does that mean trump has leverage on elon musk?
It may be that he thinks he does, or that there is enough reason to believe so. Musk could probably do with a lessening of pressures from the likes of the EPA, and what better position to be put into than where he might be, with a little bit give-and-take mutual support.
I don't know who is playing who more, but (as with other appointees) there are probably various reasons why the patron-client relationship might exist. Especially for those that already openly proclaimed their choice of sugardaddy. (In the equation of support, you might not expect to be penalised so much for being aligned against the Democrats, if they won, as if you had been aligned against the Republicans, with them winning. Especially if you happen to have a whole social media network of data at hand to get an idea of the lie of the land, possibly even to nudge back.)
As to why we don't have a clear MAGA membership here [note: not in reply to any of the last three messages, they popped up whilst I was editing - any direct agreement of opposition to them is pure coincidence]... Well, we're perhaps a bit more international, and not so large a userbase as can tolerate a vocal sub-population. There's one or two 'locals' that I'd say have been more that way inclined than others, as there are those who comparatively swing over the other way. But people who go so far as to cross the lines in being impolite (in whatever way) tend to get actions, warnings and (eventually) banhammers deployed against them. Strong opinions, yes; outright full-on meming, not that I've noticed. Compared to the degrees that I've seen elsewhere.
The bias of education (we few, we happy few) I would also put down to us being a very small community. It takes
effort, and perhaps a bit of luck, to get here. And these days, those who come across DF through Discord or Steam forums might stay there rather than coming to an 'old style[1]' BBS like this.
We still get all sorts here. And we're not so much even a 'liberal' echo-chamber (some lone echoes here are, of course, free to think and say otherwise... which puts the whole situation in an amusing logical bind). Possibly there's a bias towards Tarn's own opinions, but there's still plenty of rattle-room. But an intolerance/discouragement of performative extremism.
[1] I feel personally obliged to point out that this "© 2016" web interface is more than three decades, and at least four major "online revolutions" newer than the kind of BBS that I
used to use, and even that kind was an improvement on the
really "old style" ones that preceded. But it's closer to the original Web2.0 than whatever we might term today's online ecosystem.
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