MSBC notes that a Trump super-Pac runs ostensibly pro-Harris ads bragging about her solidarity with Israel, microtargeted at Michigan Muslims. The same organization attacks Harris in Pennsylvania for her insufficient support for Israel.
Meanwhile, Musk’s PAC sends texts directing people to Project2028, a fake organization twisting Democratic positions to make them extremist. Free sex change operations in schools, without parental notification! Mandatory gun buy backs!
For me, this starts to push Elon Musk towards Adolph Coors territory, which is to say boycott territory. Also, turnaround is fair play. I should note though that Musk may be acting within the law - or not. It’s unclear which means he might be obeying the law.
Yeah, he’s embarrassingly all in on Trump. I keep calling him out on Xwitter, but I’m just one dude (granted, a Superdude, but just one, nonetheless), but that’s going to have little-to-no effect.
Elon Musk has long aspired to be the Frederich Flick to the burgeoning demagogue of a post-Apprentice Donald Trump. Neither of them are particularly adept at it even if they do inspire hordes of raving imbeciles to mouth their gormless platitudes like “Make America Great Again” or “Occupy Mars” but after decades of being fed a media diet of speciously divisive bullshit and corpaganda has rended much of the American electorate completely incapable of applying critical thinking or any degree of skepticism on any topic pertaining to purported terrorism, immigration, ‘replacement theory’, the influence of ‘dark money’ in politics, and supposedly innovative ‘business leaders’ who leave a trail of bankruptcy, destruction, and lies behind them spreading toxicity like the wake of a leaking oil tanker.
Elon is for anything or anyone who will let him do what he likes, or better yet, puts taxpayer money behind his schemes while whinging intransigently about the unfairness that he should have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.
Unfortunately, it’s kind of difficult to boycott Musk. I can’t afford a Tesla, I certainly can’t afford a SpaceX payload, I have no need for a Starlink, and I never had any interest in using Twitter. What else is there for me to not buy?
It’s amazing how all of this ratfuckery could have been neutralized simply by pounding on the objective, undebatable, empirically demonstrated FACT that it’s a sin to facilitate the election of a Republican.
Change the color scheme from black and white to off-white and orange, make the fingers shorter, make the thing fat, and put a dead rat on top of the head and you have…
What’s funny is that I had this exact conversation with a coworker yesterday. He said Elon was weird and wondered if he was an alien (which as a smartass I said he literally was an alien by definition, one from South America). But he proposed a boycott and I said I already can’t afford anything he sells and don’t use Twitter.
Also New York state subsidies (US$750M) and US Treasury grants (at least US$497.5M) plus tax credit incentives for SolarCity; carbon credits (US$517M), tax breaks and incentives (US$1.3B), US Department of Energy loans (US$465M), and 2020 pandemic stimulus payroll loans for Tesla; and US Air Force NSS contract (US$653M), NASA Commercial Crew (US$4.93B) and Commercial Resupply Services (~US$3B), NASA Lunar Landing contract (US$2.89B), and US$15M from the state of Texas in addition to all of the development funding and plus-ups. Cite. Not included are what Elon has charged for “free” Starlink services to Ukraine and for disaster relief efforts, and all of the at-cost (or less) access to NASA test, launch, and range facilities.
As a taxpayer, you are giving Elon plenty, and he has no reserve of taking government loans, subsidies, and playing the out of scope game to plus up the value of “Firm Fixed Price” contracts to fill his coffers.
Musk knows he won’t face any consequences for this. His fanboys, even if they disapprove (which they don’t), will just go back to masturbating to Space X videos.
