Elon Musk: “Acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it…”

“They simply believe that everything their tribe does is good and anything the Other political tribe does is bad and persuading them is otherwise, it's almost impossible. So anyway, but I think overall those actions, Acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it makes a lot of people angry, I think those actions are good for civilization. Yeah. How does it feed into the future you're excited about? Well, America needs to be strong enough to last long enough to extend life to other planets and to …” (2:32:18–2:32:29)

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