Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

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andyp

I once called Elon Musk ‘a bullshitter who delivers’ - he says a lot of stuff he knows isn’t true, and yet, there are the cars and the self-landing rockets. People generally struggle with one or other of these - they will refuse to accept the problem in selling a car that can’t drive itself as ‘full self driving’, or they will say ‘he didn’t found Tesla!’, forgetting that he’s run it since before it has shipped a single car. Everything you see at Tesla or SpaceX really is his creation - but half of what he says is bullshit.

Until recently, though, the bullshit was mostly about cars or tunnels. It wasn’t repeating obvious antisemitic dog-whistles. It wasn’t telling us that George Soros is plotting to destroy western civilisation. It wasn’t engaging with and promoting white suprematists. It wasn’t, as this weekend, telling us all to read a very obvious misinformation account, with a record of anti-semitism, as the best source on Israel this week. Of course, it had bought a Blue Tick.

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GeneralStrike in reply to @andyp

The old Henry Ford car-magnate-to-antisemite pipeline.

I don't buy a lot of what you say - he employs people to do the work, he's just a money man and always has been - even his e-banking company was bought by PayPal because of connections it had rather than any technologies they wanted - but I agree that he has gone off the rails in recent years, seems to be correlated with his wealth. There is the possibility that he is acting up because he has seen his wealth grow and feels that his power and influence should grow commensurately. This is a phenomenon that is recognised in societies with widening inequality, as they produce elites in excess of the political positions available for them.

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