It's weird isn't it.
You have to ask, was he always like this or has money and influence gone to his head ?
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You have to ask, was he always like this or has money and influence gone to his head ?
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Come on man, I’m just asking questions.
probably a touch late to this but i saw it at lunch time, i think that it's fascinating given just how much elon musk has given to hard right conservatives to tweet out this (which i've screenshot below on the offchance that he'll delete it) out about a holocaust survivor who has donated a fair chunk of cash to charities all over the world. now, one might wonder what prompted this (and the initial comparison that was made to magneto who i'd have to look up), and from a quick glance it seems like this might be the reason why!
man he's such a despicable termite, i hope the news about him being chummy (that was likely already common knowledge) with jeffery epstein causes him to face actual punishment for being a grifting fraud. i wish i had access to the * off amount of money that he did just so i could impose my own thoughts and feelings onto the stupid and dumb
man he's such a despicable termite, i hope the news about him being chummy (that was likely already common knowledge) with jeffery epstein causes him to face actual punishment for being a grifting fraud. i wish i had access to the * off amount of money that he did just so i could impose my own thoughts and feelings onto the stupid and dumb
Life in the ghislaine slowly makes you lose your mind.
Life in the ghislaine, baddle ow bow bow bow
The nutjobs are still frothing about Soros? That's so 2016, man, keep up with the times, it's now mermaid people taking your jobs
Darryl Hannah?
Responses to tweets have been infiltrated by right wing nutters with Twitter Blue talking all sorts of bullshit. The block and mute buttons have been getting a workout.
Thanks Elon!
Thanks Elon!
Twitter is just a joke these days.What a bizarre hill to die on
The sooner an alternative is found the better for everyone
I'm trying to think how many mass shootings there have been since they got their trans shooter ?
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It's no surprise your post was liked by several of the SRP's most prominent lefties.
Surely you noticed a change in the lefts attitude towards Elon after covid/twitter. It was cool to drive a Tesla before then, now...not so much.
i think people tolerated him, if anything. i personally think he's always been an egotistical capitalist who's only real contribution to society is using capital to invest in stuff that's good and then ruining it himself. he's always been a racist saffer and always will be. i'm shocked this was just one of likely countless different examples of racism within companies he owns/operates. anyone who was naive to fall for him probably thought he was some wunderkind inventor until he went off the deep end
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It's a bit harsh to blame Elon for individual examples of racism at Tesla unless you can tie them directly to him through cultural issues.
Did he go off the deep end or is this merely who he was and still is?
I personally dgaf about social views of the manufacturers CEO when I buy a car. I suspect a healthy majority of potential buyers feel the same as me.
i feel like if they found the company guilty of institutional and likely systemic racism, it'll start from somewhere in the company, and someone who was born to a fairly wealthy apartheid family before it was ended would likely have some very, very choice opinions on POCs.
i'd say it's who he always was, he just didn't desperately crave the attention and love of people who'll throw him to the dogs the moment they don't need him anymore.
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At first I thought his shift from being a hero of progressives to being a hero of conservatives was some kind of 4D chess... like maybe he was still a leftie but wanted to get RWers on board with EVs and renewables. Or maybe he had a strong hunch that Desantis would be the next pres and was getting in early to benefit his companies.
Remember these days?
www.reuters.com
But there's really no defending many of his recent comments. It seems more likely that he's just another successful person who has become so surrounded by yes-men that he's wound up drinking his own bathwater.
It's like listening to Joe Rogan from 10 years ago, he was a pot smoking hippy leftie who argued for open borders and (later on) endorsed Bernie for pres. Do they put something in the water in the US that causes people to turn full Republican once they hit middle age??
There's a similar phenomenon within the arts that I touched on in another thread. We all have a band that we used to love but their last few albums have been dogshit. Success is a helluva drug, people stop listening to feedback because they're convinced that they know it all.
My only point of confusion here is the hate that Elon receives relative to other billionaires. There are oil barons and arms dealers out there making billions and receiving bugger all criticism, yet the EV / space tech guy cops the most hate.
Remember these days?
Musk to quit Trump advisory councils after Paris accord decision
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday he will leave White House advisory councils after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord.
But there's really no defending many of his recent comments. It seems more likely that he's just another successful person who has become so surrounded by yes-men that he's wound up drinking his own bathwater.
It's like listening to Joe Rogan from 10 years ago, he was a pot smoking hippy leftie who argued for open borders and (later on) endorsed Bernie for pres. Do they put something in the water in the US that causes people to turn full Republican once they hit middle age??
There's a similar phenomenon within the arts that I touched on in another thread. We all have a band that we used to love but their last few albums have been dogshit. Success is a helluva drug, people stop listening to feedback because they're convinced that they know it all.
My only point of confusion here is the hate that Elon receives relative to other billionaires. There are oil barons and arms dealers out there making billions and receiving bugger all criticism, yet the EV / space tech guy cops the most hate.
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Just to clarify, what specifically is your point here?
He marketed himself as a futurist and a progressive, and the way progressive/left wing people treated him was based on that. Most right wing people have no vision for the future, and most billionares don't seem to want to do something to prevent climate change; he seemed to do both.
Is it really any surprise that people with limited time to uncover the difference between his rhetoric and actions before they became public knowledge changed their minds when it came out?
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You say that like its surprising. He became more outspoken, visible and specifically anti-left/pro-republican during that time. Bloke starts saying more stuff publicly that often ranges from trolling to outright bonkers, gets potted for it - seems about right to me? I hadn't taken much notice of him at all previously, think the first time I remember a WTF type reaction was when he accused that cave diver rescue bloke of being a pedo out of thin air, just as a personal example.
Just like Trump generating more discussion/outrage than previous POTUSs, I'm not sure why it's out of whack or particularly note worthy.
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Everyone that doesn’t agree/align with you is a lefty, apparently.
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DEFINITELY it is true that ALL LEFTIES have been behind Elon up until like last week.
The whole anti-Semitic dog whistling kind of turned me off him.
Before that it was Starlink screwing up our skies.
Before that it was the green-washing with Tesla.
Before that the crappy non-sensical infrastructure projects.
Before that it was the labour rights abuses.
Before that... OK I suppose PayPal was a cool innovation?
Memba when this genius said COVID is nothing and will be over in a week?
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When he was just talking about spacex, ev’s, starlink, different ideas with hyperloop etc he was interesting
Then he opened his mouth as if we all needed to hear his politics, and it turns out he’s an immature dick who is also desperate to be liked by rwnjs & incels.
