I'm not American, so please don't shoot me, especially as I haven't got a gun.

But please, can somebody explain why Elon Musk is so heavily supporting Donald Trump?

I'm only supporting Trump cos he bought 50 burgers in nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h with Bitcoin šŸ˜‚

But then I'm not eligible to vote.

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Hey ChatGPT, re-explain this to me like I'm a 6 year old šŸ˜‚

Elon is on a free speech platform.

Its a two party system.

Conservatives want to censor objectionable material in schools. The left calls that censorship.

Liberals want to make it illegal to say things that hurt peoples feelings .

That is censorship.

OK I understand, related to Twitter, I get it.

Also am I right that Biden ignored Tesla in EV policy discussions recently?

Elon is selfish, just like anyone else. Ayn Rand did an excellent job of explaining this, if anyone is interested.

And, as a selfish person, he is going to side with who will benefit him.

Now, being selfish doesn't make it malicious. A mother's selfish want to make her children safe is actually a good thing.

They have both taken a stand to stop globalism. Benefits them both. And, actually slows down the total destruction of the USA.

Just my opinion.

You’re not wrong. Everyone is selfish.

Elon spent 44bil on Twitter because he saw the censorship problem as a threat to society. This was not a selfish act.

A mother's selfish want to make her children safe is actually a good thing.

Self preservation is pretty important. Without it our ancestors would have been eaten by sabre tooth tigers.

Exactly. We can't look out for anyone else, if we don't look out for ourselves first. 🫔

I think he truly believes democracy is in jeopardy. Basically the Dems are letting illegal Aliens in and incentivizing them to be loyal voters to the Dems by giving them things. He thinks if they win it’ll be too late to turn around with another 4 years

Thank you, interesting.

Yea no problem.

From his perspective I imagine it would be easier to negotiate with Trump than Kamala to achieve his personal and business goals.

Kamala is more anti-business focused and also anti free speech so Elon is likely in her crosshairs.

We only see Trump from a distance in the UK, he is banned from his golf course in Scotland.

This is my preferred perspective.

However, like almost all successful, non entrepreneurial, business owners, he appears to have the usual narcissistic and psychopathic traits.

The difference, however is that most business leaders don’t have access to global thermal nuclear weapons of total destruction.

He reminds me a lot of Martin Sheen’s portrayal of the president in the film ā€œThe Dead Zoneā€.

I think both the U.S. and the UK are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to political leaders.

"We are lead by the least among us" -- Terence McKenna

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