If endorsing antisemitic posts wasn’t enough, Elon Musk has now advanced several rungs in the batshit conspiracy ladder into engaging with a post pushing Pizzagate.

Last week, Musk wrote “You have said the actual truth” in response to a post from an X user claiming Jewish people were responsible for promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” The X owner promoting the antisemitic conspiracy theory drew widespread backlash, including from the White House.

The following morning, Media Matters, a nonprofit progressive media watchdog, published a study showing that X had been placing ads for major companies alongside posts featuring neo-Nazi and antisemitic rhetoric. Advertisers like Apple, Disney, IBM, Sony, Paramount, and Warner Brothers Discovery have since pulled their ads from the platform…

Musk responded over the weekend by threatening a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, and calling the nonprofit “evil.” As of Monday afternoon, no such lawsuit has been filed, although Musk is still posting about it, writing again on X that “Media Matters is Evil.” A user responding to Musk wrote that David Brock, the founder of the nonprofit, “was the Boyfriend of James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong Pizza, yes the Pizzagate restaurant. Alefantis, a pizza shop owner at that time, was on GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in DC list.”

“Weird,” Musk replied.

  • @YoBuckStopsHere
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    6611 months ago

    How long until the founder of starlink starts saying the Earth is flat?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    4711 months ago

    “High profile wingnut man-child, who bought Twitter for the express purpose of espousing wingnut political stances and to benefit fellow wingnut party members, blathers additional disproven wingnut conspiracy theory nonsense.”

    Shocker!

    • Flying Squid
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      1511 months ago

      Either yesterday or this morning, I once again saw someone arguing on Lemmy that he was definitely a rocket scientist because a bunch of kiss-asses were quoted as saying he knew everything about rockets. I have no idea why the legend persists.

      • Cethin
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        1211 months ago

        He’s a rocket scientist in the same way anyone who plays Kerbal Space Program is a rocket scientist. They know much more than an average person, but not enough to actually do anything useful with it.

  • @[email protected]
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    2911 months ago

    If you’re (general) still using Xitter, and you’re ashamed of that fact, remember that your continued use of the platform puts money into this man’s pocket.

  • @[email protected]
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    2711 months ago

    Musk buys Comet Pizza and relocates all his child sex slaves there. “Once we get the cages installed, the Libs will be fully owned.”

  • CharlesReed
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    1811 months ago

    Are people really still on the “Pizzagate” thing? I thought that died out a while back.

  • @xc2215x
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    1611 months ago

    Elon continues to lose it. Nothing new.

  • brothershamus
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    1611 months ago

    Look can we just bust him for tax fraud now and save everyone a lot of unecessary grief?

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    611 months ago

    JFC, pizzagate was stupid even by the low standards of the qon mindset.

  • Justas🇱🇹
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    611 months ago

    I am waiting for Internet Historian’s video titled “Elon loses his Musk” in a couple years from now.

  • @Burn_The_Right
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    511 months ago

    There is no such thing as an honest conservative. Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation.

    Dishonesty is a core conservative trait. We should be teaching our children to recognize conservatives as untrustworthy.