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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Elon is not a leftist - he’s actually the opposite. He’s a libertarian. 

Being a libertarian isn’t exactly what you think it is. It’s not like the weird libertarian party with presidential candidates smoking weed on TV and trying to be cool. It really just comes down to regulation. 

Libertarians want to do whatever they want, without government interference. They don’t like taxes, they don’t care about agencies like NHTSA, the FAA, FCC, or FTC. Along with that comes the belief in social freedoms like abortion or smoking weed. 

Elon has realized that as a rich person he has all the social freedom he wants. So he shifts to the side that is against regulation, aka the right.
gpt
I don’t think he’d like the lack of regulation so much if he realized how much lower gas powered cars and gasoline would be without the regulations…

Or how his competitors would have colluded to put Tesla out of business from day one…

Or how he chooses to live in one of the most heavily regulated countries in the world because without them the country turns into a shithole full of smog, unfettered resource extraction, and corruption.

But, sure, it’s easy to be a libertarian when you don’t have to live the consequences.

Do libertarians really not like the FAA?