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You Think You Understand How Dangerous Elon Musk and His Friends Are. You Do Not.
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We'll be that is a new point of view I don't think I've heard of before, or at least not in that level of detail and explanation.
Thank you!
In terms of discussion, I guess it boils down to the ends justifying the means, or all that matters are results.
It also explains much of Musk's recent behavior. If you can suck up to an idiot and in return get free reign on anything you do, screw whatever supposed values you used to have. I suppose I do wonder where the dividing point was. Why "suck up" to liberals for so many years and then just flip. The "why" is more clearly understood, but what was the inciting incident.
The inciting incident is pretty clearly his daughter coming out as trans.