The Russians won’t stop at Ukraine. Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, etc are all in its firing line. We all know this. This is why the Russians have put so much effort into undermining western governments, corrupting politicians, Brexit, and more. I think and hope Europe is finally waking up.

Meanwhile, Grok and Musk are spreading the propaganda that helps Russia murder and torture Ukrainians, and now, per the latest Trump proposal — whom Musk claims he got elected — even get away with it scot-free.

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The soon-to-be-trillionaire also controls autonomous cars, spaceships, tunnels, etc. It’s not hard to imagine classic dystopian scenarios of AI running amok (Terminator, Matrix — and then Butlerian Jihad as a reaction), but apparently Elon’s SF culture doesn’t go that far.

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Musk has big ambitions for Grok, such as Grokipedia (to be renamed “Encyclopedia Galactica”, another Science Fiction reference), and already put it in charge of the Twitter feed algorithm (with disastrous results — but then again, he was manipulating it previously too.)

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Another episode was the “White genocide” compulsive topic hijacking. Grok’s master, what a crazy coincidence, happens to be a white South African, obsessed with preserving the white race and encouraging white South African immigration to the US.

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But then, whether through Musk’s manipulation or “organically” through bot farm manipulation, Grok turned into Mecha-Putler, an enthusiastic supporter of the genocidal invasion of Ukraine. And then lied about it.

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Musk also posted Kremlin-made memes himself, mocking Zelenskyy for asking for air defense while innocently wondering “where is all this Russian propaganda, we don’t see it”. At one point, Grok seemed aware of what Musk is doing, even praising Vatnik Soup.

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… “Khrushchev’s mistake” (reminder: Putin himself acknowledged Crimea as a part of sovereign Ukraine, many times), his non-stop mocking of Zelenskyy (but never Putin). We’ve already souped him a few times, including in this soup with disappearing likes:

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