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New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:21 +0000

Musk's is the most engaged-with account on Twitter by far. Twitter is de facto his personal soapbox.

New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:49:29 +0000

You think Musk's rhetoric is not extreme-right? Want some quotes?

New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:53:07 +0000

Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

Most of the top engagement on Twitter comes from the right.

New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:50:03 +0000

Enjoy having this content connected to your identity for the rest of time! You might be in for some unpleasant surprises later on.

New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:40:23 +0000

Yes, some great things happened in Belfast in response to that post. Boy, isn't it great that the totally centrist Twitter is still relevant.

(History will judge you people appropriately -- as it did the people grinning at lynchings in 1950's America.)

New comment by tastyface in "With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:31:54 +0000

Well, he also killed several hundred thousand people (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...) and started some race riots (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/m...), but whatever. Bygones for some quick cash.

New comment by tastyface in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:02:33 +0000

LW did not elect a convicted rapist who literally tried to overthrow an election that he lost, and now sits on his throne enriching the lives of himself and his family by literal billions.

RW has absolutely no integrity.

New comment by tastyface in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

tastyface — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:56:30 +0000

Elon Musk has directly caused the deaths hundreds of thousands of impoverished people due to his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...). He's also an open white supremacist most recently responsible for instigating race riots in Belfast (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/m...). Read his social media feeds: they are literally Stormfront rhetoric at this point. But people don't want to hear these things. They just want to cheer for the trillionaire rocketman. It's sick and infuriating.

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:47:21 +0000

For example: https://www.wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-argue-xai-vital-nati...

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say"

tastyface — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:08:27 +0000

Awkward to associate this insane rambling with your real name, ngl.

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say"

tastyface — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:57:43 +0000

"Defund the police" is not the same as "terrorize immigrants for the survival of the white race."

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say"

tastyface — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:44:48 +0000

Correct, anon, that's just a guess. Because after that happened, hate-mongers like Musk started a pogrom to burn down a bunch of unrelated people's houses. The act of violence you mentioned is not what got people rioting. Horrible crimes happen every day, after all.

Believe me when I say that as a white person, I'd much rather count some Sudanese immigrants as my neighbors than anyone in these lynch mobs.

Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say

tastyface — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/musk-s-role-was-instrumental-in-the-belfast-riots-according-to-researchers_6754420_4.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526648

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New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:08:31 +0000

Yes, but: it's hard to have optimism when 4/5 of articles about Musk's horrifying behavior are insta-killed, while Grok and SpaceX puff pieces are cheerfully discussed with nary a mention of their owner's murderous politics.

What does it take to make someone persona non grata in SV tech? Absolutely nothing, as long as they keep bringing in the big bucks. Nazi salutes, incitement of racial violence, thousands dead from starvation and cut-off medical care -- doesn't matter in the slightest. In a functioning society, Musk would not be able to go anywhere without being swarmed by protestors.

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:03:31 +0000

I don't think I can roll my eyes any harder.

New comment by tastyface in "The world’s first trillionaire is a killer"

tastyface — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:08:13 +0000

Archive: https://archive.ph/20260612185731/https://www.theverge.com/t...

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:00:21 +0000

I think he's steadily working towards "too big too fail": make the entire US economy depend on his rat's nest of a megacorp, plus miltech/policetech (SpaceX, Grok).

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:59:45 +0000

Starship and anything space related is like 5% of the valuation.

New comment by tastyface in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

tastyface — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:58:08 +0000

Musk has killed hundreds of thousands of people with his reckless dismantling of USAID (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hun...) and actively promotes white supremacy and race riots on Twitter. The Georges Ruggiu of social media.

Meanwhile, here in our little tech bubble, we pretend it's not happening -- that he's not spending half the day amplifying some of the literal worst people on Earth and blathering about how immigrants are coming to rape our culture. Just focus on the IPO. Don't look behind the curtain.

Where is a good chunk of this newfound money going to go? Into the pockets of AfD, Reform, and other far-right monsters around the world.

It's all just... abhorrent. Beyond words. Regretfully, I start to understand the state of society that can foment revolution. Never before have I felt such impotent fury at the state of things.

I can only hope his career ends as Ruggiu's once did: in shackles in front of an international tribunal.

New comment by tastyface in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

tastyface — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:29:46 +0000

You have to seek forgiveness and truly understand the nature of your transgression against your fellow man, not be like "welp, collateral damage is just part of the job."