Musk doubles down on this morning's attack on Fauci and LGBTQ in reply to Scott Kelly

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

.@elonmusk Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the #LGBTQ+ community. They are real people with real feelings. Furthermore, Dr Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.

Link to tweet

I strongly disagree. Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone.

As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo.

I found that exchange thanks to this Parker Molloy tweet, which has screenshots in case the tweets above disappear:

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

1. Musk is a troll who owns his own platform, but he's still a troll.

Trolls are destroyed by sunlight.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Can someone summarize the Fauci/gain-of-function conspiracy theory?

Thanks!

[TexasTowelie]

6. That Fauci while he worked in the Obama administration secured funding for the virology lab in Wuhan

where COVID was bio-engineered as an attack agent by the Chinese Communist Party.

[blm]

11. We should amplify Musk's Covid blame of China

since he relies most heavily on China for Tesla batteries.

[emulatorloo]

13. +++

[allegorical oracle]

26. Here's a basic explanation (much more detail at the link):

What does gain of function mean?

Any organism can acquire a new ability or property, or "gain" a "function." This can happen through natural selection or a researcher's experiments. In research, many different types of experiments generate functions, and some pose certain safety and security concerns.

Scientists use a variety of techniques to modify organisms depending on the properties of the organism itself and the end goal. Some of these methods involve directly making changes at the level of genetic code. Others may involve placing organisms in environments that select for functions linked to genetic changes.

Gain of function can occur in an organism in either nature or the laboratory. Some lab examples include creating more salt- and drought-resistant plants or modifying disease vectors to produce mosquitoes that are resistant to transmitting dengue fever. Gain of function can also be useful for environmental reasons, such as modifying E. coli so that it can convert plastic waste into a valuable commodity.

In the current debate around SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gain of function has a much narrower meaning related to a virus becoming easier to move between humans, or becoming more lethal in humans. It is important to remember, though, that the term "gain of function" by itself covers much more than this type of research.

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-gain-of-function-sars-.html

[IbogaProject]

28. Fixed link

I couldn't get through on your link here is the correct one. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-gain-of-function-sars-cov-.html

Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

4. "I" is a pronoun and I didn't ask, so Musk is forcing his pronoun on me.

Since he wants to be stupid.


Angry about pronouns because the nouns they want to use exposes them for who and what they are.

[ismnotwasm]

5. His bro's are out in full force too.

Also, Twitter is ok with racism and anti-semitism, but wants me to think twice about the word ‘fucking’

[Arthur_Frain]

7. Honestly at this point I'm kind of asking myself what his endgame could be.

I’ve read so many theories on why he’s doing what he’s doing, but I’m not sure it’s anything more than someone, vaulted IQ or no, being taken in by the Q-conspiracy bullshit.

Difference between street smart and book smart, and the people who never bridge the gap to be “really smart”. Is it possible to not get the tone deafness of his statement? Yes, if you’re a zealot or believe that the end justifies the means.

To me he ranks among the celebutards, I can’t imagine why he’s viewed as someone with an “in” to what’s really going on. He strikes me as a rich kid just reeking with the hubris of the silver spoon set.

What did I see on Reddit that was so brilliant? 90% of conservative outrage is just them finding out how things really work for the first time. To me, that’s how most of his statements that I read seem to come across, naive, but trying desperately to sound witty and wise.

[Dorian Gray]

23. oh yeah

we have front row seats to watch a billionaire lose his shit on Twitter as he becomes more and more "red-pilled."

It's truly insane.

[gratuitous]

8. Oh no! Not implicit ostracization!

The victims at the Pulse nightclub and their survivors should thank their lucky stars that they were just gunned down by a madman and not implicitly ostracized.

Hmmm, nope. Still sounds stupid even when it's not coming from the allegedly richest man in the world.

[RussBLib]

9. Wow, Musk is really getting embarrassing

Money can't buy brains or common sense.

[Cha]

10. GD musk is a deadly Poisonous POS.

I signed up for POST last night & I like what I see so far.. & I see a lot of my friends over there.

mush wants to be in the center of a Dirty Nazi Echo Chamber.

Have it, rotten head.

[emulatorloo]

14. I dunno why he didn't just buy Truth Social. Would have been cheaper than buying Twitter

and converting it into Truth Social 2.0.

If you have the time, See The Atlantic article that just got posted on DU:


https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016339145

Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist
One tweet says it all.
By Charlie Warzel

DECEMBER 11, 2022, 6:03 PM ET

[Cha]

18. I think musk bought twitter

to try & destroy Democracy... Liars Social Club for Nazis is already trying.

As for Jeremy W Peters of the NYT.. I'd say get WOKE but I suspect he knows what he's doing.. the usual NYT cover the ass of Fascists gig.

Thank you for the article, emulatorloo.

[PortTack]

20. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. I just deactivated my account that I had built up to 1000s of followers

[Cha]

19. Wow.. that's a lot!

So sorry!

I'm still on.. I don't post just Rt & 💕 the Tweets posted on DU.

I have just signed into POST.. I like what I see so far.

[emulatorloo]

15. Good article on this particular Musk bullshit just out in The Atlantic. DU thread here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016339145

Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist
One tweet says it all.
By Charlie Warzel

DECEMBER 11, 2022, 6:03 PM ET

[moniss]

16. The POS

tossed a relationship with one of his own kids by publicly saying "You can't win them all".

[littlemissmartypants]

17. There's a reason I blocked Eloon on Twitter. ❤️

[brush]

21. Musk wants to prosecute Dr. Fauci. WTF?

Once considered a visonary genius by some (others who know his history of just buying into companies and taking credit for their accomplishments know better), has proven himself to be nothing but a homophobic, facist, nut job, magat POS who has ruined twitter.

And Dr. Fauci is the health official who steadfastly stood publicy against trump sycophants who continually kissed the orange turds ass and back his anti-mask stance during the pandemic, and who also didn't push back against trump racist intent in calling it the China virus.

[dalton99a]

22. Decent people should boycott this evil asshole.

And it is time for American taxpayers to stop making him richer with government contracts and subsidies.

[blueinredohio]

24. Why do people stay on Twitter?

I don't get it. Why keep supporting this asshole?

[allegorical oracle]

25. Musk echoes Rand Paul's libertarian "gain-of-function" meme, which Fauci has denied. n/t

[IbogaProject]

27. Wealth/Tax

Are our pronouns.

We need to agitate for the next two years to get House, expand Senate hold and Hold Presidency. 1st two things should be major Supreme Court Restructure and Expansion. Then we revamp the tax code to benefit bottom 70% of incomes, leave up to 80-85% the same and hammer the top 15-20%. Then major Campaign Finance reform and Single Payer Health. Finally set the budgets to shift gradually not whipsaw every new term. I want defence to shrink, but I want time for other industries to get funded.

[Genki Hikari]

29. So if everyone started referring to this scumbag as "She"

Then he can't object OR ban anyone from Twitter for it. I mean, he's the one who said that expecting people to call him his preferred pronoun would be "Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and EXPLICITLY ostracizing those who don't, and is neither good nor kind to anyone."