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It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. After that he started getting more and more un

by ta1243 2y ago

It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. After that he started getting more and more unhinged, leading through to buying twitter, then trying to get out of it, then doubling down.

dyauspitr 2y ago
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- scblock 2y ago
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  - nervmodem 2y ago
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    - ta1243 2y ago
      > I think the republican position is more nuanced than that. To summarize: 'all children are special and important but any life changing decisions like joining the army or getting a tattoo are best left for later in life. I didn't realise republicans were against genital mutilation.
    - zuminator 2y ago
      > It's quiet amusingy that up ubtill recently in the usa it was easier to get surgery to turn you to your 'real' gender compared to buying yourself some alcohol. That's not true at all. Kids can't just get surgery on their own. They need parental consent at the very least. Interestingly, one survey indicated that 97% of minors receiving breast reduction surgery were not transgender kids, but cis male kids with gynecomastia. In your hand-wringing about life-changing decisions, would you deny these boys the treatment they need and instead force them to keep their breast growth all throughout adolescence? And it's certainly easier to get parental consent to consume alcohol than it is to get elective gender-affirming surgery. The total number of people getting GAS in the USA in one year has never exceeded ~13,000. That's for all ages. Meanwhile about 10 million young people under 21 per year drink alcohol, of whom about 10% were able to obtain it from their own home, which in some states is perfectly legal.
    - seethedeaduu 2y ago
      Not starting transition is also a life changing decision. Testosterone never stops permanently mutilating the bodies that it poisons until it's removed from the body.
  - throwaway898988 2y ago
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- reverendsteveii 2y ago
  *daughter
ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
Don't abuse ketamine, kids.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  And love your kids, folks.
  - ethbr1 2y ago
    Or at least don't hate them and then become convinced there are global conspiracies...
  - TomK32 2y ago
    Watch out and make sure your rocket doesn't explode to early.
Workaccount2 2y ago
If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.
- grandiego 2y ago
  Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.
  - OKRainbowKid 2y ago
    Not as sad as a world in which Billionaires actively and shamelessly use their power to rebuild the government on their favor and spread misinformation, populism and hate globally their own media platforms.
  - amluto 2y ago
    Only if one insists on talking/tweeting all the time. Plenty of business leaders do just fine by mostly keeping their mouths shut.
    - timschmidt 2y ago
      Ah, so, just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place What was the genre of that film again?
  - andrepd 2y ago
    He could, however, not give a fuck about whether he is liked or not, which is certainly what I would do if I had 400,000,000,000$ of fuck you money. But being what would in rude terms would be described as an "attention whore", he instead spends his time making insane tweets and pretending to be good at videogames in order to impress a bunch of adolescent boys. It's almost sad.
  - zzzeek 2y ago
indoordin0saur 2y ago
> It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. If you read the Isaacson biography of him, it seems like he's always been like this.

by ta1243 2y ago

dyauspitr 2y ago

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scblock 2y ago
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- nervmodem 2y ago
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  - ta1243 2y ago
    > I think the republican position is more nuanced than that. To summarize: 'all children are special and important but any life changing decisions like joining the army or getting a tattoo are best left for later in life. I didn't realise republicans were against genital mutilation.
  - zuminator 2y ago
    > It's quiet amusingy that up ubtill recently in the usa it was easier to get surgery to turn you to your 'real' gender compared to buying yourself some alcohol. That's not true at all. Kids can't just get surgery on their own. They need parental consent at the very least. Interestingly, one survey indicated that 97% of minors receiving breast reduction surgery were not transgender kids, but cis male kids with gynecomastia. In your hand-wringing about life-changing decisions, would you deny these boys the treatment they need and instead force them to keep their breast growth all throughout adolescence? And it's certainly easier to get parental consent to consume alcohol than it is to get elective gender-affirming surgery. The total number of people getting GAS in the USA in one year has never exceeded ~13,000. That's for all ages. Meanwhile about 10 million young people under 21 per year drink alcohol, of whom about 10% were able to obtain it from their own home, which in some states is perfectly legal.
  - seethedeaduu 2y ago
    Not starting transition is also a life changing decision. Testosterone never stops permanently mutilating the bodies that it poisons until it's removed from the body.
- throwaway898988 2y ago
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reverendsteveii 2y ago
*daughter

ThrowawayTestr 2y ago

Don't abuse ketamine, kids.

MrMcCall 2y ago
And love your kids, folks.
- ethbr1 2y ago
  Or at least don't hate them and then become convinced there are global conspiracies...
- TomK32 2y ago
  Watch out and make sure your rocket doesn't explode to early.

Workaccount2 2y ago

If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

grandiego 2y ago
Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.
- OKRainbowKid 2y ago
  Not as sad as a world in which Billionaires actively and shamelessly use their power to rebuild the government on their favor and spread misinformation, populism and hate globally their own media platforms.
- amluto 2y ago
  Only if one insists on talking/tweeting all the time. Plenty of business leaders do just fine by mostly keeping their mouths shut.
  - timschmidt 2y ago
    Ah, so, just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place What was the genre of that film again?
- andrepd 2y ago
  He could, however, not give a fuck about whether he is liked or not, which is certainly what I would do if I had 400,000,000,000$ of fuck you money. But being what would in rude terms would be described as an "attention whore", he instead spends his time making insane tweets and pretending to be good at videogames in order to impress a bunch of adolescent boys. It's almost sad.
- zzzeek 2y ago

indoordin0saur 2y ago

> It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. If you read the Isaacson biography of him, it seems like he's always been like this.