yes, but *which* verification? original flavor? scammer's friend? or simp badge?

Use the full quote.

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Huh. Is there a name for when a widely quoted sentence fragment is used for the rhetorical opposite of the full original sentence? I feel like I’ve seen this happen before, but I can’t place where.

(Also, my favourite Latin to quote at anyone who quotes Latin: quin tu istanc orationem hinc veterem atque antiquam amoves?)

I'm almost certain that TVTropes has a trope for the more general case of quote use without considering the context, but I can't find it now.

My favourite is "neither a lender nor a borrower be", which gets trotted out as sage advice. It's a quote from Polonius in Hamlet, who is depicted as being an idiot.

We seem to have bottomed-out reply depth, but, to answer if there are other examples, the commonly misquoted "the proof is in the pudding" is the opposite of the correct one: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

My favorite "a few bad apples" is not a problem, which leaves out the second half: "ruin the bunch".

Especially when applied to police - the fact that the "boys in blue" turn a blind eye to the bad apples is what ruins the bunch. It's unintentionally accurate.

That full quote seems remarkably apposite, in the Twitter context. The fragment Musk quoted seems to mean the opposite, taken in isolation.

It's almost as if he's a world-class grifter who continually lies and whose entire net worth is predicated on keeping up an illusion of his own competence. The dude doesn't even have a physics degree, it's pure bullshit.