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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 poo
by 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 agoI 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 agoHe 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...