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In a truth-bomb-filled interview with Andrew Ross-Sorkin, at the DealBook Conference, Elon Musk silenced a room full of liberal elites as he proclaimed that: “…if someone wants to blackmail me with advertising, they can go fuck themselves.”
Reflecting on the actions of various companies to his now-viral retweet of a so-called anti-semitic comment – specifically mentioning ‘Bob’ (Iger from Disney) – Musk confirmed he did not want them to advertise while noting that “an advertising boycott will kill X.”
“Don’t advertise. If someone is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f**k yourself.
Go f**k yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”
But, he explains, “the whole world will know those advertisers killed the company… and we’ll document it in great detail.”
Sorkin replies “those advertisers will say, ‘we didnt’ kill the company’ to which Musk cuts him off:
“Oh yeah, tell that to earth.. and let’s see how earth responds to that.”
Fuck you says Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/XailyzZVqZ
— One Tesla Share (@OneTeslaShare) November 29, 2023
With regards to the anti-semtitic tweet, Musk admits his action was:
“I mean, look, I’m sorry for that post. It was foolish of me. Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.
And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday, but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that in fact far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.”
Musk clarifies once again the thought process behind his retweet:
“What I was saying was that it’s unwise to support groups that want your annihilation,” he says.
If it encouraged anti-semites, he says: “I am quite sorry,” adding, “I should in retrospect not have replied to that particular post.”
“Essentially I handed a loaded gun to the people who hate me,” he said.
He also insisted his trip to Israel was “not an apology tour.”
If you want to send satellites to space, SpaceX sent 80% of all mass into orbit this year; and, if you want to buy an EV, Tesla makes the best cars in the world – it doesn’t matter what you think of him.
“We make the best cars… Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car or not the best car?”
In fact, he reflects, Tesla has done more than all the companies combined to help the environment, and as the leader of the company,”I’ve done more for the environment than any single human on earth.
Sorkin then asked how Musk felt about that – and got a response he didn’t expect:
“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it…
…And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them.”
"What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them."
–@elonmusk at NYT Dealbook Summit pic.twitter.com/aZ18D7dbXg
— Alec Allen (@S3XYstarship) November 29, 2023
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