It’s amazing to me how many people ignore the old saying that “when they tell you who they are, believe them” when it comes to Elon Musk.
I have had so many debates with people I would otherwise consider intelligent and considerate that have essentially amounted to them saying all criticism of him is overblown leftist attacks and “woke” culture run amok, even despite all of my criticism being centred on things he has done and said himself. They’ll even often reject clips like this when I provide them, saying they are taken out of context.
I have become convinced that some people just want him to be able to do whatever he wants, no matter how awful or corrupt, without consequences, because they hope one day to be able to do the same, so he (and people like him, such as Trump, Johnson, etc.) needs to be protected in order for that to be a possibility.
It’s the only explanation I can think of, given the vast majority of people are merely a means of attaining and holding power and fame—the latter of which he is always desperate for—and all of them are being used for that purpose, with no real hope of ever benefiting in anyway way from being his zealots.
It’s just dumbfounding that people still don’t see that he is a racist, fascist, antisemite, nepobaby, conman that has used outright fraud, naked criminality, and a well-groomed cult of personality to escape accountability for years.