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> I don’t know why; probably a curious desire to see how bad Elon Musk would screw it up

It’s been interesting to watch people go from nerd-crushing on Elon (omg rockets! omg electric vehicles yay climate!) to loathing him in the blink of an eye. Goes to show what’s really important to some people…

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For me it was a long and slow journey; and I still love Space X. But Elon Musk did some really crazy things (starting with "pedo guy", and going deeper and deeper).

I don't thing having or loosing my respect would matter to him if he knew about it though :-)

Why can't I like the rockets but also think he's bad at twitter?

Elon bashing is 99% some companies campaign. There is an amount of money involved beyond our wildest imagination. World economy kind of money. You don't read Elon and Tesla content on reddit frontpage with 30k ups on average almost 24/7 without there being companies involved spending heavily.

Instead of a conspiracy or coordinated campaign against Elon Musk, what if a lot of people have come to think that he's a douchebag and upvote links about him saying/doing what they see as douchey things? Maybe he's actually done some stuff over the last few years that's made him genuinely unpopular with a lot of people; maybe it's not because "They" are trying to destroy him, but because many people actually find his behavior off-putting.

Nah, he's just a deeply unlikeable jerk

To you. That's your opinion. Maybe it's mine. But I will never go as far as to state something like my opinion as universially true. You do that. What makes you do that?

Does everything have to end with “in my opinion”? Isn’t that implied?

Hey man are you okay?

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