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I don't think he is "evil" as in "wanting to make people suffer", just going through a peculiar period of his life and because of the power he has he is able to

I don't think he is "evil" as in "wanting to make people suffer", just going through a peculiar period of his life and because of the power he has he is able to influence the lives of others more than earlier when he was just an interesting and at times funny Internet phenomenon. Apart from that, we do see the world change in front of our eyes so when your ex-allies are becoming unstable it's natural you are evaluating your options, it's not specifically about Musk in this case.

louthy 2y ago
This isn’t a ‘phase’, this is who he is [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...
Terr_ 2y ago
> He was such a legend on Komarr. And yet when I finally met him, he seemed just an ordinary fellow. [...] He was not... what I expected." > Not a monster? Laisa was a polite Komarran; you had to give her credit for that. "Real monsters," observed Miles, answering her thought instead of her words, "often are just ordinary men. Only more confused in their thinking. [...]" -- Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
- wiredfool 2y ago
  Green Silk Rooms.
  - Terr_ 2y ago
    For everybody else: > "He was just a little villain. An old-fashioned craftsman, making crimes one-off. The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real." -- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
GJim 2y ago
> just going through a peculiar period of his life Of all the remarks made by Elron apologists, this one takes the cake!

louthy 2y ago

This isn’t a ‘phase’, this is who he is [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

Terr_ 2y ago

> He was such a legend on Komarr. And yet when I finally met him, he seemed just an ordinary fellow. [...] He was not... what I expected." > Not a monster? Laisa was a polite Komarran; you had to give her credit for that. "Real monsters," observed Miles, answering her thought instead of her words, "often are just ordinary men. Only more confused in their thinking. [...]" -- Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

wiredfool 2y ago
Green Silk Rooms.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  For everybody else: > "He was just a little villain. An old-fashioned craftsman, making crimes one-off. The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real." -- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

GJim 2y ago

> just going through a peculiar period of his life Of all the remarks made by Elron apologists, this one takes the cake!