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Does anyone has a logical explanation of why Elon is supporting Trump? Why is he going to this length, alienate many of his supporters by supporting an political party. What's is the end goal, since nothing makes sense right now.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 89 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The world's richest man is supporting the guy that's gonna appoint him to some "efficiency" position that will let him squash any investigations into his businesses and will cut the amount of taxes he owes.

[–] olosta@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't be so cynical, he also wants to promote his ideals of misogynism, transphobia and creepy natalism.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

That's just the GOP platform.

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[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe this is overly generous, but I kind of feel like Elon genuinely believes he's a special genius who can "save" the world and usher in a nominally benevolent techno-oligarchy with him at the helm. So he supports trump because a) trump will let him do whatever he wants without regulation or enforcement, and b) Harris won't, and she might take a look at his accounting and government contracts.

Also maybe because Ketamine

[–] zout@fedia.io 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This saviour complex is a big part of it. That said, all these big "self made" billionares suffer from it. That's why they all refuse to pay taxes but will instead make a charity foundation so they can choose which public interest is best served by "their" money. Like another poster said, Elon's public interest is apartheid, which aligns with Trump.

[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

I think you’re being way too charitable. Billionaires have zero interest in actually making the world a better place. The charitable foundations stuff is a way for them to avoid taxes, exert control over public policy, and to gain positive PR.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This really ticked all the boxes. Except for the box where Putin has asked him how he feels about windows.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Money.

Democrats are pressured by their base (see overwhelming majority of Americans) who wanna see the rich be taxed more and pay a fair share as well as delve into the very clear financial corruption in our government.

Musk, Trump, Bezos, and the other rich fucks like Peter Thiel or Miriam Adelson actively lose if this sort of policy is passed. Trump is literally the rich person candidate

It's money always is.

[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It’s not money, that’s way too charitable.

It’s because he’s a white supremacist. He wants fascism.

Pretty straight forward.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He basically lost his marbles after his daughter disowned him and Biden didn't invite him to some electric car event a few months after he was elected. I think his drug use also plays a big part. It's just the typical trajectory of someone who obtained a lot of power and then just shuts out all criticism and just thinks he's the smartest and knows everything best. History is full of examples and it never ends well.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's been known as a Republican donor for a very long time, even back when he was pretending to be decent.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

He was always a major asshole, but he wasn't always completely off his rocker.

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Drug use? Like what? Never seen anything about that.

Edit: Oh... Ketamine.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

"Musk said he believes his depression is genetic and added that he doesn’t believe his ketamine use will impact his companies or their government contracts."

Rumors from those around him are that he uses ketamine a lot more than he admits in interviews. My guess is that he's doing a lot of cocaine too.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

He was openly high when he committed to buy twitter

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

- Greed

- Lack of empathy

- Putin will kill him

[–] donio@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Don't forget spite. The guy was always an asshole but when people finally started calling him out he got triggered and became a raging asshole. Now he thinks that he found his people but doesn't realize that they hate him too, they just find him useful for the moment.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Best way to enable your grifts while also evading jail time for being a con artist and pedophile.

Shitbirds of a feather, randy.

[–] passivelnk@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I suspect Elon is in deep shit. Everything he has been doing with Tesla and Twitter has been blatant stock manipulation. The latest stunt is self driving taxis. I suspect he knows that the SEC have a big case on him that they will pursue if Harris wins.

[–] bunkyprewster@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Comes from Apartheid, tries to recreate it here

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[–] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In an interview recently he openly speculated about how long he'd be in prison if Kamala wins. It seems like he has a strong savior complex, and thinks he's the only one that can save humanity by establishing colonies on Mars. He phrases it as preserving "the light of consciousness." Can't reasonably do that from prison. With that perspective, for him, practically all means justify that end.

At more personal level, after one of his kids transitioned he publicly stated it was like that kid had "died." In his own words, he swore to kill the "woke mind virus."

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I wish I could give Elon the benefit of the doubt:

Well maybe he meant that the child's birthname is a deadname and out of respect of his child's identity he will not use it.

But he definitely didn't mean it like that. He refused to celebrate his child doing something difficult, and chose transphobia(or at least the approval of transphobes) over having a relationship with his child.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's gonna make more money

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No he isn't. Do you seriously believe Trump's economic "plan" is going to make anything better? I mean sure, they can exploit the plebes even harder, but if no-one can afford your products, you don't have a viable business.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

His major product is SpaceX. His major customer is the government for the launches and contracts he sells, and his major detriment is government regulation of these launches.

Being on the good side of the government benefits both.

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[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 8 months ago

Why is Elon Musk acting like he’s a nazi?

Occam’s razor says, it’s because he’s a nazi.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Oligarchs benefit from a Trump administration and policies. Also, Trump promised him a cabinet position.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 14 points 8 months ago

Much of Elon's fortune is from government programs and contracts. Trump already said he would do whatever his donors told him to if they got him elected. So Elon wants to get in to the executive and start messing around, probably gut most regulatory departments, except the ones that make other car companies buy EV credits from him, or ones that he can use to squeeze his competitors a bit, or give his companies advantages.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Elon is a far-right nutjob surrounded by sycophants.

[–] savx@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

to put it a better way, i would say he went down the right wing rabbit hole for last 4 or 5 years on twitter. but i would also argue that fundamentally he is just a horrible selfish human being, but disguised as that he was autistic or something.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Favors. And a cabinet position.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago

It’s starting to look like he might just be a real dipshit.

[–] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Not money. He doesn't GAF about that compared to his lust for power and also, very importantly, not going to prison for crimes already committed.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's eyeing the position in government, something the GOP was calling along the lines of Head of Technological Efficiency or whatever.

Once he's there, he can set some rules for his own companies and companies favourable to him, almost however he likes. He'd have more power if he starts a slapfight against foreign courts like he did in Brazil and lost last time.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

It's Department of Government Efficiency and I'm pretty sure he himself coined it because the acronym is DOGE

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago

He's a dipshit.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

I think after breaking up with Grimes, he became really unstable. Similar to Kanye and how he broke up with Kim Kardashian.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Recently" it came out that Elon Musk is a sexual predator. He exposed himself and tried to pay for sex by buying an employee a horse. Then his company paid 250,000 to keep the woman quiet.

Elon Musk has a transgender child and he didn't like it.

There's multiple reasons for him to become a conservative backer. Being known as a sexual predator is a big one. That's a huge flaw in more progressive corners, but something to rally behind as a nazi.

[–] False@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think he had a stroke or overdose from too many drugs a few years ago and now he's literally brain damaged. Would explain the total personality change he went through.

[–] olosta@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

The thing is, he always was like that. He was just better at hiding it and pandered to liberals. He was trash to his first wife in 2000 and that was reported in 2010. Liberals saw what they wanted to see, until Musk understood he could just be himself and some people would still like him.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/elon-musk-told-first-wife-at-their-wedding-im-the-alpha/

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

He was definitely always a narcissist, but the drugs haven't helped.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Ego. Ok also union busting but largely ego. Around the same time one of his children who happens to be trans from his first wife (who also publicly denounced him) publicly disowned him and his long term on again off again partner left him for a short lived fling with Chelsea Manning, a trans woman famous for going to prison for leaking human rights abuses by the military in the Iraq war. And around that time democrats started getting anti billionaire talking points going very mainstream. And so he began courting the right. He was already addicted to twitter and he found himself deep in the alt right pipeline.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

I think he reads too much x-twitter and it’s gotten to him.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago
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