Digital Marketing is one of, if not the biggest killer of personal privacy in the modern age. The amount of data they collect can be used to sway a person towards just about anything: at least, as long as they have the right inclinations. Something that was very much targeted and exploited with Cambridge Analytica.
This is the issue with Cambridge Analytica that has gone over your head. Also, no one is going to listen to a 50+ minute podcast just to try and understand whatever point you're trying to make.
It's both. Kids suck and can be clique-like over the dumbest things. But these corporations also realize the amount they can make when their brand is a "status symbol", and they purposely market around that.
Essentially: Elon gets mad about the recent budget bill in congress. He's also angry he can't stay in his special government employee role full-time. He is also getting pressure from his shareholders for EV credits getting cut during his time in government.
Elon starts tweeting against the bill, and this starts a back and forth, with Elon and Trump fighting like exes trying to be vague
The subtext is quickly dropped and tensions amplify until Elon threatens to decommissioned his dragon rocket. Trump retaliates by saying that Elon kept him out of the loop on DOGE and was useless. This part is a bit hazy for me. But this is during their main spat when Elon was posting on Twitter non-stop.
This eventually culminates in Elon admitting publicly that Trump is in the Epstein files. Trump threatened to retaliate by pulling all government contracts that involve Elon's companies.
Elon, realizing he burned the last political bridge he has, is likely trying to salvage what he can. It is likely to go nowhere as Trump is as vindictive and petty as they come.
And? He actively and gladly hurt/killed hundreds of thousands to quite possibly millions of people in Gaza through the military aid he supplied Israel for their genocide. Biden's ass cancer can't kill him fast enough.
Fuck off nazi