What changed? He is still Elon.

poulpy123 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He wasn't able to hide he is a hateful moron anymore

bdhe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I encourage you to read this entire section of Ken Paxton dodging his securities fraud indictment using the full weight of the power of the offie of TX AG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#State_securities_fr...

Then, imagine someone spending $200 million aiming to ensure his election.

Not much you can respect in that someone doing such things.

And this is only 1 bullet out of dozens more like this in the last 8 years or so. Elon was very different in the late 2000s.

	▲	applebottomjean a day ago \| parent [-]
		Nah, listening to the stories from his first wife, he was just better at hiding it publicly.

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dyauspitr a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The white supremacy stuff

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jkestner a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The 'pedo guy' stuff

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igor47 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would have to say doge, that ill conceived "chainsaw" to the federal government that saved $14B, or 0.26% of the federal budget, but which according to the Lancet will result in as many as 14M additional deaths, including 4.5M children, by 2030.

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piyh a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remember when xAI through Grok started generating child porn and non-consensual nudes? Remember when instead of turning it off, Elon praised the xAI team for the user growth and then paywalled image gen with the same broken guardrails behind an $8 a month X subscription?

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lern_too_spel 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He fired Tesla's PR department in 2020. They worked heroically to make him palatable to anyone who didn't look too deeply.