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but like.. objectively what he does is bad. I wish there were a smaller bandwagon to bandwagon-onto.

Expand upon your idea: 'but like.. objectively what he does is bad'

Not the OP but we could mention that time where he called a hero a pedophile or when he bought twitter to promote free speech and then banned anyone who said negative things about him. No one human should have 260 billion dollars and be thought of as a good person unless they do a ton of philanthropy.

Now, I'm not saying this is the case for Musk, but surely if a person that rich was heavily investing in technological research that resulted in positive feedback loops that benefitted humankind then they would be a pretty good person, right? Who was really a better person: Mother Teresa or Norman Borlaug?

greater then 259 billion dollars of philanthropy

None of this is objective

Objectively it is bad to defame and distract from a public servant rescuing kids from a cave.

(Objectively.)

Because all the other humans throughout history that launched a car they built, on a rocket they built did it better, right?

To be fair, I am actually still annoyed about the whole x.com thing. They closed my account when they sold to Paypal 23 years ago now. Now it is just some message board.

> Because all the other humans throughout history that launched a car they built, on a rocket they built did it better, right?

Musk has never built a car or a rocket. He raises money and hypes things. He is not a builder. Hell, he tried to get Paypal to switch to Windows because he doesn't even understand Linux.

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