This is absolutely ridiculous. Every leader at USMA ought to be ashamed of this decision to invite a promoter of autocracies and fascism to speak to cadets I hope they taunt his ass www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/u...
The billionaire owner of the social media platform X and Tesla’s chief executive will deliver the keynote speech at an annual event.
Augh, because there’s not extremism within our armed forces, they have to go and invite Musk. Disturbing.
Didn't his parents move him to the US before he'd be pulled into mandatory service under Apartheid South Africa?
Everyone in the services is getting mandatory political activities training (i.e. active duty can't be political training) as they do every election year, and then they do this?
Well, Netanyahu had to get back to Israel, and Orban and Putin likewise have countries to run. But Musk is available! He clearly has nothing but free time on his hands!
Even leaving aside the rather explosive political-ideological angle here, Musk is not at all known as a good public speaker. But even if he somehow does manage a decent speech, what words of value could he possibly have to say to future officers?
I can only imagine an entire class of cadets just standing up and walking out when he gets up to speak. Not that they would ever do that, but I'd love to see it.
What could elmo possibly have to say to West Point cadets? He’s never been in the military band basically avoided mandatory service in his home country. In other words, he’s a draft dodger. www.britannica.com/money/Elon-M...
billionaires are bad for all life on earth! No exceptions! A society that worships extreme wealth is self-destructive. elon is proof that billionaires don't get rich because of merit. they get rich by exploiting people and planet.
Who the fk is inviting the ‘Civil war is inevitable’ coup-supporting hatemongering freak to give a speech to a class of military grads? — grads whose precarious loyalty to the constitution over autocrats is a vital protection against any next coup attempt?