Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a vatnik and a wumao. Also known as “Elondimir Muskov”.
The vatnik
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.
https://twitter.com/LTLeprikonas/status/1577535742741463040
Did Elon Musk speak with Vladimir Putin?
Euromaidan
Financial motives?
The wumao
- Elon Musk is bending over backwards to please China's government, and his pandering points to a dark future for Tesla [2]
- 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)
The awful manager
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
Musk said Russian media had ‘lot of bulls—, but some good points too’ after Ukraine invasion
- 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
The pathetic ... something
- Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count, February 9, 2023
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
