Elon Musk Spends Christmas Upsetting His White Supremacist Fanboys

By Jacob Weindling  |  December 26, 2024 | 11:30am
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Elon Musk Spends Christmas Upsetting His White Supremacist Fanboys

Many people spent the past couple of days with their loved ones, basking in the joy and camaraderie this time of year engenders. That does not include the richest man in the world, who seemingly admitted that he was alone on Christmas, listening to an episode of the podcast Hardcore History before posting about how much he hates Wikipedia all day.

in which elon musk more or less admits he’s alone on christmas. Hope you’re sad bitch

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— Timothy Faust,  “The $27,000 Diamond Dazzler” (@crulge.urinal.club) December 24, 2024 at 11:39 PM


As much as I would like to spend this column basking in the schadenfreude of earth’s richest and most miserable human, this is actually a blog about how Elon Musk made a pretty straightforward point that wound up whipping his white supremacist fanbase into a frenzy.

As Boston Consulting Group suggests, “Every year, the US will need about 400,000 new engineers. Yet the next-generation skill sets that those engineers will require are sorely lacking, presenting the alarming possibility that nearly one in three engineering roles will remain unfilled each year through at least 2030.” The Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey in the first quarter of 2024 found that “More than 65% of manufacturers cited the inability to attract and retain employees as their top primary challenge.”

It is, and has been for some time, an objective fact that the United States does not have enough engineers to satisfy its demand. This is such an obvious fact that even Elon Musk understands it. One of his favorite white supremacist accounts replied to one of his posts where he stressed that America needs more AI engineers from all over the world, saying “there are over 330 million people in America. Surely, there must be enough among them to build your ultimate team? Why would you deny real Americans that opportunity by bringing foreigners here?”

And this is where Elon slipped up, as the remaining shreds of his logical brain that have not been destroyed by his toxic combination of id and ketamine replied, saying “your understanding of the situation is upside-down and backwards.” Elon said “OF COURSE” he’d prefer to hire Americans “HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America.”

This angered the army of Nazi keyboard warriors who thought that electing Trump meant that their bigoted and objectively sad lives had more meaning than they themselves have imbued it with. They dogpiled Elon with an array of replies that all boiled down to “but I’m white and my mommy says I’m perfect!” Musk must have had this get under his skin, as he did not spend $44 billion on a propaganda network to have people yell at him all day, and he tweeted what seemed to be a joke that sent the online Nazi brigade into a full-blown meltdown, replying to a guy who said “white men aren’t being hired anymore” by saying “We’re just dumb.”

The replies to this post are unhinged, as the saddest people alive seemed to discover that a capitalist who loves cheap labor may not be totally aligned with their nativist priorities. Here is a sampling of the replies and quote tweets from people pathetic enough to let Elon Musk ruin their Christmas.

The ugly and unrepentant racism in them aside, the quote tweets of this post are really funny, as it is just an endless array of people in the leopards eating faces party realizing that the leopards think their faces are delicious too. Elon’s mentions are filled with the most underwhelming and mediocre white men ever created, and instead of growing up and accepting that every human has limitations, they have flocked to Elon’s safe space filled with propaganda telling them what special snowflakes they are. One post from Musk pointing out the reality that does not align with their racist priors sent a lot of manchildren into a full-blown meltdown yesterday.

This is the first dose of reality many of these folks have had in months if not years, and it’s really telling that it took Elon fucking Musk to bring it to them. Capitalists have always used culture wars to split the populace to distract us from the fact that their fealty is to the almighty dollar, and it doesn’t matter if you are an immigrant or someone who has constructed an entire personality around hating immigrants, Elon Musk and his allies do not care about anything that gets in the way of them making more money. Musk is very clearly an unrepentant racist who enjoys spreading misinformation that endangers non-white people’s lives, but his ultimate allegiance is to the color green, and many of his idiotic racist fanboys had their Christmas ruined realizing that class is the only real divide in this world.

 
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