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I think you're giving the media way too much credit here. Musk does a pretty great job of sidestepping his PR people to say insane, hateful, inflammatory, or just plain stupid shit. My thoughts on him come from years of hearing him tell us who he really is on a daily basis, and I'd be irritated if someone mistakenly placed responsibility for my thoughts on Musk to the media.

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So you do understand that traditional CEOs have PR people that filter the public from their true thoughts. Did you also know that those PR people work closely with legacy media by giving extra access in exchange for favorable articles?

My point isn't that you should agree with Elon's tweets, but just to ask if you know why it is that you are familiar with his thoughts but not the thoughts of CEOs of companies that you give money too.

We're talking about Elon Musk specifically here, I don't know where you saw an invitation to walk in and clutch your pearls, or where you read in my reply that I think Elon Musk is the only crazy asshole CEO out there.

The context of the thread is people not buying Tesla because of the CEO. My point is that the people making these decisions are quite ignorant to the behavior and opinions of products that they do buy.

That inconsistent buying choice behavior is interesting and I brought it up. Sorry if that makes you upset.

It could be the way you're talking down to me while stating obvious facts, or it might just be that I don't appreciate someone coming in here to "what about" a thing I said about one single, specific CEO, the subject of the thread and the person all these comments are about, but I'm done with this conversation.

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