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Similar 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 accomplish
by toss1 4y ago
Similar 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.