Magneto becomes Twitter trend after Musk comparison of Soros to X-Men character
Electric-car maker Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, also heads up SpaceX and owns Twitter.
That was quick.
After a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Soros Fund Management sold the entire $16 million stake in Tesla TSLA, +4.34% that it had bought last year, Musk took to the social-media platform he owns to attack the 92-year-old.
First — without any apparent provocation — he tweeted a comparison between Soros and Magneto, an X-Men comic-book character who, as the name implies, can generate and control magnetic fields.
Soros reminds me of Magneto
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2023
Musk didn’t offer an explanation, though it’s probably not about Soros’s work with magnets. The comic-book character’s backstory is, like that of Soros, as a Holocaust survivor. Magento’s personality has been described as the Malcolm X to Professor X’s Martin Luther King, and a writer for X-Men compared Magneto to terrorist–turned–Israel prime minister Menachem Begin.
Brian Krassenstein, who along with his twin brother are left-leaning writers and entrepreneurs, tweeted that Magneto’s experiences shaped his perspective as well as depth and empathy, and said Soros gets attacked nonstop “for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with this political affiliations.”
Musk replied that Soros wants “to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”
