Elon Musk Cusses Out Student Who Called Him a Fake News Machine

"Retard" is a generic insult in 2025. Meanings change. Just like that of "woke".

"F u retard"

Notice there's no denial in there? No denial that he's the largest spreader of disinformation in history?

Musk won't even try to question or deny it because it's true, he knows it's true.
So he responds with "F u retard"?
So the Finnish grad student won, then? Basically calls Musk the largest spreader of lies and misinformation in history and Musk has no response? No denial?

Just admission. That's the point Musk is at with his bullshit machine. He admits he's completely full of shit and doesn't even deny it anymore.

Anyone notice the irony of the insult?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retard

to delay or impede the development or progress of

What Mr Musk may think of as 'leftist retards' are, in fact, educated Europeans.

The Finnish student is entirely correct that the EU is ultimately going to have to take action against X / Twitter. And possibly against Facebook too if Zuckerberg makes good on his promise to challenge the European Union's (and UK's) social media legislation.

(Happily, the USA has made such measures easier through its own treatment of TikTok.)

I suspect this is precisely what Musk wants anyway, so that he can claim persecution to the audience prepared to listen to him in the United States. So he'll be happy with that outcome.

And it's high-time Europe asserted its cultural difference by bringing these US companies into line or -- if needs be -- getting them out of the continent altogether. Americans can do what they like in their own back yard -- and call it freedom of speech if that helps them -- but I think we're reaching a point, with the incoming administration being openly hostile towards European values, when Europe is going to have to protect itself from its 'ally'.

he's literally an autistic manchild that just discovered /pol/