Musk's posts take a dark, inflammatory turn after Charlie Kirk killing

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

Musk’s posts take a dark, inflammatory turn after Charlie Kirk killing

David Ingram
Tue, September 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM EDT
6 min read

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has rejected calls for national unity and has instead embraced increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in the days since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has told his millions of online followers five times since Kirk’s death that they need to “fight or die” in what he describes as a deepening cultural and political conflict, even as most elected officials across the country have called for calm.

In addition to calling on his followers to fight, Musk has demanded the imprisonment of rapper Bobby Vylan for insulting Kirk after his death, called upon fellow tech executives to deplatform or fire other critics of Kirk and accused the media and educational institutions of “programming people to murder” — all part of a dark turn in Musk’s language since Kirk was shot.

Responding to the killing, a strain of activists and commentators on the far right has pushed for civil war, mass arrests or other forms of retribution.

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[UpInArms]

1. Eloonatic needs to go back to South Africa

He is un American

He is a Nazi hatemonger

[Irish_Dem]

2. Musk is bitter because Americans don't adore him for destroying the federal govt.

And stealing their data and selling it.
And all the other grifting of the US taxpayer.

So he is acting out more and more in a violent way.

Also looks like his drug use is getting worse.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. I don't think the drugs are working yet. I think

he should try more - like, a LOT more.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Good point. He can buy a lot of drugs now that he is a trillionaire.

bastard

[Blues Heron]

4. Musk is such a nasty little putz.

[leftstreet]

5. Wow. Bad batch of ketamine? n/t

[newdeal2]

12. Seems like it

He forgot his pledge towards free speech.

[Walleye]

6. They are having such a good time with this. They will keep it up until another white girl gets attacked by a

Immigrant. Then they will make that their new cause and make laws and everything with her name.

[Disaffected]

7. I understood Musk was supposed to stay out of politics

and spent his time on running Tesla in exchange for his trillion $ pay package.

I guess you just canna' keep a good man doon.......

[regnaD kciN]

8. I guess Leon wants his own child dead...

Of course, since he claims she was already “killed by the woke mind virus,” he doesn’t much care.

[MagickMuffin]

11. Oh looky a mass billionaire stoking and fomenting violence

Declaring that his followers just “fight or die” and yet Elon Musk will be safely cheering you on.

His followers are extremely Stupid to fight or die for someone not willing to join the fight or die mindset.

It’s so easy to stoke hostility while staying out of the fray.

Oh and guess what when the killings start, the billionaires will get to acquire all our possessions.

I suppose we’ll never understand that lesson.

And those adult men still playing computer games, they have no social skills, and are emotionally not fit for a civil society. And those grown men gamers, their parents are also to blame for not taking an active role in their children’s development.