Thread by @evirae

#TwitterFiles - EloncMusk's Top Engagements

💠 Omar Qazi @/WholeMarsBlog

Exhausting MegaThread
- Ban Evasion (3x+ banned accounts)
- Leads Harassment Campaigns that last Years Online/IRL
- Public $TSLA promoter, Elon Co-Defendant

Here's what's public:

DISCLAIMER: This is aggregated from publicly-available sources. It is wholly observation of a behavioral pattern from public data. I do not condone harassment of anyone mentioned herein + will block trolls/ad hominem.

Also: I don't have stocks/positions on TSLA, nor have I been involved in any of Elon's ventures or know any persons mentioned herein personally. Again, this is what I have observed freely online. It boggles my mind to see this kind of activity, so I'm trying to make sense of it.

The thread is the length it is b/c, as soon as I started looking, the extreme abuse I saw was unbelievable. I've including 3 examples of targets to illustrate what I mean.

If me highlighting this pattern of abuse bothers you more than the abuse itself, please reflect on that.

Omar has been hyperfocused on Tesla on Twitter since late ~2018. Prior to using @/wholemarsblog, he'd been mainly using @/omarqazi/tesla_truth.

Not much can be derived from his 3 banned accts other than still-live mentions. He also focused on Apple & crypto.

Among other things:

On his personal acct + his second one @/tesla_truth, harassment was cloaked as "revealing the $TSLAQ disinfo campaign."

His mentions go towards attacking Tesla critics, some of which claim sincere damages which he belittled with no hesitation. In truth, many hardcore $TSLA did.

It wasn't enough to dismiss a claim- Omar & Co. as a rule would personally attack anyone critical of TSLA/Musk, short-seller or not. It always got personal. Always.

I will limit who I cover as the list is expansive and the pattern is easy to see.

No one deserves his abuse.

To preface, through public data & his own admittance, Omar is heavily invested in TSLA, nearly 50%.

His blog WholeMars links to a Tesla referral code.

He regularly is amplified and egged on by Elon Musk, even on blatantly misleading tweets. His actions are volatile & bullying.

Beyond this, he had involvement in the Third Row Tesla Podcast with others who got particularly aggressive in harassment towards any critical of Elon/TSLA.

One member- Vivien Hantusch- turned out to be a Tesla employee.

Elon even invited them to his home for a podcast episode.

TRT's Twitter often went beyond simply praising CEO Elon Musk and his products. It was often weaponized to spread misleading info about critics and whistleblowers.

While Tesla dissolved its official PR Dept in 2020, accounts like TRT/WholeMars act akin to unofficial PR.

In fact, Musk even rejected the idea of bringing back the PR dept because, "He doesn’t believe in ‘manipulating public opinion.’”

Given how he/die-hard fans like Omar personally attack people, Elon's reason is dubious, & a "scandalous" block list by $TSLAQ makes a lot of sense.

Similar to the "Few Understand/This is Good for Bitcoin" crowd, anything critical of Musk is either "FUD" or a "hit piece," regardless of his lies, personal attacks, targeted harassment, lawsuits.

The most devoted of fans like Omar seem willing do anything to defend Dear Elon.

🎯 Dan O’ Dowd posted an ad on a Sunday in 2022 that was directly critical of deployment of Tesla's FSD Beta being tested on public roads. He's the founder of Dawn Project, and he's regularly highlighted news/videos critical of FSD.

Elon Musk was angered.

And then, so was Omar.

Omar via WholeMars churned out nearly 7,000 words + screenshots, tweets, etc in a blog post accusing Dan of murder, causing car crashes, and more.

It sounds like something Elon Musk would write. Dan summarized it in a response, pictured.

Omar further harassed Dan on Twitter. His motivation isn't easily explained. It appears as if Omar has integrated Tesla/Elon into his own identity to an unhealthy degree.

The frequency/duration of his harassment- does he have an actual job? Why spend so much time spouting anger?

This led to the infamous event of Omar tweeting out a request for someone to volunteer their child to re-do tests Dan did with child-size mannequins.

The subsequent videos ended up being removed from YouTube for promoting harmful/dangerous content.

It was completely bizarre.

Omar also tried to claim Dan's charity was fake (this will be a pattern). His lack of understanding and willingness to confidently lie in spite of it is impressive.

Dan's charity had been refiled in Delaware, but Omar doubled down.

Just endless attacks. Omar flips out.

🎯 Frederic Lambert writes a lot about EVs on Electrek.co, and the vast majority of what I see from him is positive/forgiving coverage of Elon Musk/Tesla.

On the random article that isn't 100% positive, there is often editorial comments at the bottom to soften it.

But Omar, TRT, and extreme $TSLA accounts immediately turned at any non-glowing article.

Not content to just try to "debunk" the piece, they immediately got personal.

Egged on by Elon Musk, they attacked Fred's intelligence, claimed he stole content, called him anti-Tesla.

95% of this guy's content is more forgiving than you could ask for, but it's never enough unless it's blind praise.

We see this w/ Elon Musk, and his $TSLA superfans, heavily invested, hold the same standard.

Omar called him a "piece of sh*t."

Fred responded with this.

Fred owns 3 Teslas, is an investor- he's very much a fan- but this group of $TSLA fans attack at giving even the lightest criticism as if you'd personally insulted their religion.

He clearly outlines examples of lies and abuse, including from Omar. bit.ly/3DbDVbb

Using the TRT account, Omar admitted to tweets that:

- Lie: Implied a pro-union CA State Senator was a shill for Big Oil
- Elon responded: Interesting
- Truth: CA Senator's top donors: Unions

When Fred posted an article and in his comments simply stated that some of Elon's $TSLA stock was ABLE to be sold if Elon CHOSE to, Omar was back at it again.

He didn't understand stock options and hurled more attacks on Fred, directing the mob.

How can anyone defend this?

Disagreement would be fine, but this was not about facts. And the targeted harassment so far still wasn't enough for Omar.

He decided to post an "apology" that read more like a diatribe on his blog (this is a pattern).

I'll break down highlights:

The post focused on how *Omar* was actually the victim.

How $TSLAQ bullied him & that's the real story.

He reiterates his take on his tesla_truth account and suspension.

That TRT's Gali/Vincent had left TRT due to Fred's "call-out op-ed."

Blame anyone-- just not Omar.

Just like Musk blaming bots when he needs a bogeyman, Omar blames it all on that darn $TSLAQ.

In his view, criticism of him/Tesla, his Twitter bans, etc are all due to TSLA short-sellers.. on Twitter.

Claims of a ~30 yr old adult, a top Twitter engagement of Elon Musk.

Omar's post was in 2020, but he concluded this 15,000+ words-long post (not kidding) with 11,000 words to attacking Fred

And parroting Elon's 2019 claim that Fred had been "manipulated" into being anti-Tesla by.. $TSLAQ.

Reminder: 95% pro-Tesla articles. Barely any criticism.

Omar picks Fred's op-ed apart piece-by-piece to support his/Elon's conspiracy.

This isn't a fact-check.

This reads like a sermon trying to sell a conspiracy.

I read the articles, archived tweets, responses and reply chains.

Omar is not relaying reality beyond his own.

Omar accuses Fred of "illegally" sharing a Twitter DM, "stealing" content.

Unaware of the irony of his next claim, Omar states:

"The reason people started lashing out against Frederic is because he is a jerk –– not because they feel strongly about the issue with the source."

He also posted Fred's stock portfolio on his WholeMars user.

Since then, Omar has posted has posted 4 other blogs tagging Fred, including celebrating him being denied FSD and claiming his "girlfriend is cheating"?

It reads like a petty high schooler's LiveJournal.

I don't want to beleaguer this, but you cannot imagine the level of abuse this person puts out.

He's made up conspiracies whole cloth so. many. times.

I thought initially he was just super pro-TSLA, but as I took a minute to look, the abuse towards Fred just.
kept.
surfacing.

This is not to say that Fred is without reproach or that I agree with what he writes, etc.

But instead of engaging with his claims to debunk, Omar and his fans personally attack, even though Fred was (and still is) pro-TSLA.

And Omar targeted another throughout these attacks:

🎯 Aaron Greenspan

HOLD ON, hear me out- quick background:

Aaron runs a site that provides public court documents. It does not just have Tesla on it. Aaron had been previously targeted by a violent person whose case was on there. Aaron sought a restraining order against him.

To get public court records, there are fees. Thus, the site does not have EVERY court case, usually just more noteworthy ones. Tesla (and Elon) is involved in many suits.

Omar didn't understand this, saw that his (Omar's) personal company/name were not listed, and... cried foul?

Omar via tesla_truth targeted Aaron's site account. Omar started parroting the claims of the violent individual Aaron had a restraining order on and refused Aaron's request to remove the tweets.

You'd wonder why many $TSLAQ stay anon until you see what happens when you don't.

Considering Omar's tweets were parroting a violent individual, Aaron checked access records on his site from the IP/files accessed (remember Omar looked up his own name/company?) and tesla_truth tweets and guessed that it was Omar.

He guessed correctly, as Omar would admit.

QUICK pause to remember that, to even get to THIS point, Omar had to INITIATE harassment and target Aaron first with straight misrepresentation of facts and then with claims initially spawned from a stalker that targeted Aaron & his family.

Omar then lied about the stalker.

The restraining order Omar posted about was requested because the stalker's court file for murder was on Aaron's site. The stalker's request was denied because that court case is public.

Omar lied, I suppose, to make his story more sympathetic while hurling personal attacks.

Omar claimed, “I haven’t researched many details about all the complaints against Aaron.”

But that didn't stop his harassment because, like with his other targets, it seems the facts aren't important if he thinks he can get people to believe his version of the story.

Aaron tried contacting the company Omar lists on his Linkedin to ask someone if Omar could stop the harassment. Aaron didn't know the job Omar lists is a vanity title at his father's company. Aaron never spoke to Omar, his dad, etc that day.

Omar didn't care. He kept attacking.

Omar then tweeted out some genuinely vile content and accusations that seem familiar if you know how Musk attacks people. Yes, Omar at one point accused Aaron of pedophilia.

Let's wrap this up. After this exchange, here's what Omar did after A guessed tesla_truth was Omar:

1. Omar harassed Aaron by text/phone and admitted this.

2. Called/texted/digital-faxed Aaron accusing him of ped*philia/CSAM and sent pornographic content.

3. Omar, like with another target, made baseless accusations of tax fraud

4. Created a Twitter account with Plainsite (Aaron's company) profile pic and called it Plainsh*te to continue harassment.

5. Omar doxxed Aaron's phone/email and encouraged followers to harass him.

6. Continually tried to use "lol he says he invented facebook" as a way to dismiss A when that 1) has nothing to do with Omar's persistent harassment and 2) misconstrues what A actually claimed.

Omar's same strawman arguments, just new coats of paint.
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7. Omar CREATED AN ENTIRE DEFAMATORY WEBSITE to harass Aaron and blamed A for the harassment. "Look what you made me do."

8. Elon had at multiple points forwarded private comms to Omar. When Aaron FINALLY sued, Omar used it as another chance to harass him.

9. Omar asserted Aaron has a "learning disability."

10. Omar baselessly accused Aaron of trying to hack his icloud, called Aaron a cyberstalker, said he should be in jail.

11. Like always, Omar claims with no self-awareness that HE is the victim.

As with his other targets, the harassment. never. stops. Omar directly encourages his followers to harass Aaron, his company, etc on his blog.

Omar has written FORTY-SEVEN posts. totaling nearly 100,000 (again, not kidding) words just on his tabloid blog, tagging Aaron.

For comparison, 100,000 is the word-count average for a 300-page book.

From someone who didn't know of these people before looking into Elon's Twitter engagements, no one deserves the abuse Omar gives.

From all the provable lies I've seen from Omar, his every word is suspect.

Meanwhile, he has used Aaron to crowdfund over 100k for 'legal defense' for years.

He has now asked to be assigned a free lawyer- but the gofundme is still up/linked on every blog post + his pinned tweet.

Solely observing Omar's behavior, his reactions are extreme.

I don't blindly believe/agree w/ Aaron. I've just seen enough lies from Omar blatantly misrepresenting things that I've a hard time believing him at all.

It's like 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf.'

A living Dril tweet.

Conclusion:

In each case above, Omar has jumped to a nefarious conclusion based on evidence that doesn't support it, and then used his misunderstanding to confidently make false claims and yell "Gotcha!"

He's the chess-playing-pigeon meme.

Omar accuses others of charity tax fraud while he at some point (possibly still now) operated a startup in CA that isn't registered (required in state).

He didn't understand the companies he accused, but that didn't stop him.

Omar, like Elon, stooped to the lowest level by accusing his targets of harming children, in some cases falsifying documents to do so.

Omar, like Elon attacked journalists without understanding the financial concepts he was confidently lying about.

Omar, like Elon, amplified deranged conspiracies that could (and in some cases did) lead to the targeted harassment of not only his target but their family.

Every attack meant to strawman his target so they'd be dismissed by critics.

Because they weren't praising Elon/Tesla.

Which leaves us with the question: Why does Omar Qazi do this?

He's heavily invested in TSLA, sure. He's been banned on 3 accounts on Twitter, but this behavior was what caused that.

He tweets at a rate that seems like it could not be sustained by someone acting alone, let alone someone doing an actual job. Who else has his login?

I don't think I can make it make sense. As someone who went through bullying, his actions seem rooted in high school to me.

Maybe it is just for the attention. One could easily assume such.

Unlike Omar's conspiracy theories, it wouldn't be a hard sell.

/FIN

(And again: None of Omar's victims deserve/d his abuse.)

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