新纪录片《Musk》耗时四小时，内容充斥着对技术倒退的恐慌宣传和左翼说教，令人极度乏味。显然，这部影片的目的并非娱乐。
The new Elon Musk documentary, “Musk”, is an excruciatingly boring four hours of Luddite fearmongering and left-wing sermonizing. The point clearly wasn’t entertainment.
这部电影糟糕至极，即便在对马斯克极度反感的曼哈顿，也只在周六下午3点的场次里出现了寥寥几位死忠的“绿发”观众，我只能硬着头皮观看。
The movie is so awful that even in Musk-loathing Manhattan it played to empty theaters, with just a handful of die-hard green-hairs at the 3 p.m.
它的票房惨淡到几乎被所有影院下映。上周末，曼哈顿全城仅剩一次上午10点的放映，而你几乎找不到票去观看关于Theranos诈骗犯伊丽莎白·霍尔姆斯的引人入胜的新纪录片《You Can See Everything》。该片于10月16日正式上映，之前在四个银幕进行试映，截至周日，依据Box Office Mojo的数据，已收入643,432美元。
Saturday session I endured. It was such a box-office flop it’s been pulled from almost all theaters. This past weekend there was a single 10 a.m. session in all of Manhattan, while you could barely find a ticket to see the riveting new documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything.”
《You Can See Everything》同日上映，已收入超过4500万美元。原因在于它对这位欺骗癌症患者、诈骗投资者的真实恶棍进行了深思熟虑的呈现。导演内森·菲尔德还获得了极其罕见的接近机会，曾与霍尔姆斯一家同住在她的住宅，直至她入狱。
Musk opened Oct. 16 after a test run on four screens and, as of Sunday, had earned $643,432, according to Box Office Mojo. “You Can See Everything” opened the same day and has earned more than $45 million. That’s because it’s a thoughtful treatment of an actual villain who tricked cancer patients and defrauded investors.
相反，《Musk》的导演亚历克斯·吉布尼本意是要做一次“暗杀式”报道，却根本没有接触到马斯克本人。
Filmmaker Nathan Fielder also had incredible access, moving into Holmes’ house with her family before she went to prison.
于是，他制作了一个由人工智能生成的马斯克形象，让其说出邪恶言论，并配以不祥的音乐。是的，这部片子真的糟糕到如此程度。
“Musk” filmmaker Alex Gibney, on the other hand, set out to do a hit job, so had zero access to his subject. Instead, he created an AI-generated version of Musk saying evil things, accompanied by ominous music.
但它却充当了宣传工具，为民主党在中期选举前对马斯克的狂热反感提供了燃料。
Yes it really was as bad as this.
从《The Bulwark》到CNN，民主党人对利用即将到来的新权力摧毁全球首富的想法垂涎欲滴。
But it serves a purpose as propaganda to fuel the Democrats’ anti-Musk frenzy before the midterms.
一些奥巴马的追随者幻想将马斯克的公司国有化。他们说马斯克将不得不在华盛顿买一套联排别墅，因为他将花大量时间在国会作证。
From the Bulwark to CNN, Democrats are salivating about using their anticipated new power to destroy the world’s richest man. Obama bros fantasize about nationalizing Musk’s companies.
他们说他将需要动用全部数万亿美元的资产来聘请律师，以应对一连串的刑事指控。他们迫不及待想看到他坐进监狱。
They say Musk will have to buy a townhouse in Washington because he’ll be spending so much time testifying in Congress. They say he’s going to need all his trillion dollars for lawyers to fight a barrage of criminal charges.
这句话出自刚才还在抨击“将司法系统武器化”针对伊尔汗·奥马尔的同一批人。
They can’t wait for him to be behind bars.
“我们必须削减马斯克的资金，”《卫报》最爱的反自由市场经济学家罗伯特·赖希尖叫道。
This from the same people who a minute ago were railing against the “weaponization” of the justice system against Ilhan Omar.
“如果我们有民主党政府，民主党应该启动这项行动，不仅要进行监督听证，还要为国有化星链和SpaceX奠定基础，”他上周在某左翼播客中如此表示。
“We’ve got to defund Musk,” squeaked Robert Reich, the anti-free market economist beloved by The Guardian.
如果你以为他只是孤立的疯子，那就错了。没收马斯克的公司已成为特朗普狂热分子之间的严肃话题。
“If we have a Democrat administration, and the Democrats should be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX,” he told some lefty podcast last week. In case you thought he was just one lone madman, no.
前布什政府演讲稿撰写人大卫·弗鲁姆和前布什发言人妮可尔·华莱士在MS NOW上呼应了这一要求。
Seizing Musk’s companies is a serious talking point among the Trump-deranged.
在《纽约时报》专栏中，另一位经济学家保罗·克鲁格曼——同样在各方面都错误——引用富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福在二战期间国有化公司的做法，作为压制马斯克的模板。
David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, and former Bush spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace echoed the demand on MS NOW.
他详细描述了一位名叫西维尔·艾弗里的商人，在国民警卫队夺取其芝加哥工厂时，被迫由警卫亲自抬出办公室的情形。那就是他们对马斯克的梦想。
In his New York Times column, Paul Krugman, another economist who is wrong about everything, cited FDR nationalizing companies during World War II as a template for crushing Musk. He went into lascivious detail about a businessman named Sewell Avery who had to be physically carried out of his office by the National Guard when they seized his Chicago factory.
乔·拜登曾试图让联邦政府对马斯克展开32项政治化调查，其中包括一起刑事案件。如果民主党再次对他下手，别指望马斯克会安静离场。“以剑而生，必以剑而死，”他上周在推特上对迫害者如此写道。
That’s their dream for Musk. Joe Biden tried when he sicced the federal government on Musk with 32 separate politicized investigations, including one criminal case. Don’t expect Musk to go quietly if the Dems come for him again.
“挑衅我的人应当明白，我会查清谁是真正的幕后黑手，并对他们采取行动，而不仅仅是他们的傀儡。”民主党人对马斯克向共和党候选人捐赠数亿美元以帮助其赢得中期选举感到愤怒。
“Live by the sword, die by the sword,” he tweeted last week at his persecutors. “Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets.”
但他们自己也有一批亿万富翁超级捐助者，如乔治·索罗斯、迈克尔·布隆伯格和里德·霍夫曼，捐款总额同样巨大。
Democrats are enraged that Musk is donating hundreds of millions of dollars to help Republican candidates win the midterms.
詹姆斯·塔拉里科——民主党在德克萨斯州的参议院提名人——在周六于圣安东尼奥的集会上把马斯克当作其“怪物”。
But they have their own suite of billionaire mega-donors, like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Reid Hoffman, who donate just as much collectively.
“埃隆·马斯克想要我们的土地。他想要我们的水。他想要我们的税款。他想要他自己专属的美国参议员。”塔拉里科随后声称，与肯·帕克森不同，他的资金来自小额草根捐款。
James Talarico, the Dems’ Senate nominee in Texas, made Musk his boogeyman at a rally in San Antonio on Saturday. “Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants our tax dollars. He wants his very own personal United States senator.”
这简直是笑话。和大多数民主党人一样，为了增加他从超级政治行动委员会（Super PAC）中获得的财富，他依赖民主党在线筹款平台 ACTBlue 来获取这些“草根”捐款。
Talarico went on to claim that unlike Ken Paxton, he is funded by small-dollar grassroots donations. That’s a laugh.
持续的国会调查以及 ACTBlue 自己法律团队的大规模辞职，揭露了极其薄弱的防护措施，使得“空壳捐赠者”和外国捐赠者能够将资金洗入竞选活动。
Like most Democrats, to augment the riches he rakes in from super PACS, he relies on the Democrats’ online fundraising platform, ACTBlue, for these “grassroots” donations.
上周，民主党人还抨击马斯克，因为他承认曾暂时限制乌克兰使用 SpaceX 的民用卫星服务 Starlink。
Ongoing congressional investigations and mass resignations of ACTBlue’s own legal staff have revealed scandalously porous safeguards that allow straw donors and foreign donors to launder money into campaigns.
马斯克在周末解释称，SpaceX 上周限制 Starlink 是因为乌克兰军方违反服务条款，利用该系统进行“杀人”，而不是仅用于防御俄罗斯的攻击。
Democrats also demonized Musk last week after he admitted to temporarily throttling Ukraine’s access to SpaceX’s civilian satellite service, Starlink, in Ukraine.
他在推特上写道：“使用 Starlink——一种民用商业服务——进行进攻性无人机袭击以杀人，从未被允许，也不应被允许。”并指出，Starshield 是美国政府控制的、具备军用级别的独立系统，可在战场上用于进攻目的。
Musk explained on the weekend that SpaceX restricted Starlink last week because Ukraine’s military had violated the terms of service by using it to “kill people,” instead of just to defend itself from Russian attacks. “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be,” he tweeted, pointing out that Starshield is a separate military-grade system controlled by the US government that can be used for offensive purposes on the battlefield.
“Starlink 对乌克兰的防御仍然至关重要，因为它是唯一目前无法被干扰或摧毁的系统……SpaceX 为捍卫乌克兰所做的贡献，远超地球上任何私人公司。”但马斯克取得的成就并不重要。
“Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now… SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.”But it doesn’t matter what feats Musk pulls off.
民主党人恨他，因为他们把他视为背教者，是首位背离他们用来夺取权力的“觉醒思维病毒”的科技巨头。
Democrats hate him because they view him as an apostate, the first of the tech titans to turn against the “woke mind virus” they weaponized to seize power.
马斯克对左翼的“罪行”全部记录在那部以他名字命名的悲惨纪录片中。吉布尼将马斯克所做的一切描绘成阴险邪恶。
Musk’s crimes against the left are all documented in the woeful documentary that bears his name. Gibney portrays everything Musk does as sinister and evil.
例如，他在描述马斯克在德克萨斯开设工厂并雇佣数千人时的说法如下：
Here, for example, is how he describes Musk opening factories in Texas and employing thousands of people:
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“马斯克不仅搬到了德克萨斯。他把这里殖民化了。除了特斯拉和 SpaceX 的工厂、他在奥斯汀的私人庄园外，他还创立了 90 家公司，建造了两个为工人提供住房的公司城镇，包括学校。” 这部纪录片否定了马斯克的所有成就和宏大梦想。 在 SpaceX，他开创了可重复使用的火箭，拯救了宇航员，发射了轨道上约一半的卫星，并试图把我们送往火星。
“Musk didn’t just move to Texas. He colonized it. Beyond factories for Tesla and SpaceX, his own personal compound in Austin, he founded 90 companies who built two company towns for workers, including schools.”The documentary dismisses all of Musk’s accomplishments and big dreams. At SpaceX, he pioneered reusable rockets, rescued astronauts, launched half of all satellites in orbit, and is trying to get us to Mars.
在特斯拉，他实现了电动汽车的规模化生产。 在 Neuralink，他帮助盲人恢复视力。 他拯救了推特的言论自由，并正在研发一种非“觉醒”的人工智能，仅举几例。
At Tesla, he mass-produced electric vehicles. At Neuralink, he’s helping blind people see. He saved Twitter for free speech and is developing a non-woke AI, to name a few.
但这是吉布尼的观点：“他的数据中心排放有毒气体。他的镍矿和锂精炼厂渗入我们的含水层。他的卫星堵塞了天空。曾警告我们关于流氓 AI 代理的危害，他却把它们植入了一支旨在接管地球的机器人军队。” 这部沉闷的纪录片最终以一个模拟的地球在太空中爆炸收场，而一个模拟的埃隆正乘坐飞船欢快地逃向火星。
But this is Gibney’s take: “His data centers belched poisonous gas. His nickel mines and lithium refineries leached into our aquifers. And his satellites choked the skies. Having warned us about rogue AI agents, he implanted them in an army of robots meant to take over the planet.”The dreary documentary finally ends with a simulated planet Earth blowing up in space while a simulated Elon is in a spaceship merrily escaping to Mars.
马斯克对吉布尼的垃圾有什么回应？他展示了一款飞行汽车。他最好的报复就是成功。
Musk’s response to Gibney’s dross? He unveiled a flying car. His best revenge is success.