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Didn’t Musk come clean and say he was trying to stop the California HSR? He didn’t intend to build it.
by melling 3y ago
Didn’t Musk come clean and say he was trying to stop the California HSR?
He didn’t intend to build it.
- Veedrac 3y agoNo, this is manufactured.
- FireBeyond 3y agoBy his biographer?
- Veedrac 3y agoWell, more from the social media process that selects for whatever interpretation of evidence best matches the narrative they want, rather than the narrative that best matches the sum of evidence. The biography did not in fact say he did this, or even argue for it, or even evidence it. It was just the easiest source to interpret that way, and the sources where Musk said* “it doesn't have to be hyperloop, we should just do anything that is even incrementally ahead of what China and Japan are doing, rather than something that's the worst in the world” get ignored, because the actual truth is rarely viral. *paraphrasing from memory from the last time I had this argument and found an interview from the time
- qsdf38100 3y agoNot even trying to hide his disgusting business tactics. Casually, openly admitting it was to waste hundred of millions of investments. And people are still going to defend him because, rockets, and cars from the future, and success! He’s like trump, he knows people will follow regardless of what he does.