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There are more articles from corporate media about this “controversy” than there have been in the past four years regarding the prison-industrial complex and pe

There are more articles from corporate media about this “controversy” than there have been in the past four years regarding the prison-industrial complex and peoples' entire lives being ruined due to our expensive and racist war on drugs. Musk barely took one hit of a spliff on a podcast. Why is this an issue?

gamblor956 8y ago
There have been hundreds of articles about those topics, and maybe a handful about Elon toking up. It's an issue because Elon had already done a bunch of crazy shit and this just plays into the narrative of him being unsuitable for the CEO role.
- marssaxman 8y ago
  There are still people who think taking a hit off a joint is "crazy shit"?
  - GW150914 8y ago
    I would assume he’s referring to calling that guy a pedo, then doubling down on that again, plus setting off a serious SEC investigation because he has the Twitter discipline of an 8 year old. I agree about the pot though, I’d be no more put off if he and Joe drank a beer, which is to say, not at all put off. In 2018 smoking a joint is not news imo. What is news is someone like Musk who seems to be cracking like an egg, giving interview about how he can’t slow down and works until 2AM, taking the time to chat awkwardly with Rogan. All he needs to do to rehabilitate his image is stfu, stop tweeting, stop calling people who helped saved more than a dozen people pedos, stop lying about going private. It’s not like he’s a good speaker so just... shut up. If he just did his job without the running batshit commentary he’d be in none of this shit now, and there would be one less SEC investigation in the world.
  - kup0 8y ago
    In America? Sure, there's plenty of negative narratives and stigma, often religiously-based, going around about people that smoke weed. It's not uncommon. Sessions' views are a good example of these. In light of the other weird stuff Elon has done- the drugs (due to stigma/etc) unfortunately fit into a convenient narrative

gamblor956 8y ago

There have been hundreds of articles about those topics, and maybe a handful about Elon toking up. It's an issue because Elon had already done a bunch of crazy shit and this just plays into the narrative of him being unsuitable for the CEO role.

marssaxman 8y ago
There are still people who think taking a hit off a joint is "crazy shit"?
- GW150914 8y ago
  I would assume he’s referring to calling that guy a pedo, then doubling down on that again, plus setting off a serious SEC investigation because he has the Twitter discipline of an 8 year old. I agree about the pot though, I’d be no more put off if he and Joe drank a beer, which is to say, not at all put off. In 2018 smoking a joint is not news imo. What is news is someone like Musk who seems to be cracking like an egg, giving interview about how he can’t slow down and works until 2AM, taking the time to chat awkwardly with Rogan. All he needs to do to rehabilitate his image is stfu, stop tweeting, stop calling people who helped saved more than a dozen people pedos, stop lying about going private. It’s not like he’s a good speaker so just... shut up. If he just did his job without the running batshit commentary he’d be in none of this shit now, and there would be one less SEC investigation in the world.
- kup0 8y ago
  In America? Sure, there's plenty of negative narratives and stigma, often religiously-based, going around about people that smoke weed. It's not uncommon. Sessions' views are a good example of these. In light of the other weird stuff Elon has done- the drugs (due to stigma/etc) unfortunately fit into a convenient narrative