Last week I noted how Elon Musk saw fit to inject himself in the middle of the Helene hurricane disaster by falsely claiming that hurricane victims died because the FCC refused to give Starlink a b…

Last week I noted how Elon Musk saw fit to inject himself in the middle of the Helene hurricane disaster by falsely claiming that hurricane victims died because the FCC refused to give Starlink a billion dollars in subsidies. I explained at length why that claim was grotesque and incorrect, in part because the subsidies in question weren’t even slated to arrive until next year.

  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
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    22 days ago

    Again, Musk’s very first instinct wasn’t really to help, it was to exploit the disaster to beg for government subsidies that had been rejected for very good reasons. Then to leverage the disaster for political advantage to Trump, by publicly undermining FEMA rescue efforts. Then to take advantage of the disaster to make him seem like he was being more helpfully altruistic than he actually was.

    It’s like the YouTubers who film themselves nobly giving homeless people free tacos, but worse, not free, and at scale… during a major crisis. It’s all once again very demonstrative of who Musk truly is. Or, as the case may be, very clearly isn’t.

    Elon “the welfare queen” Musk strikes again