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Elon Musk Hates Everybody, Especially His Users

What the fuck, people of Twitter?

CJ Sterling
5 min readNov 12, 2022

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Elon Musk slapped us all in the face on Day One by posting a conspiracy theory about Nancy Pelosi just days after the brutal attack on her husband Paul. On Day Two, he backhanded us by posting a picture of a Nazi soldier with a crate of messenger pigeons and urged Americans to vote Republican. Get the joke? Messages, messenger pigeons? He openly, blatantly called Twitter users, his product, pigeons. With a Nazi soldier carrying his message.

Why, oh why, are people hand-wringing over ending their Twitter accounts? “I’ll hang for a while…”

Yeah, and your brother will quit smoking weed every day.

Musk made an impulsive $44 billion purchase, changed his mind, and now he is breaking the toy he doesn’t want anymore. It wasn’t enough that former CEO Jack Dorsey deliberately left Trump to gin up an entire insurrection, only banning Trump after he had allowed enough time for the entire plot to be organized and deployed. You know, the one where the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, and Trump followers, led by Trump Tweets to propel an infuriated mob convinced by conspiracy…

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CJ Sterling

Writer, journalist. Commentary: Washington Post, Economist, Daily Beast, New York Times, Seattle Times, Crosscut, The Stranger. 22.5 million views, Quora.