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Yikes Musk is quickly burning through a lot of public good will. For me it started with trashing Dr. Fauci a week or two ago which was really dumb for a suppos

Yikes Musk is quickly burning through a lot of public good will. For me it started with trashing Dr. Fauci a week or two ago which was really dumb for a supposedly smart person. And now these mainstream journalists. As the marketing face of Tesla Musk is doing a lot of damage. No wonder he had to sell TSLA shares today as they were tanking.

aschearer 4y ago
Stuck by him through the Pelosi attack but Fauci was the limit, huh?
- jacquesm 4y ago
  The statements about Vernon Unsworth should have been enough for anybody.
jacquesm 4y ago
They are tanking because he is selling. Twitter is going to be Musks' undoing at this rate.
kristopolous 4y ago
Hopefully Tesla will be finally decoupled from electric cars in people's minds. There's a bunch of people normally on the environmental left that have become reactionary morons on electric cars, fear mongering driverless efforts and conflating all electric cars with the Tesla brand while misrepresenting the extremely rare fire problem as if it's more common than gasoline car fires (it's not by orders of magnitude) I'm sick of ostensibly progressives demonizing decarbonization efforts because they're too technically ignorant to separate Elon musk and his terrible management, which includes extremely hostile racism, from an underlying technology that every car company is engaged in now. It's classic FUD tactics that in practice just defends the existing order of the carbon economy, which is the most important problem humanity has ever dealt with and somehow the tech won't save us, verso books, this machine kills, etc crowd is now strongly aligned with what Rush Limbaugh's position used to be. So musk can't fall fast enough. good riddance
janalsncm 4y ago
For me it was calling rescuers in the Thailand cave pedos. Seriously, I recommend anyone interested in a heartwarming story to read the Wikipedia page on the Thailand cave rescue. Countries all over the world sent teams of experts to save those boys. Hundreds of people helped out. It just shows how most people in the world are good, but at the same time how the media focuses its coverage on a small, sad little man tweeting from his private jet. Or at least that was my impression.
- stickfigure 4y ago
  To be clear: He called one person "pedo guy". That person had been insulting his / SpaceX's attempt to help. There's plenty to criticize Musk about, but this is clearly a case of "can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". Don't get into a flame war and cry to the legal system when the other guy is better at it than you. The dude deserves no sympathy.
  - ngai_aku 4y ago
    Reckless accusations of pedophilia are fair game in your opinion? Really?
  - absrd 4y ago
    Listen to yourself... the guy literally risked his life saving children who were trapped in a cave, and you think the mere fact that he criticized Musk means that he deserved to be slandered as a pedophile
  - jakelazaroff 4y ago
    Oh well if he only did it to one person I guess it’s okay then!
  - klabb3 4y ago
    The worlds richest toddler wants to make everything about him, distracts everyone with a poorly engineered hard case vessel in a cave that the divers had 0 visibility in, had to take tanks off to push through narrow passageways, and on top of it he lashes out with a personal insult. I don’t know what the “insult” was, but it was a terrible design, and a self-proclaimed engineer/inventor genius should have either seen its limitations from miles away or should have been self-aware enough to shut up and learn more about the problem before creating a media circus out of a fragile life-or-death situation.
WatchDog 4y ago
I've generally been a supporter up until now, with some notable exceptions that others have mentioned. His recent contradictions in regards to his commitments to free speech have certainly burned through a lot of my good will.

aschearer 4y ago

Stuck by him through the Pelosi attack but Fauci was the limit, huh?

jacquesm 4y ago
The statements about Vernon Unsworth should have been enough for anybody.

jacquesm 4y ago

They are tanking because he is selling. Twitter is going to be Musks' undoing at this rate.

kristopolous 4y ago

Hopefully Tesla will be finally decoupled from electric cars in people's minds. There's a bunch of people normally on the environmental left that have become reactionary morons on electric cars, fear mongering driverless efforts and conflating all electric cars with the Tesla brand while misrepresenting the extremely rare fire problem as if it's more common than gasoline car fires (it's not by orders of magnitude) I'm sick of ostensibly progressives demonizing decarbonization efforts because they're too technically ignorant to separate Elon musk and his terrible management, which includes extremely hostile racism, from an underlying technology that every car company is engaged in now. It's classic FUD tactics that in practice just defends the existing order of the carbon economy, which is the most important problem humanity has ever dealt with and somehow the tech won't save us, verso books, this machine kills, etc crowd is now strongly aligned with what Rush Limbaugh's position used to be. So musk can't fall fast enough. good riddance

janalsncm 4y ago

For me it was calling rescuers in the Thailand cave pedos. Seriously, I recommend anyone interested in a heartwarming story to read the Wikipedia page on the Thailand cave rescue. Countries all over the world sent teams of experts to save those boys. Hundreds of people helped out. It just shows how most people in the world are good, but at the same time how the media focuses its coverage on a small, sad little man tweeting from his private jet. Or at least that was my impression.

stickfigure 4y ago
To be clear: He called one person "pedo guy". That person had been insulting his / SpaceX's attempt to help. There's plenty to criticize Musk about, but this is clearly a case of "can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". Don't get into a flame war and cry to the legal system when the other guy is better at it than you. The dude deserves no sympathy.
- ngai_aku 4y ago
  Reckless accusations of pedophilia are fair game in your opinion? Really?
- absrd 4y ago
  Listen to yourself... the guy literally risked his life saving children who were trapped in a cave, and you think the mere fact that he criticized Musk means that he deserved to be slandered as a pedophile
- jakelazaroff 4y ago
  Oh well if he only did it to one person I guess it’s okay then!
- klabb3 4y ago
  The worlds richest toddler wants to make everything about him, distracts everyone with a poorly engineered hard case vessel in a cave that the divers had 0 visibility in, had to take tanks off to push through narrow passageways, and on top of it he lashes out with a personal insult. I don’t know what the “insult” was, but it was a terrible design, and a self-proclaimed engineer/inventor genius should have either seen its limitations from miles away or should have been self-aware enough to shut up and learn more about the problem before creating a media circus out of a fragile life-or-death situation.

WatchDog 4y ago

I've generally been a supporter up until now, with some notable exceptions that others have mentioned. His recent contradictions in regards to his commitments to free speech have certainly burned through a lot of my good will.