The Extremists at 4Chan Have Turned on Elon Musk
And it's not just 4Chan. The Daily Caller is also pointing out how H-1B visas are used to harm American workers as portions of the MAGA base turn on tech billionaires.
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In recent years, Elon Musk has slowly changed his public persona from environmentally aware hawker of electric cars to publicly endorsing “replacement theories” and other far-Right, anti-Semitic white supremacist beliefs. Naturally, this endeared him to the extremist portion of Trump’s base and Musk has basked in their approval like an awkward kid finally being chosen to hang with the popular kids.
But now, in a post H-1B visa world, those extremists have turned on Elon Musk.
Extremists within MAGA are enraged that the billionaire swamp is pro-immigration for cheap labor for high paying skilled jobs that they see as being stolen from them.
Musk’s Pepe the Frog fail
The extremists at 4Chan saw right through South African immigrant Elon Musk’s cash grab at the expense of American labor and they are enraged.
Musk is infamous for being a try-hard 50 year old man trying to fit in with “the kids” by using Facebook dad memes from 2015. But this didn’t matter to the Right, who saw in Musk their own apartheid (a South African a white supremacist regime) hero. They licked his boots clean within seconds of him posting anything and Musk seemed to feed off of this slavish public attention.
As he faced the backlash from a base primed on racism for its entire existence, Musk changed his Twitter avatar to Pepe the Frog, a meme misappropriated by 4Chan, 8Chan and white supremacist Reddit to signal racist, bigoted and anti-Semitic themes.
In other words: ‘Don’t be mad at me, kids, I’m still your kooky racist uncle, I just want cheap labor so I can get even richer.'
A Reddit summary of the situation, complete with screengrabs so toxic and encouraging violence that we warn against clicking, explains: “Elon Musk changes his profile pic to a 4Chan /pol/ symbol - 4Chan /pol/ responds by calling him the n-word, the k-word, the r-word, a cuck, a Jew, gay, autistic, accusing of him of trying to replace white people with Indians, and calling for his violent death.”
Reader, he is no longer the kooky racist uncle to the white supremacists’ movement.
Steve Bannon says Elon is not even an American
Not only is he not the kooky uncle, but he is now being called out for living off of taxpayer money and not even being an American.
“This guy lives on government contracts and taxpayer subsidies...You’re a war profiteer,” longtime Trump ally and former aide Steve Bannon said on his conspiracy-ridden podcast "War Room," just months after being released from federal prison.
“You’re not even an American, all you are is a globalist. You would take a check from Adolph Hitler.”
Right-wing extremist Laura Loomer calls for campaign finance regulations
Laura Loomer and Elon Musk have been fighting in public and their fights leave the impression that Loomer is the good guy. She is not actually the good guy, it’s just relative to Elon, almost anyone comes out shining.
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