Musk: I Don’t Care If My Assholery Scares Away Buyers

CNBC reports:

Elon Musk told CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday that he doesn’t care if his inflammatory tweets scare away potential Tesla buyers or Twitter advertisers. “I’ll say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” said Musk, who owns Twitter.

Musk has for years tweeted controversial items, including conspiracy theories and comments his critics have called broadly discriminatory.

His defense came after Musk caught renewed criticism for a tweet in which he likened liberal billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. “He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity,” Musk tweeted Monday.

Read the full article. In the same CNBC interview, Musk denied that the Allen, Texas mass shooter was a neo-Nazi, despite Texas police having branded him as such.

So it’s important to actually listen to this segment of the Musk interview. Listen and watch him. It’s especially important that he continues to insist that calling the Allen, TX shooter a white supremacist is “bullshit.” Bad judgment impervious to facts. https://t.co/Sy7OtPlY7g

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) May 16, 2023

“i’ll say what i want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”

– powerful elon musk statement on china, i mean on shitposting on twitter

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— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 17, 2023