Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain

Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by Name_Chawps on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:04PM (#33959465)

I knew he did some things people didn't like, but I didn't know he was promoting fascist conspiracy theories. Could you give examples?

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by SketchySeaBeast on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:06PM (#33959484)

"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888?

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by LarryMullins on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#33959639)

Is Fauci lying to congress about gain-of-function research a fascist conspiracy theory? I don't think that's right.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by Quarrelsome on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:09PM (#33959530)

can we explain how wanting to prosecute Fauci (idk what even for) is a conspiracy theory that is also fascist?

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by jupp0r on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:15PM (#33959610)

There are several conspiracy theories linked to this meme: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/correcting-misinformation-...

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by jupp0r on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:11PM (#33959561)

This hints of a conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci was funding research that lead to the creation of SARS-COV2: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888

Then there is a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi and a male prostitute: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132906782/elon-musk-twitter-...

There are numerous replies of his that are somewhat questionable without being outright promotion, but troubling nevertheless. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-...

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by 988747 on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#33959636)

Isn't it a well known fact that virology lab in Wuhan received funding from the US? Although I do not know if this can be tied to Fauci personally.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by LarryMullins on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:18PM (#33959672)

He signed some of the paperwork I guess. But more critically, he subsequently lied about it.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by paulcole on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:12PM (#33960356)

I’m going to guess that these won’t quite meet your definition of facist but it’s pretty clear the guy is a full-on shitposting edgelord at best.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-30/column-e...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/elon-musk-s-hitler-twe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by Name_Chawps on Monday December 12, 2022 @07:26PM (#33962710)

Yeah, to me he seems right-wing, but I don't think I'd call him facist. And a bit of an edgelord, yeah.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by fabian2k on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:11PM (#33959574)

Two of his most recent tweets are

> My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

and

> The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters

The first one seems connected to various conspiracy theories around COVID. The second one is more of a general culture war thing, maybe with some suggestions towards civil war. Altogether Musk is saying stuff that is pretty close to QAnon, which I suspect is what was meant by "fascist conspiracy theories".

I wouldn't necessarily call it fascist conspiracy theories, but the first tweet is deeply irresponsible. It puts a target on a single person that already received plenty of death threats and supports all kinds of outlandish conspiracy theories.

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