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Maybe I'm just a effeminate big-city lefty liberal but it seems like the stan culture for Elon is the same as for Trump, Desantis, Joe Rogan, and all the other
by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Maybe I'm just a effeminate big-city lefty liberal but it seems like the stan culture for Elon is the same as for Trump, Desantis, Joe Rogan, and all the other guys who peddle easy answers for a difficult world.
- wedn3sday 4y agoOnly somewhat more seductive, because for a while there Elon was actually involved in some very cool new technology development before he totally went off the rails, so there's still some latent "hey isnt he the guy that landed a rocket" psychological/cultural energy.
- Kye 4y agoI went from having never heard of him to knowing him as the guy with the company that landed two rocket boosters on live TV. And that was the extent of my engagement with his persona, so he could easily have maintained a positive impression by just being careful with public statements. Making spaceflight exciting again was huge and it must have taken an incredible engineering effort to get semi-reliable high-definition live streams from multiple angles on and around rockets. And then Twitter brain.