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WTF Is Actually Going On With Elon Musk?
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He outright said it. I can't find the tweet just now, it was from quite a while back. But essentially, he said the left was mean to him so he went all in on conservatism. I think it was not so much "mean" as "willing to call him out for obvious lies and weird nonsense" like the time he called a guy who rescued children from a cave a pedophile. I also don't think he was really as left as he claimed to begin with, he was just following what seemed to be the trend to get people to like him.
When you get called out, you can learn from it or you can double down. He doubled down harder than anyone in history, and somehow it has yet to come back and bite him like it would most. Here's hoping it does sooner than later.
Honestly, most of his turn to the far right had felt like he's largely LARPing and sort of just trying it out (not that it doesn't have real consequences, of course, but it's felt more like someone trying to join a clique than a serious ideological conviction).
I don't know how to describe why but it has a certain trying-out-a-new-hobby approach to it. Maybe it's the way he goes to the very extreme, immediately. His endorsement of the Alternative for Germany party felt like pushing boundaries or, "Let me see how far I can get (in terms of influencing things, like he did with America)." His Nazi salute felt like he'd been rehearsing it because he thought it'd look so cool or he wanted to try it out for the first time (again, to test boundaries).
I could be wrong but it's all felt…unserious (in terms of his intentions; definitely not the consequences).
I think that's just a general discomfort with himself. A pretty normal autistic trait, and he's said before that he's on the spectrum. Either way, I don't think it matters. I don't think I can say what the practical difference would be between "actual Nazi" and "person doing all the Nazi things just to troll people."
Definitely could be; the husband's autistic (and was very surly the first time Musk said as much) but it didn't feel like that. In any case, just a theory, more than anything.
Oh, of course. Like I said, the consequences are the same.