Elon Musk has been throw a act of a time of it on Twitter of late . As one tweet ( which Musk ’s own mother - in - police liked ) put it : " Elon Musk ’s Twitter presence in the last few months feel very Kanye 2018 . "
Fresh from succeed a defamation causa last year after he inexplicably predict a British cave explorer call for in thetense rescue of 12 Thai boysand their football game coach pin down in an clandestine cave organization a " pedo guy " , Musk has continued to use his Twitter presence for disorderly evil this year . Where many people at the top of successful companies practice their weapons platform for updates or else just a bit of fun , in the beginning this calendar month the Tesla and SpaceX CEOwiped $ 14bn off Tesla ’s valueafter pinch " Tesla inventory price too high imo " .
He also caused controversy by nonchalantly dismissing worries over Covid-19 , claiming " the coronavirus panic is dumb " , and demand " Free America now ! " amid suggestions of ease lockdown measures in the US against aesculapian experts ' advice , before tweeting a whole lot of other thing that are not going to age well , such as the below .
He also corrected a literal error in his partner Grimes ' explanation of their new-sprung baby ’s name , while she recovered from surgery .
That may well turn out to be a high point to this month though , after he went so far his own mother - in - law bang him on Twitter , wish certain post that expressed botheration at him .
The tweet that did it was one that seems innocuous enough at first glance , telling hoi polloi to " Take the red anovulatory drug " .
hold the ruby pill cite to a shot in the filmTheMatrixwhere Morpheus offers the protagonist Neo two pills , the crimson one waking him up to realism , the blue devil allowing him to stay in blissful ignorance . demand the " carmine pill " , and the idea of waking up to reality , has since been appropriated by on-line misogynists , men ’s rights activists ( MRA ) , and the " alt - right " . The"red lozenge " subreddit , for illustration , is a lieu where men gather to bequite misogynistic indeed .
As you ’d anticipate , when Musk squeeze the ambiguous statement , and members of the Trump family plump for the message , masses were less than enthusiastic about his potential meaning . The Matrixco - conductor Lilly Wachowski unambiguously made her feelings on the affair unbelievably open .
One critic he probably was n’t gestate was his mother - in - jurisprudence . Initially , she wrote :
" If your partner went through a challenge gestation and childbirth in the last two week … And you were over 16 years honest-to-god , would you be claxon MRA bullshit on Twitter right now ? " She has since erase the tweet .
She also agreed with a tweet sharpen out " buddy has a 3 - workweek - old baby . mayhap ill-use away from the broflakes , " and retweeted another advise Musk should be arrested for reopen the Tesla manufactory in California " in violation of the local health order " .
Metro reportsthat amongst her other the like was a screenshot of Ivanka Trump ’s tweet with the caption " [ crash face into keyboard repeatedly ] " . For undecomposed measure , she also like the above tweet comment " Thanksgiving is drop dead to be fun " . Which , permit ’s be honest , it intelligibly will be .
