Yup.
Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man
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Yup.
Politically he's always leaned Conservative, like most other rich businessmen. His behavior in recent years suggest he's been drinking the kool aid when he's bored, watching too many youtube videos and lurking 4chan. It's not just right wing, it's bordering on Qanon alt right stuff. If he just wanted attention, he was already a bit of a media darling with Tesla and SpaceX. He used to be seen as this cool guy into building rockets, economically viable EVs and earth politics were beneath him. All he needed to do was continue that path if it was simply love that he craved.
All of them too!!! feck me Sophie Corcoran gets on my tits!!!
It’s always a ‘You Might Like This’ tweet that’s from Jacob Rees-Mogg or some other twat!
Yes exactly, he lean whichever way that gives him the most advantage. The only thing that he cares about is himself.
He has been pretty low key for a while, seems like his shareholders have finally gotten through to him.
He's about a week or so later than the caf on that idea. Do we provide his material?
Trump is absolutely a far right nutter.
Trump really doesn't have any affinity for normal right wing ideology. He just knows they're the only gullible ones who would fall for his empty rhetoric. He does crave power though, in a way a narcissistic person would, but it's not based on right wing ideology. He just said things to make the right vote for him
I think his actions betray a different conviction. He tried to build a wall on the mexican border, he adored Putin and trusted his word over the word of his own intelligence agencies. He basically steered for the dissolution of NATO. He railed against the free media as an 'enemy of the people'. He continuously empowered white supremacist factions. He assured that the power base of the republican party took a hard turn to the far right. And of course, he literally tried to stage a coup d'etat. If being the most fascist political leader in the history of the United States isn't enough to be far right, I don't know what is.
If he were merely saying things that were far right, he would not have actually done all those far right things, but simply continued with business as usual whilst throwing out empty lines as most republicans do.
One could try to argue perhaps that he also did all these things merely for populist reasons, but that is to my mind an empty argument. His actions and words are wholly congruent with the far right. As such he is inescapably a far right politician. In fact, no one has done more for far right politics in the US than Trump.
He’s certainly trying his best to give that impression.
Been an excuse to amplify RW voices artificially to fix "the bias on social media" (which never existed)
He's a bad person through and through and cares for no one.
If a person tells you who they are, believe them.
So when he says he loves the Bible but when asked what his favorite verse is he says "all of it", I should just believe that he's a devout Christian?
The racist stuff is all him, but the right wing talking points (abortion, religion in schools, gay/women's rights, etc) he couldn't care less about before 2015.
Why does the distinction between far right nutter and grifter who pretends to be a far right nutter 100% of the time even matter that much?
Right, that's a great point. It doesn't at all.
Exactly. If your words and actions are of a particular nature, it really doesn't matter what your thoughts on it actually are if you are living it.
Didn’t he say he was only running as a republican
because they were the only ones stupid enough to vote for him?
He said a lot of things and I'm pretty sure that one isn't one of them.
Naw, he's just another narcissistic, somewhat sociopathic rich guy. I've encountered dozens just like him, they just weren't in the mega-rich category and own a platform like twitter. But there is nothing unique about his personality.
Even if he did, his actions show him to be a far right nutter.
There's plenty of people in the U.S. who crave power and could simply 'say things' to get political support, but most have not come anywhere near what Trump achieved.
He does have affinity to right-wing ideas. He was way ahead of the curve in boosting the 'Obama birth certificate' stuff, for example. He wasn't just "playing to the base", when he ran for president he said things that everyone, including right-wingers, assumed would tank his campaign, but they didn't. He knew what to say because he was in that world, he consumes all that stuff.
What he doesn't have affinity for is anything that comes out of religious beliefs.
He is exactly what you'd expect of somebody who was relentlessly bullied growing up and then made a ton of money and got famous. If you wrote that character for a book you might as well call it Elon Musk.
true!Personally I think the person who knows he speaks evil, but does it anyway for profit is worse than the ignorant person who falls for the honeyed words of the former.
Right wingers exist in 2 types: stupid or evil.
Every other tweet is "you might like". Unusable.
Or/and
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/art...?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw
Good writeup, mostly stuff we know, but some details about Elon being a terrible manager.
My favourite part was this:
Good writeup, mostly stuff we know, but some details about Elon being a terrible manager.
My favourite part was this:
Ohhhh hadn't reached this absolutely perfect para.
Perfection.
Perfection.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...ing-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
Jan 17 (Reuters) - A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.
The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Chief Executive Elon Musk as evidence that “Tesla drives itself.”
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
Jan 17 (Reuters) - A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.
The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Chief Executive Elon Musk as evidence that “Tesla drives itself.”
Surely there are legal repercussions for Tesla?
You'd expect so, since they've been taking 6k for the feature as an add-on for years, under the auspices of that video and a 'coming this year' disclaimer.
Some pretty ominous numbers for Musk in here - both for Twitter and Tesla.
The random right wing accounts magically appearing in my feed is getting a bit annoying now. I don't subscribe to any of them.
Surely this should be enough for a nice long jail sentence. Martha Stewart went to prison for less.
DOJ is terrified of going after the oligarch tech bros in case it triggers a tech stock collapse induced recession
Yeah i am getting a similar thing. Twitter is worse since Musk took over.