Perfect Magazine Issue #8.5 2025 : Kim Kardashian by Steven Klein

Why this hate on Tesla?
Im a small town brazilian gay, and to have and never will have access to this kind of tech so i dont even bother to know
Because of it's founder, Elon Musk. He became Trump's right hand. He has a whole shady web of relations with Putin/Russians.

And he turned twitter into a n*zi incubator.
 
Because of it's founder, Elon Musk. He became Trump's right hand. He has a whole shady web of relations with Putin/Russians.

And he turned twitter into a n*zi incubator.
He's not even one of it's original founders, he can just call himself a co-founder because of a lawsuit.
 
Because of it's founder, Elon Musk. He became Trump's right hand. He has a whole shady web of relations with Putin/Russians.

And he turned twitter into a n*zi incubator.

i actively dislike Elon for multiple reasons but unless you're being conspiratorial, what exactly is the hard evidence of a connection between him and Russia? Teslas aren't even sold in Russia, Starlink has been used in Ukraine since 2022 for civilian and military purposes (offensive and defensive, resulting in many many Russian casualties), at reduced cost subsidised by the USG and SpaceX. and SpaceX deeply undercuts Roscosmos (Russian state space program) in commercial satellite launches, reducing their revenue sources...
 
i actively dislike Elon for multiple reasons but unless you're being conspiratorial, what exactly is the hard evidence of a connection between him and Russia? Teslas aren't even sold in Russia, Starlink has been used in Ukraine since 2022 for civilian and military purposes (offensive and defensive, resulting in many many Russian casualties), at reduced cost subsidised by the USG and SpaceX. and SpaceX deeply undercuts Roscosmos (Russian state space program) in commercial satellite launches, reducing their revenue sources...

 


This isn't hard evidence - it's MSM conjecture. The article states that Musk and Putin spoke about multiple topics, and the author doesn't provide a transcript of their conversation to verify their claims. Hard evidence is starlink being used by frontline ukrainian troops and ukrainian drone operators to kill russian soldiers and strike russian infrastructure targets - this speaks louder than random articles without direct sources/proof. If they're clandestine allies, directly aiding the opposing side is a strange way to express their cooperation.

The second article states that Musk and Putin are somehow weakening European democracies (apparently by offering support to the non-incumbent candidate, which you could argue strengthens democracy by levelling the playing field which typically favours the incumbent) - this is a vast topic but I would suggest that Western democracies are doing a good enough job of weakening themselves - when the position of politicians can be directly influenced by lobbying/donations and election results can be cancelled because the wrong candidate won (Romania), it's certainly not democracy in the sense of the result of elections and actions of politicians reflecting the people's will.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. I have no interest in a political debate - enjoy your weekend
 
Oh... lol... complaining about "MSM" on a fashion website with an account that has been around for 13 years with 27 posts and suddenly popping in to defend Elon. I see.
 
If Musk and Putin want to hang out together for a friday night's booze, spent hours on the phone chit-chatting about the weather or send loveletters to each other, it's close to none of my business. But one thing that seems hard to overlook is how they promote some similar views on politics and a "vision" of how society should look like. Musk actively supports this, even overseas etc. And no matter any longer if he didn't invent anything of his own and makes benefits from other people's creativity, today Musk and Tesla can't be considered separate things.

No one will make me believe someone like Katie Grand isn't aware of this, or too stupid not to know what she's doing. If she's getting short of provocative ideas or whatever of this kind, she may just stop for a while instead of throwing this crap at out eyes.

I've been liking a lot of stuff she's been involved in, even when I found some of her choices (aesthetics, topics, characters) rather dubious. I could appreciate her work or things in her magazine that would seem tacky, cheap, grotesque as long as it was made with a touch of class and a twist, with some spark. It was nowhere close to this. Never.

Also when Meisel (for Vogue Italia) would, every now and then, use some controversial topics as the subject of an editorial, it usually raised questions, made you think twice. You could consider he would glamorize the wrong thing, feel disturbed, but you were questioning yourself when you had the magazine in your hands. Here : it doesn't raise any question at all. It's properly appaling to the point the only question left is shall we get really worried from now on when any kind of attention-seeking person feels like 'normal' to compromise with people like Musk and use lightheartedly any kind of symbol related to him and his "friends".
 

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