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> At the time I though "pedo diver" was more throwing around stereotypes about Thailand and the kinds of people who travel there You removed all the context. H
by philistine 2y ago
> At the time I though "pedo diver" was more throwing around stereotypes about Thailand and the kinds of people who travel there
You removed all the context. He replied to a professional diver, who dismissed Elon's useless submarine idea, with the genius retort that he was just a pedo guy. If that context doesn't change your view, then you must be fun at parties where it's fine to call people pedo if they have technical oppositions to your ideas.
- palmotea 2y agoI know that context, and it makes it sound more like bullying behavior to me, not pizzagate conspiracy stuff. > If that context doesn't change your view, then you must be fun at parties where it's fine to call people pedo if they have technical oppositions to your ideas. I think you totally misread my point and my view of his behavior.
- ethbr1 2y agoI think there's enough of a pattern on the alt-right at this point to disregard joking. If a comment gets too much blowback: oh, I was just joking. If it's popular and/or doesn't get blowback: I was absolutely serious.
- palmotea 2y ago> I think there's enough of a pattern on the alt-right at this point to disregard joking. I don't think Musk was joking with the pedo comment. I think we was being an asshole and a bully. He might have claimed to have been joking in his legal defense, but I think that was a lie. But I don't think his comment has anything to do with pizzagate.
- ethbr1 2y agoThe "joking" in this case would be just being an asshole. The crazy, if there's not too much blowback, would be actually believing in pedophile conspiracies.