Well, Twitter owner Elon Musk is being vile again. That’s a frequent enough occurrence that it usually doesn’t rise to the level of news, since Musk spends most of his day looking for affirmation in the mentions of far-right sh-tposters and memelords, but Musk remains one of the richest people on the planet and whenever a man willing to blow $44 billion on a website just so that he could rig it up to give himself a louder voice than anyone else, it becomes news when the very rich cultivator of far-right adulation keeps promoting antisemitism, neo-Nazi themes, and attacks on democracy itself.
So yeah, apparently we have to do this again. As per usual it started with Musk putting his two cents in in the replies of another anti-Muslim tweet by notorious far-right conspiracy promoter and fascism-booster Amy Mek, because—again—Musk appears to crave the attention of every fascist and protofascist on the internet. Mak promoted a video allegedly from an imam vowing France will “become an Islamic country through Jihad,” upon which some other ultracreep piped up with “Thanks to the white female vote,” which caused allegedly richest person in the world to himself reply that “The childless have little stake in the future.”
That’s already about five kinds of creepy and weird but we’ll set that aside for the moment, because it’s yet another of Musk’s blue check weirdos who set the ball rolling toward its natural Worst Possible Take.
“Democracy is probably unworkable long term without limiting suffrage to parents. Helps solve the procreation problem, too,” mused blue-check user “fentasyl”.
“Yup,” replied Elon.