[chronci2901]

> Your idea of better laws would mean no Tesla and no SpaceX.

Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk are not cool/impressive any more.

And with every tweet, Elon becomes less respected by the public.

It’s telling when you see this sentiment on Tesla Motors Club, r/SpaceX and r/TeslaMotors.

Elon was on a roll. But he royally fucked up the past 2 years.

[rlt]

It’s fascinating how quickly people will suddenly decide apolitical things you are associated with are “not cool/impressive” when you start expressing political opinions they disagree with.

[wpietri]

You're talking about Musk becoming open about his backing for an authoritarian, cult-of-personality party? People have been plenty critical about Musk well before that, and about most of the same points.

Honestly, I think the causal arrow goes the other way. Musk has beclowned himself with the way he handled the Twitter deal, and Tesla's stock price has dropped accordingly. So a lot of the noise he has made since then can be seen as attempts to distract people with politics so they don't notice how his impressiveness is declining. This article makes a good case for that: https://twitter.com/BITech/status/1534939630809800706

[ETH_start]

>>You're talking about Musk becoming open about his backing for an authoritarian, cult-of-personality party?

Musk doesn't have any good alternatives, unfortunately. He's supposed to back the Democratic Party, that relies on a long-tradition of union-backed left-wing violence to intimidate the opposition? [1] The party that fanned the flames of 500+ riots in the summer of 2020, leading to dozens being killed and billions of dollars worth of people's livelihoods going up in flames?

The party that is aggressively moving toward authoritarianism, and trying to silence/cancel any one who speaks out about it, like Glenn Greenwald? [2]

The party of lawyers [3], who early on pushed aggressively for CCP-style lockdowns and vaccine mandates [4]?

The party fully backed by elite anti-Free-Speech movements? [5]

Even when the GOP were under Trump, the Democrats weren't clearly the more moral choice.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1450487818766143492

[3] https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/industries

[4] https://twitter.com/NYSBA/status/1326149426063224832

[5] https://youtu.be/54zIUalrCyA