I just thought he lied a lot and profited a lot from the pandemic.
No. There's been plenty of right wing news articles vaguely describing his increase in wealth.
1.) The stock market surged at the start.
2.) Stuff like this:
Anthony Fauci wins Israel's Dan David $1m prize for 'defending science'3.) He's the highest paid government official on account of being in a high position for 40 years.
There's no evidence he's profited off the pandemic in any nefarious way.
If there was any thing that could even remotely suggest nefarious activity related to it, The
NY Post would have made a monstrous deal about it, instead of just talking about those 3 things.
And I could be wrong but that Elon tweet isn't about denying the science but rather about the alleged lies and shady stuff Fauci has done. He should at least be interrogated. Being anti Fauci isn't anti science.
No, but that's absolutely where it comes from.
People have been spreading conspiracies about the shut downs from the start, they've been spreading conspiracies about the vaccine months and months before it even existed. In the past few years, we've seen even greater anti-vax movements. We're seeing people die of diseases that basically haven't existed in America for decades.
And no this is not about him being anti-Fauci. It's the fact that Elon has consistently been spreading anti-scientific nonsense.
Forbe's timeline of Musk's false Covid predictionsElon Musk defies local orders, reopens Tesla factory anywayTwitter stops policing covid misinformationAs for twitter, I like what Elon has planned. I like both sides get a say. I like that he's pissing off the far right and far left. I like the transparency. I like he is willing to go head to head with powerful people. I like he is exposing Twitter's past. I like his plans encouraging journalists to be truthful and the community decides whats the truth with context added notes. I like that it gives us more power. If both right and left can thrive on there and get rid of the far left and right, it can be a powerful platform with the most accurate articles. This is Elon's plan. If it fails, Twitter in the previous state was better off dead anyway.
I swear 95% of the time, "pissing off the far left and far right" is really just right wingers celebrating pissing off the left.
I've seen no evidence that Elon is letting "both sides get a say". I've seen left wing accounts get shut down for seemingly nothing. I've seen far right wing accounts get opened back up.
The problem with "the community deciding the truth" is that people are clueless.
The vast majority of people don't understand 95% of anything. There's a reason why we have people that study a specific subject for a decade or more of their life.
He lied about it leaking from a lab and then we were restricted from talking about it. That alone is iced up. They controlled the freedom of speech and restricted what we could say through social media and controlled the narrative. Why would I support that?
Uh no.
First off we don't know whether it did or didn't leak from a lab. It's very plausible either way.
Secondly he has said nothing of the sort.
Fauci in April 2020:
"There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human," Fauci replied.
He says nothing about it for a year, and then suggests this in 2021:
"I am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened."
Dr Fauci didn't control Twitter and Facebook.
There was someone from twitter who had a big string of text about how Twitter does not moderate speech, they moderate behavior. And the reason why the lab theory was getting censored (we can talk about whether it was justified or not) was due to people attacking random Asian Americans due to the pandemic.