“You might be proud of your fellow South African
but you are venturing out on thin ice with this post.”
The great Shaun Tomson, a slickly articulate and cruelly
handsome man who redefined backside tuberiding at Pipeline in 1975
and who won a world title at twenty-two, has never been afraid
to call a spade a spade, as the saying goes.
A few years back, Tomson launched a wild harangue at the
Australian surfer Noa Deane for his since redacted anti-WSL stance.
Tomson, a clean-skin with a fiery
anti-drugs stance and was once described by Kelly Slater as the
“ultimate pro”, fumed.
“I’d love to see these wildcards, you know, the big mouths like
Noa Deane, big mouth, I want to see that dude, give him a wildcard
at ten-foot Pipe. I want to see Noa Deane with his big mouth come
up against Italo Ferreira…
“Let me tell you, the dude will be savaged! He will be
cryyyyying… with his body… he will be flayed. The
guy’s got a big mouth and never stops whining about the WSL. Let’s
see that dude step up! People just let these dudes chirp. Step up
and put up or shut up!”
Since then he’s crossed swords with Ian Cairns,
Christian Fletcher and
the Yay Palestine crowd.
Now, and accidentally it seems, Tomson has set off leftists
worldwide with his fulsome praise of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is
also, like Tomson, a South African.
Tomson posted a video of Elon along with the
message,
If you haven’t watched this remarkable video of Elon Musk,
WATCH IT. An insight into a rare mind. He lays out the
future.
The only question that stopped him in his tracks was this –
Once robots can do everything better than humans, what will people
do with their time?
Like him or not, he is a futurist and we better step there
with our eyes open – this interview is an eye-opener.
Pretty milquetoast whatever your political stripe but it drove
Tomson’s followers on Facebook crazy.
Almost one hundred furious comments.
For sure is a futurist, but he is also the one is also the
one who spent words to support Alternative für Deutschland (AfD
extreme right party, fascist/nazist) in Germany. Here in Europe the
far right is growing, also in Italy, and this must be fought if we
do not want history to repeat.
he’s destroying democracy in American…buying politicians to
do his bidding. I wonder would you be ok with him doing that to
your country…a place he left to become a US citizen
paving the road to dystopia. one crypto coin at a time.
there’s nothing futuristic about a return to the late nineteenth
century robber baron age. just because it looks futuristic doesn’t
mean it is. a futurist is more like buckminster fuller or frank
lloyd wright. musk is just a greedy douche. as long as humans don’t
ride on his spaceships, designed and engineered by others with lack
of attention to the kind of process required for man rated
spaceflight, at least no one will get killed.
Maybe stick to surfing. This guy is a dangerous toxic
narcissist just like the rapist he helped put in office. We need
innovators in this country, not oligarchs.
Seriously? The guy is nuttier than a squirrel
turd. Another billionaire with an overstimulated ego deciding
what’s good for everyone else. No thanks.
Unfortunately, Musk may be a futurist, but in
reality, his transphobic beliefs and conspiracy theories are
dangerous. Also, he has no business in government. The creation of
DOGE( Department of Governmental Elites), is an asinine attempt to
reshape our democratic system of government into an autocratic
oligarchy.
You might be proud of your fellow South African
but you are venturing out on thin ice with this post.
Question to the BTL crowd: are you sitting in your
beanbag, picking the ham out of your blister pack and enjoying the
show or are you in a terrific panic, convinced the end is nigh
etc?
