The real reason for the Musk family X fetish is his grandpa’s 1930s Technocracy (white ethno-state) fantasy, which is a lesser-known derivation of a basic Nazi Swastika or KKK cross of the early 1900s.

Not all X are swastikas, but all swastikas are a cross, in other words. Who can forget…?

When asked to sign the entry-forms with the customary “X”, the Jewish immigrants would refuse, because they associated an X with the cross of Christianity.”

So it should be no surprise that people who already own and use an X as their trademark — without any intended hate speech — really don’t appreciate Musk’s Nazi-themed appropriation.

Virginia-based Multiply has created social-media ad campaigns for drink brands including Arizona, Corona and Liquid Death. The firm said it adopted “X” branding in 2019 and owns a federal trademark covering its “X” logo.

According to the complaint, the Twitter rebrand has already confused some of Multiply’s existing and prospective clients, many of which overlap with X Corp’s. Multiply asked the court to force X Corp to stop using the “X” trademark and to award an unspecified amount of monetary damages.

xTwitter is still basically Twitter because a swastika rebrand continues to cause so much confusion.

The man who identifies as the founder of Tesla despite not being a part of the founding of the company, explained that the site formerly known as ‘Twitter’ no longer identifies with birds or being a social media site, and now deserves to be respected for who they really are even if others might not agree with it.

“Why won’t you just accept X for who it is?” asked the billionaire. “Brands aren’t a binary thing, they are a construct and we don’t identify with the brand we were given so we have decided to become who we really are. What kind of cruel person would keep using the name or descriptors we don’t identify with anymore?”

I’ve been waiting patiently to see if anyone picks up this important story, but alas I’ve seen no coverage. Basically Europol is quietly calling out big tech on content moderation.

This coordinated operation, which was led by authorities in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, took place on 27 June 2024. The operation involved law enforcement agencies from 18 countries, working in tandem with Europol’s European Union Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) and major online service providers. […] The focus of the Referral Action Day stems from the rise of widespread antisemitism justified and cultivated in Jihadi-spheres and right-wing, as well as left-wing, extremist groups online. […] National Internet Referral Units and specialised police units from the following countries took part in this Referral Action Day: Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

It was a record setting first half of this year as Tesla sales completely crashed, setting a record decline.

Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.

The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline.

Tesla offering big price cuts and low interest terms led to income collapse, on top of rapidly collapsing demand that it was supposed to slow.

The CEO has promised the street he will sell more than twice as many cars by the end of the year.

For the first half of the year, Tesla has sold about 831,000 vehicles worldwide, far short of the more than 1.8 million for the full year that CEO Elon Musk has predicted.

And if the California market is any signal, the rest of the year could get even worse for Tesla.

Registrations of Tesla cars in California fell 24% in the April to June period, marking the third consecutive quarter that the company posted a sales drop in its key market…

Meanwhile other EV makers are seeing huge sales jumps and high demand. For one obvious example, Toyota:

In Q2, Toyota sold 247,347 electrified vehicles (up 63% year-over-year), representing nearly 40% of the group’s total volume.

A 63% jump! And when you isolate for BEV vehicles that Q2 jump goes over 100%. This success is completely the inverse story to Teala’s failure. EV sales overall are strong.

There’s no reason to believe Tesla can compete in the future.

There’s no question that many, if not all, Tesla owners think buying their poorly designed low quality car from a conman gives them a special talisman or magic token of immunity from accountability (being above any laws, including laws of physics).

In this new Arizona case, the mysticism driving such lawless thinking is not even hidden or subtle.

On the evening of March 15, Tucson police officer Ryder Schrage clocked Wadsack driving her Tesla Model S at 71 mph in a 35 mph zone on Speedway Boulevard. When pulled over, Wadsack identified herself as a senator and told the officer she was “racing home” because her car’s battery was low. The officer did not issue a citation at the time due to Wadsack’s claim of legislative immunity, which protects lawmakers from arrest or legal action while the legislature is in session.

She said low battery was why she was going at double the safe and prudent speed limit, which makes absolutely zero sense.

A low battery actually means she should have been going slowly to get more distance. Anyone who has watched an EV battery drain rate just a couple times knows this basic math.

Again, she literally thought the laws of physics didn’t apply to her because… magic fascist dust sold to her by Tesla.

Moreover, Tesla has notoriously lied about battery range. So her claim (if anyone actually believed her lies) basically would mean Tesla owners will be speeding unsafely all the time due to intentional design flaws. Genius! “Officer I have to break the law of the land because Elon Musk told me the laws of nature aren’t real.”

To make matters worse, when the Police later tried to explain to this “legislator” how real law and order works, she claimed that the simple act of rule enforcement is political persecution of whites.

If anyone believed her nonsense, they would probably also be in opposition to even the most basic theory of law and order (e.g. they would be fascists planning to overthrow government and remove all rules, in order to replace it with a white male dictator making all the decisions including special immunity).

When you read the case details, and look carefully at what she is really saying about solitary political individuals rising magically above the law, it seems she actually should be charged with treason among other crimes.

She’s now purportedly living in one of her campaign donors’ homes, which is a mile inside Legislative District 17 and fulfills her statutory duty to live in her district. Her family home is in a Democrat-heavy district where Republicans stand little chance of winning.

She had allegedly falsely claimed her home was targeted by anti-fascists (which tends to be an admission of fascism). Why did she make such provably-false claims? The victimization propaganda was only needed to cover-up her targeted move to a temporary apartment in a new district, to qualify for a plush non-job in government, which she then got caught criminally speeding towards.

She literally intentionally broke campaign laws using false claims of victimization, planning for her Tesla to facilitate it with more law breaking.

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

And without the push-button Tesla this white supremacist anti-democracy politician would not have been so egregiously breaking so many laws.

In related news, from just after the Civil War, the U.S. President said he himself should accept a speeding ticket because the rule of law matters, especially laws of nature.

Grant seems to have been skeptical as to whether he could be legally arrested but took these episodes good naturedly. He accepted the judgment of the courts when fines were levied against him.

One of the most brilliant minds and best leaders in history, the lessons of President Grant should mandatory learning in American schools. He ended the Civil War, and then he upended patronage by chasing corruption, created civil rights, the national parks and the department of justice. He represents everything that these lawless Tesla owners hate — social good, effective governance and accountability.