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People hate Musk for the same reason they hated Jobs. They love living in their world but hate themselves for it.

Think Different might have more than one meaning.

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Or because he calls people who disagree with him pedophiles?

did you like him before that happened?

Since it happens so often, please provide two instances of this.

So accusing someone of being a pedophile once is OK behaviour? Interesting.

It's both not okay and not a big deal. The fact that it's brought up so often is because there's so little you can pin on Musk to warrant your hatred for him. I bet you've done similarly shitty things.

Consider the phrasing: “So calling someone ‘pedo guy’ on Twitter once is Ok behavior?” You chose to unpack the facts in a direction chosen by you. A court of law unpacked it in a different direction.

I call this Rhetorical Mischief.

I don't think that's the case. I don't like Musk because he's all sizzle and very little in terms of steak with his products. Like the most useful any of his companies has done is the work with battery tech at Tesla. The rest has been copy and paste from research done in the past. Plus, he often bungles into the product development process on the technical parts often without any context for him to make anything close to a reasonable analysis. It's why so many engineers move on as soon as possible from his companies. He literally burns out folks not because he's magically brilliant but rather because he's unbearable and not a team player.

Reusable rockets.

That's not a new technology. You can find examples of research going back to the Apollo program where such things were being considered and discussed.

Considering/discussing is very different from actually making it happen.

Many many people use and have used something related to Jobs, but how many people use Aloni's? The average person doesn't drive a lithium car!

> They love living in their world but hate themselves for it.

I can’t help but think this is sarcasm.

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