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You have wonder what goes on in Musk's head. He lays off a guy with a fairly large Twitter following, who is quite wealthy, having founded a company that sold t

by Veen 4y ago

You have wonder what goes on in Musk's head. He lays off a guy with a fairly large Twitter following, who is quite wealthy, having founded a company that sold to Twitter, and is a well-known philanthropist in his own country, who also happens to have muscular dystrophy. The guy politely tries to get his attention to find out whether he still has a job. And Musk's response is to interrogate him publicly, mock him, and accuse him of using his disability as an excuse to avoid work. It's cretinous in so many different ways it's hard to see how the stupidest person would think it a sensible course of action.

jccalhoun 4y ago
It is what I have come to expect from the guy that called one of the people helping rescue the kids in the cave in Thailand a "pedo guy," told a Buzzfeed reporter that the reporter was "defending child rapists" when asked about the comment, hired an investigator to find proof, and then convinced a court that he was just kidding about it when he was sued. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-16/elon-musk-hired-detective-pedo-guy-tweet https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-16/elon-musk-... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
- pwinnski 4y ago
  And got away with it, sadly. He has now been to court several times and demonstrated that he can say ANYTHING, and face no consequences legally, and a large pool of sycophants will support every word, no matter how awful.
  - rsynnott 4y ago
    I mean, define "got away with it". He pretty comprehensively destroyed his own reputation; before that, the absolutely standard public opinion, and really the opinion of anyone who hadn't scrutinised him in detail, was that he was a magical super-genius. Afterwards, not so much. Particularly post-Twitter, the problem has gotten _clearer_ to the public, but that was his first really public obvious "by the way, have I mentioned that I'm completely awful?" thing.
    - pwinnski 4y ago
      He won both court cases I'm thinking of, which seem to be best described as "got away with it." Public opinion might be up or down, depending on which community you're polling, but I believe he's back to being the richest person in the world[0], so I'd say he "got away with it" in every possible respect. 0. https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-once-again-richest-215540832.html https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-once-again-richest-21554083...
koonsolo 4y ago
Elon has an ego problem. He can't stand it when his ego gets challenged, so he then tries to mock the other person. He also doesn't back down when he clearly is wrong. It's a sign of immaturity.

by Veen 4y ago

jccalhoun 4y ago

It is what I have come to expect from the guy that called one of the people helping rescue the kids in the cave in Thailand a "pedo guy," told a Buzzfeed reporter that the reporter was "defending child rapists" when asked about the comment, hired an investigator to find proof, and then convinced a court that he was just kidding about it when he was sued. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-16/elon-musk-hired-detective-pedo-guy-tweet https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-16/elon-musk-... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

pwinnski 4y ago
And got away with it, sadly. He has now been to court several times and demonstrated that he can say ANYTHING, and face no consequences legally, and a large pool of sycophants will support every word, no matter how awful.
- rsynnott 4y ago
  I mean, define "got away with it". He pretty comprehensively destroyed his own reputation; before that, the absolutely standard public opinion, and really the opinion of anyone who hadn't scrutinised him in detail, was that he was a magical super-genius. Afterwards, not so much. Particularly post-Twitter, the problem has gotten _clearer_ to the public, but that was his first really public obvious "by the way, have I mentioned that I'm completely awful?" thing.
  - pwinnski 4y ago
    He won both court cases I'm thinking of, which seem to be best described as "got away with it." Public opinion might be up or down, depending on which community you're polling, but I believe he's back to being the richest person in the world[0], so I'd say he "got away with it" in every possible respect. 0. https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-once-again-richest-215540832.html https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-once-again-richest-21554083...

koonsolo 4y ago

Elon has an ego problem. He can't stand it when his ego gets challenged, so he then tries to mock the other person. He also doesn't back down when he clearly is wrong. It's a sign of immaturity.