Elon Musk defecting to the far-right was an unbelievable Black Swan moment for politics in the West. One of the most influential individuals in the world aligning their politics with what had been a relative ideological fringe and even buying popular distribution for them was an unprecedented step that has already had real world impacts.

A few years ago it seemed that liberal progressivism was still on an unstoppable roll but I think that Musk may succeed in halting or even destroying it over time.

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Probably hot take, but I don't interpret him as far-right. Culture has just been going quite left in past decade.

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It seems like he started off going against liberal excess but now he’s really on the far right. He just wrote an article endorsing the AfD in Germany

Ah, haven't been following too closely to much after the election podcasts and such