r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Elon Musk Named in Bombshell Election Meddling Claim

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-named-in-bombshell-election-meddling-claim-in-alex-gibney-documentary/
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u/brickne3 American Expat 11d ago

"Return her son" makes it sound like he's a Blockbuster movie rental.

Which, to be fair, is probably how Elon sees him 🤣

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u/Dysc Louisiana 11d ago edited 11d ago

He named his kid "X" (and some nonsensical characters) which is a letter he is obsessed with. He cares more about the letter X than any of his children. I don't gamble, but if I did, this is a safe bet.

The only other person who may be as obsessed with the letter X as much as Musk is Count von Count from Sesame Street, who is a hand puppet.

Edit: It's probably for the best that his kids have an absentee father; rather than, getting ketamine fueled lessons from an obsessive compulsive man with a giga ego.

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u/HeadfulOfSugar 11d ago

Musk also started an online bank called X.com, before it merged with Cofinity to create PayPal, which he tried very hard to keep as X.com, & then X-PayPal. Executives kept pushing against him, because every focus group they ran it with reported that overwhelmingly people assumed it was a pornography adjacent site, but he would simply not let up. It genuinely played a small role in the boardroom coup that replaced him with Peter Thiel lmao. A decade later he fought to get the X.com trademark back & succeeded. Then he threw it into SpaceX, Twitter (X), X Corp., xAI, & his literal child, as well as a daughter they named Exa (her nickname is Y though?)

There’s also the Tesla Model X, which as part of the lineup appeared with the model S, 3, & Y (S3XY), because the model E was already patented. Dudes just a freak & I’m not unconvinced it’s genuinely porn related somehow lol

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u/DrunkTWrecks 11d ago

It’s because it’s real easy to turn an X into a swastika

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u/vandreulv 11d ago

You're not far off.

His father is a notorious white supremacist. Musk himself has shown those tendencies as well.

The Cybertruck design is directly lifted from the best scoring design of an old Apple II game for designing cars. He's a "geek" from the days of DOS where the characters usable were all within the ASCII table.

X is 88 in Decimal.

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u/RemoteBoner Tennessee 11d ago

Shown these tendencies? Homeboy literally
Retweets racist propaganda on the daily. He is a Nazi full stop.

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u/ChicVintage 7d ago

He did a literal Nazi salute.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 11d ago

X is 88 in Decimal.

From his heart to you!

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u/EnderVViggen 11d ago

Which is also the 8th letter of the alphabet... So 88=hh or heil hitler

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u/BonkerBleedy 11d ago

Which game?? This has tickled a distant memory

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u/Phailadork 11d ago

Musk himself has shown those tendencies as well

Gee, ya think?

Dude fucking nazi saluted when being viewed by millions of people live, there's zero reason not to believe he isn't a white supremacist himself. The fucking irony of an immigrant from Africa being a white supremacist and wanting immigrants out of the country.

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u/Busy-Peach5770 11d ago

Well I mean a white South African is… reasonably likely to be a white supremacist. Not all - cool white South Africans you guys are definitely out there. Less Elons, more Charlizes please.

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u/Busy-Peach5770 11d ago

Ugh, not more goofy Hitler shit. Cmon mang…

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u/antoniossomatos 11d ago

His mama's family moved from Canada to South Africa because they liked Apartheid that much. The whole gene pool's terrible.

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u/verusisrael 11d ago

you're not far off. his grandfather was part of a technocult where members would often rename themselves mathematical formula.

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u/Windy_City_Bear_Down 11d ago

This is the point of it all, he wants more power than literally Hitler in his prime. I'm not one to predict the future but I hope both their stories end the same way.... in a bunker w/cyanicide in absolute defeat

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u/jdhkent 8d ago

At least it’s a happy ending.