I find the larger story behind Elon's comment directed at (Lack of) Joy Reid pretty noteworthy for anyone that has followed the attacks on Elon on Twitter and in the media over the last decade. At 1:30 into the linked NYP article containing a video clip of the Joy Reid's 'show' where she hosted Sen Warren on MSNBC Joy Reid accuses Elon of:
“misappropriating black vernacular for
misogynistic purposes”
And then the good Senator piles on with socially conditioning comments regarding the sources of Elon's subsidies for his business ventures coming from the taxes of "waitresses and school teachers." This later comment was very much intended to anger the working women tuning into (Lack of) Joy's show. Here is the link to the Post article:
Musk and Warren have been feuding ever since the Massachusetts senator accused him earlier this week of being a freeloader who doesn’t pay taxes.
nypost.com
This was predictable. We saw similar tactics used when the early 'journalist' attack dogs on Twitter of Elon were Lynette Lopes, Lora Kolodany, and Dana Hull, and many of us on TMC were angered that such a disingenuous tactic would be intentionally deployed against Elon so that any response from him could be couched as a misogynistic response to further discredit the man. It is a disgusting tactic, but apparently it must be somewhat effective towards a base of followers unwilling to be critical of their own team. So it was with no stretch of the imagination that I was certain we would see it used once again against Elon following his 'Karen' comment of Sen Warren, and I posted that here on TMC at the time. Not having cable or satellite TV here on our very rural homestead (a habit I grew quite fond of in rural Alaska), I am probably a little late to this news as usual. But having been immediately accused by
@TheTalkingMule of spending too much of my time in front of a TV trying to manifest such things after I suggested we would see Elon attacked in such a way I thought this clip of Joy in the NYP article would be worth posting.
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For the record, I too was very supportive of the Progressive movement early on, primarily because they appeared to embrace The Green New Deal. It was of course challenging for me to become critical of the team I had placed my bets on to advance a more sustainable future. A very senior colleague at the Alaska Dept of Fish and Game had once told me that the definition of Critical Thinking was being willing to change your mind about something you had once felt very strongly about. A simple definition, but one that seems to be very applicable all across the news these days. And the content of just about every Tesla YouTube video posted here since Robert Reich went off the deep end on Elon months ago would have been hard to imagine only a couple years ago, as they are all critical of the people we thought would be the ones to embrace and propel Tesla forward in a new political paradigm, and many of them focus on a newfound support of Elon/Tesla by the right - in part for Elon's unwillingness to be bullied, and for Tesla's ability to make more economically competitive energy products. Time has proven the ideals that many of us felt strongly about only a year or two ago were not accurate. Those ideals were based on our perception of the information available to us at the time, so there are of course many reasons why we could have formed inaccurate perceptions about those attacking Elon and Tesla now. But the only thing constant is change. The people that are attacking Elon, and Tesla, and over 100,000 dedicated Tesla employees, and everyone who is a Long investor in Tesla now in very underhanded ways are not the people we thought would be doing so a couple years ago. It was
@SPadival who helped me see through some of this faster than I would likely have been able to on my own - thanks Brother. It is very liberating to move past a constraining thought or ideal.
And it was
@heltok who posted not long ago (paraphrasing) that Elon has decided to go it alone and let simple economics be the propulsion behind the product instead of people or party just as Elon stated that he thought the BBB should be canned. Nice call
@heltok
I would much prefer
@TheTalkingMule could accuse me of trying to manifest $1,800 of higher for TSLA by the end of 2022 in an effort to double our next Roth and 501c3 rollovers in early 2022........................I promise I will do my best!
