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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1545118)	6/26/2025 4:08:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1569736

Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars disq.us Elon Musk has abandoned his vision of colonising Mars, according to Peter Thiel. In a new interview with Ross Douthat for the New York Times, Thiel has claimed that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO no longer believes a Martian colony is a viable political project for humans to build a new society. According to Musk’s friend and fellow Trump backer, “2024 is the year Elon stopped believing in Mars.” Interplanetary expansion has long been an ambition for Musk, but Thiel says that what was once an ideological project is now solely a technological one. The SpaceX CEO has previously said that humans could set foot on Mars by 2028, and told Fox News last month that colonisation of the Red Planet was essential to “ensure the long-term survival of civilisation in the hopefully unlikely event that something terrible happens to Earth”. Musk’s change of heart was reportedly inspired by a conversation with London-based Google DeepMind AI boss Demis Hassabis, in which the two discussed whether AI or interplanetary travel would be the most important technological advancement in the world. According to the New York Times interview, “Elon went quiet” after Hassabis told him: “Well, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.” In Thiel’s view, this was the impetus for Musk backing Trump so heavily in last year’s presidential election. The Palantir founder agreed with Douthat that this was the reason why the X owner had invested so much time in “battles over budget deficits or wokeness”. Thiel also depicted Musk’s interstellar utopia as akin to American science fiction writer Robert Heinlein’s vision of the “moon as a libertarian paradise”. A martian colony may have started out as purely scientific aspiration, but Thiel says that as this was “concretised”, it became clearer “that Mars is supposed to be more than a science project. It’s supposed to be a political project”.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1545118)	6/26/2025 5:13:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Respond to of 1569736

Despite promise to remove 'wurst of the wurst,' ICE has arrested only 6% of known immigrant murderers (NBC News) Remember this the next time a MAGA cultist cheers for the ICE-IS thugs. They are NOT going after the "wurst of the wurst." They aren't even prioritizing immigrants with non-violent criminal records, either. Among the 185K immigrants that have been detained this year, only 65K of them have any criminal records whatsoever, which amounts to 35%. And among those with criminal records who were detained, only 752 were known murderers, which itself is just 6% of the 13,000 immigrants who were known to have committed murder. By the way, among the 16,000 immigrants convicted of sexual assault, only 1,693 of them have been detained thus far, which is just 11%. Bottom line: Trump is NOT prioritizing the "violent criminals, the wurst of the wurst." Instead, he and the Bald Goebbels are just purging ALL immigrants that don't already have permanent legal status, along with some that do. The next time a MAGA cultist tells you otherwise, just show them this article. The only way to deal with MAGA is with the facts. Tenchusatsu Reminder: The facts are not for their benefit, but for ours.