[CamperBob2]

The risk is that he will go much farther than he already has. If he comes out as a full-fledged neo-Nazi, which I wouldn't bet against given how erratically he has behaved lately, the value of Teslas on the used market will plummet.

[oceanplexian]

If you think Elon is a neo-Nazi, where are you getting your news from? Obviously, not from a primary source or you’d realize what you are saying is ridiculous.

[golol]

Listen to what he says in some interviews, he is moderately right wing but there is no reason to think he would be a nazi.

[metabagel]

He’s too “hard core” for me. He has zero empathy. He’s a bully and has a mean streak.

[CamperBob2]

I mean, you can buy a car from this guy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-to-advertisers-who...

You can buy a car from him, I'll pass.

There was no reason to think he would bid $54.20/share for Twitter, either.

There was no reason to think he would call a guy a pedophile for criticizing his submarine idea.

There was no reason to think he would name his kid with nonstandard characters.

There was no reason to think he would offer to trade horses for blowjobs.

There was no reason to think he would _______. I'm not saying he's a Nazi, or that he is especially likely to call himself one. It's impossible to say whether he is more likely to wake up one morning identifying as a Zen Buddhist, or a Laveyan Satanist, or a Nazi, or a Methodist.

You don't know what he'll say or do to hose the value of your car, and neither do I, and neither does he.

[adamrezich]

have you ever noticed how odd it is that the anti-Musk rhetoric is functionally identical to the anti-Trump rhetoric of 2016–2020, and also how no new Reichs were started 2016–2020, such that one can conclude that perhaps takes like this are possibly a hair hyperbolic in nature, and should maybe be reevaluted a bit before terms such as "neo-Nazi" completely lose any remaining weight they might have?

[mongol]

Did you miss January 6?

[rpmisms]

I don't think anybody missed it, but many people experienced far worse in their own cities during the "Summer of Love" in 2020. Nobody I know cares about J6 except as a political football.

[CamperBob2]

Man, you guys would be so screwed if you didn't have the "Summer of Love" to fall back on when someone criticizes your personality cult.

You should contemplate that sometime, just as an exercise. What would it be like to live in a world where whataboutism doesn't amount to a cheat code to summon the easily-led? One where your beliefs, opinions, arguments, and actions actually have to stand on their own, without reference to unrelated crimes committed by other people in a different time and place.

[rpmisms]

One of those affected me personally, the other didn't. I don't see how that's whataboutism.