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Or for Elon Musk, depends who you ask. HN is't a person's initials.

Puh-lease. Bias means tendency to lean a certain way, you can’t have bias in 2 opposite directions.

The pro Elon crowd here is a minority. Something I’ll never understand, being that this is an entrepreneurial forum and Elon is the worlds best entrepreneur. Jealousy perhaps?

What I'm saying is that you can't reduce the whole site down to one made up measure of bias.

Maybe it is jealousy, maybe it's that he's a neurotic moron who's more than happy to try and ruin the careers of little people.

How many of the great entrepreneurs of history got embarrassed after their scheme doesn't work and call their competitor a paedophile? You can recognize his skills while also recognizing that he's not a very nice man.

No, the bias is everywhere and HN is just reflecting that universal bias. It’s very popular to dislike Elon musk and it’s very unpopular to be a supporter. Count the number of supporters vs detractors in any mainstream thread — musk haters will be the majority every single time despite the fact that his detractors refer constantly to a phantom army of supporters. Every Reddit thread is basically 100 people responding to non-existent “fan boy” straw men. And they also like to spread the falsehood that Elon musk used gem mine money to become successful. It’s literally just made up nonsense.

People like to act like his pedo tweet was some kind of crime against humanity. Let’s have a look at your twitter if you’re so indignant. People are such shameless hypocrites.

He is involved in global conspiricy to manipulate Dogecoin so he can buy more Slave mines to mine cobalt. That a fact.

I have never called anyone a paedophile on the internet, no. Have you?

The average person has simultaneously been outraged at his pedo tweet and also tweeted the same or worse. Have you actually been on twitter? It’s mostly irrational hate and insults

Also I assume you’re British so it’s not the same. You people have a problem with pedophiles. You actually bleep out when people say the word and censor the word when people write it. It’s like some kind of big deal over there. That’s just you bro, nobody else is like that.

None of that last paragraph is true other than me being British.

You're completely in the realms of fantasy. Seriously?

I’ve seen it so maybe uncommon but not untrue. But it’s 100% true that British people have a weird problem with pedophilia, even compared to other western countries. Problem both in the sense that you all seem to be pedophiles and also in that the topic is enveloped in moral dogma.

I'm glad that I only seem to be a paedophile, that means I won't get found by the police for a little while yet. You should join in, it's fun.

Jealousy indeed, I am a fan of Elon because I can appreciate that he is an engineer first in almost every way he communicates professionally. It is very obvious he keeps abreast to physics, engineering, and he even has core IT knowledge. I watched a 30 minute video where he spent 2 minutes explaining a trace route to a interviewer in detail and it made me like him even more.

You could claim jealousy, but that’s reductive. Elon Musk annoys a lot of people, for a plethora of reasons. It’s pretty easy to find wide ranging genuine criticism of him from numerous perspectives, if you want to actually understand. Or you could hand wave it all away and claim jealousy I guess, just know it’s a lazy explanation.

It’s more lazy to claim all the criticisms about him are true. So many of these criticisms are based off of clickbaity headlines. If you actually follow him closely, actually listen to his interviews over time, you will see he is very consistent in his words and actions. There is no doubt in my mind that he aims to do good for humanity as a whole.

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