Elon Musk - what’s his plan?

I agree with you OP. Elon Musk is not antisemitic and only those who uncritically accept everything they are spoon fed, believe that he is. It’s all so tiresome having to keep seeing these righteous assertions being made based on biased information. X is the only place telling the truth right now, community comments are brilliant and rigorously enforce accurate information. Anyone worth listening to agrees, those who don’t are the ones trying to bring it down. I hope he and X remain, they’re desperately needed.

Why on earth would anyone have any respect for Elon Musk, let alone a lot as you claim, OP? How bizarre!

Telling your biggest advertisers to fuck themselves because they called out your antisemitism, real big brain business move that, what a genius.

I do wonder whether he's deliberately trying to tank twitter because he's still in a huff about being forced to buy it. But then never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, so who knows.

So, he refused to do what they wished, and so they looked at their own interests and decided to keep to their word and took their business elsewhere.

That's just capitalism isn't it?

He is free to carry on saying what he likes.

There's is no government censoring, no threat of jail to him.

He is free to continue saying what he likes.

Isn't he?

I'm still confused - who is stopping him saying anything?

Or do you mean he expects to be able to say anything he likes, and no one is supposed to react in any way, other than positively?

As the billionaire owner of a global communications platform, who met the UK PM last week and is constantly interviewed, and whose opinions and direct quotes fill column inches on a daily basis - how exactly is he being stopped from saying anything?

I mean he was literally on TV telling people to fuck off last week. How many other people have such opportunities?

Do you see what I'm saying at all?

Elon stops certain people saying plenty of things on twitter.

Who is stopping anyone from saying anything?

The fact that Elon Musk is so obscenely rich that it doesn’t matter at all to him if Twitter goes bankrupt, is not a point to admire.

In what way are advertisers "blackmailing" anyone?

I thought a basic tenant of capitalism is that you can choose who you do business with? Or an I wrong about that?

Seems like Elon is crying victim because many companies don't want to be associated with him or his product.

What a narc.

Yeah he might be an anti-semite but he's kind of edgy so woo!

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There's a link in the second post on this thread.

Do we have any evidence for this, beyond him saying he is?

He went to entirely middling Canadian and US universities, and took 7 years to graduate with entirely average grades. He was given an emerald mine and millions of dollars by his dad. He used this to invest in PayPal. Which was then bought out by eBay, making his fortune. So far, same as Donald Trump, who nobody thinks is a genius.

He has surrounded himself by very clever software and robotics engineers to do the actual Tesla/SpaceX work. He doesn’t do the engineering himself. I’m not saying he’s stupid, but I haven’t seen anything to support the myth that he and his fanboys perpetuate, that he is some kind of Tony Stark-style super-genius with an IQ of 180 or whatever he reckons it is.

I would imagine he has quite poor interpersonal skills and coping skills in life and so his money/background got him the power he needed and the intelligence he does have was harnessed and channelled by others in his life really.

Is Elon really high achieving and intelligent?

He was helped to making his Tesla fortune by 1: being a millionaire already and 2: a lot of engineers were really keen to build an electric car

Similarly with his space program. It's rubbish until NASA basically are told they need to involve private enterprise and then suddenly his budget goes up and up until the point you think - is this company just NASA with a different badge?

There was a documentary about him on iPlayer, it may still be there. You can see how much effort other people in his businesses were putting in to just managing him so he didn't fuck things up.

I saw a small snippet of him being interviewed and saying that Israeli action in Gaza right now was likely to result in many new recruits to Hamas. I haven't seen how he has been Antisemitic, if anyone can link.

He’s just trolling the whole world, because he can.

I wasn't making an accusation a was asking a question.

Putting anti-Semitic in scare quotes kind of implies you think he isn't.

He said post that claims Jewish communities are pushing hatred against white people and now hordes or minorities are flooding the country. Essentially, the age old great replacement theory. Not irrelevant at all since you seem to think he's not anti-Semitic despite apparently being completely unaware of the reason behind these accusations even though it's been mentioned on this thread.

You've been really quite nasty and hostile to the OP, accusing them of being like a teenage boy and now making things up they didnt say.