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> telling his millions of followers that a rescue worker was a pedophile Only after the rescue worker, on live TV, said to millions that Musk could stick his s
by WalterBright 3mo ago
> telling his millions of followers that a rescue worker was a pedophile
Only after the rescue worker, on live TV, said to millions that Musk could stick his submarine up his ass.
- olyjohn 3mo agoNot even on the same level, dude. Not even close.
- bathtub365 3mo agoHe has billions of dollars and still can’t help but stoop to pathetic immaturity.
- WalterBright 3mo agoIt was an intemperate comment, sure. As was the rescue worker's insult when Musk was trying to help.
- defrost 3mo agoFront line rescue workers and first responders are famously required to be polite to looky lou's wanting to make tragic events all about themselves and their dumb PR stunts.
- WalterBright 3mo agoMusk offered money and the services of his crack engineering team. Now, he probably went about it the wrong way, but dismissing it as a looky lou is a bit unfair. Musk has also done dumb PR things like provide free Starlink service to people cut off after the hurricane.
- estearum 3mo ago[flagged]
- WalterBright 3mo ago[flagged]
- dag11 3mo ago"Bet ya a signed dollar it's true." - Musk's follow-up It went so, so far beyond a schoolyard taunt. All of my friends and I remember the debacle clearly, and it's the moment we all went from childhood idolizers of Musk to feeling pretty sick about the dude.
- ceejayoz 3mo ago> Musk has said it was a common insult among schoolboys in S Africa. Consider that maybe "derogatory things wealthy white South Africans say about people in the apartheid era" is not a great standard to live up to.
- WalterBright 3mo agoI never said it was. It also has nothing to do with apartheid.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoA white kid growing up in the 80s in South Africa has nothing to do with apartheid?
- WalterBright 3mo agoPlayground insults have nothing to do with apartheid. Nor does it imply that every white child was evil.
- estearum 3mo agoMonths after he apologized for the initial false "pedo" claim, Musk claimed in an email to Buzzfeed that Unsworth (the rescue diver) was "a child rapist" who "moved to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was 12 years old at the time." Musk hired a private investigator to confirm the pedophile allegations (which failed, of course). Try again kiddo. Absolutely pathetic. Defending this shit is a moral failure for you too.