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His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore. The rapid and visible progress towards the construction of a viable space age, not so much.

by aa-jv 5y ago

bmitc 5y ago
Well of course you don’t think someone is delusional or a narcissist if you ignore the things they do and say.
- aa-jv 5y ago
  On the contrary, I'm not ignoring what Elon has done. He's done a lot. As for what he has to say, for every one of your tabloid moral arguments .. there are at least 25 things Elon has said, with which I would completely agree. This ideology of moral superlativity is taxing. It doesn't actually get things done. Maybe the reason Elon gets things done, is he is fine with saying stupid shit, but doing very, very good things. I mean, where does this argument lead? Does taking Elon down at a character level, produce some vital substance or circumstance, for the species? I couldn't care less what happened with the Thai submarine. And, neither should you. There is a frickin' viable space age about to happen. Can we stop killing each other so easily - and maybe just get on with bringing a peaceful resolution to the worlds resource problems? Because that's what the space dream is really all about. Infinite sky. Narcissism and Delusion don't get us there. Like, seriously.
ncallaway 5y ago
"His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore." So I should just ignore as irrelevant the Twitter feed of the person who is currently attempting to buy Twitter? I'm sorry, but that's just doesn't make sense to me.
- aa-jv 5y ago
  Well, it remains to be understood just what will happen to Twitter, once it has been de-weaponised. (Twitter is already in the hands of the bad guys, btw. Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened.) So .. are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter? Because, factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation.
  - ncallaway 5y ago
    > factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation. That's simply not a statement of fact. It's a subjective opinion. > are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter? Yes. In my opinion, Elon Musk's ownership could conceivably make Twitter worse. > Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened. This seems, honestly, like a ludicrous claim. _Everything_ that _everyone_ is worried about has already happened? Come on now...

His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore. The rapid and visible progress towards the construction of a viable space age, not so much.

by aa-jv 5y ago

His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore. The rapid and visible progress towards the construction of a viable space age, not so much.

bmitc 5y ago

Well of course you don’t think someone is delusional or a narcissist if you ignore the things they do and say.

aa-jv 5y ago
On the contrary, I'm not ignoring what Elon has done. He's done a lot. As for what he has to say, for every one of your tabloid moral arguments .. there are at least 25 things Elon has said, with which I would completely agree. This ideology of moral superlativity is taxing. It doesn't actually get things done. Maybe the reason Elon gets things done, is he is fine with saying stupid shit, but doing very, very good things. I mean, where does this argument lead? Does taking Elon down at a character level, produce some vital substance or circumstance, for the species? I couldn't care less what happened with the Thai submarine. And, neither should you. There is a frickin' viable space age about to happen. Can we stop killing each other so easily - and maybe just get on with bringing a peaceful resolution to the worlds resource problems? Because that's what the space dream is really all about. Infinite sky. Narcissism and Delusion don't get us there. Like, seriously.

ncallaway 5y ago

"His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore." So I should just ignore as irrelevant the Twitter feed of the person who is currently attempting to buy Twitter? I'm sorry, but that's just doesn't make sense to me.

aa-jv 5y ago
Well, it remains to be understood just what will happen to Twitter, once it has been de-weaponised. (Twitter is already in the hands of the bad guys, btw. Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened.) So .. are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter? Because, factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation.
- ncallaway 5y ago
  > factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation. That's simply not a statement of fact. It's a subjective opinion. > are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter? Yes. In my opinion, Elon Musk's ownership could conceivably make Twitter worse. > Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened. This seems, honestly, like a ludicrous claim. _Everything_ that _everyone_ is worried about has already happened? Come on now...