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by baryphonic 1317 days ago
Not sure where you got "rightwing" from.

David Sacks is to the right, Elon is center-left, and Jason Calcanis is a bigtime lib. For the past three days, rightwing Twitter has been screaming that Elon has "caved" and so on because Trump, Alex Jones and a few others haven't been unbanned. (Personally, I'd like to see the Babylon Bee brought back as a gesture of good faith, pun intended.)

How is the combination of those three "rightwing?"
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xiphias2 1317 days ago
I'm not sure if Elon is considered as center-left anymore.

I know I was center-left for a long time, but the same values that I had 10 years ago as center-left are considered center-right at this time. I believe it's the same with Elon.

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watwut 1317 days ago
Musk is not center left. The most radical and literally proviolence people pressuring you don't make you center left
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xiphias2 1317 days ago
I'm not sure where you are getting this from. He was literally pushing for peace talks in the Ukrain-Russia war, where lots of people are dying right now.

Also he has manufacturing plants all over the world (China), so he would lose the most from violence (while many other billionaires are profiting from war).

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watwut 1317 days ago
The "radical and literally proviolence people pressuring you" refered to Alex Jones and Trump pressuring. Them pressuring Musk does not make Musk center left.

> He was literally pushing for peace talks in the Ukrain-Russia war, where lots of people are dying right now.

That does not make Musk left nor anti violence. It rewards violence. It makes him either naive or pro Russia.

It allows Russia to torture and continue genocide in territories it has. It rewards it for invasion and creates situation in which Russia will logically invade again.

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LightG 1316 days ago
Elon centre-left?

Nope, centre right at best. Or, if he is actually centre-left (neither of us will know), he has (for the last couple of years) been sucking up to the right. The effect is the same. I assumed he was playing each side off against each other so, again, the effect is the same as if he is right wing.

Calcanis maybe a lib, but his actions are hard core capitalist ... so for the sake of this situation, his actions will be right wing.

Sum total: rightwing.

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