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Re:Elon Musk says that the environment would be fine if we d... by smt88 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:28PM (#31417450)
Billions of dollars, millions of rabid fans, incessant media attention?
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Re:Elon Musk says that the environment would be fine if we d... by meep0l on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:22AM (#31419213)
Why are his fans so rabid anyway? I noticed it several years ago, but they seem to have gotten significantly worse recently.
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Re:Elon Musk says that the environment would be fine if we d... by smt88 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @02:59AM (#31419972)
My uneducated guess is that it's a combination of:

- sense of community

- feeling like he (and by extension, his fans) know something that "experts" and "the mainstream" don't know

- existing car enthusiast culture that grafted onto Tesla and then onto Musk himself

- Tony Stark/Iron Man myth that people started to project onto him

- bots

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