Controversial Twitter proprietor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined trolls earlier this week bashing actor Alyssa Milano after she tweeted that she’s dumping her Tesla.
“I gave again my Tesla,” Milano knowledgeable her followers. She as a substitute bought a Volkswagen electrical car.
“I’m undecided how advertisers should buy area on Twitter,” she added. “Publicly traded firm’s merchandise being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t appear to be a profitable enterprise mannequin.”
The “Hodgetwins,” Keith and Kevin Hodge, who tout themselves as “conservatives and comedians” of their Twitter profile, slammed Milano, as did different right-wingers as a result of the once-state-owned Volkswagen firm was based beneath the Nazi Occasion. That was 85 years in the past, and it shut down two years later. It was reconstituted into a worldwide model by a British Military officer when the Allies occupied Germany.
Milano retweeted that historical past. However the details didn’t have an effect on the continued Nazi assaults by trolls, together with Musk, who responded to the Hodgetwins tweet with a “laughing till he cried” emoji and a “100″ superlative rating.
It was an uncommon transfer for the brand new head of a social media firm to make use of it to cudgel a client as a result of she refused to purchase a product from one other of his corporations.
It’s additionally stunning Musk has the time to answer Twitter feedback, on condition that his firm is hemorrhaging advertisers and income — and he has slashed half of his employees.
Most of the assaults in opposition to Milano on Twitter have been misogynistic, with zooming photographs of Milano’s breasts and derisive feedback about her vagina, which might doubtless have been blocked by Twitter pre-Musk.
Even Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) obtained in on the bashing and provided a truncated historical past lesson about Volkswagen. That sparked education by critics:
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