About his recent republican coming out: he knew a paper about his flight attendant story was about to come out. The journalists contacted him for comments before publishing. He didn’t comment but did this coming out PR stunt just before the article was published, so that he could pretend it was all made up to punish him joining republicans.

The journalists decided to publish the article anyway.

He’s lying and turning his fan base into hating the democrats who have nothing to do with the article.

That’s who he is, that’s what he does.

He’s lying and turning his fan base into hating the democrats who have nothing to do with the article.

That’s who he is, that’s what he does.

weird comment, many many people considered "pedo guy" and everything else to be shameful at the time

Op and others are claiming he’s at his lowest point now in terms of shameful behavior presumably.

the phrase "keep digging that hole" comes to mind.

Fair he's always been polarizing, but the size of the naysayers (and fanboys) seems to have grown quite a bit recently and I think it comes down to politics.

He’s also become the richest man in the world over the last few years (at least publicly known wealth). That tends to bring you a lot of attention. His politics isn’t the only thing that changed

Do you think it's out-of-bounds to criticize someone based on their publicly-stated political views?

> he’s just on the other side of the culture war divide now (I.e the Republican side) so he’s now considered shameful in many parts.

That's a defensive projection from both Musk and Republicans to incite his "new side" to arms and protect him implicitly from any criticism whether it's about labour rights or sexual harassment.

Maybe it's 4D chess to get the Cybertruck to be popular with the right wing.

But for most of us who are progressive and environmental, we have been pushing back against his ego and authoritarianism for years - worried that he is sabotaging his stated cause more than he is helping it.

For me the last straw was The Boring Company. I was still All In on Musk as a real-life Tony Stark who would make humanity interplanetary and solve the computer-brain barrier all the way up to Neuralink. Even Hyperloop seemed compelling if he could execute on it and seemed like it might be a clever hack to work around American resistance to high-speed rail.

The Boring Company revealed to me the self-aggrandizing fraud that he is.