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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 30 minutes ago

Elon is a far-right nutjob surrounded by sycophants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Because Vivian Jenna Wilson transitioned.

It really is that simple.

Before that event Apartheid Manchild was a dick, but mostly of the poorly-socialized technonerd variety. Still a dick, but not perceived by most as being a threatening dick.

After that event, where he coined (to my knowledge) the phrase "the woke mind virus", he jumped deep into the MAGA swill.

Before that event he was kinda/sorta hailed as a "real world Tony Stark" but never really particularly accepted. People liked his products (well, let's be honest: product) and otherwise didn't give much of a shit about him.

After he went Full Metal MAGAt he became the object of worship and adoration of fellow MAGAts on Twitter (before he bought it, even), getting the uncritical acceptance he'd always craved and never really got.

And it turns out he wants to feel like he "belongs" more than he wants to sell shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

Shitbirds of a feather, randy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

Edit: Oh... Ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Favors. And a cabinet position.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He's gonna make more money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

But if you have a company whose only customer is the government then you don't need to worry about the plebs buying your shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

He's a dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

That's just the GOP platform.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Comes from Apartheid, tries to recreate it here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
  • rich
  • narcissistic
  • scion
  • of an apartheid
  • emerald mining family
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

Elon's supporters are much like Trumps and won't leave him. Many are financially tied to Elon. Elon can do what ever he wants and his supporters will follow. Trumps values and goals align very closely with Elon's. Elon would be much more like Trump if he had charisma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

- Greed

- Lack of empathy

- Putin will kill him

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously he will award Tesla invite contracts and slash any tax and regulations.

Then again, Trump might just give him Texas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

The valuation of Tesla is insanely overpriced for what it is and I think he knows it. The Tesla hype machine needs to be fed to keep it from crashing and the vast majority of his money is that stock. He needs to gain more power to secure his status. It’s a bit of a house of cards. He won’t ever not be wealthy but his status as the wealthiest is tenuous as soon as people figure out he’s full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours 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/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

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