Re: The US Politics Thread

[Warrior]

Sums up Musk's twitter adventures pretty well

[Myesyats]

@Myesyats still think this guy is normal?

He deleted it after realizing how terrible that sounds.

Well he is definitely not "normal", but rather a quite unique individual. Dont think I ever claimed he was "normal" in particular, he is a lot of things but definitely not your normal, average guy

I have successfully tailored my twitter feed to not see any political content and his posts dont come up either. I think twitter brings out the worst in people and he fell for it too

[Pedram]

By not normal i meant he does have a sick sense of humor at times, that rapey tweet about Taylor Swift was also in bad taste.

Could be just his autistic side speaking though. feels like he tries too hard to sound edgy but he's not good enough at being able to read the room. i wonder if he'll eventually get himself in trouble for these comments, FBI definitely could have considered that as incitement to violence.

[Thimmy]

He does have some level of Aspergers, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he can be socially awkward at times

[Myesyats]

feels like he tries too hard to sound edgy

I think this is it and I also suspect it comes from the fact that he sometimes goes too far and tweets dumb shit on purpose to demonstrate that you are allowed to say ANYTHING on twitter and it is completely allowed. As a way of promoting his "100% freedom of speech" narrative or something, he wants to show he won't hold any punches whatsoever and get away with it

[Pedram]

feels like he tries too hard to sound edgy

I think this is it and I also suspect it comes from the fact that he sometimes goes too far and  tweets dumb shit on purpose to demonstrate that you are allowed to say ANYTHING on twitter and it is completely allowed.  As a way of  promoting his "100% freedom of speech" narrative or something, he wants to show he won't hold any punches whatsoever and get away with it

That's not completely true though, it's free speech for me but not for thee judging by the fact that he has banned hundreds of leftist accounts who dare to criticize him.

[Myesyats]

Yeah i know, but I believe that's his thought process behind posting these "edgy" jokes, meaning that's how it computes in his autistic brain

[Arquitecto]

guys, you need to understand Elon his entire life was a social outcast and reject as all it takes to know that is looking at him in his 20s, 30s et all to know a lot of his twitter is essentially making up for the lack of social proof he had and a half baked mid-life crisis to be 'down with the kids'

have empathy

[VivaStPauli]

I actually have a theory on Musk, if you guys are willing to indulge me, which is that he's by now probably to the right of where he wanted to be, but he's basically clapping back at the woke crowd and backed himself into a corner with his "new friends".

So back in the day Musk was pretty apolitical, you'd assume he's one of those right-leaning liberal tech moguls as they all are. He alluded to climate change being a factor in his building up of Tesla a bunch, so you know, seemed like another Gates, Bezos, Cook etc.

But young Liberals projected on him so much because they thought he'd be this climate warrior, and this forward thinker that doesn't steal your data like Zuck does, so they were super disappointed when he was just a rich business guy doing business, and they started attacking him.

His bro-y style of being very approachable by being active on Twitter and shit meant he got unfiltered attacks, and he actually reads them. And they went rabid for his ass, like, remember when he got a shit storm because he laughed at a meme of a dead deer?
I think he just got super butthurt and offended, and a lot of his right-wing positions are just him being contrarian to the woke crowd that hounded him on Twitter years ago, and now him and the Libs are in a toxic feedback loop where he says more outrageous shit to provoke them, even though he's hurt by their reaction each time, and it only makes him go farther and farther to the right each time a cycle completes.

I firmly believe if he said some shit about gun control and a bunch of Tea Party rednecks went after him, he would be the wokest mogul alive right now.

[El Gunner]

^^decent theory actually

[BarrileteCosmico]

I could buy that theory. It always seemed kind of cynical to me. He tried very hard to get out of buying Twitter, and maybe he'd be in a happier place if he had. But since he did he had to go All In.

I think part of his fall from grace is cultural tho. When I moved to the US in 2008 one of the biggest culture shocks I experienced was the worship culture of CEOs. People ridiculously and publicly loved the likes of Steve Jobs, Buffet, etc. It felt very much like a country that put the entrepreneur over all. Had Musk made it big in that era maybe he would have enjoyed that treatment.

But then the financial crisis happened, and Occupy Wall Street, and Bernie Sanders and overall it became a lot less cool to be a successful entrepreneur. I guess you could say the US feels a bit more like Europe than it used to.

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