Was he lying back then and is truthful now, or did the pandemic just break him?

274 points

According to his trans daughter, he was treating her like shit long before this, so he’s always been an asshole.

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Yeah it looks like anyone close to him (including his business partners) says he was an asshole.

It looks like he had a great PR firm until then, which he stopped using, because he thought he can do better on his own.

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66 points

Started to believe the bullshit himself basically… a spectacular fall from public grace.

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More like he realized there were a lot more fascists running around than previously suspected and he could get away with it.

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He’s definitely always been an asshole but he only went crazy a few years ago.

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49 points

He only went crazy publicly a few years ago.

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Well, everything else is rumour and hearsay. I’ll stick with what is on the record for my judgement.

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He used to care enough about money to not say these things publicly. Now he’s got so much money that it really doesn’t matter if it costs him a billion dollars to tweet something stupid.

Either that or all the ketamine over the long term fucked up his brain somehow.

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I think the drugs definitely are playing a part here. He used to be quite lucid.

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3 points

His daughter was 14 at the time of this tweet. I don’t know when she came out to Musk, but it’s possible this tweet was before he started treating her like shit.

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25 points

He’s always been a troll. He says and does whatever he thinks it takes for people to pay attention to him. I doubt it goes any deeper than that.

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if you think he’s the only rich dude to say whatever he needs to get what he wants, i’ve got a bridge to sell ya

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what am i supposed to do with a bridge

edit: oh i think i get it now. very clever

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It’s a reference to someone “selling” the Brooklyn bridge to someone else for scrap long ago. I think so anyway.

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Woosh goes the joke

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i thought it was something something “that’s a bridge too far”, and so they need exactly one bridge

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I thought it was about selling the bridge as a toll bridge.

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It’s a saying that he’ll sell you a bridge that he doesn’t own because you’re gullible.

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ooh that makes a lot more sense than what i was thinking

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18 points

This was a few weeks before the mask fell off with the pedo guy tweet.

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In all honesty he probably doesn’t believe any of what he publicly says. Trump probably offered him less government scrutiny for his inherently dangerous projects (tesla self driving, SpaceX experimental rockets etc) as well as the billionaire tax breaks and he’s just trying to get him elected for his own personal profit. I’ve never seen a billionaire’s life be affected by a government decision, they all do as they please anyway (unless they’re in China or Russia)

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Since at the time, he still had his rather spectacular or team… it’s probably not even him writing that.

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