“I mean, this is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried that it was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having a bad impact and, I mean, part of it is that it’s where it was located, which is, you know, downtown San Francisco, and while I think San Francisco is a beautiful city and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco, if you walk around downtown San Francisco, right near the X/Twitter headquarters, it’s a zombie apocalypse. I mean, it’s rough.
“You can’t believe it until you go there. So now you have to say, well, what philosophy led to that outcome? And that philosophy was being piped to Earth. So, you know, a philosophy that would be ordinarily quite niche and geographically constrained, so that sort of the fallout area would be limited, was effectively given an information weapon, an information technology weapon to propagate what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth, and the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end of civilization.” – Elon Musk, speaking to Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan asked Elon Musk why he bought Twitter and he said he did it to defeat “the mind virus” that has infected downtown San Francisco and turned it into a “zombie apocalypse” that will result in “the end of civilization” pic.twitter.com/jKvTzIGchy
— Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) October 31, 2023
🚨Cringe alert.
Joe Rogan: “Like that Hamas bombing the… ”
Elon Musk: “Hummus?… I think we should just cut off chickpea exports. That’ll bring them to their knees right away. What are you gonna do, take a chip and dip it in nothing?” pic.twitter.com/T6nB7c9PMw
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 31, 2023