I don't think he cares? Seems like he's happy to fill the role publicly. It appears to be on purpose like a wrestler turning heel or a gamer drawing aggro on a mob. Society of the spectacle indeed.

I think he is very bored an finds this very exciting.

It’s funny on the news apps DOGE seems like some kind of conspiracy and on twitter the guys who run it regularly hold spaces where they explain what they’re doing and thinking about.

Is there literally any other public figure more transparent than Musk? He tweets every thought and people who know him IRL confirm he says the same things in private.

This is such a bizzare post. You trust him to be transparent because he Tweets a lot and holds Twitter spaces? Is the bar really that low?

I trust him to be transparent because of his transparency? Yes.

Did you know that someone can tell lots of lies all the time. Telling a lot of lies all the time would look identical to transparency. Hell even just talking a lot about things that are true but are not at all important or your priorities would look like transparency.

Just because someone won't shut up doesn't mean they are telling you their true intentions.

Western politics deteriorated to a point at which liars who don't pretend they are anything else seem like an attractive choice.

You trust him to be transparent because he says he's being transparent?

No, but they can't say that. You cannot trust them to choose rule of law over each other. They hate liberals that much.

The man lies about being good at video games. On twitter. The bar is very very low.

these posters have mastered doublespeak

Twitter requires an account to use, and when you sign up, you agree not to sue Twitter. In the United States, arbitration clauses are generally airtight. Even if you what Musk says is truthful and the whole truth -- and it's not -- those conditions alone are bad enough. That's not transparency.

Transparent ? He's just playing the same game that Trump - all smokes and mirrors.

He mastered the art of news manipulation and took it to the 21 century. And people are falling for it (I did too at some point). Tesla is one of the most secretive companies out there, and for a good reason. Musk is regularly saying outrageous lies, without any consequence. The FSD game has been going for 10 years. 10 YEARS.

Lookup Montana Sceptic case - the guy was exposing that Tesla was close to bankrupcy at the time (which Musk later confirmed). Musk, in all his transparency went after him, including threatening his boss.

The reality is that none of his companies are really profitable (yes I know, Tesla made some money in the past 3 years. They are valued as if they made 100x what they did), and all would be dead without government subsides.

He's regularly tweeting that he's cutting off funds that were congressionally approved by simply pressing "delete" on checks that are to be sent, which would be an extreme violation of federal law. It also contradicts everything else we're told where it's said that he has only "read only" access to the computer systems.

so if by "transparent" you mean "tweets all day about crimes he is committing, but we actually dont know if hes just bullshitting", then OK, overall, not that helpful!

Elon Musk has lied constantly about many things over the last 10 years and he is absolutely not trustworthy to unilaterally decide what is or isn't "government waste"

I don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.

But he literally did

He bought the election and then gave himself an unelected role with extensive and unchecked power.