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He was involved in companies that built real things like rockets. That's pretty cool! I was willing to cut him some slack in the past... ok, he's quirky, whatev
by davidw 4y ago
He was involved in companies that built real things like rockets. That's pretty cool! I was willing to cut him some slack in the past... ok, he's quirky, whatever. But now he just looks like a petty, nasty person and I think he threw away the good will people had for him, even if they weren't in the 'adore' category.
- toss1 4y agoSimilar here. I used to cut him quite a bit of slack, and have posted several defenses of him on here several years ago, primarily for having actual accomplishments. At this point, I'm embarrassed to have done so, and seriously doubt even those accomplishments, which I now credit far more to the people around him accomplishing despite Elon rather than due to his influence (not that he deserves zero credit, but far less than he gets or wants). Aside from the kind of recent entitled asshattery and actively promoting authoritarian propaganda while claiming it's all "centrist" (perhaps it is from an apartheid point of view..., what undid it for me was his public exchanges with Twitter engineers in late '22, just displaying brazed BS and ignorance while trying to belittle everyone. What a smug, ignorant, blustering, asshat, wasting everyone's time, all for his own inadequate ego.