Elon Musk is a grown man, not a child, and he should be capable of tact and self control. "He started it" is not a valid excuse for his public, slanderous little temper tantrum.
You have to pick the person to use it first.
Source: Variety
Reads different from the Tucker defence:
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" would take the network's primetime star Tucker Carlson seriously.
Source: Business Insider
Saying some opinion wouldn't be take. serious is very different from saying the person having thay opinion wouldn't be taken serious.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case...
> A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" takes the primetime host Tucker Carlson seriously, a new court filing said.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
>Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-tosses-suit-trump-affair-...
> The judge said that lawyers for Fox "persuasively" argued that "any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements" Carlson makes, according to a court filing.
2. Both cases were about a news network program not being news but an opinion show (not statements of fact).
3. Seethe harder.
4. We liberals need to learn how to self-critique and also accept criticism from within without labeling everyone as enemies or as "others". This shit is fracturing our identity and driving people to the right. The correcting function to our shitty behavior is going to be ugly.
If he seriously proposes to help and is told to stick it where he hurts, he can choose whether or not to respond with 'tact and self control' but he isn't required to.
The diver is the one without tact and self control, but you slag elon for responding in kind instead of the diver. You expect more from musk but musk owes you nothing - not even tact. He doesn't have to accept abuse from someone else out of fear of losing your good opinion. It literally doesn't matter to him at all.
What in your opinion should we say to spectators at accidents you hinder the rescue workers, by e.g.stanfing next to them and giving advice?
The tangent about 'hindering rescue workers' has nothing to do with reality. they were exchanging messages on twitter - it's nonsense to equate that to anything like you are.
I don't see why musk should care about being nice to someone who started off being rude.