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.
Favors. And a cabinet position.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
This really ticked all the boxes. Except for the box where Putin has asked him how he feels about windows.
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.
He’s been known as a Republican donor for a very long time, even back when he was pretending to be decent.
He was always a major asshole, but he wasn’t always completely off his rocker.
Drug use? Like what? Never seen anything about that.
Edit: Oh… Ketamine.
Yeah, why so you think that is?
He was openly high when he committed to buy twitter
“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.
Oligarchs benefit from a Trump administration and policies. Also, Trump promised him a cabinet position.
Elon is a far-right nutjob surrounded by sycophants.
Comes from Apartheid, tries to recreate it here
- rich
- narcissistic
- scion
- of an apartheid
- emerald mining family
He’s gonna make more money
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t be so cynical, he also wants to promote his ideals of misogynism, transphobia and creepy natalism.
That’s just the GOP platform.
Why is Elon Musk acting like he’s a nazi?
Occam’s razor says, it’s because he’s a nazi.
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.
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.
He was definitely always a narcissist, but the drugs haven’t helped.
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/
“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.
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.
