Elon Musk

“Elondimir Muskov, Vatnik”

Elon Musk, also known as “Elondimir Muskov”, is a vatnik and a wumao.

The owner of Twitter, he bought it for $44 billion and successfully brought down to $20 billion in six months.[1]

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)

• Let’s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine

• https://twitter.com/adnashmyash/status/1650075784961294338

• https://twitter.com/MelaniePodolyak/status/1650012608567672834

• 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.)

https://twitter.com/JuicyGrabs/status/1666328569264439297

https://twitter.com/OstapYarysh/status/1666272820282662915

Khrushchev’s mistake (ru:ошибка Хрущева)

October 3rd, 2022

October 3rd, 2022

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.

• https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1577528539938701312

“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.

https://twitter.com/LTLeprikonas/status/1577535742741463040

• So Crimea is not part of Russia for years, Russia recognizes that, then one morning Putin proclaims this non-Russia territory to suddenly be “core part of Russia”, and you say therefore they should have it? You think you’re fooling anyone, vatnik?

Did Elon Musk speak with Vladimir Putin?

• Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report

• Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’

Euromaidan

• “That election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup”

• https://twitter.com/GrandTurion/status/1585671918220611584

• https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1580897747565092865

• https://twitter.com/jackryan212/status/1580713190500929537

Financial motives?

• Does Musk need Ukrainian lithium? Personal motive noticed in the businessman’s “peace plan”

The wumao

• Tesla’s expansion in Xinjiang ‘sets a poor example’, say US lawmakers [2] (archive)

• 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)

• Tesla hits China sales record as Beijing praises Musk’s Taiwan proposal

• 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.””

• Elon Musk’s unsolicited idea for Taiwan welcomed by Beijing, slammed in Taipei

• Elon Musk draws rebuke by suggesting Taiwan accept rule by China

• Elon Musk wades into China and Taiwan tensions

• Elon Musk suggests making Taiwan a ‘special administrative zone’ similar to Hong Kong

• Taiwan politicians dismiss Elon Musk’s ‘ill-informed and belittling’ China comments

• Elon Musk a businessman who ‘doesn’t know much about Taiwan’: Su

The transphobe

https://twitter.com/TheRightPodcast/status/1665925543173439488

The Antisemite

https://twitter.com/nikicaga/status/1666508571880587264

• Elon Musk is the most dangerous antisemite in America [4]

Collaboration with governments

• Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk

Censorship

https://twitter.com/krides/status/1666348562664366082

https://twitter.com/nastasiaKlimash/status/1666368013413629954

The awful manager

• https://twitter.com/broe_jake/status/1665927840582475777
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html

• “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://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk

• https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1596272256887373824

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/business/tesla-factory-racism.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Musk’s_work_behavior

• https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1593720201291657216

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-fraudulent-king https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1593719112299003904

https://twitter.com/Bluemke329/status/1577581319944515584

https://twitter.com/shibacumlaude/status/1577583450957176833

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3667902-musk-said-russian-media-had-lot-of-bulls-but-some-good-points-too-after-ukraine-invasion/

Musk said Russian media had ‘lot of bulls—, but some good points too’ after Ukraine invasion

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-mocks-wheelchair-bound-twitter-employee-he-publicly-fired
  • https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633086380254298113

• Garry Kasparov https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1576977846437924865
• https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1577849613050159109
• https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1578846551627034624
• https://twitter.com/ivanastradner/status/1581993219935834112

• https://twitter.com/DMokryk/status/1579948727200284672
• https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581997742821298176

• https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/former_tesla_programmers_anecdotes_about_problems/
• https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=20544
• https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376

Against remote work

• Elon Musk says the ‘laptop class’ needs to ‘get off their moral high horse’ when it comes to remote work

The pathetic ... something

• Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count, February 9, 2023

• https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

• https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40AnarchoTerran%20%20%22if%20elon%20musk%22&src=typed_query

• Opinion: What happened to Elon Musk?

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

• Twitter revenue down 40% yty

Starlink

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https://twitter.com/dim0kq/status/1580827171903635456 (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580827171903635456.html thread) (pdf)

• 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://twitter.com/MelaniePodolyak/status/1580875153726062593

More

• GrandTurion, “Vatnik Elon Musk aka Elondimir Muskov 🧵” (thread) (pdf)

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-appears-to-accidentally-reveal-twitter-burner-account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8 DEBUNKING ELON MUSK Pt1 (1080p)

• https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1684470796381458432