This is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen and I saw the Sherlock fandom come up with the Johnlock Conspriacy after season 4.
To be somewhat serious on my shitpost, I think what we’re seeing here is someone who is entirely unaware they are in a filter bubble.
After Trumps election, there was a lot of talk about left wing filter bubbles and it wasn’t unwarranted. But right wing filter bubbles exist too, and if the list of who Musk is following is any indication, he’s pretty much consuming only right wing talking heads who think the transphobic helicopter joke is the height of comedy.
I think, and I can’t know this for sure obviously, that there is this impression in that sphere that people aren’t saying offensive shit that upsets people at large because they’re afraid of some “woke mob.” I don’t think it has honestly occurred to them that a large portion of folks do it because they want to be considerate to other people. And so we see this sort of messaging where Musk views himself as a liberator to the masses when he’s really only an asshole announcing he can now piss in the public square.
Also I think it's important to recognize that he's not just another celebrity with too much money who has shitty opinions on trans people:
He's that too, but he has a trans daughter. He isn't just arbitrarily hating trans people disconnected from any reality, he's doing shit that will hurt HIS FUCKING CHILD.
Keep that in mind when you're calibrating how much you should dislike this shitlord.