• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Remember when Musk said he was working on saving all those people, but then someone else actually did it instead of just trying to show off on Twitter, so Musk baselessly called him a pedophile? You know, like a normal well-adjusted human.

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      1 year ago

      I hate current Elon behaviour too but I don’t think Musk’s reaction was completely “baseless”, pretty sure the diver guy was the one that started the fight, insulting the submarine tesla’s engineers made.

      Calling him a pedo is a bit too extreme though

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        1 year ago

        I mean, I can call all Tesla cars stupid, all SpaceX rockets garbage, … doesn’t mean Elon gets to insult me personally all of a sudden, does it?

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        1 year ago

        He wasn’t insulting the submarine itself, because it had not been built. It did not even exist in a conceptual state beyond Musk’s imagination. The diver was criticizing the idea of using a submarine itself, considering the cave that those kids were stuck in had an opening just barely large enough for a full grown adult to slip through. It was, and still is to this day, the worst solution anybody could have proposed for the problem at hand, billionaire or otherwise.

        But when the expert chimed in and said “thanks but no thanks” to his crappy idea, Elon Musk took it super personally and called the dude a pedophile, which is a life-ruining accusation when it comes from a multi-billionaire with millions of rabid fans who think he’s the next Edison. Even if only 1% of his fanbase believed it was true, that’s still a lot of people who now genuinely believe that guy rapes kids and only cared about rescuing the Thai youth soccer team because he was a child predator. They’re going to spread the lie and ruin his reputation. Musk was never punished for this and gave a half-hearted apology to improve the dismal optics he was facing.

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          1 year ago

          sure, I agree with your second paragraph but wdym by “the submarine had not been built”? are you just going by assumptions or do you mean something else?