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For example? Who did he “destroy for the lolz”?

I'm not sure about destroy but attempt to destroy at the very least.

The guy that rescued the kids out of that cave in thailand(?), Yoel Roth, that twitter engineer that told him on twitter that he had his facts wrong... that's just a short list I'm sure that if I weren't posting this while eating breakfast I could cite more.

And another one about the cave dude. Please see my other reply for that case.

Regarding the Twitter guy: Yoel Roth was a different person. What was bad about how he treated Roth and the Twitter Android guy (I guess that’s who you actually were referring to)?

He selectively cited Roth’s academic work to make it appear as if Roth was supporting grooming and sexualization of children, despite the work doing none of that.

Roth had to flee their home due to threats to their safety.

Has Musk apologized yet?

https://gaynrd.com/if-yoel-roth-is-harmed-should-elon-musk-f...

Falsely implying other people are pedophiles or support pedophiles actions seems to be a recurring pattern in this context.

It was a direct quote from Roth’s dissertation, including context. Nobody “had to flee”.

Old Twitter had countless tweets containing images of violence against children. Under Musk it took only days to remove all of that.

Just one example:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

Remember the episode with the cavediver rescuing children from a flooded cave that musk called a pedophile and then refused to back down? That one for example.

You mean where he worked with the Thai government on a rescue plan, got attacked verbally by that dude, attacked back, and then the dude couldn’t take it? Yes, I remember that he apologized a day later, even though the other one started it.

Sure I know, because it’s the one thing bad that’s repeated and repeated about him, and he didn’t even start it. And he apologized.

Any example that is actually bad?

The guy as an expert in his domain publicly called musks idea out as unworkable. Is that any kind of reason to call him a pedophile? Is that the standard that we should hold one of the most powerful men in the world to? That’s behavior I’d not accept from my five year old.

And he apologized after substantial public backlash, not because he had a change of mind.

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