Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

[angrysoba]

Except in Turkey.

Or India.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Musk's social media content getting increasingly overt in right wing conspiracism and bog-standard antisemitism.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-says-george-soros-hates-humanity-unrelatedly-filing-shows-financier-sold-tesla-stake-4b39996e

Musk replied that Soros wants “to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”

interesting to see Musk engaging in tropes about the big bad billionaire Soros, who's personal wealth is a fraction of Musk's own net worth. Anti-semitic tropes have a way of stripping class analysis entirely out of these criticisms of the "elite".


Musk is also engaging with the classic trope of racists to focus on black crime.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/elon-musk-tucker-carlson/


Billions of dollars to turn Twitter into 4chan. /pol would be proud.

 

[Aridas]

Except in Turkey.

Or India.

Or even the US. This vile caricature of Free Speech, where a select arbitrary group is purposefully being amplified greatly for manufactured grievance and false premise reasons and most people are being quietly suppressed, sure looks increasingly like what Musk and the Rabid Right were pretending to oppose.

But, meh. The value of Free Speech is NOT itself. Free Speech is a means to an end, not the end itself. It's no better to get caught up in making Free Speech the end than it is to get caught up in making money the end and forgetting that it's supposed to be a means to an end.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Or India.

Or expressing any ideas to the left of Benito Mussolini.

 

[Mid]

Musk's social media content getting increasingly overt in right wing conspiracism and bog-standard antisemitism.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-says-george-soros-hates-humanity-unrelatedly-filing-shows-financier-sold-tesla-stake-4b39996e



interesting to see Musk engaging in tropes about the big bad billionaire Soros, who's personal wealth is a fraction of Musk's own net worth. Anti-semitic tropes have a way of stripping class analysis entirely out of these criticisms of the "elite".


Musk is also engaging with the classic trope of racists to focus on black crime.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/elon-musk-tucker-carlson/


Billions of dollars to turn Twitter into 4chan. /pol would be proud.

He does seem to be becoming the 21st century's answer to Henry Ford

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Musk on the news repeating his bizarre conspiracy theory that the recent nazi shooting massacre wasn't a nazi inspired attack.

Apparently it's a psyop that this person might be a white supremacist

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/images/2023-05/allen_1_1020x.png

Elon Musk Claims There’s ‘No Proof’ Swastika-Tatted Texas Shooter Was White Supremacist
In an interview with CNBC, Twitter’s owner doubled down on the increasingly conspiratorial beliefs he broadcasts to millions

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-cnbc-interview-texas-shooting-1234736809/

Real shoddy job by the interviewer here. You shouldn't let interview subjects spread patently untrue conspiracy theories without challenge like this.

 

[Checkmite]

The actual police verified that the shooter had, in their own words, "Neo-Nazi tattoos and patches". They got that information by physically examining the shooter's body and effects, not from "some obscure Russian website" or a statement by Bellingcat.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

The actual police verified that the shooter had, in their own words, "Neo-Nazi tattoos and patches". They got that information by physically examining the shooter's body and effects, not from "some obscure Russian website" or a statement by Bellingcat.

The obscure Russian website being reference to is a social media website used by the shooter. Like many other overt white supremacists, he had to retreat to strange and often overseas corners of the internet where being an overt white supremacist wouldn't result in mod action. The shooter had an account on a Russian social media site where he shared his many quite unambiguous opinions about being a neo-nazi and white supremacist.


But yeah, having the SS bolts and a swastika tattooed on his body seems a shorter path to making the same conclusion.

 

[I Am The Scum]

Musk on the news repeating his bizarre conspiracy theory that the recent nazi shooting massacre wasn't a nazi inspired attack.

Apparently it's a psyop that this person might be a white supremacist

I'd really love for him to slow down for a second and figure out why he's so invested in "correcting" this narrative. Does he think that mass murderers are being slandered by being associated with white supremacists, or does he think white supremacists are being slandered by being associated with mass murderers? My money is on the latter.

 

[catsmate]

The obscure Russian website being reference to is a social media website used by the shooter. Like many other overt white supremacists, he had to retreat to strange and often overseas corners of the internet where being an overt white supremacist wouldn't result in mod action. The shooter had an account on a Russian social media site where he shared his many quite unambiguous opinions about being a neo-nazi and white supremacist.


But yeah, having the SS bolts and a swastika tattooed on his body seems a shorter path to making the same conclusion.

Well I'm sure Garcia would have been welcomed on Twitter.

 

[tyr_13]

The US Virgin Islands have subpoenaed records of Elon Musk in their case against JPMorgan and Jeffery Epstein. The subpoena became known because the government has had trouble serving Musk.

That filing said the Virgin Islands has tried unsuccessfully to serve Musk with the subpoena, which was issued on April 28, because of suspicion that Epstein "may have referred or attempted to refer" Musk as a client to JPMorgan.

Damn, if only there were a way to know what city he was in or at least where his private jet was. If there were it seems like he'd be very motivated to stop that so he can avoid service.

 

[angrysoba]

I'd really love for him to slow down for a second and figure out why he's so invested in "correcting" this narrative. Does he think that mass murderers are being slandered by being associated with white supremacists, or does he think white supremacists are being slandered by being associated with mass murderers? My money is on the latter.

It’s pretty crazy that Musk is fighting for the honour of white supremacy.

https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1658870785329487874?s=46&t=BHmkcsLn6CV4ZBrdyNlAYQ

 

[dirtywick]

a pretty good litmus test of if you're dealing with a liar is if they act confused about whether or not the guy covered in giant nazi tattoos is a nazi

 

[dudalb]

Musk getting blasgted for his Anti George Soros remarks that used a lot of classic Anti Semitic tropes.
He will not stop until he has burned every bridge behind him.
More and more I think that Time Man Of The Year award wrecked all controls he had on his ego, and now he had lost all self control.

 

[dudalb]

It’s pretty crazy that Musk is fighting for the honour of white supremacy.

https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1658870785329487874?s=46&t=BHmkcsLn6CV4ZBrdyNlAYQ

Not surprising at all if you remember Musk was raised in Apartheid South Africa.

 

[Bogative]

Want to know who else doesn't know if the attack in Allen, Texas was ideologically motivated?

The ADL.

His writings, voluminous and disturbing as they are, do not provide clear indication that he undertook his shooting rampage for ideological reasons, whether of a white supremacist, incel, or other nature. His personal demons alone might have driven him to the crime.

But don't let that slow anyone down from blabbering on about white supremacy, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, 4-chan, Apartheid, etc.

 

[dirtywick]

good point, there's any number of reasons that nazi piece of **** would have shot minorities. guess we'll never know

 

[tyr_13]

Want to know who else doesn't know if the attack in Allen, Texas was ideologically motivated?

The ADL.




But don't let that slow anyone down from blabbering on about white supremacy, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, 4-chan, Apartheid, etc.

Musk's argument was that the shooter wasn't even a white supremacist, which the ADL link shows is an unreasonable and breathtakingly stupid assertion. The ADL claim is that we don't know for sure that's the exact reason for his killing spree unlike the Buffalo Tops shooter. Or the Tree of Life Shooter. Or the El Passo Shooter. Or...

 

[Bogative]

good point, there's any number of reasons that nazi piece of **** would have shot minorities. guess we'll never know

We may, we may not, but the point is nobody knows right now.

 

[I Am The Scum]

Want to know who else doesn't know if the attack in Allen, Texas was ideologically motivated?

The ADL.




But don't let that slow anyone down from blabbering on about white supremacy, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, 4-chan, Apartheid, etc.

Musk explicitly denied that the guy was a white supremacist at all. If you really want to follow him down that absurd, conspiracy-addled route, then go ahead. Let's just be honest about the ideas you're defending.