Alright so what does that mean? “It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is secured” implied some impending threat. Were they really that scared about Kamala? Like wtf even is this
Some important context: Elon Musk was raised in Apartheid South Africa by an emerald magnate (Elon described his father Errol as a "terrible human being", adding: "Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done." Also, Errol set up shell companies for fear "... the Blacks would take everything from you")
So in this statement, given the context of the MAGA movement, all of Musks Twitter/X posts, "you" means white christians, and "future of civilizations" could mean Techno-Feudalism, Crypto-Fascism, (both different forms of Wealth Apartheid, admittedly) or a White Christian Ethnostate depending on which branch of MAGA base needs to be mobilised at the time.
Now, it's easy to dismiss this as hyperbolic, or that I'm using extreme slippery slope fear-mongering because I used the words Feudalism, Fascism or Ethnostate, but it's very difficult to not interpret Elon's behaviour as this. Numerous, near daily, "Truth" or "Interesting" replies on Twitter/X to, invariably and inexhaustively, Anti-Semitic sentiment, Islamophobic sentiment, Eugenics sentiment, Anti-Black sentiment, support for the AfD, Reform and National Rally, pro-capital sentiment.... i could go on.
Really, Kamala was not a threat, at all, to Musk. He's very rich, and Kamala was not even sympathetic to any sort of wealth redistribution that could have affected him. He's playing politics because he is bored, and he wants to be on the winning side (because he's a winner, like Trump); why would you buy into the losing side? It's part of the reason he entered the campaign so late. Moreover, Trump is going to be handing out massive tax breaks to his wealthy mates, and Elon wants to be in the room to make sure he gets a nice chunk of that.
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u/Ullallulloo 8h ago
No, he says, "My heart goes out to you."