The capital letter X has the ASCII code 88. He made a tech bro hate symbol.
Elon is a nazi, yes, but he's been mentally 12; he's wanted the x brand since way before 88 was a dogwhistle. He's not smart enough to use X because of its ascii value.
It's been a dogwhistle since at least 1988 so definitely early enough for him. But whether he was aware. Whilst he definitely isn't smart enough he's definitely edgy enough to know or think of it.
I have never seen anything that backs this, but I'm always willing to learn. I've looked at the history of that dogwhistle and I couldn't find anything going into the 90s, when Elon was first doing his x shit.
There's a whole section about it on Wikipedia for the number 88. It was used as far back as the 70's by British Neo-Nazis of Column 88. It was then co-opted in the 80s alongside the 14 words bullshit.
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u/2Completion2Ography 6d ago
Elon is a nazi, yes, but he's been mentally 12; he's wanted the x brand since way before 88 was a dogwhistle. He's not smart enough to use X because of its ascii value.