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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has predicted that 2024 will be “even more crazy” than the preceding four years. Musk was responding to a follower wishing for “a normal year.”
“Can we just have a normal year in 2024?” an anonymous pundit known as ‘Wall Street Silver’ tweeted on New Year’s Eve. “Don’t we deserve that after four years of crazy?”
“2024 is gonna be even more crazy is my prediction,” Musk responded on Monday.
2024 is gonna be even more crazy is my prediction
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2024
Musk did not predict any “crazy” events that may happen, but in a series of follow-up tweets, the billionaire drew attention to the pace of AI development, rising mortality among young people after mass vaccination against Covid-19, record-breaking illegal immigration to the US, and anti-white rhetoric from South African presidential hopeful Julius Malema.
During 2023, Musk repeatedly warned that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could spiral into a nuclear war between Russia and the US. The billionaire had been providing Ukraine with free access to SpaceX’ Starlink internet service, but has refused to enable the service in the vicinity of Crimea, for fear that Kiev would use Starlink to guide drones to Russian warships. This would have made his company “explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” he explained in September.
The year 2024 is slated to be a historic election year, marking a critical test for democracy with elections in approximately 70 countries, including the US, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Over 3.7 billion voters are poised to participate, and their choices may reverberate globally, shaping future implications.
Since being posted, numerous users reacted to Musk's post in the comment section. One user wrote, “Mr. Musk we need President Donald J. Trump back in that Whitehouse."
“With this presidential election, normalcy is the last thing 2024 will offer," another user commented.
In November, Musk expressed his inability to envision himself voting for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. He had previously criticised Biden for overlooking Tesla while publicly lauding General Motors as the trailblazer in the electric car revolution.
When asked if he would consider voting for Donald Trump, Musk responded, "I'm not affirming I'd cast my vote for Trump. It's unquestionably a challenging decision." The proprietor of X has lauded Vivek Ramaswamy of Indian descent as a "promising candidate" for the 2024 US presidential election. Notably, in 2020, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX had cast his vote for Biden.
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