Elon Musk Joins Twitter Trolls Bashing Alyssa Milano For Dumping Her Tesla
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Controversial Twitter owner 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 back my Tesla,” Milano informed her followers. She instead purchased a Volkswagen electric vehicle.
“I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter,” she added. “Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model.”
I gave back my Tesla.
I bought the VW ev.
I love it.
I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model.— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 26, 2022
The “Hodgetwins,” Keith and Kevin Hodge, who tout themselves as “conservatives and comedians” in their Twitter profile, slammed Milano, as did other right-wingers because the once-state-owned Volkswagen company was founded under the Nazi Party. That was 85 years ago, and it shut down two years later. It was reconstituted into a global brand by a British Army officer when the Allies occupied Germany.
Milano retweeted that history. But the facts didn’t affect the continued Nazi attacks by trolls, including Musk, who responded to the Hodgetwins tweet with a “laughing until he cried” emoji and a “100″ superlative ranking.
Musk replies to the Hodgetwins tweet with emojis.
That was literally 85 years ago but I get it, you peeps on the right live in the past way longer than you should.
It's 2022, lets try and make your values and beliefs a bit more... current.— KC (@SwissKev) November 27, 2022
It was an unusual move for the new head of a social media company to use it to cudgel a consumer because she refused to buy a product from another of his companies.
It’s also surprising Musk has the time to respond to Twitter comments, given that his company is hemorrhaging advertisers and revenue — and he has slashed half of his staff.
Many of the attacks against Milano on Twitter were misogynistic, with zooming shots of Milano’s breasts and derisive comments about her vagina, which would likely have been blocked by Twitter pre-Musk.
Even Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) got in on the bashing and offered a truncated history lesson about Volkswagen. That sparked schooling by critics:
Thanks for reminding us why you had to pay somebody to take your 4th GED for you, Squeaky Was it too hard for you to screenshot the part that explains how the British took over the company immediately after World War II? Really quick internet lesson for you pic.twitter.com/Oa2xp0eTrx
— Tara “Not A Parody” Dublin Voted Blue (@taradublinrocks) November 28, 2022
And please, let's not forget that Germany CONDEMNED the Nazis after the war...
which is far more than our current GQP is capable of doing, evidently.— MissKris (@aWeeG3) November 28, 2022