new cool controversial opinion: the first one was accidental spastic musk behaviour, the second one wasn't anymore because he decided to go all in, in a split second.
I still dunno if it was, and not having a firm opinion is fine, but I really hope it was. A diff motivation other than trolling is willful moving of Overton window - the man is a masterul marketer and knows psychology instinctively, similar but different to Trump.
I wasn't sure at first, but when he turned his back to the crowd and did it again for seemingly no one (the flag maybe?) it was obvious. Masterful gambit sir 🫡
Musk isn’t a natural public speaker or known for his speech-writing or rhetoric.
I suspect, when tasked to give a speech for Trumps inaugural, he got the idea that it would be absolutely hilarious if, just for shits-n-giggles, he would end it by giving a full-on Roman salute.
He knew it would make the heads of his liberal critics explode but that they couldn’t do a damn thing about it. It’s the ultimate “go f__k yourself” to the entire liberal political / cultural establishment he loathes so much. I don’t think there’s much more to his thinking or motivation than that.
new cool controversial opinion: the first one was accidental spastic musk behaviour, the second one wasn't anymore because he decided to go all in, in a split second.
I still dunno if it was, and not having a firm opinion is fine, but I really hope it was. A diff motivation other than trolling is willful moving of Overton window - the man is a masterul marketer and knows psychology instinctively, similar but different to Trump.
I wasn't sure at first, but when he turned his back to the crowd and did it again for seemingly no one (the flag maybe?) it was obvious. Masterful gambit sir 🫡
I think that Elon Musk supports women's suffrage while his alter ego Melon Usk opposes it.
Musk isn’t a natural public speaker or known for his speech-writing or rhetoric.
I suspect, when tasked to give a speech for Trumps inaugural, he got the idea that it would be absolutely hilarious if, just for shits-n-giggles, he would end it by giving a full-on Roman salute.
He knew it would make the heads of his liberal critics explode but that they couldn’t do a damn thing about it. It’s the ultimate “go f__k yourself” to the entire liberal political / cultural establishment he loathes so much. I don’t think there’s much more to his thinking or motivation than that.