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In any case, this isn’t an Elon thread. It’s about Tesla. If Elon feels like styling himself as a statesman, that has obvious consequences for his businesses.
And if the Twitter Files really do reveal terrifying information, how does Musk come off as likeable? The two viewpoints seem mutually exclusive: Musk is the same guy who began banning users for both petty personal and politically partisan reasons (ElonJet, people who criticized him like Paul Graham, journalists that he views as liberal mouthpieces). Is it good and positive because... he does it in the open?
If you told me it was written by ChatGPT I would 100% believe you.
Many people supporting Musk at present do so because they believe him to be a champion of free speech. At the same time, they view the left as totalitarian as trying to control speech.
Twitter is viewed as a bastion of left-leaning supporters of Democrats who stole the last election from Trump by banning conservative speech from the platform. They believe Democrats are now in the process of implementing a totalitarian state in which Joe Biden, who is corrupt and the head of a crime family, is the dictator. They also believed that Joe Biden is using the FBI, which is aligned with leftists (?!) to silence critics and persecute his enemies.
In this framing, by unbanning nazis, qanon, insurrectionists, and anti-trans accounts, Elon is restoring balance to Twitter and saving free speech for the world.
It’s basically an exercise in projection to try to whitewash the Trump years through incessant whataboutism.