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Some of your points are valid though saying he is an idiot and a conman undercuts your statement. The man is no idiot, and while some of the things he has said

• ojnabieoot 6y ago
  See above about being an idiot and being a genius not being mutually exclusive. I am not denying that he is talented and he probably has a > 105 IQ. The Autopilot controversy is just a straight con job, and a very stupid one. The BS about the $420 stock price was a horrendously stupid con job. His disinformation mongering about coronavirus - when he is smart enough to know the truth - is also a con job, both for his fans and his workers. Deliberately under-counting workers injuries at Tesla plants is conning safety regulators - it's not as dumb as Elon's other cons, but it's a con. Removing safety markers because Elon doesn't like them aesthetically is maybe not a con job but it is remarkably idiotic. The PR-motivated stuff about Musk engineering a solution to those kids trapped in Thailand - straight-up con job, and one that blew up in his face due to his idiotic and narcissitic use of Twitter. Hyperloop (remember that?) was always a con job, and one that was so transparently stupid that nobody but Musk could have gotten away with it. I could go on. The point is that I am calling Musk an "idiot conman" because of a) his well-documented affinity for conning his customers, fans, investors, and government agencies b) his well-documented acts of being a huge idiot, including in his planning and execution of most of the above con jobs