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well said, I'd argue Musk himself has fallen prey to this partisan politics - it is really hard to support a large part of his tweets these days. He seems to h
by ramblerman 4y ago
well said,
I'd argue Musk himself has fallen prey to this partisan politics - it is really hard to support a large part of his tweets these days. He seems to have fallen into some strange mental quagmire with the failure of his twitter buyout, and his ego is not letting him accept any other reason for it than partisan sabotage.
But the way he is portrayed in the aggregate here and on reddit is even worse. He is either a genius beyond any criticism, or a complete fool, was always a fool and twitter is now exposing that.
We can't simply accept any middle ground, which is that he is likely a flawed human being who did some pretty amazing things once upon a time. If anything I hope we can steer him back to moonshot ideas, because he had a talent for it.
- sneak 4y agoMusk is perhaps the least partisan public figure I know of; everyone on the left seems to assume he's a right winger because he doesn't subscribe to left-wing orthodoxy, so he must be one of the Bad Other Guys. TBH it seems clear to me that he is a closeted libertarian who can't safely express his views in full without alienating huge segments of his mostly-red autoworker base or his mostly-blue techworker base. It's a difficult tightrope to walk in the current ongoing partisan culture brawl.
- freeone3000 4y ago“Base”? What base? Nobody voted for him, he just has a lot of money. Do people have to like him too?
- sneak 4y agoTens of thousands of people choose to work for companies he runs. Without a large number of supporters, his companies would fail.
- phatfish 4y agoHis "base" is Crypto Bros and conspiracy theorists if Twitter is any indicator.