Elon being Elon is familiar -- so familiar that it's no longer even particularly grotesque. But Elon fans tying themselves in knots trying to explain how WELL ACTUALLY all of this is PERFECTLY CONSISTENT with free speech absolutism he promised . . . . well, that's showing some new lows in groveling and abasement.
@mathlover @Popehat I have a buddy that's an Elon fan. He mostly thinks that Elon is a true-life Iron Man.
Weird, yep.
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I'm kinda lucky that I don't know any Elon fanboys personally. @Popehat
@mathlover @Popehat It's definitely hard to deal with. Luckily he's stopped sending me Elon-fanboy stories and memes -- but maybe those don't exist anymore (fingers crossed)
@mathlover @Popehat it is like Trump, and Bojo, and Bolsonaro, and Alex Jones etc. A charismatic man who makes it OK to disengage from the disappointment politics of the liberal social justice elite and act like a self-serving, petulant toddler just like them, and still change the world for the better (for the right people, at least)
@mathlover @Popehat Until about 2020 both SpaceX and Tesla were underdogs - predicted to fail but with a commendable mission. Musk’s toxicity less widely known than now. So some fans are a remnant of that era, I think.
This love affair a significant portion of the population has with billionaires and celebrities will ultimately be the downfall of civilization.