“Rerum cognoscere causas” – to know the causes of things, taken from Book 2 of Virgil’s Georgics poetry. The full quotation is “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”.
Big news news from my alma mater. Sources say the award ceremony was delayed by three hours of LSE professors arguing about the best algorithm to determine the most efficient way to accept the trophy:
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide has ranked LSE as the top university in the UK and named the School as its ‘University of the Year 2025’. This is the first time the Good University Guide has awarded LSE the prestigious ‘University of the Year’ title, and the first time we have been ranked number one in the country. […] This fantastic result follows other high rankings in university league tables over the last year. In September 2024, The Guardian placed LSE as the top university in London, and as the best place to study Accounting and Finance. Likewise, the Complete University Guide 2025 named the School as the number one university in the capital.
LSE students are reportedly “cautiously optimistic” about the news, as they’re still trying to calculate the long-term societal and economic impact of celebrating rankings. LSE’s Director, beaming with indignation, announced, “This recognition validates our long-standing belief that if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter. And if you can measure it… why? We look forward to quantifying this award in terms of social good. We’re thrilled, of course, but we need to consider the opportunity cost of joy.”
In a final stroke of genius, the LSE administration has decided to commemorate this achievement by commissioning a statue of a giant invisible hand.
Meanwhile, well-appointed representatives from Oxford and Cambridge were spotted in a corner, drowning their sorrows in spiked lukewarm tea. Overheard mutterings included phrases like “patronage failure” and “maybe unresolved bad legacy is bad,” suggesting a dawning realization that rowing prowess and ancient stone blocks carved to resemble elephantine profits from colonialism might not be the best metrics for educational excellence in the 21st century. An anonymous don was heard lamenting, “Perhaps we should have focused more on direct and honest economic models and less on which tie to wear for dinner.”
Before I get to the Toyota crash, let’s recognize that all the news lately about Cybertruck design failure has centered on a very high profile towing incident, from a social media personality’s durability test.
Allegedly the Cybertruck attempt to pull unstuck another truck, instead completely ripped the back of the Tesla frame off.
I probably don’t need to say more here about the video because it generated like 5 million views in 2 days.
Yet, I just want to say this hints at how any cheap tow line quietly strapped anywhere to a Cybertruck’s frame… might instantly damage it catastrophically. Who already knew the “apocalypse-ready” road warrior could be defeated by a $50 tow strap and a gentle tug? It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight, except the knife is made of Elon Musk white supremacist Technocracy-grade tinfoil and the gun is… well, just about anything else on wheels.
But hey, maybe the “WankPanzer” is actually a revolutionary self-disassembling vehicle. No need for a junkyard when your truck helpfully falls apart at the slightest provocation. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature that the thing can’t really be used without failure!
Remember everyone, in the race between “extreme survival” and “extreme embarrassment,” this stainless steel folly is breaking land speed records. At this rate, the only thing it has been towing is Tesla’s reputation – straight into the dumpster. But don’t worry, I’m sure there’s a software update coming to fix pesky laws of physics that break everything, even the lowly wiper, when the real world shows up.
This chromed colossus is the ultimate accessory for the discerning dictator-in-training: a $100K bulletproof binky for budding Benitos.
Hear them wail: “Waaaah! The world’s so scary! Quick, Elon, swaddle me in stainless steel! I need my angular armor to fend off the diverse hordes!”
But wait, there’s more! Act now and we’ll throw in a free copy of “Mein Kampf-y Chair” – perfect for those long drives to Cyberstormtroopers rallies setup with xTwitter. Who did Nazi this coming?
Meanwhile, for the second time in just a few months, an inexpensive, simple and efficient Toyota Corolla just permanently wiped another Cybertruck off the road.
Notably I found the crash reported mainly through TikTok. Shocker, right? Turns out, folks prefer their vehicle fails without a side of racist rants and “Civil War 2.0” battle plans. While Elon’s digital hellscape echoes with calls for insurrection, TikTok’s busy showcasing his real-world engineering flop. It’s almost poetic – the “future-proof” truck crumbling on a platform he doesn’t control, while his own social media empire tumbleweeds into irrelevance. Once again proving that not all publicity is good publicity, especially when it comes with a garnish of sedition.
Far-right American militias pose the greatest threat, and they are predominantly built from the bottom up, by mundane, practical drivers — for instance, as anti-vaccine activists become anti-government activists. There do not appear to be strong links between them and foreign organizations except among white supremacist groups, and even that is mainly online, through propaganda mechanisms…
Online propaganda mechanisms link foriegn funds to American white supremacists? No wonder Musk bought Twitter claiming he had a new “extreme speech” funding model.
Musk’s digital megaphone has been blaring civil war rhetoric for months, echoing suspiciously pro-Kremlin talking points.
Former Russian President Medvedev Predicts U.S. Civil War & Elon Musk Becoming President In 2023
Musk’s Twitter posts seem tailor-made to sow anti-Western, anti-democratic sentiment and potentially incite domestic extremism. In April 2024, Russian military website topwar.ru eagerly amplified Musk’s ominous prediction:
[Dumb stuff Russia says will] cause large-scale civil wars in Western countries. American entrepreneur Elon Musk made such a rather gloomy forecast on his social network account.
The dire forecasts keep missing the mark, but Musk remains undeterred, relentlessly doubling down on his doomsday predictions while undermining public safety.
His track record with predictions is about as reliable as a Cybertruck about to tow something. Remember when he confidently promised Mars walks by 2018 or a million robotaxis by 2020? These weren’t just the musings of a man on a bender; they were projects he claimed were easily achievable under his direct control — yet they disappeared faster than tweets Musk censors when they don’t align with his views.
Musk’s continual prophecies of civil war might turn out to be as accurate as his many promises about the Cybertruck’s durability. False, yet extremely dangerous to prove for many of his followers willing to throw their lives away.
If he can’t even deliver on basic vehicle manufacturing — his supposed area of expertise — how trustworthy are his wild forecasts in fields he knows little about?
Musk’s dog whistle tries to reference 1929 as the rise of Hitler in order to incite racist violence today.
It seems the only thing Musk reliably produces is a deluge of hate speech, violent incitement, dead followers, broken promises and unfulfilled predictions… whether they involve “Mars Technocracy” (read: creating a white ethno-state like apartheid-era South Africa) or trying to inflame societal collapse (read: creating a white ethno-state like apartheid-era South Africa).
Maybe there’s a pattern here… apartheid guy is still trying to apartheid.
Lies, lies and more lies. Without fraud there would be no Tesla. The truck the CEO loudly proclaimed so waterproof it will float like a boat also has been classified a wreck after its soft underbellytouched water.
…totaled Cybertruck up for auction actually looks intact and only has 26 miles on the odometer.
The problem with this Cybertruck is apparently that it [barely touched water].
IAA released this picture of the “flood line”, which is surprisingly still underneath the cabin.
Reality bites this CEO over and over again as his exaggerated forward leaning claims are proven lies. Why is a guy flogging stock scams not in jail?
Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren’t too choppy.
It not only can’t serve as a boat, it can’t serve as a truck.
Fscking Cybertrucker,
what a damn joke
Brakes just shit,
drop of water makes it choke.
Buying Musk lies,
shows yo’ brain be broke!
London
Forsooth, they part with coin for naught but air,
A chariot that fails when skies do weep.
O empty heads that reason cannot spare,
Into this trap of deadly vanity they leap.
Behold! A chariot of fool’s gold doth gleam,
Its form a jest, its function but a sham.
The rain, its foe; its brakes, a fevered dream;
Its makers, frauds who care not for bedlam.
O wretched craft of steel and broken vows,
Thy frame a monument to hubris vast.
Thy wheels spin lies, thy hood false hope endows,
While coin and sense are flushed into the past.
What knave would part with wealth for such deceit?
A vehicle of folly, born of guile.
Its promises are dust beneath our feet,
Its engineering naught but refuse vile.
Thus Cybertruck, a fraud in metal clad,
Proves buyer and maker equally mad.
Topeka
Can’t get a truck wet,
Even its brakes don’t work?
Empty head Tesla boss is big
Mouth needin’ a cork!
Cybertruck lies rusting in the rain,
Cybertruck lies rusting in the rain,
Cybertruck lies rusting in the rain,
Its brakes are shot to hell!
Glory, glory, what a swindle,
Glory, glory, what a swindle,
Glory, glory, what a swindle,
The fools who payed into a shell!
Elon Musk is the “most prolific liar in the history of American business”
Saying Hitler’s constant lies ruined Germany, or that Elon Musk’s apartheid-promoting family ruined South Africa, should be self-evident. The fact that a rotten apple has fallen not far from its tree-of-hate, isn’t really shocking to anyone who understands the science of Newton’s gravity or Hume’s ethics.
However, some people still dwell on trying to make sense of the fraudulent “business” logic of such value-destroying fascists, as if abrupt awful decisions for humanity are supposed to make sense on any normal profit ledger.
“Which of the following three activities are you most likely to be fired from your job in media? One: you start calling your assistant juggles. Two: you bring your mushroom chocolates to work and put them in the refrigerator with your name on it, saying do not touch property of you. Or three, you advertise on Twitter? What is a bigger risk to your career? I didn’t know what was going to be next to Nazi porn. Right. That’s not going to be a good defense.”
Running Twitter (especially Black Twitter) into the ground — biggest loss of revenue in history — makes sense not at all as a business decision, but rather as information warfare.
…no company over $1 billion in revenue has ever lost 60% of its revenues in a 12 month period in a non-war period. I don’t think that’s ever happened. Twitter is literally the worst-performing business in history since a change in ownership.
Think of it like apartheid-born white nationalists firing half-million dollar hellfire missiles into Black neighborhoods. They are intentionally and literally blowing up money, throwing it away as a militarized defense project.
Does X Twitter therefore make any business sense, while it’s being driven for race war preparations?
No, it only makes race war sense — the sunk cost of taking control of communications to spread disinformation and worse. Imagine telling an African coup leader that their radio and TV takeover plans don’t seem profitable. It’s like when Hitler illegally poured money into 1933 Luftwaffe bomber development while he claimed to be delivering “scientific research” for civic prosperity.
Bad profit numbers?
Drain on the economy?
Yes, a planned business failure and political plan designed to prepare sycophantile followers with technology to enable killing a race they hate. They are optimizing around illegitimate gross transfers of wealth.
Amon Goeth found causes for anger everywhere he looked. Killing the best engineers doesn’t make sense to anyone stuck in a “business” context, because they fail to heed even the loudest and most aggressive signals from Elon Musk about preparing for race war.
Perhaps Walt Disney in the 1940s explained best how to understand the Musk family’s long time “technoking” aspirations?
Walt Disney on the appropriate reaction to Elon Musk
When Elon Musk says, “We ist der white people in a race”,
We HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!)
Right in Elon Musk’s face!
“Not to love technoking is a great disgrace”,
So we HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!)
Right in Elon Musk’s face!
Those of us who study history are condemned to watch it repeat.
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