General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread

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1/37
@PiperK
Elon Musk says we must accept "temporary hardship" once Trump is elected.



2/37
@PiperK
I'm listening to his "town hall" now.



3/37
@PiperK
"Historically, the force and function for getting rid of bad laws and regulations has been war." --Elon Musk



4/37
@PiperK
Elon Musk said he decided to vote for Trump because his mom didn't feel safe walking in New York at night.



5/37
@PiperK
Elon wants to cancel the Department of Education and doesn't think you need to go to college. "It makes a lot more sense to learn a trade. Be a plumber, electrician, carpenter." Lol

This was his response to a man who asked him how his kids could build rockets when they couldn't afford to go to college.



6/37
@PiperK
Elon thinks dictators will be afraid of Trump because he shouted, "Fight, fight, fight."

He doesn't acknowledge the fact that Trump loves most dictators.



7/37
@PiperK
Elon says he'll "need a lot of security" once he stops government programs that help the poor and middle class because "a lot of people are going to be upset about that."



8/37
@PiperK
Elon Musk is getting the tough questions like, "How was your pizza tonight?"

Clearly, no one was allowed to ask Elon about his conversations with Putin.



9/37
@rklein7777
They're not hiding it in the least. They're going to gut the entire social safety net programs, loot as much from each govt agency as they possibly can as they bankrupt the nation and drive the masses into subservient poverty. It will happen fast.



10/37
@vbbernard
These guys are hilarious! So they exploit our tax system by finding all possible ways to avoid paying taxes.

So alllllllll those taxes that allllllll these ppl avoid paying, state and federally means the quantity and quality for our social systems that our taxes pay for decrease: roads, bridges, public health, EDUCATION, disaster services, pay for people to work those jobs and so much more.

So then all our community social safety nets and services suffer because of the lack…but those services still have constant necessities too, so, since businesses are legally being grifty, those that do know better say nothing, some ppl have suffered from the lack of social services and internalized so much such hatred for learning cuz school beat creativity and self expression out of them, that they can’t or won’t learn and so much more, all us regular ppl have to foot the bill, again, and squeezes us all even more.

The nerve of ppl like Elon Musk. Taking more and more away and being indignant about it.



11/37
@Jill_N_Noble
This sickens me, especially coming from his nasty mouth. And if people hear this and vote for Trump, they deserve what they get. Unfortunately, those of us who voted to save our country will suffer just as much.



12/37
@Speranskylives
No way Congress will support much, if any, cutting of entitlements



13/37
@SockDemFan
Pro-wealth inequality loser



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14/37
@PDolcemente
Musk plans on ending social safety nets? How can he do that? Manipulating old man Mcshytty Pants? Musk will be a shadow president.



15/37
@mindymeep
He really fukking said that?!



16/37
@BeckermanCJ7
Appalling!



17/37
@signal836
This man has never had an inclination to work in the government to better the life of people and should never be allowed to do so.



18/37
@OlegKerpotkin
It seems Eloon is actively planning to plunge the non-wealthy of America into a dystopian nightmare, as he figures out what to do with them after robots are cost-effective as replacements.



19/37
@weed10_weed
Elon Musk is a criminal coward and full blown narcissistic sociopath.



20/37
@FinzGreta
Dear magas, I’ve seen your houses and your cars. Most of you aren’t rich.

If your cult leader wins, you will lose your financial support and healthcare.

You will suffer.

You will be told to blame Democrats by the Republicans who took away your home, food and health.



21/37
@sakyabuni
When is going to give back the billions in his government subsidies?



22/37
@WonderDogAbides
Elon, Thiel, and some of Trump's handlers are focused on destabilizing the American political system and ultimately the American Dollar as the main trading currency. This from two years ago:
Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy



23/37
@otakugirl1984
“A lot of you may die, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.”



24/37
@pullfoxslicense
Elmo will go nowhere near the White House & lose govt contracts as a RUSSIAN spy



25/37
@pohl_heidi
Bring him back to South Africa.



26/37
@4dogcasa
Elon should study up on the French Revolution. Learn what happens when oligarchs oppress the masses for too long, then tell them to eat cake.



27/37
@NightMeows
We should upset Elon by taxing the hell out of him to provide the social safety nets he wants to destroy.



28/37
@democracy_lvr
He's a threat to our country. He needs to be deported and his government contracts canceled.



29/37
@JoAnneSapelo
Yeah, there are a lot of poor people in red states. It would be great to see the red staters turn on Trump and give him the Mussolini treatment. Dictators never end well.



30/37
@oldandcray
He's a fukking narcissistic sociopath who wants to punish us



31/37
@khynes2025
I’d like to know what he think’s going to happen when millions of people become unemployed and maybe homeless because he reduces government to only what he feels is necessary.



32/37
@skrappi41
The choice is clear people, don't vote for these reckless and dangerous people. They don't care about the lower and middle class. We'll be on our own until we no longer exist.



33/37
@RipleyEllen67
So he’s good with kids starving and people dying from treatable illnesses? I mean seriously? WTF? How TF does an immigrant from S Africa start dictating how we treat our most vulnerable? We just going to let grandma die because Medicare no longer exists?



34/37
@yggiz54
This is frightening. Basically, if you are rich you will do great but poor? You might as well give up? WTF kind of message is that when most of Trump's base is poor and middle class lol And yeah, he will need a sht ton of security



35/37
@PaulRoe100
doubt he'll get life insurance.



36/37
@Heronblu2822
Ha ha ha! He ONLY cares about himself not his kids or others! Kids don’t like him that sure says a lot!??



37/37
@Twalfie
Yes; the poor and middle classes are going to be upset.




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Elon has also been talking to Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin’s first deputy chief of staff, who "the U.S. Justice Department said in an affidavit.... had created some 30 internet domains to spread Russian disinformation, including on Musk’s X, where it was meant to erode support for Ukraine and manipulate American voters ahead of the presidential election." https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187?st=TBnBpd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink



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Getting less advanced by the day.




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Too bad Boeing been fukking up left and right. Could have yanked Musk's security clearance and threw Space X in the bushes.
 

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1/5
@Esqueer_
Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.

He's telling you who he is.



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2/5
@Esqueer_
Here's the font used by the nazi publication Der Sturmer going after Magnus Hirschfeld for being Jewish and gay.



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@Esqueer_




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4/5
@Esqueer_
Nothing like it.



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5/5
@Esqueer_
I don't. They forced it on me, literally.




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PROGRESS 2028

Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign​

Jason Koebler JASON KOEBLER
·OCT 29, 2024 AT 10:54 AM

An Elon Musk-funded PAC is targeting Republicans with ads that depict a fever-dream caricature of what Harris would do if elected president.

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An Elon Musk-funded super PAC has expanded an advertising campaign in which it is impersonating Democrats and targeting registered Republicans with policies unpopular with conservatives they say Kamala Harris will pass if she wins the election. The policies, which are not supported by the Harris campaign, include “mandatory” gun buy-back programs, allowing undocumented immigrants to vote, keeping parents out of decisions about gender-affirming care for minors, and imagining “a world without gas-powered vehicles.”

The campaign, called Progress 2028, is designed to look like it is the Democratic version of Project 2025 and lists a set of policies that the group says Harris would enact if elected president. In actuality, the entire scheme is being orchestrated and promoted by an Elon Musk-funded group called Building America’s Future, which registered to operate “Progress 2028” as a “fictitious name” under the PAC, according to documents uncovered by OpenSecrets, which investigates money in politics. Building America’s Future is the group we previously reported on, which is targeting Muslims in Michigan and Jewish people in Pennsylvania with opposing messages about Harris’s stance on Israel’s invasion of Palestine.

Until last weekend, the group had been relatively quiet, running only two very similar ads on Facebook that said Harris was running on a platform for “safe, inclusive schools … where every young person can thrive, regardless of their gender identity or expression.” Another ad said “SAY IT WITH US: Every person, no matter their immigration status, undocumented or not, deserves access to Medicare.” Republicans in swing states have also been receiving text message ads with similar messaging, according to screenshots posted to Reddit, research shared with 404 Media, and registered Republicans who have shared screenshots of ads with 404 Media. The ads feature caricatured, exaggerated versions of Democratic policies that are widely unpopular with conservatives.


The Progress 2028 page spent $36,724 on those Facebook ads between October 6 and October 12, according to Meta’s ad library.

In the last week alone, it has increased that spend by nearly 1,000 percent, spending $328,590 and bringing its total spend on Facebook to more than $520,000. These ads say things like “Let’s remove barriers for undocumented immigrants who are undocumented!” “Help make our schools as trans-friendly as possible,” “A national, mandatory buy-back program means fewer guns & fewer tragedies. Kamala Harris gets it!” “Kamala Harris will champion the right for minors to access the care they need without fear of parental intervention or discrimination. Let’s work together to transform our schools into the most trans-friendly environments possible!” “We’re beyond thrilled to have Kamala on our side for the ban on fracking!” “Imagine a world without gas-powered vehicles. KAMALA HAS! SEE HER VISION FOR OUR FUTURE.”
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Do you know anything else about Progress 2028 or political ads more broadly? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at +1 202 505 1702. Otherwise, send me an email at jason@404media.co.

In the last week, Progress 2028 bought 12 different ads, which it subtargeted to 819 different Facebook audience segments. Judging the actual impact and spread of this on Facebook is complicated because of Meta’s not-very-good ad library analytics. Meta allows an advertiser to buy an ad, then to target different groups with that advertisement. Meta’s ad library tells users the number of times any given ad was targeted at a different audience but does not say what the targeting parameters are and gives very rough estimates for the number of people who have been hit with any ad. Meta's audience estimates will say things like an ad cost "less than $100" and was seen by "less than 1,000 people," but there will be dozens of versions of any single ad, and the total ad spend can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. It looks like this:


Over the weekend and on Monday, a Republican-registered voter in Pennsylvania told 404 Media he got “fake Harris campaign” text messages from Progress 2028 that he shared with us. One said “Imagine a world where we get dangerous guns off our streets — for good,” and which promotes a gun buyback program. Another text sent to them today says “Kamala Harris supports undocumented immigrants gaining access to Medicare and essential resources. And that’s a good thing!” And a third says “What would you say to a future with ZERO fracking and 100% electric vehicles by 2035? We say 😍… and ‘how can we help?’ Kamala Harris fighting for a greener future!”
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While Facebook’s ad library is limited in the information you can search for and discover, political text message ads are an almost total black box. No telecom company shares a database of political text message ads, meaning any information about them comes from the people receiving them sharing them with reporters or on social media. So while it’s possible to more-or-less track Progress 2028’s activity online, it is essentially impossible to follow its text messaging campaigns.

Government transparency expert Alex Howard wrote about this problem last week, and noted that TV and radio stations are required to publish records of political ads online; he argues that telecom companies should be required to, also.
“For many decades, broadcasters have been legally obligated to maintain these ad files at stations for public inspection,” Howard wrote. “In 2018, I was worried that we’d see ephemeral social media messages funded by dark money that targeted certain voters and disappeared with no trace. Snapchat upholding one of its democratic obligations made that harder to do on its platform. In 2024, I assess that highly targeted text messages present a similar vulnerability, with a parallel disclosure cliff that's leaving Americans in the dark.Telecom companies like Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T should begin voluntarily disclosing open ad files of political texts with targeting data — and legislators and regulators should ensure it’s not optional for them or tech companies in the years ahead.”

While the online ads state they are paid for by “Progress 2028,” which itself is fully funded by Building America’s Future, the text messages do not have any such disclaimer.

The little information we have about text messages from Progress 2028 suggests that they are hitting their intended targets, and that the operation has been, at times, sloppy.

One of those text messages was posted by a user on r/gunpolitics with the title “Vote. Like your rights depend on it…” The message says “Kamala Harris will support a nationwide gun buy-back program [sic] will take dangerous weapons off our streets in Bloomsburg. Fewer guns = fewer tragedies. A mandatory buy-back is the only way to keep our streets safe.” The screenshot suggested that the text message had the intended effect; the person who received it said “I have a nice warm bowl of cat shyt you commies can share over the Canadian border, where you belong. fukk you…. From me and America.”

The phone number used to send that text message, 855-430-4807, was also used to send a text message to Republicans in Pennsylvania stating “We have a real opportunity with Kamala Harris to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses and access affordable housing.” This summer, that same phone number was sending messages to voters stating “DC Democrats are pushing a menthol ban while you’re struggling with rent, gas, and groceries,” which is a message that a PAC related to Building America’s Future has been targeting Black voters with in swing states. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to the organization funding Building America’s Future and its related PACs.
 

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1/11
@jsrailton
NEW: @X is pushing partisan content, most of it supporting Trump & sowing election doubt.

@WSJ reporters created new accounts with interests in things like crafts, then observed what content the accounts got recommended.

Their "for you" feeds showed pro-Trump content at double the rate of pro-Harris content.

By @jackgillum @AlexaCorse & Adrienne Tong
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/x-twitter-political-content-election-2024-28f2dadd



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2/11
@jsrailton
Meanwhile, another story out today shows huge & growing disparities in vitality between Democratic vs. GOP posts.

There are multiple potential explanations for this finding, but some of them look pretty bad.

It's a shame that X has really cut researchers' access...

I wonder if we'll ever know what's going on inside @X decision-making?

By @drewharwell & @jeremybmerrill
https://wapo.st/4fmNIvF



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3/11
@BLheureux
How Musk tweaked the algorithms to boost lies and disinformation while suppressing truth will some day be a textbook lesson in why oligarchs should not be allowed to unilaterally own and manipulate big media for self-serving.



4/11
@amuse
Why are you allowed in my For You feed? @elonmusk, something must be wrong. I thought you were pushing Trump content and sowing election doubt and yet here I am seeing content from John Scott-Railton!!!



5/11
@TCanDaMan
Elon is a traitor to america. came here as an illegal immigrant, forged his working situation and when he was rich enough, turned on this country and opted to try and dismantle democracy.



6/11
@fulminarey
Funny 🤣 😂

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7/11
@RealPatrickWebb
This likely has to do with engagement rates and the split of Twitter users between liberals and conservatives.

I’d imagine the platform has more active conservatives who are real people, while liberal Twitter seems more botted and not genuine people helping push content, which might explain lower rankings.

Since most real users on the app likely engage more with conservative content, it makes sense that conservative feeds would show up at a higher rate.



8/11
@Tim_The_Sandman
Did they publish their exact methodology and data from the study?



9/11
@mysteriouskat
All the "influencers" on here but a few are pro Trump accounts so it makes sense. They have highest following and visibility. Hard to know if fully organic.



10/11
@Get0ut0fMyWay
This is exactly why the first thing I do when checking into this shytpost site is make sure "Following" is clicked. "For You" is forbidden for me. It has NOTHING for me.



11/11
@IvanasStairCam
No fukking shyt. I’ve been screaming into the void for months.




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