Elon Musk: Nuclear power is quite safe, not all that different from nuclear bombs, which get a bad rap.
I didn’t want to take this at face value without context so I found when they discussed this. Check around 1:17:00 in this video.
https://youtu.be/lfBQoWxQaEM?si=6Ev6rx62KESH-HgR
And yeah, he did say exactly what the OP states. So… yeah.
To give the absolute benefit of the doubt, I could say they were referring specifically to nuclear fallout rather than the initial explosion, as a full on explosion is less likely in a nuclear plant emergency. But even assuming it was just an incredibly distasteful way to reference that, there are still thousands of deaths and even more injuries/illnesses associated principally with radiation poisoning.
This is not to say I’m against nuclear energy, but by god we’ve got to have more careful consideration than this.
Edit: As a bonus, Musk talks about his views on global warming around the 1:10 mark. The issue with greenhouse gasses is, uh… making it hard to breathe?
For more context: hes comparing nuclear energy disasters like chernobyl to the bombings of japan, saying that because those cities recovered therefore people are wrong about chernobyl still being uninhabitable and that people shouldn’t be so scared of nuclear energy. Hes not saying bombing cities isnt so bad in general, just that its not as bad as how “(((they)))” say it is at chernobyl. Nevemind the fact that even if chernobyl was able to rebound it still would’ve been a major and tragic disaster!
This actually perfectly demonstrates his lack of knowledge and ability to perceive himself unduly as an intelligent person because of his financial success. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were able to rebuild and the nuclear fallout was short-lived because the bombs were detonated miles above the ground to maximize their immediate devastation, while the chernobyl reactor exploded on/in the ground and there is still uncontained radioactive material within the compound because it is basically impossible to clean up.
Also, the comments on that video are depressing.
