> the fuck happened the fuck you think happened? been living under a rock these past three years or something? musk bought twitter and turned it into /pol/lite or maybe even /pol/+, unbanning pretty much everyone who had been banned for political speech. there is now a thriving ecosystem of right leaning anti jewish power speech on that platform. and this was right after social media and twitter in particular were at the peak of leftist and establishment subversion in 2020 when they suppressed the hunter biden story and later banned the sitting president.  so yeah no shit public opinion did a 180 on elon. and you can level any criticism you like at him, that he is a grifter, that he is a technocrat, a transhumanist or just a straight up a conman. and all those things can be true. but all of that is mostly irrelevant to the big picture. there are bigger grifters out there, the technocrats were on a path to power without elon, his transhumanist push is in its infancy and again this push is inevitable with or without him, and the money he has conned from the us taxpayer is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions that are squandered every year. but his purchase of twitter did make a tangible difference to the state of the online information space that otherwise seemed impossible to achieve. the left had such a total stranglehold on tech and media. alt platforms had tried and failed through trump's first term to get any serious market share. there was no natural path to fixing this issue, at least not one that was apparent or in motion.  nothing is static in the world. if elon ends up being a massive liability to the trump admin then you will see his favourability on /pol/ do another 180. that's just how opinions work.
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