1/n Elon Musk isn't Iron Man. He's Homelander. 🧵
cc: @TheBoysTV @Sethrogen
2/n Let's warm up: US Govt (@FAANews) tells you not to launch your rocket for public safety reasons? Do it anyway, because... "I can do whatever the f*ck I want"
3/n US Govt (@SEC_Enforcement) fine you $20 million for committing fraud? “I can do whatever the f*ck I want”.
4/n Say you’re *oppressed* by pronouns, which your partner pleaded with you not to do? (You fought about pronouns; she defied you; so you went online. Right?) "I can do whatever the f*** I want".
5/n Lead on the desperate, suggesting you could cure paralysis, maybe by year’s end, like a Silicon Valley faith healer? "I can do whatever the f*** I want".
6/n California impose a Covid lockdown? Call the government fascist on a quarterly investor conference call. It’s the Emerald Rule: cnbc.com/2020/04/29/elo…
7/n Tesla fans, meanwhile 👇
8/n In “The Boys”, Homelander is an insecure, narcissist psychopath Superman. Musk is no superhero, but their Venn Diagram is a circle. h/t @savagebooks
9/n Rich (powerful) enough to get away with calling a cave diver hero a pedophile child rapist, Musk embodies Big Tech’s “LOMO” (Law-Optional M.O.) attitude towards us “mud people”. buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
10/n And in the cult of Tesla, Errol Musk is a Jealous God. cnn.com/2021/02/02/car…
11/n As a Very Secure Genius, Musk requires them to have no other idols before him. There's no one he won't go negging, anytime, for any reason: Einstein, Buffett, Gates... Well, except Xi Jinping. #VerySecureGenius 👉
express.co.uk/news/world/137…
12/n So Very Secure a #VerySecureGenius, that his first words after marrying his first wife were… marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380…
13/n But a #VerySecureGenius with a Tinker Bell Complex: when people stop thinking of him, he dies (inside). That’s why he’s always on social media: for affection, acceptance, admiration. It's exactly "Homelander".
evfarm.substack.com/p/the-tinker-b…
14/n When he missteps, a human wave attack of flacks, fans and stans covers his tracks.
15/n … and for billionaires, ass-covering praise is cheaply bought. It's not pocket change, it's rounding error.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
16/n Musk actually *does* have two superpowers.
(1) He’s convinced fans that they need him; that he’s a Good Provider. That if we all kept quiet and out of his way, and didn’t upset him, he’d get better.
That’s how battered women think. Donate. 👇
domesticshelters.org/help#?page=1
17/n And (2) a bro-ing chorus of SEO’d fan blogs buries inconvenient truths way down search rankings. If you weren’t paying really 🔍🔍 close attention, here’s some of what you missed.
18/n Employee fired the day after she escalated directly to Musk that she’d been sexually assaulted on-premises? ✅ Alleged in Nevada docket 3:19-cv-00301-LRH-CLB. Via @PlainSite --> plainsite.org/dockets/downlo…
19/n Whistleblower security employee with drug investigation experience, demoted, fired, then harassed after reporting 5 known cartel members worked at Gigafactory, whose grade of lithium is used in drug manufacture? (Hansen v Musk et al) ✅
plainsite.org/documents/1pis…
20/n Strong claims. Serious claims. Claims that were corroborated by his security team supervisor in his *own* whistleblower lawsuit. (Gouthro v Tesla) ✅
As Musk would put it, "this is really messed up, @DEAHQ".
plainsite.org/documents/22y0…
21/n Try to destroy a *third* whistleblower, who was swatted when “someone” phoned to falsely claim he was going to shoot up the factory? ✅
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
22/n That scratches the surface. The other 99 44/100ths% remains. *That* is what fans, stans and ESG funds have been tricked into enabling. (There's no way would they approve, if they knew.)
And if they don’t like it, there’s that Emerald Rule:
23/n For more on Tesla’s arc of darkness, sign up at evfarm.substack.com. The “back catalog” - how one fan turned critic - is free. Public service, etc.
It's not pretty reading. It might not be for you. And if you’re a fan, treasure your innocence.
24/n Musk’s LOMO has made him the richest man in the world. He won’t change unless fans, (ESG) funds and governments shake their battered mentality and stand up for themselves.
25/n Until then, the beatings will continue.

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