Elon Musk Is Feuding With a Billionaire Over a California Beach

Professional troll Elon Musk usually leverages his shitposting prowess toward alternatively stupid, rightwing ends but, erstwhile successful large awhile, helium really puts his trollish powers to bully use. Such was the lawsuit this weekend, erstwhile the Tesla CEO utilized his ain website, X, to spell aft different tech billionaire who has been accused of hogging a nationalist formation successful California.

Vinod Khosla, the affluent co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been successful a 15-plus-year ineligible conflict over Martins Beach, a scenic spot on the San Mateo Coast. Back successful 2008, Khosla bought up properties surrounding the formation and aboriginal attempted to unopen disconnected nationalist entree to the roadworthy that leads down to the beach. More recently, helium has (sometimes) near the gross unfastened and charged radical to parkland adjacent the beach. Khosla has been sued aggregate times by conservation and surfer groups, who impeach him of attempting to privatize a nationalist beach.

On Sunday, Musk tagged Khosla successful a tweet that progressive what appears to person been an AI-generated representation of a formation motion that reads: “No plebs allowed.” It’s not wholly wide wherefore Musk decided to bash this, though it seems to person had thing to bash with the 2 men’s governmental differences.

Wow, truthful brainsick that @vkhosla enactment this motion connected a nationalist formation pic.twitter.com/ln46n07kvw

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2024

This intelligibly pissed Khosla off, due to the fact that helium proceeded to spell disconnected connected Musk successful a bid of tweets. “You beryllium maine an apology for spreading falsehoods,” Khosla posted. “I deliberation this station of yours needs a assemblage remark for being a fraudulent photo. I person ne'er enactment up this motion oregon thing adjacent remotely similar this. I presume it is AI generated but you tin verify that. It volition assistance X if we tin person rational statement and not get idiosyncratic (I tin propulsion idiosyncratic truths astatine you dissimilar your mendacious photo).”

Musk, ever the asshole, replied: “Sorry I made a motion astir you restricting entree to a nationalist beach. That was truthful highly terrible. Please forgive me.” He appended a supplication emoji to the tweet.

“Vinod says we should nonstop tens of thousands of unvetted migrants to tiny towns passim America, but helium didn’t adjacent privation to fto the nationalist locomotion connected his beach… I’m throwing a enactment connected Vinod’s beach,” Musk continued arsenic helium dilatory mislaid steam. “For cuisine, I’m reasoning BBQ.”

Gizmodo reached retired to Khosla for comment.

The Mercury News reports that aft buying coastal properties surrounding Martins Beach successful 2008, Khosla locked the gross starring to the nationalist beach, hired guards, and posted nary trespassing signs. In 2020, helium was sued by California Coastal Commission, a nationalist agency, which argued that the nationalist had a close to usage the roadworthy that led to the beach. He has besides been sued successfully by a surfing group. In his ain evident effort to dispersed falsehoods, Khosla has referred to the Coastal Commission as a clump of “commies.”