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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.

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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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