Mr Musk visited the site with podcaster Ben Shapiro, founder of the European Jewish Association Rabbi Menachem Margolin, and his three-year-old son X Æ A-XII – despite the fact that Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum recommends children under 14 do not go on the tour.
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‘And, you know, there’s this old joke “I’ve got like this one Jewish friend”,’ said Mr Musk. ‘No, I have like two-thirds of my friends are Jewish. I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends.
‘I’m like Jewish by association, I’m aspirationally Jewish.’
Yes. He really did use the ‘some of my best friends are Jewish’ excuse.
Elon: “C’mon guys stop calling me a Nazi, I’ve been to Auschwitz so now I’m basically Jewish and you can’t call me a Nazi anymore”
I hear that Nazis were actually a common sight at Auschwitz.
It was like when bozos tried to say that after going to space he understood the human condition, but he’s missing the “being a human” prerequisite
During the event Musk also promoted exTwitter, insisting that exTwitter could have prevented parts of the Holocaust. No, I am not kidding. The NY Times wrote about it. For his pitch he used faked tweets which are hard to surpass in obscenity.
Holy fuck! I couldn’t read the NYT article due to the paywall. What the fuck is wrong with this asshole?
What we should all settle on when it comes to Elon and his idiocy.
I think it’s good because it’s shattering the myth that billionaires are hyper capable heroes of industry blazing a trail for all of us. Rather, it’s more like a bunch of childish socially isolated narcissists failing upwards.
If his money didn’t provide him with an unecessarily large platform with which to fuck with society on a global scale, I’d agree with you.
Elon could never speak publicly again but still platform Nazis on Twitter and sell dangerous cars, could still distract the world with Hyperloop while we should be focusing on high speed rail, and, while I quite like what SpaceX is doing, trying to be emperor of mars, I think it comes into perspective that we kinda need to know wtf he’s up to, annoying as it is.
Shut the fuck up, Elon
Whenever some asshat conservative announces something like, a Holocaust museum affected me and changed my perspective, I want to strangle them, shouting, “I have literally understood the significance of this issue since I was a child. Stop dismantling our planet for 5 minutes and educate yourself.”
I more become angry at them using the victims of genocide as an attempt to make their public image better. Someone like Elon does not have the necessary empathy to have learned a lesson there. Rather, he recognizes an opportunity and exploits it.
But… How could you have truly understood the significance without a tv crew present?
Fucking douchebag…
“I’m almost a Jew, here’s Ben Shapiro to support me.” – Elon
Virtually every Jew in the world who isn’t Ben Shapiro: “Get fucked, Elon.”
Nah, most Jews don’t give a shit - yes I’m their spokesperson but only on this specific topic. Also sounded like a joke.
he is aspirationally full of shit
Being full of shit is the one thing he is genuinely great at
it’s a matter of being totally committed
He is so full of shit, it comes out of his mouth.
He’s so full of it his eyes turn brown whenever he shuts up for 5 minutes
ok eric cartman
…and? It doesn’t matter. What he says and does is hateful and exclusionary.
Elon Musk says a lot of stupid things.
He has friends?
No, but he thinks he does.
In about a week he’ll go back to making (((the accusations))) on
XTwitter to which I will say: Sir, this is a Wendy’s.Fuck this nazi
Got the “ass” part right
His nationality is money.
