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’

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

https://archive.vn/f7ITA

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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

• .⁦@elonmusk, on ⁦@theallinpod⁩: “I think I understand China well…” Then proceeds to compare Taiwan to Hawaii: “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China” He’s repeating CCP talking points with no mention of US interests.

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?

• Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes [5]

The awful driver

• That Time Elon Totalled his McLaren F1 While Trying to Show Off in Front of Peter Thiel 🧵

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

X

https://twitter.com/garius/status/1683808576328937472

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

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter-csam-dom-lucre-elon-musk/

Walter Isaacson biography and turning off Starlink on Crimean coast

• My understanding - which I reported six months ago - is that Starlink was not only geofenced but also programmed to stop working at the kind of speeds drones work at. Ie it was active blocking.

• I reached out to a source close to the Ukrainian drone programme about these claims. They confirmed Starlink had been previously enabled in the area in question - which is why Ukraine had used USVs that relied on Starlink for navigation - and that Musk had "turned it off".

• We have two version of events from Walter Isaacson, let's call them Isaacson 1.0 and Isaacson 2.0. (Thread)

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.

comments

• He told the truth in his book - he says Musk disabled Starlink. He then contradicts himself after Musk (rightly) gets pilloried for turning of the system to prevent a Ukrainian attack on the BSF, obviously under pressure from Musk himself.

• The more parsimonious theory however is that Version 1.0 is correct. We got Version 2.0 because Musk was surprised by negative reaction to 1.0. He apparently expected to be acclaimed as a savior of humanity, not derided as a dupe and enabler of missile attack on Ukrianian cities.

• https://twitter.com/sternenko/status/1703287224140181893

consequences

• https://twitter.com/i_gil_/status/1700385865204179235 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.

https://twitter.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1700575229632786792

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

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1701971248463466867

Turkey

https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1657440076803047424

refugees

https://twitter.com/mfphhh/status/1708234185050124706