John Oliver drives Elon Musk to the bandwagon – now the tech bigwig responds The Whamageddon Challenge: There’s (almost) no escape from “Last Christmas”.

In the latest edition of The Last Week Tonight, presenter John Oliver criticized tech giant Elon Musk. From equations to supervillains to the Messiah complex, everything was there.

Musk could embody any movie villain: Batman’s Lex Luthor, who would pose for Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. The first racist space sheriff. And “a less fuckable Cal Hockley from Titanic.”

Musk’s time as Twitter boss changed the way people perceive him. Until the acquisition, Musk was said to have cultivated the image of a “prominent ‘Avenger’ who revolutionized space travel and made electric cars cool.”

But now Elon has become something of a self-proclaimed messiah. The moderator refers, among other things, to a statement by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which he made to the ‘New Yorker’ as part of a Musk portrait:

This is a bit like Jesus said: “Love your neighbor, but especially me. If not, fuck you; seek another heaven.” Musk is on a massive messiah mission, with him as the messiah, Oliver said.

The host further teased that Musk’s behavior puts him in the long line of “shitty and broken” tycoons, such as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs. The difference, however, is that, unlike Musk, she doesn’t let the world peek into her brain all the time: “But Elon does, and the insights can be downright horrifying.”

The moderator also praised the achievements of the Tesla boss: his company SpaceX has contributed to enormous progress in the field of reusable rockets, and Tesla’s success has largely contributed to the car industry becoming increasingly electric cars aim. throws.

Ultimately, it all comes down to the fact that “a lot of very important things will depend on how Elon feels right now.” And that’s a pretty scary fact, especially when it comes to Elon Musk, because:

What does Musk say about this?

Of course, Elon Musk himself could not refrain from criticizing the widespread criticism of the moderator.

On his platform

Musk did not address the actual points of criticism. The SpaceX founder also didn’t say a word during the 30-minute broadcast about Oliver calling him a “right-wing troll.”

In the past, Musk had responded “interestingly” to a tweet that read “Blacks kill each other, whites kill themselves” and pushed a documentary that many saw as transphobic.

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