What changed and turned Elon into a MAGA?

[StrictlyRockers]

Seriously, he was semi-sane just two years ago. He's really gone full-tilt MAGA asshole this past year.

Link to tweet

[fantase56]

1. Seriously, who cares

the guy was always a dick…..

[RockRaven]

2. You are laboring under a serious misapprehension, namely that he was semi-sane

two years ago and is different today. That is incorrect. He is who he has always been. If you and others were not aware of what he was like prior to two years ago, that is fine, but he isn't different today than he was then.

[NoRethugFriends]

5. a lot of people don't pay much attention.

He has long been horrendous

[Silent Type]

3. I think he's on serious drugs, has Nazi DNA, and wants to be trump's henchman.

[Initech]

4. He got heavily brainwashed by right wing propaganda.

Seriously, stay away from that shit! It rots your brain!

[Dlpger61]

11. Apartheid South Africa

What we are noticing from Elon is inherent and natural. He was born and raised during apartheid in South Africa, this is simply who he is, a Racist.

[Initech]

41. Certainly true.

But there's no denying that his addiction to social media and right wing propaganda has brought out the worst in him. Like it has so many others.

[Klarkashton]

6. Stronger blunts and and the reality of getting

A big increased tax bill.

He's a piece of shit.

[ms liberty]

7. He's yet another one of those morans who will say whatever they think will be popular at the moment

With the people they want to be popular with.

I think ultimately it's that simple with these aholes.

[tulipsandroses]

8. We are probably now seeing the real Elon

His mom spouts RW nonsense as well. I’m willing to bet that bigotry was a normal thing in the Musk household.

[Pachamama]

9. He was an asshole then and now an even bigger asshole ...

But actually I would say the combination of being an asshole + mental illness + drugs + not wanting to pay taxes on his vast fortune + not wanting to pay taxes = Dark MAGA Eloon style

[Historic NY]

10. GREED

[Intractable]

12. We're way passed greed. He has all the money he can spend. It's more like boredom and narcissism.

He needs attention.

He needs people to tell him he is great.

He discovered he gets more attention by being shocking and outrageous (hence those tweets) than by doing good.

[Doodley]

13. He wants to be King, and he thinks he can be with the obviously more dim-witted Trump as his puppet.

[brush]

14. He's an apartheid a-hole from South Africa, of course he's a maga t.

[Morbius]

15. While I agree with those who point out Musk has never been a prince...

remember the old saw, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?

Wealth is power.

Not all super rich people are morally challenged, but I genuinely believe most are. When one starts to believe that one can buy anything, or anyone, one is inevitably going to start to consider oneself above accountability. It's a rare person who can rise above this. Elon Musk is undoubtedly brilliant but I don't think he's that rare someone.

[canetoad]

16. Did Elon ever fly

Lolita Express?

[sunflowerseed]

17. The Defilement of greed.

It's part of whats wrong with all Republicans, IMO

[StarryNite]

18. Not just money, it's also the greed for power.

[bluestarone]

19. It's way past greed. actually it

Moved past greed and now into POWER! They have so much money that it is CONTROL is what they are after now.

[Aristus]

20. It may just be me,

but I consider being raised white in South Africa its own risk factor for inexplicable dickshittery.

[Emile]

21. He is pretending to be an American, because

he is afraid a President Trump might deport him back to Pretoria, South Africa.

[Quiet Em]

22. Greed, misogyny and him not be able to control the life of his daughter Vivian.

Vivian probably needs to disown her grandmother too. Grandma Maye is a bigoted phony just like her father Elon.

[Mc Mike]

23. He was lying in '22, and all the reich wing trump humps knew it.

They were cheering on his proposed purchase of twitter then, and bragging about how it would be a big win for them if he took twitter over.

[iemanja]

24. Nothing, he was full of shit in 22

Lying through his teeth like all Magats.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. His daughter turned 18, cut ties with him, and talked about what an asshole he is

The was 2 months after the "far left an far right equally" tweet:

Elon Musk’s 18-year-old daughter has legally changed her name to disassociate herself from her billionaire father, legal filings that came to light Monday show.

“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she said in a petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate.

Musk’s daughter also changed her gender recognition from male to female after turning 18, the age of consent in California.

The documents were filed with the Los Angeles county superior court in Santa Monica in April and came to light recently in online media reports.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/21/elon-musk-daughter-legal-name-change

He was quite an asshole in public before then, but his active public support of the far right does date from about then. He could no longer keep up the facade of being "independent".

[Oneironaut]

26. He was being disingenuous and was always an asshole.

He also craves attention.

[FlyingPiggy]

27. Democrats don't want to acknowledge this but Biden screwed up on the way

They treated him. There was an EV event at the WH a few years back and every American carmaker was invited. Except for Tesla. I remember thinking that it was wrong and a really dumb political move.

[Voltaire2]

30. Ah bullshit, that didn't happen. It was not an 'EV' event, it was about tailpipe emissions.

For reasons that ought to be obvious, Tesla, Rivian, Polestar, Lucid, etc were not included/

[FlyingPiggy]

39. No, It wasn't. It was about ELECTRIC VEHICLES!

Here you go:

Tesla just got snubbed by Biden's electric vehicle summit

President Joe Biden celebrated ambitious electric vehicles goals by automakers at the White House on Thursday. But he did so without the world's largest maker of EVs: Tesla.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/05/business/tesla-snub-white-house-event

[John1956PA]

28. In 2018, he was mean-spirited referring to the expert leading the efforts to rescue the young people in the Thai cave.

I lost respect for Musk at the time, not only for his defamatory remarks, but for his stupidity in thinking that his mini submarine could navigate the flooded chambers of the cave.

Musk's stupidity was also on display when he gave a press conference announcing his takeover of Twitter. He said the workers were using "blow torches" to remove the Twitter marquis from the building. The rocket maker showed that he did not know the difference between a blow torch and an acetylene torch.

[Voltaire2]

29. He was already gone. All that 'freeze peach' nonsense was just a cover

for his intention to purchase Twitter and use it as a fascist propaganda machine.

As far as I can tell, Musk started to unravel during his utterly bizarre 'thai cave rescue' episode. Then his trans daughter fall out happened and he completely lost it.

It is not unusual for the parents of trans children to freak out. Sometimes the freak out results in a more empathetic perspective, sometimes it results in a transphobic amplification.

[awesomerwb1]

31. Government contracts $$$

But more importantly, he's part of the tech bros group that want to become the puppeteers of the world.

[JI7]

32. He didn't change. He is just more open about what he is

[JohnSJ]

38. Exactly, he was always a power hunger jackass, who now thinks if trump wins he will be the defacto president

behind the scenes calling the shots.

It is disgusting that a significant number of people are willing to be led down this path by these despicable people.

[JohnSJ]

40. Exactly. He has always been an arrogant power hungry asshole, who hopes if trump wins he will use his

influence to call the shots.

It is disgusting that a significant number of people are willing to be led down this path by these despicable people.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Cocaine?

The tech world - its pretty well known he uses hard drugs.


I'll defer to the late great Rick James for "Cocaine is a Helluva drug" to describe the impact on one's behavior.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Musk has always been a sick puppy and now is just showing it

[LizBeth]

35. Probably red pill. That is gotten a lot of men last five or so yrs ago. You could see it developing Bushco

mans man world and misogyny thru out every tv show and movie. More successful and independent women have become the more need for the Andrew Tate for male ego. And way before two yrs ago. I was seeing it in 2016/2017

[FalloutShelter]

36. Elon Musk is a Bond Villain.

He wants to use Sky Net to blackmail governments and he wants control of NASA and space exploration.
He is a crypto bro who wants to be paid in crypto, as do others like Thiel, who see Trump as the Trojan horse leading to a Vance presidency to make all of their shady currency valuable. Making all of their Brave New World techno-state dreams come true.

JMHO

[Mysterian]

37. Just anecdotal, but I've known two different people from South Africa

They were both virulently racist.

[themaguffin]

42. I never thought of him as other than an absolute asshole POS, so it's no surprise

[RainCaster]

43. I've heard that ED will do that

[Johnny2X2X]

44. Elon craves power

He's a malignant narcisisist obessesed with power.

Trump promised to give him power in his government, a role where he could pick and choose who succeeds and who fails, and even in some cases who lives and dies. That's what Elmo wants, absolute power over other humans who are his play things.

[Dave Bowman]

46. Yes, he's a megalomaniac.

[Dave Bowman]

45. What a stupid clown.

[SocialDemocrat61]

47. Nothing changed

He just stopped hiding who he really is.