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Dude tried to pick Microsoft products over OSS for PayPal and went AWOL which is why they booted him. He’s not an engineer’s engineer.

Supporting military coup against Bolivian president (who was proven innocent of guilt afterwards) and then tweeting non chalantly that “he can coup whoever he wants” and to “deal with it”.

His own daughter is estranging from him because he is a nightmare parent.

He has lied for about 10 years about self driving cars. People have died because of Elon’s lies.

I know dozens of engineers in my circle that won’t buy Tesla or Space-X anything because of Elon. The only people who handwave his social ills are Texas republicans who fight for his scraps. They have a dim view of the world and so he fits in perfectly as a thought leader.

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I am sorry I may have misunderstood your last part but are you saying that republicans are the ones that support musk? If so I would disagree and say the vast majority of musk fans were democrats until recently. They drove tesla's rise and that is really where a lot of musk power comes from...

No, they are saying republicans are the "only people who handwave his social ills", i.e., they ignore his shortcomings. And there is a difference between being a musk fan (the person) and liking his cars.

Yes. There has been a recent change in alignment, most on the left are now anti-elon while those on the right have embraced him. This is mainly because of his covid skepticism, open criticism of left-wing politicians, criticism of the Trump twitter ban and suggesting he would reverse it among many other similar statements and sentiments.

“Most (twitter) on the left are now anti-Elon”

It’s interesting to see how social media warps peoples perception of reality. Most people do not care about this, especially with a war, massive inflation, and an upcoming global famine.

I don’t doubt that he’s a poor parent, he’s ridiculously focused on work. Know a good source on the Bolivia thing?

He tweeted in response. Elon is the source, but he blocked me because I said that I can’t wait for him to die so I can’t link you.

> Elon is the source, but he blocked me because I said that I can’t wait for him to die so I can’t link you.

Not a Musk fan…but that is a horrible thing to say to someone, especially someone not an active threat to your life.

Worse that what Musk said, obviously. Righteous indignation is a powerful drug.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RWTrollPatrol/status/151895728491...

That's the joke tweet, the important part of the claim is that prior to the tweet he "supported" the coup. How did he support it and what is the evidence for that?

> I know dozens of engineers in my circle that won’t buy Tesla or Space-X anything because of Elon.

Curious what an engineer would buy from SpaceX anyways other than a T-shirt, coffee mug, or other miscellaneous logo'ed merchandise.

Maybe a starlink subscription

Ah, how could I forget that's a SpaceX product.

> I know dozens of engineers in my circle that won’t buy Tesla or Space-X anything because of Elon.

In fairness, who among us is buying launches from SpaceX?

StarLink Internet

Ford used to burn people alive in pintos. Attaching temporal political significance to a brand is being tricked into falling for capitalist memes. Use products that work for you.

He's been a master of manipulating the news cycle almost to a Trump level so most liberal Tesla-drivers don't really know much about him. People who follow reporting about a variety of topics have seen his name come up again and again for a while and knew he was corrupt, racist and likely supports right-wing fascism.

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