Well, that was blunt.

In a New York Times “Dealbook” event, Elon Musk was asked whether he was going on an “apology tour” for seemingly elevating an antisemitic comment with a response.

The accusation that Musk is antisemitic always struck me as absurd, but in today’s cancel culture environment and given the coordinated effort to destroy Musk, it was inevitable that people would seize on anything to destroy him. Media Matters took its shot (Media Matters is one of the most vile, disgusting, dishonest political actors in America), and its shot landed.

Major advertisers dropped Twitter/X, costing the company a lot of money.

Musk’s response to the Times, though, was blunt. If advertisers wanted Musk to censor content on Twitter/X, he has a simple response (NSFW):

BREAKING: Elon Musk to advertisers trying to blackmail 𝕏 into censorship: “Go f*ck yourself.” pic.twitter.com/cfH3ThOXNh

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) November 29, 2023

Well, that makes his views clear.

And, as somebody who has F-you money, Musk is one of the few businessmen who can afford to tell Tim Cook at Apple to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

Musk is currently suing Media Matters for its deeply dishonest attack on Twitter, in which they manipulated the algorithm in order to make it appear that advertisements were appearing next to tweets that expressed antisemitic sentiments. As has been amply demonstrated, the “nonprofit” went to enormous efforts to create a false impression that major advertisers were being associated with antisemitic tweets.

BREAKING: X has officially filed a lawsuit against left-wing Media Matters for colluding with others in a "fraudulent attack" on X.

Good. Make them suffer. 🔥

The lawsuit comes after Media Matters falsely claimed that advertisements for large brands like IBM, Apple, Oracle and… pic.twitter.com/1pE74qHoib

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 21, 2023

But Twitter/X was able to show that the only times this ever happened was for accounts that Media Matters had created and manipulated specifically to make this happen. They were literally the only account for which major advertisers had their ads placed next to offensive tweets.

In other words, this would be like blaming a car company for a crash in which the driver aimed at a brick wall and smashed it at high speed. Deliberately misusing a product is hardly the manufacturer’s fault.

No doubt Musk’s strike at these companies will not endear him to them, but Musk apparently doesn’t care. He bought Twitter with the intention of making it a free speech platform and has made compromises to satisfy squishy advertisers. He isn’t going any farther, apparently.

What is striking to me about the Twitter controversies is how contrived they are. As a Twitter user from its inception, I can say unequivocally that it has always been filled with offensive tweets and that the only difference now is that the offensive tweets are more balanced than in the past. It used to be that Left-wingers could threaten, bully, harass, and doxx anybody they didn’t care for while conservatives were silenced. Now it is a free-for-all, with a lot less child porn (which had become rampant under the old regime).

Twitter is, indeed, no longer a “safe space” for Lefties, but it was before for a simple reason: Lefties censored everybody else. There are still tweets on the site from Lefties that literally say the same thing that sent a conservative to jail. Musk has simply evened the playing field, and liberals cannot stand it.

Twitter is important because it is now the only place on the internet not owned, operated, and manipulated for the benefit of the hard left. That is unacceptable to them.

Musk himself is not a traditional conservative; if anything, he leans libertarian, although in reality, he is politically sui generis. He aligns with no obvious ideology other than an allegiance to classical liberal values and capitalism. He is a figure out of Heinlein, not a disciple of Reagan or Trump.

There is a reason why Iron Man was modeled after Elon Musk, according to the movie’s writer–he is unique. He is not exactly a hero or antihero, but a man guided by his own vision and the freedom to pursue it.

If somebody doesn’t like it, you know what Musk’s reaction is: F-you.