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I mean, was RFK Jr. ever on the rails? Him being off the rails is likely how he got his brain worm in the first place.

what's happened?

Doesn't really seem to work. Right wing guys still want a truck that makes the vroom noise and has smoke coming out of it. And the main constituency for electric cars ( smug liberals with a lot of money ) don't want to be associated with Musk so they'll buy a different brand (luckily other automakers have mostly caught up to Tesla now).

The initial right turn was because he didn't like California's covid policies. But then the right started sucking up to him and the left denounced him, he just leaned further and further.

Along the way I think he realized how easy it is to play right wingers, how much they accommodate ultra rich people, and decided he likes it.

He's right wing now for the same reason all the other ultra rich people are, not because he's dumb.

You could just say he's a narcissist who changes his tune as the wind turns.

They really had no choice but to take away abortions, we were just being unbearably woke.

Didn't the right also move massively towards the far right nazi shit? I mean, I see how the left has moved toward beeing more progressive, but the right has shifted their positions enormously.

They never explain how liberals moved further left when we all know they are pissed that liberals became more accepting of trans rights.

It is remarkable how allergic some far-right people in America are to being called far-right. Even Richard Spencer often refers to himself as a moderate. I think it originates from their inability to understand the views of other people and place their own in context (sometimes, of course, they are just acting in bad faith, but I think there is a real undercurrent of far-right folks who just can't see their views for what they are).

I mean it's not totally off base though - imagine asking a Clinton era Democrat during that time period how they'd feel about a law making it a cause for civil action if someone absconded with your child to have them do transgender treatments without your knowledge or approval. I guarantee you it would have waaaaay more support from Dems then than it would from Dems now. You know, now when it's being opposed for being transphobic.

But then we can just look at Hillary Clinton for an example of the drift in action - Hillary from that era said her politics were primarily shaped by her conservative upbringing, she strongly opposed gay marriage, and she spent some effort as first lady trying to subvert the 1st amendment with Tipper Gore because rap lyrics are naughty.

Back then, that was kind of out of character for Musk's public persona. Now, it might not even make the news.

Elon knows who's going to cover up for Epstein

They don't BBQ in South Africa, they brai.

I think it all started to unravel when he wanted to gain prestige from making a submarine to save some kids that needed to go through some flooded caves but then one of the divers embarrassed him by rejecting the idea without the kid gloves on (it was a naïve idea, the sub wouldn't have been able to get to the kids and the divers got them out without it).

Elon then accused the guy of pedophilia because he was already on Thailand when it happened and, according to Elon, pedophilia is the only reason a man would want to travel there.

That moment was enough for me to realize the image he had created for himself as a real life Tony Stark was false, he was a billionaire who wasn't even smart enough to stfu and bitch about something behind closed doors, plus he chose a really bad idea to throw this tantrum over.

He certainly did not treat his trans daughter terribly well even before a few years ago. Then again he did not treat anybody around him well, but still he certainly seemed homophobic in private back then. The issue is that EVs are mostly sold to left leaning people and most tech workers are also left leaning. So he was not talking about it. Now it is out and he has a fan club, which celebrates him for it. Hence no reason to hide it anymore.

I've been saying for years that the man has had some kind of mental breakdown, and what we're seeing now is a man that is using a mixture of hard drugs and the dopamine hit from being a billionaire right-wing edge-lord to keep himself from going utterly bonkers.

If he were a normal person his employer would have either fired him or requested that he seek help. He's a billionaire without a boss or a support network, so he lacks that safety net. He's the very definition of "you don't know they're laughing at you, not with you, right?"

Because he used to hide it

He thrived on the positive attention. When he started getting negative attention, it was the media/mob/etc.'s fault and never his own. When your ego prevents you from introspection, it creates monsters.

He always was incompetent and an asshole, it's just the recently he pushed the volume to 11. If you look at past interviews with him, it's all there already. If you read about his past behaviours you can see that he's still the same.

He mis-calculated who is buying his cars.

Failure, public humiliation, and lots of Twitter and YouTube.

Probably just got enough fuck you money that he figured he could fire his PR team