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Hey maybe he’ll finally reveal his true nature in an irrefutable way and society can progress a little.
by ianai 5y ago
Hey maybe he’ll finally reveal his true nature in an irrefutable way and society can progress a little.
- nkozyra 5y agoNever revealing his "true nature" has been a critical part of his myth building - people tend to fill in the blanks and mold the idea of Elon Musk into their ideal.
- suction 5y ago
- ianai 5y agoIs there much of a difference?
- mwint 5y agoSo you’re assuming his motives based on his skin color? There’s a word for that.
- suction 5y agopoint out in my sentence where the bad man hurt you?
- JaimeThompson 5y agoWe can assume his motives by making note of his actions and comparing how well they match up to his words. Often his actions are directly opposite of his words.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoHow much time have you spent in South Africa? When I was there I never talked to a single British or Afrikaans that I would ever describe as white supremacist, or even racist. Everyone of them at some point voted ANC, mostly in Mandela‘s time. However, going through Durban, I saw the dead remains of Namibian immigrants who were just necklaced in a almost 100% black area. Almost all the murder or violence there is white aggressors. I was forced out of Escort one day for being white. And our car was attacked by bottles and rocks in Mooi River, very presumably because we were the only white people around, although I didn’t ask specifically. Slandering someone you don’t know as white supremacist because they are a South African white, is really messed up.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoCan’t edit. Almost none of the violence in Durban was white aggressors.
- lurker619 5y agoThe previous VP engg of twitter was also a white guy from south africa. (mike montano)
- WA 5y agoNo, because he did already plenty of times and there are still a lot of fanboys.
- ianai 5y agoYeah. Tangentially, I wonder if free speech absolutism can only hold so long as shame still exists in wide enough numbers. Psychopaths occur probably too frequently…
- mschuster91 5y agoThe problem is that Musk has legitimately advanced society in a number of ways with each of his adventures. He is a ... very complex person to put it lightly, and even for his legitimate issues and scandals he caused (e.g. blatant ignorance of SEC regulations or calling a rescue diver a pedophile), he still has the achievements on his "good side".
- kylecordes 5y agoI think these two aspects are inexorably intertwined, the same personality trait. On the plus side, you get first principles thinking, bull in a china shop unstoppability. You get important progress in rocket technology (reuse and radically lower cost per kg delivered). You get electric vehicles that people want to buy, at scale, after decades of slow walking by the rest of the industry. On the minus side, you get the naive notion that Twitter could be made radically more "free" without turning into a cesspool that loses the bulk of its mainstream audience.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoMusk with a lot of help of others and a lot of government subsidies you mean. The same subsidies he now things aren't needed, that others don't need subsidies because he doesn't need them anymore. Note this is based on his public comments, not his actual actions as his actions show he still loves subsides. I suggest that someone who can spend 40 billion of a social media platform doesn't need taxpayers to give him quite as much assistance as he gets.
- licebmi__at__ 5y agoIf sending a car to space out of spite didn’t reveal his true nature to his followers, I’m not sure what will.
- panick21_ 5y ago> out of spite What are you even talking about? The car was just a mass simulator. They had to pick something, why not make it something fun?