I was going to disagree, but then I thought about it and gave a reluctant upvote.
Maybe it’s a bit crass, but I wonder if Elon is on some drugs or something. His behavior is bizarre, and I don’t buy the “he was always like this” line. He didn’t seem to be like this at all until recently.
He really has though. I remember in 2013 when NYT gave Tesla a somewhat bad review he became extremely combative trying to use the cars GPS data to allege that the reviewer was intentionally trying to get lower performance, then a bit later he sued Top Gear for a bad review. Most famously of course is the whole pedo thing but Mjsk has always been very combative.
Could be personal/family issues as well. Perhaps his daughter transitioning genders and disavowing him, combined with Grimes moving on to date a transgender woman triggered something inside of him to go on this crusade against the "Woke" who he blames for these things happening.
> Musk has a dystopian view of the left’s influence on America, which helps explain his wild pursuit of Twitter to liberate free speech. He blames the fact that his teenage daughter no longer wants to be associated with him on the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. “It’s full-on communism . . . and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” says Musk. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can’t win them all.”
Now what sort of character is required for a person to say, "Can't win them all," I won't speculate about.
How recently is recently? To me, he showed his true colors in 2018 when he accused someone of being a pedophile because they had the audacity to disagree with an idea Musk had. He punches down, way down.
He's shown occasional impulsive, destructive behavior in the past ("pedo guy", getting in trouble with the SEC) but he seems to have lost whatever handle he had on it.
There's no turning back!