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Yeah. For a long time I defended Musk, for the simple reason that, yes, he's weird and seems like a sociopath, but at least he's trying. He wants electric cars. He wants Mars. That's enough. Most billionaires just want an invite to Epstein's island, or to displace a village somewhere to build a new factory.
Those days have ended, now that it's become clear that Musk wants an entire Epstein's-Island enclave just for himself and his "family," and actively works to destroy people who are working on electric cars if they interfere with his quest to get all the credit for everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRjVH66vdQ
I'm in a similar boat. Seems like there was a big marketing / branding push for him to be seen that way in those years, or maybe it was just media doing media stuff (regurgitating and iterating on successful content). And then I stopped paying attention to him, and then he made weird ass comments during that cave rescue situation, and then it's been just rapid fire incidents ranging from embarrassingly childish to shockingly brazen leading to today. Apologies if I've misremembered the timeline, but I seem to remember that as my "wait wtf" turning point with him.
Went from thinking "huh, smart driven guy working on difficult problems few others will" to realizing he's among the most threatening forces working against humanity today, while also a thin-skinned man-baby. Pretty crazy swing. If he'd have kept his crazy under wraps...like...just literally didn't spew it on social media constantly, that one change alone...we'd probably never have realized.
I do believe that he changed. He was always a narcissistic sociopath, but he was also invested in advancing humanity.
And then came his hate for the US government when they tried to tell him what to do, repeatedly, and his obsession with Twitter.
Ketamine is also a hell of a drug