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I don't want to defend Musk, but renaming a thing you own is a far cry from renaming geography.

(And on that spectrum, DoD > Department of War is somewhere in the middle)

Since he deadnames his own child, I’m happy to deadname his business.

In English?

Trans people typically whose a new name, referring to their old name as their “deadname”. People who insist on using the deadname when they know the person has a new name are deliberately mocking, and even being cruel to, the person who has changed their name.

Musk continues to refer to his trans child by their birth name and gender. I can’t understand how someone would do that to their own child (much less anyone at all).

After purchasing twitter he chose for it a new name and wants everyone to use it, but by not bothering to I’m simply following his example.

I make it a rule to refer to companies by the name they least want to be named by and making sure to tie the old and the new name at every opportunity. More often than not these are attempts to whitewash some crime.

In this case though it appears to be a desire to promote the name as part of committing moral crime.

(Most ppl have forgotten that X was the name of one of the two failing companies forcibly merged by their respective investors to form PayPal. I remember musk being a dick back then too)

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