What’s maddening is the shell game he’s playing. It’s not a new game.
“Torches for Freedom” was an ad campaign by a cigarette company that hijacked the women’s rights movement in the late 1920s to sell cigarettes.
Edward Bernays was behind the campaign; he shaped the world Musk and others like him were born into as we all were.
Women were paid to go into parades with banners “torches for freedom” smoking cigarettes advertising the brand, attempting to get women hooked on cigarettes as a ‘sign of freedom’. the checkmark on Musk’s site, etc