• Snot Flickerman
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    8 months ago

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/elon-musk-hyperloop-rail-17486877.php

    https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1495877041585074177

    “Musk reportedly told his biographer, Ashlee Vance, that the Hyperloop proposal was motivated by “his hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system,” which he felt would be too slow, outdated and expensive. “With any luck, the high-speed rail would be canceled,” Vance wrote.”

    Literally the guy who is behind spearheading EVs in the US has gone out of his way to kill transit projects.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think they meant to include the guy whose best interest is in people buying electric cars when they made that generalization.

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        Plenty of people parrot Musk’s talking points, and his talking points undermine public transit.

        I don’t know how you dont include the man who bought and then made the first US EV company flourish. His opinions and statements have deep impact on public discourse, sadly.

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      That’s a psychopath with a personal vendetta against a train that won’t profit him, not a person claiming that electric cars are better than electric buses.