What the Fucking Fuck?

As the reader(s) of my blog may know, I am not a big fan of Elon Musk.  I think that the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ was born on third base, and thought that he hit a triple.

This is a guy who wanted to move PayPal's back-end to Windows® in 1999, when Microsoft could not get a Hotmail to work on Windows for another 5 years, and email hass the most fault tolerant software application in common use since the days of 300 baud modems.

Needless to say, I do not have a high opinion of him, but when Musk went Auschwitz, he put on a dog and pony show demonstrating that Ecch (Twitter) would have prevented the Holocaust.

First, we already know that social media has been used to foment and organize genocide.  Most notably the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ in Myanmar, but Twitter has been used aggressively by Hindu nationalists for similar purposes, with Musk's personal acquiescence. 

Elon Musk is more Julius Streicher than he is Adolph Ochs:

Elon Musk said that X, his social media platform, could have saved Jews from the Holocaust after visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday.

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The tech mogul has drawn criticism over several antisemitism controversies in recent months, including his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory, vicious spats with the Anti-Defamation League and a documented spike in antisemitic posts on X — formerly known as Twitter — since he took over the company.

I understand what he is doing, he is presenting an impossible to disprove counterfactual argument, because he is an antisemitic fuckwad who wants to pretend that he is not. (You can find a list of particulars here)

But he was treated as a heroic figure at the EJA [European Jewish Association] conference, in keeping with his reception among right-leaning Jewish audiences generally. To demonstrate how X might have mitigated the mass murder of Jews, EJA Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin played a video that scrolled through an imagined X feed during World War II.

Set to dramatic music, the posts included messages such as, “The Nazis told the Jews to get inside the synagogue – entire families, infants in their mothers’ arms, right? They’ve closed the doors and windows with metal bars and then SET IT ON FIRE! OH. MY. GOD. The world must know!”

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Musk endorsed this alternate historical universe. “If there had been social media, it would have been impossible to hide,” he said about the Nazis’ campaign against the Jews. “If there had been freedom of speech, as well. One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in is they shut down all the press and any means of conveying information.”

Let's be clear.  We know how social media is used with regard to genocide, and it is largely a tool of the perpetrators. 

Let's also be clear, the European Jewish Association are a bunch of Kapo.

We also KNOW that when the Modi government demanded censorship from Musk just ahead of Indian elections, he gave them their censorship.

Every time that I think that one of these right wing nut-jobs cannot go any lower, they resume digging.

I am not cynical enough.