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Does Elon really know only two ways to interact with people - either with memes or by suing them?
He's a bigot, he can only ever intimidate people
Does Elon really know only two ways to interact with people - either with memes or by suing them?
He's a bigot, he can only ever intimidate people
Dude, come on. What standing does musk have to sue the Swedish transport agency in a U.S. court? Who would hear it? What corrective action can they compel? But even as I write this I can’t put it beyond Musk not to get that so yeah, fair question.Was this lawsuit filed in a US court?
Swedish and other Scandinavian labor unions have wide-ranging rights to exert pressure when their peers enter conflicts with companies.
Elon Musk claims advertisers are trying to ‘blackmail’ him, says ‘Go f--- yourself’
Speaking at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday, Elon Musk, the owner of social media site X (formerly Twitter), scoffed at advertisers leaving the platform because of antisemitic posts he amplified there.
“If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f---yourself. Go. F---. Yourself. Is that clear?” Musk singled out Disney CEO Bob Iger in the audience, saying “Hi Bob!”
He also implied that his fans would boycott those advertisers in kind. “The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail,” Musk threatened.
He also told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin, “I have no problem being hated. Hate away.”
In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” on X, formerly Twitter, the social media platform he owns and runs as CTO.
He called those tweets, “one of the most foolish if not the most foolish thing I’ve ever done on the platform.” “I’m sorry for that tweet or post,” he added.
Musk’s inflammatory posts on the social media platform, among other things, have led large advertisers, including Disney, Apple, and many others, to suspend campaigns there and drove some famous users to abandon the platform, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has denied that he is antisemitic, and said that on X, “Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.”
He also traveled to Israel this week, where he met and spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. When Netanyahu said he wanted to “deradicalize” and “rebuild” Gaza, Musk offered to help. Musk told Sorkin on stage that his visit to Israel was planned before his tweets, and were not part of an “apology tour.”
Previously, Musk had said he wanted to bring SpaceX satellite communications service, Starlink, to the region and specifically to humanitarian organizations in Gaza.
Musk’s personal account on X currently displays a follower count of more than 164 million -- though tech blog Mashable reported in August that a majority of Musk’s listed followers appeared to be inauthentic or inactive accounts.
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Elon Musk claims advertisers are trying to 'blackmail' him, says 'Go f--- yourself'
Elon Musk, the owner of social media site X (formerly Twitter), scoffed at advertisers boycotting the platform because of his controversial statements.www.cnbc.com
Elon Musk is a very strange guy. If he has wanted to build up an image of himself as some kind of enigma, he has certainly been very successful at that.
Take the tweet posted above. While being against current European immigration practices is a legitimate opinion, being very concerned about George Soros is often a sign that someone has let their mind become corrupted by conspiracy theories. And claiming that it appears that Soros wants “the destruction of western civilization“ is full looney tunes.
But what are his reasons for posting this? Does he actually believe this himself, or is there some kind of tactical maneuvering behind using this kind of rhetoric?
He has certainly been radicalized by the polarization of American politics, like many of his countrymen. And it isn’t very hard to imagine that a successful industry magnate has become a tool of data algorithms and tribalism, just like any truck driver can be. But with Musk being Musk, I still wonder if there isn’t something else behind this. That he is aligning himself with the kind of people that believes this stuff for strategic reasons like shared interests. But that is perhaps giving him too much credit. Or discredit, as that would be very cynical from my point of view.
As to the topic here, my answer would be that both yes and no are correct. No, because he has been successful at several of his ventures, and in a way that is changing the world. Yes, because all humans are frauds in many ways, and especially so in important matters like business. If he is any more of a fraud than other people it would be fair to compare him with, I do not know.
When Musk is discussed, some people expose that they have a very simple and “dualistic” view of other people. Either you are a good guy, or you are a bad guy. There‘s some in-between, but let’s try to keep it down ok? And there’s certainly some of that in this thread.
To me, Musk is a very loathsome and unlikable person. During the submarine debacle he showed fully to the world how repugnant and petty he was, and he hasn’t become any better since. Lowlife is a suitable description for his personality. At the same time, it also looks like he has done far more good than bad things for the world, though the precise effects he will have upon it remain largely in the air. This does not redeem his personality for me, it is still highly disagreeable, but I am able to see him in a nuanced light. Of particular importance are the Neuralink and SpaceX projects.
Musk is not a good person, but his efforts may do much more good for the world than any of us can hope to. Or not, since trying to predict the future is notoriously difficult.