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    Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist

    One tweet says it all.
    by Charlie Warzel Dec 11, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty

    If there’s one tweet that will tell you everything you need to know about Elon Musk, it’s this one from early this morning:

    In five words, Musk manages to mock transgender and nonbinary people, signal his disdain for public-health officials, and send up a flare to far-right shitposters and trolls. The tweet is a cruel and senseless play on pronouns that also invokes the right’s fury toward Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, for what they believe is a government overreach in public-health policy throughout the pandemic and an obfuscation of the coronavirus’s origins. (Fauci, for his part, has said he would cooperate with any possible investigations and has nothing to hide.)

    Beyond its stark cruelty,

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