So, sure, that is probably the primary reason Musk dislikes or affects to dislike him now, not his being Jewish.
But that doesn't in any way indicate he can't or isn't making antisemitic comments or Nazi references.
You may have forgotten he's not officially affiliated with the leader of Russia.
So he doesn't have any need to be consistent with the party line that everybody they don't like is a Nazi and the Nazis were the biggest criminals in history.
Sentence 1+2: I agreed with you that Vindman is likely not being targeted because he's Jewish.
Sentence 3+4+5: However, that doesn't support your implication that Musk's purported antisemitic behavior is fake news.
People can, and do, oppose someone first for one reason, and then insult or attack them on whatever basis seems opportune.
What it really means is "angel dancing on the head of a pin" territory.
The deflection and projection is oh so over the top.
That argument does not make any real sense, because that sounds like a problem for him not some sort of ironic jab, especially considering we’ve seen he doesn’t care that much about upsetting said supposed puppet masters. (And with the latest big US climate change bill- the one unironically called “lowering inflation” -we’ve seen the government try to somewhat cut him out of the pie… and he’s doing just fine.)
Nice of you to white knight for someone who is controlled by the government and doesn’t care you exist. What kind of sycophancy is this?
Want to see a real quid pro quo? Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jyT1rnW9fA. In case you don't want to click through, that's Joe Biden, admitting -- in fact bragging -- on video in a public discussion, that he withheld a $1 billion loan from Ukraine while he was VP. The condition? The Ukrainian government had to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma, the company where Hunter Biden was on the board.
In order to see anything scandalous on the part of Democrats, Ukraine, etc. some kind of theory (that makes sense to Americans) of how they caused the invasion seems to me to be necessary.
Right up until Russia invaded, all this stuff was just floating around with no explanation, but then it all fell into place. More than a decade of political nonsense now looks like it had one purpose, especially the whole "Hillary the warmonger" line.
If you are Russian or sympathetic, feel free to elaborate on how everything fits together from your perspective.
Sure, lots of people could be corrupt, but one assumes they were corrupted deliberately in service of a singular goal. There's no time-warping back to undo what has happened.
Propaganda can be really masterful, but eventually one has to perform the action that is the point of the whole operation, and then it all falls apart.
Anyway, if you really want the big narrative it's there. I suggest you watch Robert Mearsheimer's talks. He's one of the most highly respected scholars in international relations and he has explained pretty well how a lot of western neoliberal fuckery in Ukraine led to the recent activity. One obvious piece is the broad expansion of NATO into eastern Europe despite US promised to the contrary in the aftermath of USSR collapse. Perhaps less credible but relevant are allegations of US State / CIA involvement in Orange Revolution and Euromaidan. Biden et al. perhaps didn't care for the strategic issues beyond wanting to ensure a sufficiently friendly / pliable government to continue their corrupt schemes.
(PS: despite username I am not Russian, that is not the source of my interest / bias in these matters.)
I prefer to call it a "counter-narrative".
Prior to the invasion, a lot of loosely or unrelated bits could be assembled spontaneously by conspiracy-minded people who disliked the US government, NATO, etc.
Average people in the US DGAF about Ukraine, and didn't know what was going on with the impeachment and the allegations about Biden.
But the invasion provided a unifying element to make it all make sense - as part of a Russian plan.
So this sort of thing:
"he has explained pretty well how a lot of western neoliberal fuckery in Ukraine led to the recent activity"
seems to not be up to providing a good counter-narrative any more. It's weak because the "glue" holding the structure together has dissolved.
If there are professionals involved in the campaign against "western neoliberals", I'm curious what they are thinking or whether they are just going through the motions.
One more problem, besides not having a unified story, is not having a unified opponent. There is no strongman like Putin on the other side to target.
I noticed you assassinated Vindmans character but left Musk alone. Talk about hacks, amiright? I’ll take the lack of explicit push back as agreement Musk is a poser.
Vindman engaged in politics. Biden engaged in global politics. Shock. Awe. Trump did icky mean bad man things too! Shock, awe!
I’m not gonna ruffle my feathers over political agents being political agents. My point was Musk is also a politically driven agent.
Only he was responding to a tweet about how Madagascar had broken off from the mainland 88 million years ago, so nothing nefarious, but of course the thread was full of teeth gnashing.
A mod eventually sticked a comment saying “we don’t know musk’s intention, if he picked this tweet to reply to or if it’s unintentional, but there is more context”.
This is more of that. Vindman isn’t a classically Jewish name, and I (a Jew) had no idea he was Jewish, I doubt most people did, he doesn’t exactly dress religiously or make it a large part of his public identity.