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Comment by copx

1 year ago

So you are telling me, Musk is a fan of the Islamist regime in Turkey and its persecution of non-Islamists..

Somehow, I don't believe that.

Especially given that X also censors for India's anti-Islamic government..

Seems pretty obvious that ideological sympathies are not the deciding factor here, but the question wether an unwillingness to comply would lead to X being banned in the country in question.

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p_j_w  1 year ago

> So you are telling me, Musk is a fan of the Islamist regime in Turkey and its persecution of non-Islamists..

The former, absolutely. Your refusal to believe this seems to come from the idea that Musk has clear principles that he adheres to. He does not. His only concerns are money and power.

sillyfluke  1 year ago

It's not about islamism, it's about power. Musk has met Erdogan in person multiple times, and took his son to meet him when he came to the States. How many other heads of state did Musk take his son to meet?

Musk's whole schtick is quid pro quo and thin-skinism. He complains about Chinese EVs, then dashes on a jet to fly to China to meet Xi and scores a deal for Tesla -- no more whining about China. He publicly entertains Jewish conspiracy theories, claims he's pro peace in general, then gets on a jet to meet Netanyahu and the next thing you know he's clapping Netanyahu's speech in Congress.

His whole transition to his current persona can be traced to when is son announced their own transition and disowned him. His bumbling political outbursts are all self-serving garbage all the way down.

EasyMark  1 year ago

I think he simply doesn’t care as that area of the world is far from his top 10 list of concerns, but he does always seem to be interested in Europe and the Americas

jajko  1 year ago

Musk recently personally donated cybertruck to effin' Kadyrov which was very thankful for it and promptly installed machine gun on it. A confirmed mass murderer and generally firmly in pool of the lowest human scum this planet has ever hosted. Lets be realistic for a while and not assign some stable high morals to mr musk.

Apart from his morality being flexible, his admiration for various murderous oppressors is famous at this point and his very obvious continuous mental issues only allow him to act in several modes. At the end, brilliant broken little boy with severe daddy issues and uber massive ego, stuff which he can never hope to fully tackle and it doesn't seem he is even trying to.

So, trying to map his responses to simple if x then y won't work like with normal balanced folks, he is too unstable and emotional for that.

  • Manabu-eo  1 year ago

    > “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk wrote on X

    Would such donation even be legal currently in the US? And AFAIK neither Tesla nor Musk ever donated a car before, for any reason or to anyone else in those 20+ years.

    On the other hand, he is the largest private donator to Ukraine, via SpaceX and Starlink.

phatfish  1 year ago

Musk is not personally signing off on every take-down request. It's his "pet projects" that he amplifies to his acolytes on Twitter you need to look at.

worstspotgain  1 year ago

> Seems pretty obvious that ideological sympathies are not the deciding factor here

It's not about left and right. It's about who's Putin-aligned and who isn't.