• ExLisper@linux.community
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    5 months ago

    I like John Oliver’s take that he really didn’t like the orders to shut down factories during pandemic and got a lot of support from ‘mah freedom’ nutjobs over this causing not-so-slow fall into the extreme right rabbit hole. It actually makes a lot of sense. He clearly craves attention and approval. He used to get it from the left because electric cars are green and SpaceX is cool technology but eventually the left began demanding more regulation and he started getting some criticism (which he doesn’t like that much…). At the same time he noticed that the right is ready to accept him as the ‘free speech savior’ and love him unconditionally as long as he will help them ‘own the libs’ so he switched sides.