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I honestly think Musk was trying to help. He does this stuff everywhere, Puerto Rico, Australia etc. it does seem PR, but also very risky and I like that he doe

I honestly think Musk was trying to help. He does this stuff everywhere, Puerto Rico, Australia etc. it does seem PR, but also very risky and I like that he does unorthodox not by the book things. I also understand he sucked the gravity of the praise there with news articles mostly mentioning him and I understand how divers who risked their lives might feel constantly being asked about the sub. This diver was rude, but if he’s been asked this constantly I don’t blame him really. This is one moment where he should have kept quiet on twitter and it would have blown over, but he fired back which is in poor taste, but still not too bad. But the second he called him pedo...that was the lowest point of Elon Musk ever. It was petty, narcissistic, rude. His teen fanboys will no doubt harrass and dox this hero, he’ll have this moniker on him forever, and it’s just because Elon was attacked. Whenever he feels unfairly attacked he always attacks back, sometimes very very rudely. I hope he gets sued for millions. I don’t blame his journalism attacks because they were fairly justified, but this was really messed up.

Someone 8y ago
”I honestly think Musk was trying to help. He does this stuff everywhere, Puerto Rico, Australia etc. it does seem PR” He may have been trying to help without consideration for how the world thinks about him and his companies, but it became PR the moment he tweeted about it (if John Doe tweets he’s donated to charity X, i consider that PR for John Doe, too. If he just wanted others to donate, he could have tweeted “X does good stuff and needs money” without mentioning his own good deed)
- propman 8y ago
  Wow that is so bloody obvious, I didn’t even think about that...Elon was constantly tweeting it out, updates and everything. You can help others and have it be PR simultaneously like Elon was doing, or you can help others and not be PR. So this was obviously PR for Elon, SpaceX,and Tesla. One of the replies to his tweet made me change my opinion a bit too. Government officials who make the decision what to do should listen to the experts, but if famous people come the govt officials might listen to them instead and it could have been a disaster. She was saying how in these situation, rescue workers hate celebrities coming because they have to fight against their usually erroneous opinions, making it harder for the workers to get through to the decision makers

Someone 8y ago

”I honestly think Musk was trying to help. He does this stuff everywhere, Puerto Rico, Australia etc. it does seem PR” He may have been trying to help without consideration for how the world thinks about him and his companies, but it became PR the moment he tweeted about it (if John Doe tweets he’s donated to charity X, i consider that PR for John Doe, too. If he just wanted others to donate, he could have tweeted “X does good stuff and needs money” without mentioning his own good deed)

propman 8y ago
Wow that is so bloody obvious, I didn’t even think about that...Elon was constantly tweeting it out, updates and everything. You can help others and have it be PR simultaneously like Elon was doing, or you can help others and not be PR. So this was obviously PR for Elon, SpaceX,and Tesla. One of the replies to his tweet made me change my opinion a bit too. Government officials who make the decision what to do should listen to the experts, but if famous people come the govt officials might listen to them instead and it could have been a disaster. She was saying how in these situation, rescue workers hate celebrities coming because they have to fight against their usually erroneous opinions, making it harder for the workers to get through to the decision makers