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Elon Musk—the world’s wealthiest man and oldest teenage boy—is exhibiting his ass on Twitter once more.
In a tweet within the early hours of Thursday, Musk posted a meme that unfavorably in contrast Canada’s democratically elected prime minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler to make some deeply confused level in regards to the anti-vaccine-mandate trucker protests and cryptocurrency.
Musk’s submit, which confirmed the Nazi chief alongside the caption “Cease evaluating me to Justin Trudeau. I had a finances,” was in reply to a report about Canada ordering monetary companies to cease buying and selling with crypto wallets which might be funding chaotic vaccine protests in Ottawa.
Not solely was Musk’s meme lazy, offensive, and attention-seeking, it was additionally utterly improper and out-of-date. Trudeau’s authorities handed a finances final summer time, admittedly after two years of not doing so.
Musk was seemingly angered by an article from Coindesk that reported police in Canada had recognized and frozen buying and selling on 34 crypto wallets linked to the anti-vaccine trucker-led protests. Earlier this week, Trudeau turned the primary Canadian chief to invoke the nation’s Emergencies Act, giving him extra powers to interrupt up the trucker protests.
Musk, 50, beforehand stated that he’s taken his COVID-19 vaccines, however has repeatedly railed in opposition to mandates, calling them an “erosion of freedom.” Earlier within the pandemic, he made one other Nazi reference by complaining that lockdowns had been “fascist” and “breaking individuals’s freedoms in methods which might be horrible and improper and never why they got here to America.”
Simply final month, the Tesla CEO voiced his backing for the trucker protests, writing in a tweet: “Canadian truckers rule.” He additionally posted a tweet making enjoyable of individuals who examine anybody they disagree with to Hitler.