Was he lying back then and is truthful now, or did the pandemic just break him?
He was lying back then, just like he is lying now.
There is no truth to him, only what he says in each instant. Textbook strong narcissism.
He changes his opinions based on what benefits him, but he genuinely believes them at the time. He’s an idiot.
Don’t let this fool you, not from him and not from anyone representing a corporation. Corporations time and time again will say and do whatever it takes to profit, including pretending to care about human rights.
I’m guessing he realized within those six years that the political party which lets him run his companies as though USA is a third world country have a very different set of values which he has to follow to influence the elections.
His daughter came out and he lost his shit over it and blames Biden.
Six years ago, conservatives would vandalize Teslas in parking lots. Then, when Tesla became an open bigot, conservatives started buying Teslas and worshipping Elon. I wonder why that is.
Guys, I’m starting to think conservatives might be bigots.
That’s called voting with your wallet, which is different from cancel culture, because woke.
I think he desperately wants to be liked. He used to say liberal things, because that’s more popular. Now he’s got enough money that a bunch of people will like him no matter what (or pretend to), so he can say what he really thinks while being insulated from the repercussions.
he just realized which crowd responds better to sucking up
When a billionaire cishet guy talks about LGBT rights in order to sell cars, how can anyone think that’s not pinkwashing?
He was pandering them, and hes pandering now, its just to different people
Why can’t he pander to his children then?
he doesn’t see them as people, plus he can’t make money off of them so they’re of no value
Bingo. Elon has a pathological need to be fawned over and will say whatever he needs to to make that happen.
Initially, he found that warm mouth in the left wing for championing products to address climate change, but he was still being held accountable for his failures and obnoxiousness.
When Trump showed him that reactionaries will love you just being a narcissistic asshole and they could be bought for a pittance, he jumped ship. If a bigger, more easily swayed group of people became available to him, he’d rewrite his personality to pander to them instead.
Genuinely, this was back when he still had PR people managing his reputation.
Iirc, he got rid of them sometime around the submarine incident.
He got rid of his PR team at some point, his trans daughter disowned him, and Grimes left him and started going out with Chelsea Manning. I think he got broken. Add wanting to be cool on top of that and you’ve got a recipe for a billionaire “pick me”
I originally thought that, but when I read the interview with his daughter- nope. He’s always been a queerphobe bigot. Long before she transitioned, when Elon thought she was a gay boy, he constantly berated her for not being masculine enough and just for being queer in general.
I like to imagine he was “hiding his power level” before.
Wait what’s that about Chelsea Manning‽
Wasn’t there also the thing where he offered a horse to a masseuse if they’d give him a happy ending? A couple days before the story broke he made some statements supporting Republicans then said “watch the left come up with a story to take me down now that I’m a Republican,” or something like that. All his political shit has been downhill and ever more unhinged since.
He was always saying side-eye worthy shit, but in a generic rich guy way. His political stuff, before the horse thing, was always progressive-ish. Whether that was what he ready thought, or as the biggest shareholder of an electric car company he knew which side his bread was buttered on, I’m sure I don’t know. But it seems like trying to preempt the horse story was the turning point for his public persona.
One does have to wonder how the horse came up. I can only come up with raunchy pythonesque logic based bartering.
The gay people weren’t the problem the fact it’s nearly impossible to get them repaired/worked on is. Considering they come with systemic design flaws and ongoing maintenance exists, I would say that’s what needs to be addressed.
if Trump loses the election, expect musk to suddenly attempt to reconcile with his trans daughter and embrace indigenous cultures or whatever the hell he thinks liberals like
Nah he’ll declare that the United States has become a fascist dictatorship and probably spout some lies about election rigging.
