• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A member of my extended family loves Tesla and SpaceX and thinks Musk is a genius. It’s frustrating because he’s a very smart, generous, and chill family member…but then there’s his Musk fan boy thing. I do my best to ignore it and focus on his good traits.

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      1 year ago

      It’s easy to forget that Musk was seen as an “IRL” iron man not that long ago. He was buying tech companies, taking credit for their accomplishments, and making seemingly credible promises of colonizing Mars in the near future.

      It all went to shit with Twitter. Musk exposed himself as a guy born with the silverest of silver spoons who failed upward all his life on the backs of the work of his betters who he never paid properly. That’s where all the extra money came from.