I’ve covered this before, when Elon Musk uses the “some of my best friends are” defense. It’s wrong to use for many well known and studied reasons, including being clearly racist.

Here’s yet another example of him using it, as if he really doesn’t care.

The forthcoming book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, relates an awkward scene in which Musk tried to assure the CEO of Revolt, a media company founded by Combs, about the surge in racist content that accompanied his appointment to chief executive at Twitter. (Combs sold his stake in Revolt this summer.) Detavio Samuels, the head of that company, was worried that Black users would be assailed by hate speech. Musk deflected by saying, “I don’t know if you know this, but Puff [one of Combs’ former stage names] is an investor in Twitter.” He added, “You know, he’s a good friend of mine. We text a lot.”

As I have been saying since 2022, the Twitter takeover never was about direct revenue. It was a calculated loss — cost of disinformation — to benefit racist tyrants who almost instantly implemented targeted censorship on the global propaganda platform.

Elon Musk used billions to elevate toxic narratives for Saudis and Russians. Thus asking Musk for a Twitter profit plan is like asking who makes money when Russia drops bombs on billboards in Ukraine. Forget advertising.

The buried lede in the article is that Putin’s elites are behind the Twitter purchase and reorganization, specifically two 8VC henchmen named Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

The founder of 8VC, also known for his conflict generating Nazi-affiliated Palantir, has responded officially to criticism of these two by stating he is a “better” man than anyone else, one who trusts only his own judgement in hiring Putin’s soldiers (Source: Twitter).

That’s the unmistakable voice of tyranny. “Lesser men” are defined as those who disagree with a man who only listens to those who agree with him.

But let me be even more clear here about the horrible racism allegedly in 8VC culture. The founder literally has been saying a candidate for hire shouldn’t be accountable for their family, let alone their country politics, history or culture.

The narrative is that “lesser men” wouldn’t take the big risk to hire a Russian prince out of Putin’s inner circle of billionare jerks to land him a plumb job, because this 8VC founder doesn’t take important background stuff into consideration.

Ok? That sounds awful. Even worse, when you follow the logic presented and look at his publicly stated position on why he doesn’t hire non-whites… there’s a huge glaring racist double-standard.

Who has the courage to talk about broken Russia? Not this guy. He’ll say he hates Putin, as if Putin doesn’t lap that up, and that’s it.

Meanwhile…

He’s saying Black candidates carry a huge burden and responsibility for their entire country’s history if they expect to get hired by him. That is unless they’re Russian, in which case nothing about their father’s direct role in a oppressive dictatorship is worth talking about.

Who wants to bet hiring Putin’s henchmen’s kids is an investment loophole, where laundered coins magically get invested into American companies, to help Russia fund the invasion of Ukraine if not fund anti-American propaganda? We’ve seen this before.

Lonsdale’s Palantir people literally still promote nativist “America First” as if their shrill bugle call of racism isn’t obvious.

Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale… donated to a new super-political action committee supporting Donald Trump… Jacob Helberg, a Palantir executive and big Trump donor, said Vance was “a pro-technology and pro-America First pick…

We’re supposed to believe 8VC can’t hire American Black people because of so many big picture societal concerns. Palantir founder tells us he blames the big picture for his pattern of discrimination against Blacks.

Ok sure, everyone sees Elon Musk pumping babies out of wedlock to save the planet but every Black candidate has to explain why children born out of wedlock are bad for the planet?

Meanwhile, an avowed foreign enemy leader’s boy was brought into the 8VC team during high war-time sanctions because… just an America First angel unto himself.

Laundering never looked so dirty.