>The "you're a sheep" rhetoric. Great!

you mean the same rhetoric I observe whenever the wrong entity wins an election anywhere in the West? have we not accepted for a fact that most people are so uncritical of the media they consume that a thousand Russian Internet Defense Force operatives can topple a Western democracy over Xitter and TikTok?

>Pre-2018 he had already made some substantial lies, (cf. https://elonmusk.today/)

I never said he was a good man before then, or that he is a good man now.