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Meanwhile he was trying to fix democracy . He was literally giving checks for people if they voted a certain way and promoted it. There is not more anti democratic than this.

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right because true democracy is when you give cheques to people to convince other people to vote a certain way

Well, he is famous for axing down middle management in companies. Might as well get rid of Super PACs and buy voters directly.

probably also preferable to buying votes by making and executing promises to give people free stuff/programs. at least they aren't using tax payer money

I don't understand how those two are connected. Both are bad though.

my point is that there isnt much difference, and #2 happens by every politician in every democracy.

i have no desire to defend musk but imo people should be criticized for valid reasons or you risk diluting the other arguments.

But the reason given was very valid and specific against Musk.

You introduced a separate issue that is much more widespread, but that doesn't detract from the original criticism, nor dilute it.

you should really listen to one of his full town-hall videos and reflect if anything he said could not have have been said by any of the Clintons or McCain. Then compare the few differences to what you might think of Elon Musk.

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