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• abvdasker 1y ago
  > If only it weren't for those few tweets, it would be successful and done by now. Not what I said. I said he did it to try and kill high speed rail, not that he was solely responsible for its failure. And Musk did a whole lot more than tweet. Just because you are ignorant of the significant evidence that this was (and remains) Musk's goal doesn't mean it isn't true. Ashlee Vance wrote about this way back in 2015: https://x.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990 https://x.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990 . Just this year he used his involvement in DOGE to cut federal funding for what remains of the project: https://gizmodo.com/musks-doge-takes-aim-at-california-high-speed-rail-and-anything-else-that-isnt-nailed-down-2000535424 https://gizmodo.com/musks-doge-takes-aim-at-california-high-...
  • terminalshort 1y ago
    If he did it for that reason, which he didn't, we all owe him a big thank you for trying to stop that boondoggle before it started.
• preisschild 1y ago
  Can you Musk defenders literally not read? That is not what he wrote...
• tomhow 1y ago
  > Ah yes, the hyperloop is what killed California high speed rail. If only it weren't for those few tweets, it would be successful and done by now. Please avoid sneery swipes like this on HN. The guidelines ask us to do better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html