Elon Musk
Elon Musk, also known as “Elondimir Muskov”, is a vatnik and a wumao.
Elon Musk: “Where is all this pro-Russia propaganda? We don’t see it.”
The owner of Twitter, he bought it for $44 billion and successfully brought down to $20 billion in six months.[1]
The cheater
The vatnik
- Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running companies like Tesla Inc., SpaceX and Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives.”, June 25, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
- Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He’s best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin’s propaganda narratives.”, June 28, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
- While the left is distracted with manufactured bullshit, the richest man in the world is hosting a panel of the worst propagandists on earth to support the worst candidate on earth for the Democratic nomination. Every single word in this Twitter Space is Kremlin propaganda. Wow. (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
Khrushchev’s mistake (ru:ошибка Хрущева)
Ukraine-Russia Peace:
- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.
- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).
- Water supply to Crimea assured.
- Ukraine remains neutral.
“Khrushchev’s mistake”.
It is a bit odd when a US-based tech bro uses a phrase exclusively used within Kremlin propaganda.
Reminds me of 2000s era Kremlin trolls when they would just rant about super specific Russian policy interests in language no ordinary person would use.
“ошибка Хрущева” (Khrushchev’s mistake) is almost completely domestic, Russian language term in reference to Crimea, born from Stalinist Khrushchev’s oposition and Kremlin start using this domestically after 2014 to justify occupation of Crimea.
Did Elon Musk speak with Vladimir Putin?
To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally. Another individual told me that Musk had made the same assertion in the weeks before he tweeted his pro-Russia peace plan, and had said that his consultations with the Kremlin were regular. (Musk later denied having spoken with Putin about Ukraine.) On the phone, Musk said that he was looking at his laptop and could see “the entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. “This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’ ” the senior defense official told me. “And we were, like, ‘Oh, dear, this is not good.’ ”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
Euromaidan
Financial motives?
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The wumao
- Elon Musk is bending over backwards to please China’s government, and his pandering points to a dark future for Tesla [3]
- Linette Lopez, How do I know so much about how @elonmusk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at @BusinessInsider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned: (thread) (pdf)
- Elon Musk: ‘Aren’t you entertained?’, October 7, 2022: ““My recommendation . . . would be to figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable, probably won’t make everyone happy. And it’s possible, and I think probably, in fact, that they could have an arrangement that’s more lenient than Hong Kong.””
The transphobe
The antisemite
Collaboration with governments
Censorship
doxxing
https://thedeepdive.ca/elon-musk-doxxes-brazilians-after-defying-court-orders/
The awful manager
- “Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion” “The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private.” (archive)
https://ez.substack.com/p/the-fraudulent-king
Musk said Russian media had ‘lot of bulls—, but some good points too’ after Ukraine invasion
- Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov criticizes Musk’s Crimea proposal
- @apmassaro3
- Phillips P. O’Brien on Musk’s proposals for rule by dictators
- Ivana Stradner on Russia and libertarians
- https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/former_tesla_programmers_anecdotes_about_problems/
- https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=20544
- @atomicthumbs
Against remote work
Firing people and cutting cables
The pathetic ... something
- Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count, February 9, 2023
The awful driver
Twitter acquisition
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/21/elon-musk-went-on-a-firing-frenzy-at-twitter-now-hes-paying-for-it
- https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/21/tech/twitter-africa-elon-musk-intl-lgs/index.html
- S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at Twitter HQ, as Elon Musk criticizes Mayor Breed
Starlink
- Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today's #vatniksoup, I'll talk about Starlink. First I thought I would just add this to the second part of the @elonmusk soup, but it is such a complex topic that I think it requires a thread of its own.”, June 26, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/12/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-ukraine/
X
More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8 DEBUNKING ELON MUSK Pt1 (1080p)
Walter Isaacson biography and turning off Starlink on Crimean coast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/12/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-ukraine/
Isaacson 1.0
- book Elon Musk
- CNN article reporting on the book: CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma
- Washington Post original article: Opinion ‘How am I in this war?’: The untold story of Elon Musk’s support for Ukraine: "When the Ukrainian military noticed that Starlink was disabled in and around Crimea, Musk got frantic calls and texts asking him to turn the coverage back on."
Isaacson 2.0
- Washington Post modified article: Opinion ‘How am I in this war?’: The untold story of Elon Musk’s support for Ukraine: "When the Ukrainian military learned that Starlink would not allow a successful attack, Musk got frantic calls and texts asking him to turn the coverage on."
- tweet: To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html
Comments
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-drone-pilot-says-musk-cut-starlink-foiled-attack-2024-1
Consequences
- @i_gil_ on the Black Sea Fleet’s missile attacks At the time of @elonmusk refusal to turn on the Starlinks, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation had already fired about 800 Kalibr missiles at 🇺🇦 cities. Due to Musk’s decision, the same fleet continued to exist and launched another 1,031 Kalibr at 🇺🇦 cities daily.
Idiots - "ElOn MuSk SavEd us FroM WW3"
Reality - Elon Musk saved russian warships from Ukrainian drones, so russia could kill more civilians with Kalibr missiles during the winter
Ukrainians - Bomb it later anyway, along with Kerch Bridge, Airbases, and Moskow
Later strikes
Censorship
Turkey
Refugees
More
https://www.mind-war.com/p/elon-musks-eugenicist-anarcho-communist
free speech ??
Elon Musk illegal immigrant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55CcN5c5as&t=823s
well intentioned Dawkins genius heart
Borders, H1B visas
https://www.vice.com/en/article/twitter-employees-on-visas-cant-just-quit/
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/twitter-employees-ultimatum-deadline/index.html
Expertise
F-35s
Nazi salute
@ruthbenghiat Historian of fascism here. That was a Nazi salute - and a very belligerent one too
software, code, coding
Kremlin meme
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-disinformation-propaganda-campaign/33123498.html
