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Originally Posted by Eerie In Wonderland
This is probably somewhat of a necropost, sorry y'all.
I am strongly against the idea of Mr. Elongated Muskrat having power within the US government. He's a businessman, and a smart one, I'll give him that. It's still rather disturbing that he has essentially bought a government position. Something has always seemed off about him, I guess we just have to wait an see.
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He is a selfish narcissist. Is also very against remote work and in addition feels that every idea he has is the optimal future of humanity. He supports H1B visas not to be pro-immigration but because he himself is an H1B and wants to hire H1Bs to hold "well you want to stay in the US, right?" over the heads of his workforce. While he talks about saving the world and stuff, it has always been to boost profit and increase interest in his companies. He isnt a real world superhero.
I feel like it was easier to have a good impression of Musk until the 2020s. There was a time when he was the "fun billionaire" as opposed to individuals like Jeff Bezos who didnt try to publicly make as much noise. In the past several years, he has revealed the type of person he is. Remember when he called a rescuer a pedophile out of the blue because they refused to use his equipment for the rescue?
Oh and about working from home: he said it is selfish to work from home(because delivery drivers and factory workers cant) while he works from home himself and pays people to do much of the work he gets credit for while sitting on a net worth sufficient to pay for the average major hurricane landfall damage 10 times over. His net worth is nearly twice the Cali wildfire damage. One of the first executive order that Trump signed was a back to office policy for all federal workers. You know who likely inspired that order and it likely wasnt Trump. Id also bet money that somehow Elon will be exempt from the mandate that applies to other federal workers. "Rules for thee, not for me" sums up his attitude. He went from a controversial "fun" billionaire that advocated for psychedelics and smoke weed openly on TV during a time there was more stigma to being a controversial loud asshole billionaire who isnt afraid nor sympathetic of any pushback. Look at the unprofessional wording in his tweet about H1Bs (many MAGAs don't agree with H1B visas):
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/187286...448306?lang=en
"Fuck yourself in the face" and "I will go to war over this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend" tells me he has a lot more influence and power than people believe, or at least that is how he sees it. Why say that if he doesn't believe he has significant power? He may be blackmailing Trump with "I bought you this election and if you don't let me implement my ideas in government, I will use my strong influence against you and your administration".
Nearly every idea he has is parroted by Trump several days later. He has a lot more influence than an unelected person should ever have.
Maybe if everyone started calling him
co-president Musk or making more viral memes to the effect of "here is president Musk with Trump and Vance" and having people ask Trump directly "yeah that sounds good, but what does president Musk think?", it may sufficiently annoy Trump that he drops Musk. But it more than likely would just boost Elon's ego even more.
I also think that part of the problem was liberal cancel culture. It went too far on social media and the pushback against wokeness is real and palpable now. It may have even contributed to Musk's decision to buy twitter. It turns out that people wont be cancelled and they will eventually fight back hard. Fuck, if it wasnt for cancel culture and do-nothing-Biden, we may have a different administration now.
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