Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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    yes. and it doesnā€™t matter. donald trump is a moron, but heā€™s evil, and has failed upward to be president of the united states twice, first time a million americans died due to a purposefully inept covid response, this second time, heā€™s going to beat that number by ordinates. everyone so fixated on how smart or accomplished these nazis are, it does not matter. This is a way for everyone to feel better that theyā€™re smarter, or know sooooo many people that are smarter. If we were smarter, they wouldnā€™t keep fucking beating, and killing us. IQ means nothing, itā€™s what you can leverage with what you have individually or within or at the forefront of a group that does. And these Nazi fucks know how to do that.

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      Yes, they have a particular narrow cleverness about how to abuse people and systems for their own gain. Since fascists only care about power, pointing out that they are dumb, hypocritical or inconsistent doesnā€™t achieve anything. All they see is that youā€™re keeping yourself busy talking while they load their guns and prepare the camps. The only way to fight fascism is to actually fight it.

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      If we were smarter, they wouldnā€™t keep fucking beating

      Well, the problem is that there are a whole lot of stupid people that are easily convinced to vote for people like this, even if our side believes in putting smart, experienced, educated people into power.

      So, even if we are smarter, we are outvoted by a lot of very stupid people (in some instances - in other instances, itā€™s because of extreme gerrymandering and ā€œgiftsā€ like the Electoral College, so even if we get a majority of people to make the sane choice, we still end up losing ).

      Lastly, the weasel apparatchiks on their side have found ways to peel off voters with things like Gaza and the fact that Democrats have not given them a pretty pony, too.