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Fuckin nerd who loves music, books, movies, and video games π Occasional musician
More books. Important reads. π
#literature #books #classics #theholocaust #sci-fi #sciencefiction #AnneFrank #PrimoLevi #GeneWolfe
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I'm reading it now and it's really good so far! Still only in the school portion, though.
24.01.2025 20:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Republicans are the most simultaneously idiotic and evil people this country has. I hate being an American.
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New book acquisitions are exciting π
#books #literature #Japaneseliterature #Britishliterature #reading #KazuoIshiguro #BananaYoshimoto
I've started this monstrosity. Wish me luck. π
#TheTaleofGenji #MurasakiShikibu #Japan #Japaneseliterature #worldlit #literature #classicliterature #bigbooks #reading #books
RIP to the actual GOAT π
#DavidLynch #cinema #film #surrealism #TwinPeaks #Eraserhead #Dune
"R Kelly isn't THAT bad."
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I'm the exact kind of psychotic mf who would be listening to #Gigan while reading #PabloNeruda.
#deathmetal #poetry #dissodeath
