> He likes to help people if he can come out as a hero, otherwise you’re a "pedo"

I made reference to exactly this if you read carefully. I actually think this rejection is an inflection point in his behavior. He ought to have been more gracious and received the rejection without hurt to his ego (and reacting as he did). I think since then he’s wrongly viewed that event as ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ and become more and more defiant in his attitude.

> what would make you reconsider seeing him as a genuinely helpful person?

I don’t believe that people are immutably good or evil. Certainly I would regard him returning to a more ‘can-do’ and less combative role in society to be very ‘helpful’. He has a history of effectively marshaling resources towards difficult problems, he has a lot of capital at his disposal, and if he could return to doing that in a more egalitarian fashion he could literally change the world for the better. But first he’d have to put his ego in the back seat

Note that you can be anti-Russia and anti-Ukraine at the same time.

Or put another way Musk is anti censorship, anti war in Ukraine, anti complying with the Harris/Biden agenda to deplatform political rivals such as they did 4 days after Biden took office, forcing Pre Musk Twitter/X and Facebook to do their bidding - or else. Turns out the ones squawking loudest about the other being a threat to democracy are in fact the ones actively working against our Constitutional Rights. And I’m a lifelong Democrat who changed to Indy and won’t support these clowns going forward. Wake up before the US is just like the UK and the police are at your door because of a post they disagree with - fuck the first amendment, right? Just like Harris and Walz just said, the first amendment doesn’t protect misinformation or hate speech… actually; it 100% does but the boomer news is gonna try to make us all believe more of their lies.