> Modern journalism goes for clicks, which means generating outrage.

Is this about journalists talking about musk, or about musk himself? I mostly learn about his views through his own tweets that twitter always makes sure to serve me in my home page, and "goes for clicks"/"generating outrage" seems to fit well how musk uses his platform. In any case, his politics seem awful to me even without any journalistic mediation of them.

I've seen his tweets direct. You don't have to spin his opinions for them to look horrendous.

His own X posts make him out to be an apartheid apologist and white nationalist.

> His politics are less extreme than you probably think.

Just look at the whole DOGE mess. Brush aside anything you believe can be brushed aside due to incompetence. Look at the result.

Explain exactly what can possibly lead you to believe that his politics are less extreme than you possibly think.

You're talking about the Nazi salute guy, by the way.

Did you see what DOGE did to the government? In particular to USAID? Estimates are that this has already killed hundreds of thousands of people who relied on that aid.

The issue isn't just Musk's politics. It's that his actions have been evil, the kind of negative impact that major wars have.

We're talking something like 1 million dead people per year with a quarter of those being children. For a level of assistance that cost the US nothing (0.43% of federal spending). This is an evil that in a few years puts you on the list of biggest mass murderers in history.