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This month, he and his girlfriend, Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes, had a child and named him X A-12. And Mr. Musk announced that Tesla shares were too high and that he was selling almost all his possessions to the point of owning no house.
We have a phrase, its E.M.M. Elon Moves Markets, said Bill Selesky, an analyst at Argus Research who tracks how Mr. Musks messages impact Teslas stock price. People want to listen to him no matter what he says. He tends to be thought of as a great visionary.
Mr. Selesky said even Mr. Musks detractors parsed every tweet and utterance. Plus, if you have a Tesla, nobody can ever complain about you because youre good for society, he added.
This leads back to Mr. Musks message on Sunday, telling his followers to take the red pill.
Do The Matrix creators like this?
No. Lilly Wachowski, a Matrix co-creator, told Mr. Musk and Ms. Trump in colorful language on Twitter that they could take a hike.

Is red pill a Silicon Valley thing?
To some extent.
There has long been a strain of mens rights activism in Silicon Valley, exemplified by James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired after writing a memo arguing that the reason there are fewer female engineers is biological differences rather than discrimination.
Mr. Damore became a folk hero for a simmering movement in the technology industry of people who thought the efforts toward 50/50 representation at tech companies were absurd. Cassie Jaye, who calls herself a former feminist, made a 2016 documentary about the Red Pill community and said it had flourished in the tech world.

But the more common phrase in Silicon Valley to signal contrarian thinking is narrative violation, which is often used to describe an event that cuts against the mainstream medias consensus on a topic. The idea is that there is a story being told about the world and how it works, but that the story is too simplistic to be entirely true and an event occasionally pops up to remind people of that.
Why does any of this matter?
Few products today are as deeply entwined with a persons brand as Tesla is with Mr. Musk, and so his comments can feel personal for Tesla drivers.

As a Tesla owner, a 47-year-old male recovering from Covid-19, and someone very concerned simultaneously about the environment, the economy, my kids and my parents future, this aint great, said Jeff Guilfoyle, a product manager at FireEye in San Diego. This disease is no joke, and the long-term health impacts are unknown for survivors.
Many have implored Mr. Musk online to stop.
Raja Sohail Abbas, the chief executive of an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Allentown, Pa., wrote: I am a Tesla owner and love the company. You have to stop being an idiot about this.
Tesla owner and Fan here, but this was a disappointing tweet despite the frustrations of and holdups, added Alex Goodchild, a D.J. in Brooklyn. Words are weapons especially when used during situations like the one were currently experiencing. You sound just like Trump in this tweet.
The debate has riven the Tesla community.
The last two months, theres been this polarization in the Elon Musk fan club, said Paula Timothy-Mellon, a technology consultant who moderates that LinkedIn-based fan club, which has 22,000 members. There are those who are believers in these California guidelines and there are those in favor of his push to re-open Tesla.

Driving a Tesla often carries great symbolism for the owner (and observers).
If you own a Tesla, you feel you are directly connected to Elon Musk and people think that Tesla owners are directly connected to the politics of the C.E.O., said Sam Kelly, a Tesla owner and investor based in Spain who posts under the name SamTalksTesla.
He added that he did not think the red pill comment meant any big new political awakening from Mr. Musk.
Asked to explain his thinking, Mr. Musk pasted an image of the Urban Dictionary definition of red pill in an email. It read:
Red pill has become a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a normal life of sloth and ignorance. Red pills prefer the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be.

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