Musk went after Alexander Vindman today, calling him a "puppeteer" - UPDATE

[highplainsdem]

YOU'LL FIND THE UPDATE AT THE END OF THIS OP.


Jerusalem Post article:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-723510

Elon Musk calls Jewish US Army officer Alexander Vindman ‘puppet & puppeteer’

Elon Musk on Monday called Jewish American retired US Army officer Lt.-Col. Alexander Vindman both a "puppet & puppeteer" in response to Vindman sharing a copypasta (copied and pasted text shared on the Internet) suggesting that Musk is "erratic" and too powerful now that he owns Twitter.

"Vindman is both puppet & puppeteer. Question is who pulls his strings … ?" Musk tweeted.

Musk's tweet was in response to a tweet by Tablet magazine Chief Technology Officer Noah Blum mocking the copypasta, which read "Kinda weird that @elonmusk gets to decide how like a half-billion people communicate. Way too much power for one erratic individual to wield, don't you think?"

Blum's tweet read: "BLEEP BLOOP KINDA WEIRD THAT @ELONMUSK GETS TO DECIDE HOW LIKE A HALF-BILLION PEOPLE COMMUNICATE BLEEP. WAY TOO MUCH POWER FOR ONE ERRATIC INDIVIDUAL TO WEILD, DON'T YOU THINK BLOOP?", implying that users who share the aforementioned copypasta are bots, or programmed to think a certain way.

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The Post article goes on to say that Musk "deliberately or not" evoked an old antisemitic trope.

And Vindman got a particularly vicious antisemitic email not long after Musk posted that.

A lot of people on Twitter are speaking up in Vindman's defense, condemning Musk for this, but so far Musk hasn't apologized.

Some of the relevant tweets below.

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In the wee hours this morning, Musk tweeted a meme using the Pepe the Frog image so beloved of the alt right, and referring to psyops. I think he meant this as another jab at Alexander Vindman, and a quick search showed that at least some of Musk's fans on Twitter took it the same way. This mention of psyops jibes with his attack on Vindman as a "puppeteer" - and his RWNJ followers will love the Pepe meme. (One of the replies, from a Twitter user who isn't a fanboi, said Musk was turning Twitter into 4chan.)

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[elleng]

1. I propose dropping this musk character from public media.

I'm ignoring him.

[JohnSJ]

3. +++

[Cha]

12. I'm for Rt Alexander Vindman's

Tweets on Twitter.

[Rebl2]

17. Please do

[SergeStorms]

32. Right you are.

I'm personally boycotting any post about that person and TFG on DU from now on.

The vile crap they're spreading and allowing others to spread is beyond the pale of human decency.

I'm sure some will say I'm sticking my head in the sand, but I really don't care. I'm sure I'll find out about their worst offenses by watching MSNBC anyway, but it seems every other post in DU is about one or the other.

At my age I don't need the constant negativity anymore.

[elleng]

33. Ditto, I don't need the constant negativity anymore.

[Dorian Gray]

46. He's so boring

I agree. Try to ignore him. Even if you're on twitter. It'll make everyone's experience less toxic.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. I agree with Alexander S. Vindman.

Nationalize Elon Musk.

[Cha]

13. TY.. how does that work? nt

[Kid Berwyn]

37. We make a universal social media platform that serves the nation.

A PBS for the Web in the form of a national utility that provides communication, news, information and entertainment. Universal in membership, interests and coverage, powerful in terms of content, reach and freedom of speech. Data serves the People. Ad revenues help fund the infrastructure and development.

To level the field, all users would be registered. They wouldn’t have to be identified, but would be held responsible for what they say — especially about other people. And if one isn’t willing to sign their name to an observation, they would still be accountable if making a threat or libel.

If corporations want a platform, great! They can figure out how to attract users. And even if he’s taxed at what levels he deserves, Elon will still be able to afford footing the bill. He’ll be using his $44 billion loss on Twitter as a write-off.

[Cha]

38. Thank you for explaining that in

such vivid detail, Kid Berwyn.

Something has to be done to hold this out of control wannabe king of the world accountable.

[Justice matters.]

42. Yes. He's got where he is with subsidies from the Obama administration to get out of

the bush 2008 crash.

Taxpayers money hell-on-musk pocketed. It's time to take it back.

[enough]

5. Reminds me of what HRC said about Trump-- if a guy can be baited by a tweet,

he’s a problem.

[womanofthehills]

14. I follow them both on Twitter

Vindman has been baiting him all week - not just a Tweet.

[bronxiteforever]

25. What do you think of Musk?

[ShazzieB]

27. There is a great resemblance in the thinness of the skin

of both Eloon and TFG.

Tissue paper, both of them!

[SergeStorms]

35. When I think about all of the things...

that Hillary saw within Trump within an instant, the more I admire her, and I've always admired her!

The things she could have done for this country without the MSM acting like the right-wing's echo chamber...... They echoed every lie they created about her, and it poisoned so many minds.

[highplainsdem]

6. Fred Guttenberg:

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[highplainsdem]

7. LOL! Rachel Bitecofer:

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[Cha]

10. OMG... I didn't get it at first &

then I did! Touche!!

[highplainsdem]

22. Did you see the replies to her tweet, Cha?

One example:

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[Cha]

29. No I didn't .. Rachael Bitecofer

is really on to something!

It all makes perfect sense now.. and she said it in a such a lady like way..

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Cha]

8. muskratfucker is a Puppet for

Fascist Fucking Nazis.. and he owns GD twitter.

Aleander Vindman is a Heor!

TY for the OP, hpd!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. That's one of the Q'est of Q theories around. Several years old. Several layers of nonsense. . . nt

[highplainsdem]

11. Julia Ioffe:

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EDITING to replace an earlier link, a tweet Ioffe deleted, with one posted shortly after that, which seems to be the same as the first one. Not sure why she replaced the first one, but maybe there was some minor typo or something I hadn't noticed,

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[Cha]

15. musk is a little chicken coward

flinging shit from the corner.. sucking his thumb.

[orleans]

39. the link is a dead page

that says
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.

[highplainsdem]

40. Thanks! She apparently deleted and then retweeted it. I'll put the new link in the message

above. She tweeted the second one just minutes after I posted the first one and Cha saw it and commented.

[orleans]

41. thanks.

and thanks for posting all of this.

i saw vindman's post earlier on twitter and just couldn't bring myself to post it here. i'm glad someone did.

[highplainsdem]

48. You're welcome! I almost didn't post about this because it was so sickening, but Musk has

too much influence for it to be wise to ignore him. A lot of people wanted to dismiss Trump as just a disgusting clown, too, before he became president. And I've read that the same was true in Germany during Hitler's rise, with many Germans disgusted by Hitler wanting to ignore him, to dismiss him as a clown.

[highplainsdem]

16. Rachel Vindman:

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Quite the projection from the Muskrat

[babylonsister]

19. Not getting enough attention, Elon? He sounds

like someone else we know; both certifiable.

[dalton99a]

21. Musk will insult John McCain next

[pecosbob]

23. Twitter...like a bad dating mistake.

Now comes the part where the dating mistake you made starts stalking you.

[LowerManhattanite]

24. Irony is the gleeful little son of apartheid...

…then starts talking about the tweets violating Twitter’s TOS.

The same TOS he doesn’t give a flying f*ck about when folks spam the app with racist, homophobic anti-public health sh*t.

What a desperate little coward. 😂😂😂

[Martin68]

26. Musk and Ye. Two wealthy, creative people who have somehow succumbed to the right wing

racist, anti-semitic, bigotry of the Trumpist Party. At the breakout of WWII, there many Americans (and Brits) who were Nazi sympathizers on the anti-semitic, anti-immigrant bandwagon. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were two prominent figures among them. American education has been sadly lacking in regard to the truth about the racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic streak in America.

[BootinUp]

28. How much longer must this go on. nt

[OMGWTF]

30. What happens to some people's brains and souls when they become billionaires?

Musk is a disgusting, sick, power-mad, POS. I love my Chevy Volt that I've driven for eight years and I always thought my next car would be a blue Tesla S, but now you couldn't give me one. Fk that guy! He is as bad as Trump.

[marble falls]

31. Musk is channeling his inner Florida Man.

[LudwigPastorius]

34. "both puppet & puppeteer"

Is that Afrikaans for "Globalist Bankers" and "International Jewish Conspiracy", eh Elon?

He is disgusting.

[Justice matters.]

43. It's unconscious projection...

Hell-on-muskette unconsciously hates himself for being the puppet of his beloved white-supremacist puppeteer (hair furhair) so he projects that self-loathing on a valorous decorated Hero.

[hadEnuf]

36. Musk is obviously as insane as his fuhrer, Donald Trump.

Anymore questions about corporate fascism?

Trump is like a disease.

[Justice matters.]

44. Hair Furhair is like the direct reincarnation of the monster who shot himself

in a underground bunker in Berlin 1945, for those who believe reincarnations are for real.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. Choose your fighter.

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[highplainsdem]

47. No one sane would choose the one on the right.

[Chakaconcarne]

49. Why is DU contributing to Musk's relevance?