Raphaël Glucksmann stated that his enemy is Elon Musk during a political meeting. The post takes the declaration seriously and compares their twenty-year records. Musk founded SpaceX which achieved vertical rocket landings, forced the global auto industry toward electric vehicles through Tesla, deployed Starlink to connect remote areas including Ukrainian trenches, developed AI and neural interfaces, and bought X to defend free speech. Glucksmann spent the same period writing columns, editing reviews, and adopting causes as a professional commentator whose tangible contributions fit on a Post-it note. The post recalls Glucksmann's own admission that he feels more culturally at home in New York or Berlin than in Picardie and argues he turned that elite disconnect into a career instead of learning from it. Glucksmann is portrayed as borrowing stature by attacking a builder while offering no alternative project of his own. The post concludes that a true builder focuses on construction rather than hatred and questions how someone more comfortable in Brooklyn than Amiens could seek to preside over France.
Raphaël Glucksmann stated this: “My enemy is Elon Musk.”
Let’s take Glucksmann seriously for a minute.
Let’s compare the two men's respective track records, since he’s the one initiating the debate.
On one side, we have Elon Musk. A man who, in twenty years, founded a space company that was said to be doomed to bankruptcy, but then landed rockets vertically, something entire nations considered impossible.
This man's innovations in electric vehicle manufacturing forced the entire global automotive industry to enter electric vehicle production.
This man gave internet to and connected regions no one wanted to wire, even the trenches of Ukraine, via his Starlink satellite system.
This man is building a curated AI, neural interfaces, and bought and cleaned up a world-wide social network to champion a certain idea of uncensored free speech for everyone, for free.
You can hate the man. You can’t deny his work.
On the other side, we have Gluckmann, a man who in twenty years, has written op-eds, edited magazines, championed causes, and made a career out of indignation. His material legacy, the tangible and lasting impact he's had on the world, could fit on a Post-it note.
His output consists of commentary on the output of others. And the best part is, he knows it. Because this is the same man who lucidly declared: "When I go to New York or Berlin, I feel more at home culturally than when I go to Picardy. And that's precisely the problem."
He was right. That was the problem. Except he didn't learn from it: he made a career out of it. He diagnosed the disconnect between the elites and the people, identified himself as a symptom, and then spent the next decade embodying exactly what he denounced. This is the man who chooses Elon Musk as his enemy. Not because he fights him—he doesn't have the means—but because declaring oneself the adversary of someone who does something is the last refuge of someone who does nothing.
We assume a stature we lack by pointing the finger at someone greater than ourselves. A builder doesn't waste time looking for enemies. He's too busy building.
To define oneself by hatred is to admit that one has no plan to offer in its place.
And it is THIS man, more at home in Brooklyn than in Amiens, who wants to preside over France.
Raphaël Glucksmann stated that his enemy is Elon Musk during a political meeting. The post takes the declaration seriously and compares their twenty-year records. Musk founded SpaceX which achieved vertical rocket landings, forced the global auto industry toward electric vehicles through Tesla, deployed Starlink to connect remote areas including Ukrainian trenches, developed AI and neural interfaces, and bought X to defend free speech. Glucksmann spent the same period writing columns, editing reviews, and adopting causes as a professional commentator whose tangible contributions fit on a Post-it note. The post recalls Glucksmann's own admission that he feels more culturally at home in New York or Berlin than in Picardie and argues he turned that elite disconnect into a career instead of learning from it. Glucksmann is portrayed as borrowing stature by attacking a builder while offering no alternative project of his own. The post concludes that a true builder focuses on construction rather than hatred and questions how someone more comfortable in Brooklyn than Amiens could seek to preside over France.
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His enemy? So much for the we are the world rhetoric that the Andropean clowns always push.
SLIGHTLY ENHANCED TRANSLATION:
Raphaël Glucksmann stated this: “My enemy is Elon Musk.”
Let’s take Glucksmann seriously for a minute.
Let’s compare the two men's respective track records, since he’s the one initiating the debate.
On one side, we have Elon Musk. A man who, in twenty years, founded a space company that was said to be doomed to bankruptcy, but then landed rockets vertically, something entire nations considered impossible.
This man's innovations in electric vehicle manufacturing forced the entire global automotive industry to enter electric vehicle production.
This man gave internet to and connected regions no one wanted to wire, even the trenches of Ukraine, via his Starlink satellite system.
This man is building a curated AI, neural interfaces, and bought and cleaned up a world-wide social network to champion a certain idea of uncensored free speech for everyone, for free.
You can hate the man. You can’t deny his work.
On the other side, we have Gluckmann, a man who in twenty years, has written op-eds, edited magazines, championed causes, and made a career out of indignation. His material legacy, the tangible and lasting impact he's had on the world, could fit on a Post-it note.
His output consists of commentary on the output of others. And the best part is, he knows it. Because this is the same man who lucidly declared: "When I go to New York or Berlin, I feel more at home culturally than when I go to Picardy. And that's precisely the problem."
He was right. That was the problem. Except he didn't learn from it: he made a career out of it. He diagnosed the disconnect between the elites and the people, identified himself as a symptom, and then spent the next decade embodying exactly what he denounced. This is the man who chooses Elon Musk as his enemy. Not because he fights him—he doesn't have the means—but because declaring oneself the adversary of someone who does something is the last refuge of someone who does nothing.
We assume a stature we lack by pointing the finger at someone greater than ourselves. A builder doesn't waste time looking for enemies. He's too busy building.
To define oneself by hatred is to admit that one has no plan to offer in its place.
And it is THIS man, more at home in Brooklyn than in Amiens, who wants to preside over France.