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Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov has posted a video on social media showing off his new cybertruck. He claims that it was a gift directly from Elon Musk and vows to send the "cyberbeast" into battle against Ukraine. https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/4999
There's also this Ukrainian report on the matter but it's in Ukrainian, so I'm sharing the Mastodon post in English.
Is this for real? Elon Musk is now a blatant putinist?
What in the fuck happened in the last 5 years?
edit Seriously though, is this for real or is this just Kadyrov getting one from a shop somewhere and then bullshitting everyone that Musk sent it to him?
Well that would explain some of it. That can be an extremely stressful thing to happen to a parent. I don't see why it would make anyone go to Putin, though. I have a similar situation, and while the experience sure shifted me to a conservative direction a bit (from a pretty hard left/liberal position), I have no doubt about Putin's politics being utter and complete shit.
That would explain his changed positions, I meant. Because of the stress he must have experienced as a parent.
His bullshit online rants and recent interviews about it is another thing of course. That man has received most of his fortune from being a Twitter PR person. It looks almost is if he made some sort of a deal with the devil or monkeypaw curse on that one.
The Musk hate might be clouding your mind from facts there. He did make significant moneys on his earlier ventures. Twitter seems like an utter failure, yes, at least from a business point of view. Then again, his goal there might've been just to gain access to a propaganda tool.
This is what I see a lot of from Elon supporters - holding him to a much lower standard than themselves. You say you have a similar situation, but then you still recognize that Putin is utter and complete shit. Well, Elon doesn't and uses his child's transition as an excuse to believe all sorts of horrible things. You can feel free to look down on him and would be correct to do so.
Here's an idea - try some empathy instead of whatever this "it sure shifted me to a conservative direction.." bullshit is.
It's not really all that believable that any normal person would behave like you say you did, but in case you're actually serious I feel sorry for your child. Nobody deserves shit like that from their own parents.
Seriously though, why are you trying to make me even more conservative? I truly don't want to, but this place, people like you, are pushing me there all the time.
Dude there's no way he mailed Kadyrov a cybertruck, the fact that he did not explicitly deny it doesn't mean much at all. It's not like he's been dodging questions about it, it's just one of many things he hasn't commented on. The article from The Independent says Kadyrov thanked Musk for inventing the vehicle.
That reporting is inaccurate if so. If you follow the Ukrainian news story link in the OP, you can click on the link to Kadyrov's Telegram post and machine translate it or ask a Russian speaker translate its first sentence. It literally says "received from Musk".