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Elon should focus on accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy, rather than accelerating Twitter's transition to being a free for all hell scape.

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...and rather than recommending voting for politicians who do not believe in man-made climate change...

He has never recommended voting for a politician who doesn't believe in climate change. He once said that if you want a split congress you have to vote for the party not in control of congress but that's a very different thing than telling someone to vote for a politician who doesn't believe in climate change

He voted for Mayra Flores in June:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-drifti...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1536973965394157569

Mayra Flores is pro-oil and pro-gas. She says the "oil and gas industry is critical to the success of our State and Nation". And that she "will always work to help the oil and gas industry and stand firm against radical policies that would undermine it":

https://www.mayrafloresforcongress.com/issues/

She's an election and January 6th conspiracy theorist:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/mayra-flores-cap...

She lost her seat in the midterms:

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-mayra-flores-blamed-vote...

fucking frightening

Publicly stating you voted for somebody is not the same as recommending somebody vote for the same person. You could perhaps claim it is implicit, but that is rather flimsy.

Those are some impressive mental gymnastics.

Musk is showing you who and what he is. Believe him.

That is the definition of an endorsement.

...except in this specific case, where it's exactly the same thing.

Unfortunately, he's not the ideas man. Clearly.

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