[d23]

At some point I think he'll move to just not even bothering explaining anything since he knows his fans will defend him. His justification could be literal gibberish, and his defenders would be resorting to the Kabbalah to try to translate it into something coherent.

[sho_hn]

You got down-voted, but I think you're onto something.

The last couple of weeks/months of Elon to me are just another instance of a much-replicated "no fact-checking required for popularity" pattern. It turns out it never was, we just didn't have the sort of media immediacy that made it an issue at scale before.

We need more general tools to deal with these cases.

[rachofsunshine]

Elon's plane scandal is the elon-gate plane.

Elongate is to lengthen, and plane is just plan with silence added.

So Elon's plane scandal -> secret long-term plan.

IT'S ALL 4D CHESS

(/s)

[camel_Snake]

This strategy worked pretty well for Trump. Not a bad guess