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free america now...Tesla CEO Elon Musk has launched into an extraordinary tirade against lockdown orders in the United States, describing the rules as “fascist”. Mr Musk’s latest comments followed criticism for remarks he made late Tuesday night (local time) on Twitter, in which the billionaire CEO echoed President Donald Trump by writing in all caps, “Free America now”. In an expletive-laced rant during a Tesla’s Q1 2020 earnings call, Mr Musk doubled down after criticism of earlier tweets, in which he characterised the lockdowns as “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes … against all their constitutional rights”. “People should be outraged.” “If somebody wants to stay in their house, that’s great,” Mr Musk said, according to a recording of the call reviewed by CBS News. “They can stay in their house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do, this is fascist. This is not democratic, this is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.” “So the expansion of the shelter-in-place or – as frankly I would call it – forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, but that’s my opinion, and breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America or built this country. What the f—. Excuse me. Read more: https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/04/30/elon-musk-loc...
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Has the time come to bury the conceit of American exceptionalism? In an article for the American edition of The Spectator, Quincy Institute President Andrew Bacevich concludes just that:
The coronavirus pandemic is a curse. It should also serve as an opportunity, Americans at long last realizing that they are not God’s agents. Out of suffering and loss, humility and self-awareness might emerge. We can only hope.
The heart of the American exceptionalism in question is American hubris. It is based on the assumption that we are better than the rest of the world, and that this superiority both entitles and obligates us to take on an outsized role in the world.
In our current foreign policy debates, the phrase “American exceptionalism” has served as a shorthand for justifying and celebrating U.S. dominance, and when necessary it has served as a blanket excuse for U.S. wrongdoing. Seongjong Song defined it in an