Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was a kid, he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a fellow student's father's suicide, and Musk's father was not on his son's side.
Elon did everything in his power to ruin the life of a whistle-blower. After they were able to identify the source of the leak, Martin Tripp, someone who had a personal vendetta against Tripp called in a false police report that he was planning a mass shooting. I cannot say who that someone was, but both Tesla and Musk himself were spreading rhetoric that Tripp was a dangerous individual.
If you are anything like me, you were fooled for a long time because of SpaceX.
It's become clearer and clearer however that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. There are all sorts of reports around now that SpaceX management is very effective at building a firewall around Elon to stop him doing a lot of damage.
But his politics, narcissism, deception, misrepresentation and incompetence actually aren't new. Lying about his education, his role in Paypal, founding tesla and so on. It goes back decades.
Personally I'm not surprised at Elon's temper tantrum and banning people who are mean to him on Twitter. What saddens me however is how many stans and apologists ("dick riders" if you will) Elon still has. Elon does not care about you. You will never be Elon. For the record, this is a general "you", not who I'm replying to specifically.
A significant fraction of our ascendant elite are overworked, overmedicated and alone. Musk is likely the most critical of the afflicted by Kayne syndrome.
It's a pretty obvious midlife crisis. Dude's baby mama left him for a trans woman. His own gender-reaffirming hair implants turned out all wrong. Tough time to be Elon.
Hmm..
- not the world's largest auto company by a long shot. not even in the top 10.
- had to borrow billions (at least 13B) from banks to buy twitter (banks that now want out)
- twitter not remotely the biggest social media company in the world. again.. likely not even in the top 10.
kevinh|3 years ago
This is not new behavior.
richbell|3 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
CloudRecondite|3 years ago
jmyeet|3 years ago
It's become clearer and clearer however that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. There are all sorts of reports around now that SpaceX management is very effective at building a firewall around Elon to stop him doing a lot of damage.
But his politics, narcissism, deception, misrepresentation and incompetence actually aren't new. Lying about his education, his role in Paypal, founding tesla and so on. It goes back decades.
Personally I'm not surprised at Elon's temper tantrum and banning people who are mean to him on Twitter. What saddens me however is how many stans and apologists ("dick riders" if you will) Elon still has. Elon does not care about you. You will never be Elon. For the record, this is a general "you", not who I'm replying to specifically.
duxup|3 years ago
He seems to try very hard to show who he is, some people just won’t take him at is word / actions.
JumpCrisscross|3 years ago
A significant fraction of our ascendant elite are overworked, overmedicated and alone. Musk is likely the most critical of the afflicted by Kayne syndrome.
jeffbee|3 years ago
che_shirecat|3 years ago
niyikiza|3 years ago
Natsu|3 years ago
jacquesm|3 years ago
thinking4real|3 years ago
Yeah, he owns the worlds largest auto company, largest rocket company, and just threw down $40 billion to buy the worlds biggest social media company.
Dude is in dire straights indeed.
SpanishBrowne|3 years ago
username is surely parody.
SkipperCat|3 years ago
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CloudRecondite|3 years ago
paulv|3 years ago
No, he doesn't. That would be Volkswagen.