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Comment by antonvs

2 months ago

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Without a shift to electric cars and the emergence of reusable, affordable space travel?

  • Why are those important? Now if he had revolutionized public transport, we might have something to discuss. But instead, he actively worked against that, and was a major force in getting Trump reelected.

    Then, after executing a pitch-perfect Hitler salute on a major public stage, he took a chainsaw to US soft power, dooming millions of children around the world to die of starvation and other preventable conditions - including Ebola! - thus getting closer to his idol’s body count. And that’s just one among many other things he did that were almost as bad, including a completely non-transparent rifling through American citizens’ personal data.

    No, there is nothing Musk has done that balances the equation. We’d all be better off if he had never existed.