Maybe I'm retarded and easily influenced and got caught up in the hope
"A rich man thinks all other people are rich, and an intelligent man thinks all other people are similarly gifted. Both are always terribly shocked when they discover the truth of the world. You, my dear brother, are a pious man." - Strahd von Zarovich
Trump values loyalty, but it's dangerous to assume Elon is the same.
Loyalty implies free will, because true loyalty cannot be coerced.
Elon values obedience. Look at his robots, the ultimate obedient servants. Look at his H1Bs, who can be deported if they disobey.
a totally different person than he was prior to the election
"When I was about sixteen, I stopped backstabbing my allies in Diplomacy. I had noticed that breaking my word repeatedly was weakening it, and though it helped me win on occasion, it ended up costing me games. No one would risk an alliance with me or think twice about betraying me—after all, I'd done it to them before." - Richard Garfield
It was a temporary alliance against a shared enemy. Now that the threat of Kamala is in retreat, Elon let it slip that the alliance is over.
Put another way, Elon is the snake from the poem Trump often read at his rallies. MAGA saved Elon and his tech buddies from the bitter cold of a Kamala Winter. The fangs are now bared. Hopefully we can avoid the vicious bite.
"A rich man thinks all other people are rich, and an intelligent man thinks all other people are similarly gifted. Both are always terribly shocked when they discover the truth of the world. You, my dear brother, are a pious man." - Strahd von Zarovich
Trump values loyalty, but it's dangerous to assume Elon is the same.
Loyalty implies free will, because true loyalty cannot be coerced.
Elon values obedience. Look at his robots, the ultimate obedient servants. Look at his H1Bs, who can be deported if they disobey.
"When I was about sixteen, I stopped backstabbing my allies in Diplomacy. I had noticed that breaking my word repeatedly was weakening it, and though it helped me win on occasion, it ended up costing me games. No one would risk an alliance with me or think twice about betraying me—after all, I'd done it to them before." - Richard Garfield
It was a temporary alliance against a shared enemy. Now that the threat of Kamala is in retreat, Elon let it slip that the alliance is over.
Put another way, Elon is the snake from the poem Trump often read at his rallies. MAGA saved Elon and his tech buddies from the bitter cold of a Kamala Winter. The fangs are now bared. Hopefully we can avoid the vicious bite.