And for essentially the most half, nobody appeared to care.
It was this trade on Fox Information in regards to the pressured detention and potential euthanasia of the homeless and mentally in poor health that received me pondering alongside these traces. Whereas Brian Kilmeade’s deadly injection remark proved to be outdoors of the Overton window, the sooner a part of the trade, which has gone largely ignored, had even clearer antecedents in Nazi Germany.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless individuals: “Involuntary deadly injection, or one thing. Simply kill them.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Within the aftermath of the Kirk assassination, we’re seeing a variety of individuals on the appropriate testing simply how excessive and overt a fascist place might be with out prompting mass disapproval. Kilmeade was outdoors of the pale, but it surely’s surprising simply how a lot has managed to get by.
Whereas it’s potential to make an excessive amount of of some temporary feedback from a few Fox speaking heads, the feedback of the world’s second-richest man in Britain over the weekend had the identical disturbing historic precedents and had been much more doubtlessly catastrophic.
Elon Musk is making an attempt to violently overthrow the federal government of the UK and change it with a far-right racist regime, a reality that won’t inform how US elites see him in any respect
— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) September 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson’s anti-immigrant rally within the UK right now.
“You are in a basic scenario right here the place, whether or not you select violence or not, violence is coming to you,” stated Musk. “You both combat again otherwise you die.”
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Elon, contemporary off trying to incite race riots in England is now making an attempt to incite pogroms towards trans individuals.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.web) September 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
These are deeply held and long-standing beliefs for Musk, most tracing again not less than one and in some circumstances two generations, going again to his Hitler-loving maternal grandfather.
Together with credulously accepting each self-serving and delusional declare the person made, the mainstream press’s canonization of Elon Musk trusted willfully disregarding heaps of damning proof that reporters like Lynette Lopez, Lora Kolodny, Michael Hiltzik, and Ed Niedermeyer had been diligently uncovering.
Musk has at all times had, on the very least, critical fascist leanings, however that put him squarely within the mainstream of the Silicon Valley tech proper. Racism and anti-feminism have been steeped into the tradition from the very starting, and but, although this was reported, the editorial places of work of locations just like the New York Occasions or NPR nonetheless aggressively promoted the tech Messiah narrative, which is without doubt one of the causes we’re in our present scenario.
In case you’ve forgotten, right here’s what Peter Thiel stated in a extensively disseminated Cato Institute essay from 2009. (Ever since then, Thiel and his apologists have been dancing round what he stated about ladies’s suffrage. It is best to disregard the distractions and concentrate on his precise phrases.)
Even past the fascism, these are dangerous individuals—grasping, power-hungry, devoid of empathy, and so satisfied of their very own value, mind, and normal superiority as to usually recommend messianic delusions. And but, the press was so enamored of the story it was telling itself of a techno-optimist revolution that it ignored all proof on the contrary.
They need to have been calling out these individuals in actual time. Having failed to do this, they should begin now.
p.s. I used to be going to speak about Andreessen right here, however he most likely deserves a publish of his personal.
