“It’s really happening,” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter a few days ago, sharing and showing his followers almost 180 million followers the video of a certain Western Lensman, someone who has the face of the actor Lee Van Cleef as his profile photo and who in his bio (framed among the inevitable stars and stripes flags) professes to be an “anti-communist and maximalist of freedom”.
The video would explain, “in less than two minutes,” the alleged Democrats’ Plan to Open the Borders and Impose One Party. Which not only is a plan that obviously doesn’t exist and has to do with the conspiracy theory of the Great Replacement, but it is also not the only one among the great hoaxes that Musk has contributed to giving enormous visibility and diffusion thanks to his tweets.
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twitter: Musk and the Great Replacement
facebook: Melons and ethnic substitution
What is Ethnic Replacement Theory
Also known as Piano Kalergi (from the name of the aristocrat of Austrian origin who began to theorize it in the early twentieth century) and cited at various times also by high-level Italian politicians, such as Melons (Who), Salvini (Who) o Lollobrigida (Who)this hoax predicts that there is a secret plan by the world‘s elites to replace the whites in Europe, the United States and Australia with masses of migrants or other ethnic minorities who would be more easily malleable and controllable.
Regarding the USA, Musk stated in the discussion interview with Don Lemon to believe that “illegal immigrants have a strong propensity to vote for the Democrats” and that therefore “the more of them who enter the country, the more likely they are to vote in that direction”. Without going into detail about the many reasons why this is impossible and has no basis in reality (the main one is that illegal immigrants do not have the right to vote), the point is that those who support this theory do not fear that the plan is to weaken Westerners politically but rather to make them disappear from the face of the Earth. And the point is that Musk seems to believe all these falsehoods, which in the United States have among other things been the basis of at least 4 attacks which from 2016 to today have caused almost 40 deaths: last November he responded positively to a Twitter user who accused the “Jewish peoples” of sending “hordes of minorities” to Western countries, and before that he had shared tweets on several occasions about the alleged “Hispanic invasion” of America. Obviously at the hands of the Democrats and their masters.
twitter: Musk and Soros who “hate humanity”
You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2023
twitter: Musk and the lies about Allen’s multiple murderer
Didn’t the story come from @bellingcatwhich literally specializes in psychological operations?
I don’t want to hurt their feelings, but this is either the weirdest story ever or a very bad psyop!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023
The other hoaxes Elon Musk has fallen into
As mentioned, that of the Great Replacement is only the latest among the sensational ones fake news into which he fell or in any case gave visibility number one on Twitter, from the falsehoods about George Soros (who is, after all, the favorite target of every conspiracy theorist) the “enemy of humanity” to the many objectively indelicate and insensitive lies about the gun massacres that take place in the United States.
Among the most embarrassing ones there is probably the story of the “woke mind virus”which Musk began to bring up already at the end of 2022 as an explanation for the (not his) decision to buy Twitter, using a term abused by conspiracy theorists to indicate political correctness which (the theory is) would prevent the free expression of thought and instead it would condition it with the ideas dear to the elites and strong powers. Obviously.
twitter: Musk and the word woke
The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
Even more serious, so much so the tweet was later deleted (but still after having been viewed over 15 million times), the support given in November 2023 to the so-called Pizzagate lie, a theory that anticipates the more well-known QAnon according to which the Clinton family and the leaders of the Democratic Party are at the head of a satanic sect of pedophiles. Which would meet in a pizzeria in Washington. This hoax, much cited by Trump supporters during the 2016 elections, is also the basis of a failed attack, and what Musk did was tell his followers that the journalist who debunked it would “go to prison for child pornography”. Which isn’t true.
Going even further back in time, there are phrases about coronavirus, through which he made several bad impressions: he was among the many who tried to make the useless distinction between the deaths “with Covid” and “of Covid”, he praised Sweden’s strategy (except then doing a little of reverse), he criticized the anti-contagion measures decided by the American government, going so far as to argue about this with Bill Gates. Even further back, on June 2, 2016, Musk explained during an interview the reasons why reality would not be real and instead we would all be living in a simulation indistinguishable from the real thing. Our lives would be a video game, according to this theory which is honestly the most sensible of all those the entrepreneur has shown he believes over the years.
twitter: Musk e il coronavirus
Extremely big difference between died because of or died with. Also, did the person actually have C19 or did they just have C19 symptoms? It’s almost impossible to die without feeling weakness, shortness of breath or other C19 symptoms, unless you were crushed by a falling piano.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2020
youtube: Musk and simulated life
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“I was just asking”, the conspiracy theorists’ loophole
Believe is perhaps too specific a verb, at least according to Musk, who often hid behind catchphrases so as not to admit that he had been duped by absurd theories: “If I report something, it doesn’t mean I agree with it “With all that being said,” he explained recently, “It’s just something that I think people should consider.” Even if it’s a lie, it seems to understand.
He explained this both for the theory of ethnic substitution and in other cases in which he was called to answer for having taken certain positions: “If I quote someone’s sentence, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I believe them.” It must be said that Musk finds himself in the difficult situation of being both a Twitter user and owner of Twitter: on the one hand he wants to give space to nonsense and fake news, which undoubtedly bring traffic, on the other does not want to lose advertising investors, who do not want to appear in a toxic environment polluted by falsehoods and nonsense. His dance probably comes from here, even if the “I said it but maybe I don’t believe it” move is a classic of the conspiracy theorist, who often finds himself extricating himself between “I was just expressing a doubt” and the inevitable ” I was just asking”. Which was it then what Trump said when in 2020 they pointed out to him that no, Covid-19 could not be cured with bleach or sunlight: “I was just asking”.
And yet, if these (fake) questions can appeal to weak and impressionable minds, they end up reaching tens of millions of people and can trigger attacks and cause deaths, perhaps it would be best not to do them. Or at least take responsibility for it.
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