🔒 I Am Once Again Begging the Left Not to Get Baited Into Conspiracy Thinking

Among the increasingly unhinged (decreasingly hinged?) antics of our friend Elon Musk lately, one recent debacle stood out from the rest: The curious and absurd case of Adrian Dittmann.

 For those with the good sense to have no idea what I’m talking about, for months the surprisingly robust community of people who hate Elon Musk have been obsessed with the idea that one of his superfans on Twitter, a guy who goes by the handle Adrian Dittmann, is actually Musk himself writing under a pseudonym.

 Dittmann is a prolific podcaster on Twitter’s “spaces” feature and practically every day, for a good chunk of the day, co-hosts these spaces with a bunch of other notorious people who don’t have jobs because their entire income is farming Twitter’s pay-per-view monetization system. People like Ian Miles Cheong and a bunch of guys with frog avatars. Basically, these guys just shitpost rage bait all day long—they have to, because if they don’t piss enough people off on a particular week they can’t pay the rent.

 Dittmann’s daily space is like the coffee lounge for these insufferable assholes. And what got people really suspicious is that Dittmann sounds a hell of a lot like Elon Musk.

 It does legitimately give you pause to hear it. The same deep register, the same odd, not-quite-American accent, and of course, a set of beliefs and talking points that are one hundred percent in lockstep with the world’s most famous man-baby.

 What began as a pretty fanciful idea started to really gain momentum when Dittmann started calling into Alex Jones’ Infowars show, and Jones became convinced that he was talking to Musk—despite Dittmann’s insistence to the contrary.

People have been picking up and dropping this thing for a while—it first started getting media attention a full year ago—but for whatever reason it really kicked up recently, enough that prominent leftist personalities started coming around to the idea that this guy is Elon Musk doing some kind of crazy bit.

It was really only a matter of time before things came to enough of a head for someone to do some serious investigative journalism, which in the modern world basically means crossmatching someone’s poorly-secured digital footprint against publicly accessible information. And despite the conspiracy theory having reached a point where people were trying to decode the meaning of the pseudonym syllable by syllable, Da Vinci Code style…

 …a group of journalists ultimately bylined to Jacqueline Sweet at The Spectator unveiled that the individual at the heart of the mystery is not Elon Musk, but is in fact someone named… Adrian Dittmann.

 Unsatisfied by both the lack of credit and the shitty editorial hack job on their piece by the publisher (you’d expect nothing less from the Speccy) the full slate of researchers independently released their more comprehensive findings on an independent blog.

 And the liberal and leftist anti-Musk community were pissed the fuck off.

 Not at Musk or Dittmann, you understand. They’re pissed off at the journalists who exposed them as two different men.

 If you go to any internet hive of really passionate Musk haters, like the EnoughMuskSpam subreddit, or certain pockets of Bluesky or Discord, and openly suggest even now that Musk and Dittmann are two different people, they will tear you to shreds. They’ll treat you like you just strolled into a MAGA rally and casually said the 2020 election was legitimate. They’ll tell you that the exposé is actually a psyop and they might even accuse you of being part of it.

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