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25 Nov, 2024

Musk criticises F-35 builders against drone swarms

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Referencing a viral video of a large-scale, coordinated, drone swarms, Musk says:

Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35

Followed with a series of replies to X comments :

It’s a shit design…The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.

Crewed fighter jets are an inefficient way to extend the range of missiles or drop bombs. A reusable drone can do so without all the overhead of a human pilot. And fighter jets will be shot down very quickly if the opposing force has sophisticated SAM or drones, as shown by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard .

Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!

24 Nov, 2024

Musk confirms X link post deprioritization

Elon MuskPaul GrahamX (formerly Twitter)0 Comments

After Graham complains that the deprioritization of links in X posts:

The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter’s biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I’m used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.

Musk responds:

Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.

Musk: UK is ‘tyrannical police state’

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In response to a post about an online petition that is circulation in the UK, asking for a new General Election to out Labour, Musk says:

The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.

22 Nov, 2024

Musk, Trump Jr discuss buying MSNBC

Donald Trump Jr.Elon MuskMSNBC1 Comments

Quoting a post from an account that claims MSNBC has been put up for sale by Comcast, because “lying non-stop to your audience is a lousy business model,” Donald Trump Jr tags Musk, saying:

Hey Elon Musk I have the funniest idea ever!!!

In response, Musk writes:

How much does it cost?…The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely.

19 Nov, 2024

Musk to Jaguar: Do you even sell cars?

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Musk responds to Jaguar’s new branding advert:

Do you even sell cars?

To which the company replies:

Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar

Musk:

I look forward to seeing your new vehicle lineup.

18 Nov, 2024

Musk: ‘Britain is going full Stalin’

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Musk says the UK Government of going “full Stalin” by increasing inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. Sharing a Guardian article on the plan, he says:

Britain is going full Stalin

Asked for a response to Mr Musk’s criticisms, a government spokesperson says:

[We will not] get into a back and forth on individual comments. We will continue to engage with the industry and explain how the process works, and it remains the case that we expect the vast majority to be unaffected by the changes.

17 Nov, 2024

Jones thanks Musk for helping restore Infowars

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Jones says Musk is helping him to stop Infowars being sold to The Onion, after Musk’s lawyers filed a notice of appearance at the bankruptcy court.

The only individual that’s done more to expose tyranny, promote liberty and team humanity, in my lifetime, who even begins to rival Donald Trump, is Elon Musk. Everything he’s done has been devastating to tyrants and corrupt institutions and has fabulously positive for freedom for the average person. So I wanted to take a moment out to thank Elon Musk. And to specifically point out that he send his lawyers to Houston in my corporate bankruptcy case.

Janja to Musk: F–ck you!

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Speaking at an event ahead of the Rio de Janeiro summit of the G20 group of largest nations, Brazil’s First Lady Janja Lula da Silva speaks about the importance of regulating social media to curb misinformation. As a ship’s horn sounded, she says:

I think it’s Elon Musk. I’m not afraid of you, f*** you, Elon Musk.

Musk responds with laughing emojis:

They will lose the next election

14 Nov, 2024

Yousaf: Musk has a ‘whole team trying to besmirch my reputation’

Elon MuskHumza YousafAccusation0 Comments

After Musk suggested he had been “racist” in his private communications, Yousaf says he checked his private messages:

It was more out of complete and utter confusion of what the heck he was talking about. A very pointed accusation that he’s trying to make, and most people who commented underneath are saying the same thing, you know, ‘Go on Elon, release his Twitter DMs’…I’m thinking, I’ve been on Twitter for a long time, have I made an off-colour joke? Have I said something in a private communication? So, I thought I better do the belt and braces thing, and as I say there was nothing there, and unsurprisingly so

And accuses Musk of targeting him:

But here is somebody who is basically saying to me by the way ‘you better watch out; I’m going to release stuff on you and it’s going to make your life hell…I am certain he has a whole team of people who are looking at any information they can gather on me and try to use it to besmirch my reputation.

Yousaf repeats his claim that Musk is a racist, with “far-right, white supremacist tendencies”.

Elon Musk could have trillions let alone billions and he wouldn’t have enough to shut me up.

13 Nov, 2024

Trump jokes he ‘can’t get rid of’ Musk

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At a Washington DC meeting of House Republicans, Trump jokes about Musk’s presence after the election win:

Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him. Until I don’t like him.

Musk has spent most days after the election with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, joined in Trump’s game of golf with his granddaughter, and sat in with callswith world leaders.

Musk supports journalist investigated for X post

Allison PearsonElon MuskEssex Police0 Comments

Musk responds to reports that the UK police visited the home a journalist for the Telegraph, to investigate her for a ‘Non Crime Hate Incident’ related to a year-old post she had posted on X.

This needs to stop.

12 Nov, 2024

Essex Police: Post was ‘likely or intended to cause racial hatred’

Allison PearsonEssex PoliceX (formerly Twitter)0 Comments

In relation to Pearson’s case, Essex Police say that officers had opened an investigation under section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 relating to material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”. Spokesperson:

We’re investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act. As part of that investigation, officers attended an address on Sunday November 10 to invite a woman to attend a voluntary interview on the matter.

10 Nov, 2024

Musk reponds to Carvey SNL impression

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In response to Carvey’s Musk impression on SNL, in which Carvey says:

Check it out – dark MAGA – but seriously, I run the country now. America’s gonna be like one of my rockets: You know, they’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies.

Musk responds:

SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further…They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won….Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.

9 Nov, 2024

Musk to King: ‘Why do you hate America?’

Elon MuskStephen King0 Comments

In response to a joke King posts to X:

Joke making the rounds in Europe: Q: What borders on complete stupidity? A: Canada and Mexico.

Musk responds:

Why do you hate America? That’s messed up.

8 Nov, 2024

Navarro: Musk is ‘First Lady’

Ana NavarroElon Musk0 Comments

Speaking on a panel, Navarro references a picture of the Trump family following the president-elect’s victory that did not include Melania Trump, but added Musk.

I think it’s a little weird, right? I mean, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere at all times. He’s like Secretary of Everything, and at the same time, he’s like the First Lady. The other day, I saw this picture of him. It was a picture of Trump with his entire family, except Melania, but Elon Musk was there…I find that a little weird, but as Scott [Jennings] said, they won. He gets to do whatever he wants. And if he wants Elon everywhere all the time, that’s what’s going to happen.

2 Nov, 2024

Cardi B to Musk: ‘I am not a puppet’

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Cardi B responds to Musk calling her a ‘puppet’:

I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm

Musk: Cardi B ‘puppet’ for teleprompter fail

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Musk criticizes Cardi B after she had to awkwardly wait for one minute after her teleprompter failed at a Democrat rally.

Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words. The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.

Musk responds to Peanut controversy

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Musk responds to the death of Peanut, posing an AI-generated image of a squirrel as the Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi holding a lightsabre, with a paraphrased quotation:

If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine’ Obi PNut Kenobi

He further responds in the comments, saying:

The government is a mindless and heartless killing machine.

20 Oct, 2024

Lottery winner talks about win

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John Dreher, the first winner of America PAC’s $1 million lotter prize talks about his win and encourages Pennsylvania voters to vote early.

I came here to see Elon Musk and to support Donald Trump to be the next president…When he called me, the first thing that happened, I screamed ‘It’s a million dollars!’ and I was pumping my arms in the air. I went up and actually meeting Elon I kinda forgot about the money for a little bit, cos he’s such an influential figure.