There’s also this Ukrainian report on the matter but it’s in Ukrainian, so I’m sharing the Mastodon post in English.

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    His daughter went trans so he went full South Africa.

    Since the US is so capitalist they said anyone with enough money gets to rule. Money rules elections… So here we are…

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      Well that would explain some of it. That can be an extremely stressful thing to happen to a parent. I don’t see why it would make anyone go to Putin, though. I have a similar situation, and while the experience sure shifted me to a conservative direction a bit (from a pretty hard left/liberal position), I have no doubt about Putin’s politics being utter and complete shit.

      Even though some people here are furiously trying to make even more conservative…

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        Explain what? That it’s so stressful treating something that you spend millions to talk shit on said treatment?

        So you sign off on it why? Then say you were “tricked” why? You think his kid got treatment without consent?

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          That would explain his changed positions, I meant. Because of the stress he must have experienced as a parent.

          His bullshit online rants and recent interviews about it is another thing of course. That man has received most of his fortune from being a Twitter PR person. It looks almost is if he made some sort of a deal with the devil or monkeypaw curse on that one.

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            Stress as a parent? Dude saw his daughter maybe once a month. He’d tossed her aside long before she came out

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            That man has received most of his fortune from being a Twitter PR person.

            Not the emerald mines?

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                The part where his family was already rich from an emerald mine and other exploitative shit, and that he has done nothing but lose money on Twitter.

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                    That man has received most of his fortune from being a Twitter PR person.

                    Twitter seems like an utter failure, yes, at least from a business point of view.

                    Excuse me, hey put those goalposts down.

                    Elon made money when he shut the fuck up and let talented engineers (of companies he bought with his family wealth) make him look like a genius.

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        That can be an extremely stressful thing to happen to a parent.

        Only an involved one, not so much an absentee father, who seems to be mostly concerned with spreading his genes. He’s at 12 children now.

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          On the flip side he’s a horrible and absent father so he seems to think that the only thing a man contributes that affects the children is his sperm.

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        Here’s an idea - try some empathy instead of whatever this “it sure shifted me to a conservative direction…” bullshit is.

        It’s not really all that believable that any normal person would behave like you say you did, but in case you’re actually serious I feel sorry for your child. Nobody deserves shit like that from their own parents.

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            No. Do you have a serious case of anger management issues? You sure sound like it.

            “I truly don’t want to…” yeah I bet you really don’t want to.

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        How in the ever loving fuck would being a supportive and loving parent to your child be “extremely stressful?”

        Bro holy shit, you are so close to realizing that you might just be wrong, and instead you double down?