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by consumer451 939 days ago
He recently posted, then deleted a tweet about "Pizzagate." Previously, this hyper-political conspiracy theory got a random pizza place assaulted by a man with a long gun looking for children in their non-existent basement.

He posted another insane conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. [0]

He keeps promoting the concept of "civil war" in the EU, due to immigration. I am in the EU, and this sounds absolutely bonkers to me. Maybe different parties being elected at best/worst, but civil war? That's not a rational take, and seemingly just projection.

> Musk, who has never reserved his social media posts for business matters alone, drew attention to a tweet that said Jewish people “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

> Musk replied to that tweet in emphatic agreement, “You have said the actual truth.” [1]

I greatly respect SpaceX which he actually founded, what he has done with funding and running Tesla, but it appears to me that he has now truly lost his mind. Today he behaves like a politically deluded troll. This saddens me deeply. At one point, he seemed like the best of us, above any of that dangerous silliness.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132906782/elon-musk-twitter-...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/elon-musk-calls-antisemitic-...