He wants attention from nerds and chuds. He really wants to be the Nerd King or whatever, so he wastes his time and money with this shit. When Bernie Sanders was popular (2015 - 2018), Elon used to pretend he was a socialist (what he meant was that he was a social democrat) and that he supported Basic Income and LGBTQ+ rights, but behind the scenes he was still a conservative lib that gave money and support to people like Obama, Hillary Dlinton and Biden.
I believe Elon thinks being a chud/republican is popular now and counter-culture, so now he changed all his opinions to be compatible with those people and be popular with these people. Elon is a very shallow person with basically no real morals or ideology besides making money and being popular, that's why he refuses to say bad things about China and the Chinese goverment.
He wants attention from nerds and chuds. He really wants to be the Nerd King or whatever, so he wastes his time and money with this shit. When Bernie Sanders was popular (2015 - 2018), Elon used to pretend he was a socialist (what he meant was that he was a social democrat) and that he supported Basic Income and LGBTQ+ rights, but behind the scenes he was still a conservative lib that gave money and support to people like Obama, Hillary Dlinton and Biden.
I believe Elon thinks being a chud/republican is popular now and counter-culture, so now he changed all his opinions to be compatible with those people and be popular with these people. Elon is a very shallow person with basically no real morals or ideology besides making money and being popular, that's why he refuses to say bad things about China and the Chinese goverment.