Comment by wly_cdgr

5 years ago

Elon is no angel, but I gotta say it would shock me if he was such a huge loser that he would complain about something like this

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hef19898  5 years ago

Well, he called a rescue diver a pedophile because said diver didn't like Elon's sub and had specifuc idea where Elon should put said submarine.

  • tchalla  5 years ago

    I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said. But, the response generated by Elon Musk was after the British rescue diver said this

    > “He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” he told CNN. “It had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like.

    Somehow, this part gets left out from this discussion.

    • calsy  5 years ago

      Unlike Musk, they were asked to help by officials in charge because they were the best at what they do. What they had just achieved was an unbelievable feat rescuing those boys.

      The place was already a media circus but Elon decided to involve himself anyway and complicate the situation because he read about it in the news?

      So when the actual heroes of the story are asked questions about the annoying tech billionaire who wanted to try out one of his 'new toys' in such a high pressure situation, they didn't mince words. It was a stupid idea, and he said as much.

      Apparently this hero (and I mean HERO, not some cliche) was supposed to be more diplomatic to the sensitive self serving tech billionaire who injected himself into the story, did nothing but promote his own image and then slandered the actual people who performed the rescue.

    • emptyfile  5 years ago

      Yes, and? He is 100% correct. I lost the last shred of respect for Elon after his Thailand photo op.

      Disgusting person.

isx726552  5 years ago

Here’s an example of Elon going back to a multi-year old Twitter thread to reply, after blocking the person who started it so they can’t reply back:

https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/14646864235969454...

That’s the world’s richest person demonstrating willingness to go to some lengths just to get the last word in against some random webcomic author. Yes, I can totally believe they’d be petty enough to complain about online snark to someone’s employer. Doesn’t mean it necessarily happened, but it wouldn’t be that far out of character if it did.

nowayjoseaway  5 years ago

Huh? He does this type of thing all the time, it's a defining part of his personality. You only need to follow his Twitter so see how consistently and strongly he counters anything that makes him look bad. For the really nasty stuff he does behind the scenes you need to dig a little deeper.

A few examples off the top of my head:

  - Called the employer of a lawyer in Wyoming to get him fired for criticizing him on Twitter.
  - Tried to get the student who was exposing how the self-driving demos were faked expelled, then tried to sue him on false charges.
  - Asked a reporter to investigate the cave diver on a baseless accusation of pedophilia because he made him look bad. When that didn't work, used his private security to try to plant the same stories in the UK.

Never mind the stuff he does to his own employees, especially whistleblowers.

In fact it would be contrary to his personality if he didn't send an e-mail to the founders with a message like "Does this person work at Stripe?" with the tweet attached, making it clear what he wants done without explicitly saying it so he can pretend to have plausible deniability.