Woke up to a message calling me a “bigoted cunt” against White people—I am White; attention, Nazis, when you say Jews aren’t White your swastika shows—and couldn’t figure out why people were attacking my name and religion until I saw that ELON’S FRIENDS were trying to defend him.
No one who’s ever criticized Elon Musk has any doubt that this apartheid nepo baby with a history of public bigotry and failing to promote nonwhite employees is trying to stoke White grievance for profit. Why? Because his pals tell Jews they aren’t White and send notes like this:
Musk is dangerous.
I say this having written 4 books on a rich White malignant narcissist billionaire with a bigoted worldview who inherited his wealth, has no history of coming up with his own ideas but only carnival-barking others’ genius, and persistent social media diarrhea.
The other thing Trump and Musk have in common is that they attract (by design) a cult of extremely weak, undereducated White men who feel powerless to control their own lives but aren’t even willing to use their real names online. They want a Strong Daddy to worship. It’s so sad.
My point is that we’ve seen this narrative before. It’s tired. And I’m bored by articles I’ve written that simply state facts based on my research and expertise triggering far-right snowflakes to the point that they feel the need to make jokes about my name I first heard at six.
I suppose I hardly need to add that the reaction of these anonymous crypto-turds and neo-Nazis only proves my point: the ranks of Musk’s cult of personality are filled with men with small, ugly hearts. Anyway, the article that triggered them is below.
Here are a few more notes from the neo-Nazi Elongelicals who showed up on a thread by one of Elon’s closest digital friends to protest that there is no evidence Musk is building a white supremacist cult that’s Nazitastically obsessed with the Jewish-sounding names of its critics.
You may wonder, why doesn’t Musk pal @alx delete neo-Nazi comments on his threads? A few reasons:
1) He’d lose half his followers. 2) It’d anger Musk and maybe end their digital bromance. 3) @alx was rightly banned by Twitter in 2020; Musk unbanned him. He *loves* all this sh*t.
In my article, I note that one of the many pieces of evidence regarding Musk’s bigotry is that he brought back to Twitter thousands of previously banned users who are either white supremacists or attract white supremacists.
Want to know who one of the biggest ones is? Yep! @alx.
My point is that I have no idea why these mediocre White men even get triggered by my writing. They don’t actually think any of it is wrong—well, except for the crime data, because they’re mathematically illiterate—so why not just *proudly* announce yourself as white supremacist?
Musk feels free to be an open bigot because he has so much money that—like the vile rapist Jeffrey Epstein—neither laws, public censure, nor a non-sociopathic human conscience can touch him.
Meanwhile, his fans must cower in anonymity because they lack his money. It’s kinda sad.
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(THREAD) There’s so much Elongelical copium today in my comments I figure it’s time for a thread on Musk that’s exclusively made up of major-media reports on him. Want the truth about Elon? RT this. (Be aware he’ll sic his Community Notes stormtroopers on any words he dislikes.)
1/ On the 5 Cybertruck delays since it was announced and Musk began tweeting on it obsessively in 2019. It won’t come out until 2024 at the earliest—half a decade after its reveal. Problems have plagued it at every turn, from design to aesthetics to build: tfltruck.com/2023/01/tesla-…
2/ Musk was humiliated at the Cybertruck reveal when its “unbreakable” glass immediately broke. Many wonder why Musk would plan a) such an ugly vehicle, and b) one made of stainless steel—which is hard to work with and was only used in the failed DeLorean.
Elon Musk has nothing to do with the successes of SpaceX and everything to do with the failures at Tesla and Twitter
Musk was handed a years-long advantage in the EV race and has now squandered it with his half-baked ideas
At SpaceX, top engineers do work Musk cannot understand
History will look back on Elon Musk as a bigoted, media-illiterate con man who did two things with money from an apartheid-era emerald mine: successfully generate enthusiasm for the good ideas of people significantly smarter than him and successfully run companies into the ground
I say all this as a hardworking journalist: this is what the publicly available evidence suggests about Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, the borderline-abusive managerial chops of Elon Musk and his persistently irresponsible public behavior in every endeavor he has ever been involved with
(THREAD) So now Apartheid Clyde is "concerned" that the racists may have a point when it comes to crime. The problem? The bigot Musk is cheering on doesn't know anything about criminal justice or journalism. As a former practicing lawyer and journalism prof I am happy to explain.
1/ You don't need to have a specific intent to kill to be charged with homicide. It's been this way in the West for *hundreds of years*. We have Voluntary Manslaughter, Involuntary Manslaughter, Negligence Homicide, and even Second-Degree Murder for non-specific-intent homicides.
2/ So why is a man who claims to be super attuned to how homicides are charged in America exhibiting no knowledge whatsoever of how homicides are charged in America? Why is he claiming that only specific intent leads to homicide charges, and why is Musk cheering on his ignorance?
(📢) ICYMI: Twitter CEO Elon Musk “Likes” Tweet Calling Unarmed Homeless Man Killed on NYC Subway “Worthless”
Keep in mind that Musk is a man who has had every possible advantage, from vile emerald-mine money to taking ideas created by others and making them appear to be his own, and *still* he ended up a colossal turd who casually destroyed a digital platform used by emergency services.
Put aside for a moment that the two idiots screenshotted above collectively know f***-all about reporting rates or multi-charge incidents or anything at all about the criminal justice system. I just know Musk killing Twitter will cause more deaths than this homeless man ever did.
1/ I think that one of the main reasons Bluesky keeps trending here and people keep looking by the tens—and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued.
That changes right now.
2/ I publish the national rankings of post-Twitter alternatives—it’s one of several reasons Musk deems me an enemy—and for that curatorial journalistic work I’ve had to go to 130+ social media sites. I have accounts at a number of key sites.
(📢) An exposé on Bluesky is coming to both PROOF and RETRO today. You can choose yourself where to read it; it’s for full subscribers to either publication.
Those who aren’t in Bluesky will be happy they read this.
(PS) I think that one of the main reasons Bluesky keeps trending here and people keep looking by the tens (and hundreds) of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet issued. That will change tonight.
(PS2) I publish the national rankings of post-Twitter alternatives at Retro—it’s one of several reasons Elon Musk considers me an enemy—and for that curatorial journalistic work I have had to go to more than 130 social media websites. And I have accounts at a number of key sites.