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    It’s amazing that destruction of his reputation is going to go down in history as surpassing his destruction of the Twitter brand.

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      You have to have a good reputation in order for it to go down. He was always perceived as capitalist scum

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        No, I remember the time when people went all “he’s like the next Steve Jobs!” and meant that in a good way

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          I’ll be the first to admit I liked Elon when I first heard about him. I was uninformed and now that I’ve been informed I can’t tolerate him or his egregious actions done on my/our country. FUCK ELON AND FUCK TRUMP 🖕🖕🖕🖕

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          Only fringe capitalist assholes (most likely his sockpuppets or people he paid) said that

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        All he needed to do was stay quiet and get rich via multiple companies, maybe keep pushing electrification and renewables, and most of society would have kept considering him the real life Tony Stark pushing humanity forward.

        The US especially has no trouble idolizing flawed people as long as they have lots of money and/or high-visibility accomplishments.

        If Musk does have one exceptional skill on top of his good fortune in life, it seems to be finding promising companies and taking credit for their shit. And it totally would have worked for him. But no, being a mustache-twirling nazi-saluting villain gets you more attention.

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        If Elon Musk had suddenly died days before he accused that diver who saved those children from that cave of being a pedophile, he would’ve been remembered as the real life Tony Stark that never got the chance to bring us to a new golden age. But now he’s viewed as a shitty James Bond villain.