• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Yeah he had quite a few people in the geek / tech world that liked him or at least were indifferent. Then he started losing his shit quickly followed by getting all MAGA political.

    He probably would have been happier had he not gone all Nazi, or if he always was that way, at least kept it to himself.

    Now he is sad everyone hates him lol.

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      9 months ago

      I think the first time people (like me) started realising how he truly was when he called one of those Thailand rescue divers a pedophile. He went fully mask off in barely any time after that.

      Because how quickly he switched I still wonder if he is someone like Kanye who needs to be on meds otherwise he just can’t help himself saying absolutely insane stuff.

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        9 months ago

        same moment for me. I thought he was super cool for starting an all electric car company, having the potential to start another space race and advance science, bringing together some engineers to quickly build a rescue submersible, but the pedophile comment totally broke the enchantment

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, that was the incident that really made me look back on his previous action with fresh eyes and reconsider my opinion of him.

        Like you said, it went downhill fast after that

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        9 months ago

        I think that may have been shortly after he and Grimes got together so likely she introduced him to more drugs than whatever he was already taking.

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          9 months ago

          Drugs don’t make people racist pieces of shit, but they sure can help make it clear that the person already is.

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            9 months ago

            He was probably already racist, but it really does seem like the drugs helped make him a Nazi.

            It’s probably a combination of the people feeding him drugs and him drifting towards manipulators instead of people who might tell him no.