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You know that Elon was already a Nazi right
Not trying to defend him, I do think he’s a Nazi and a fucking idiot but also just because ChatGPT doesn’t say so doesn’t mean it’s propaganda or whatever
He wasn't acting like a nazi. He was acting like a neurodiverse nerd with a rocket company
He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)
No one had a clue that he'd embrace the nutter right wing
"There weren't any signs"
The signs.
Now try before he bought Twitter. Through his ownership of Twitter we got to see what he was like out of the context of Tim Dodd's interviews with Musk at SpaceX
from 2022:
https://paywallbuster.com/articles/?article=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fnews%2F2022%2F04%2Felon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done
Why are you so hell-bent on defending the Nazi?
(PS: is this paywall blocker good? is there a better resource? this is the first time I used it 🥺)
I'm not saying he isn't terrible. I'm saying he didn't show that he was until recently. The first I think we saw of it was the Thai cave rescue crap in 2018. All I'm seeing is replies saying "here he is acting bad 4 years later"
there's evidence of his views going waaay back, they just rarely reached the mainstream...and now it's just obvious, so there's a lot of people genuinely surprised because he used to at least thinly veil his awful views.
but it was always there...
He was involved with paypal, that's how you know he's been pos for a long time.
What was historically that wrong with paypal? /gen
It's not a bank so they don't have to follow banking rules. Historically businesses and sellers have had a hard tome with paypal locking their accounts and refusing to release them. They've put countless people out of business because of this.
It's pretty clear to me that Elon's never read a Culture novel, they're antithetical to him.
He read the first one, that's why he sides with the protagonist against those Culture villains.
Love when ableist Nazis pretend being a high functioning autistic person means you don't understand why Nazi salutes are bad.