Comment by cbeach

3 hours ago

Also worth pointing out that Elektrek's coverage of Tesla turned sour since the editor Fred Lambert took a particular dislike to the brand, and to Elon Musk.

It's pretty clear from his X feed:

https://x.com/FredLambert

The guy has serious Musk Derangement Syndrome.

I would call strong opposition to Musk a democratic responsibility, not a derangement. We are talking about a guy with a fondness for the far right and throwing Nazi salutes, and whose destruction of USAID had, by November 2025, resulted in “hundreds of thousands of deaths”. [1] Those, of course, are just a couple of examples.

If strong opposition to that kind of evil makes me deranged, count me in.

1: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

  • Sure, but that is not a defence against the claim that his journalistic coverage is biased.

  • Did you even read the article you sent? It’s all based on estimates.

    It is consensus seeking derangement at best

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    • >The "salute" in particular is simply a politically-expedient freeze-frame from a Musk speech, where he said "my heart goes out to you all" and happened to raise his arm.

      Yeah, no. I thought so as well initially but then I saw the video. The guy throws out his arm straight out multiple times.

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    • > based on an hoax immediately debunked at the time

      We've all seen the video, there is no hoax and no doubt that he was doing a nazi salute, with some level of "humor" defense.

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  • >You sure like defending him a lot, [...]

    That's... entirely expected of someone that has memories and a personality? It's like showing up to /r/starwars and telling some random person "you sure like star wars a lot"