So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

I was going to say it myself, but you already got there. Elon honestly seems to be turning into their new Trump, where he gets credit for nothing and yet blamed for everything. One poster was even arguing in earnest that Trump deserved his ban because he was in a position of great power and had lied from that position. Breaking rules was also mentioned, yet there's no rules against lying, and there's certainly no rule that say that lies from people in power should be treated more severely. There's many, many powerful people on Twitter that tell lies daily and nothing happens, so they are literally creating standards that don't exist to justify their position.

I dislike Musk just because he seems like an absolute knob rather than anything to do with his politics. He's petulant and arrogant and so far up his own hole he can see his own heart beating.

But I hate the veneration he's treated with (and which he tries to propagate himself) as if he himself is pulling late nights in a lab programming the guidance system on spaceships or whatever. For the past decade or so he's been a CEO or major shareholder of several large companies. He makes decisions and states what he wants the companies to achieve, but to credit him with the actual technological achievements of the company as if he himself is the genius behind them is nonsense. Let's also not forget the many things he's claimed he would or could do which have ended up amounting to nothing because neither him nor his teams were actually able to achieve them, or they were just claims he was making for publicity.

Again, the man is just a knob. He's been a successful one, but he's still a knob.

That's nonsense.

Musk isn't an inventor. He isn't a designer. He isn't a great mind. He takes existing ideas (and sometimes companies) and pumps money into them and uses his wealth and status to commercialise the product.

He's a guy that's used his money wisely. That's all.

And there's nothing I'm saying that's even controversial here. I just don't think he's worthy of all the excessive eulogising and overblown admiration that comes from some people's own power fantasies and ridiculous aspirational desires.

Because daddy didn't own an emerald mine in South Africa.

The whole being on the spectrum announcement seems very self-serving to me. I'm not saying he doesn't have anything, but it really does seem like a planned move by a narcissist looking to reform their image and excuse being a dick.

It’s not the fact that he comes from wealth that bothers people. It’s his claims of engineering and business chops he simply doesn’t have. But that’s his whole shtick - winding people up with claims he knows are bull, just to see them react. He doesn’t give a shyte about anyone who actually believes his BS, they’re of no interest to him whatsoever.

I'm not praising his engineering chops but it's unfair to say he has none - engineering is a very complex field and having a vision of what has the potential to be successful is part of it. For example in roles like principal engineer the engineering turns more towards leadership and politics and strategy. And as for his business chops, he clearly proved that he has plenty.

No, it wasn't. Satellite broadband before Starlink is using geostationary satellites which lead to low speed and high latency simply because of the speed of light limitations, the sats are just too far. The Starlink satellites and especially the phased array antenna are technologies never seen before in consumer space. And he's not doing space tourism like the other 2 shifting old farts into space, what he is now is effectively the US space program with 18 launches so far this year whereas NASA has only 5 scheduled.

Lol, first line in my post, lol 🙄

I’m not saying he has none, I’m saying that he’s making claims of engineering and business chops he simply doesn’t have.

Nobody is "tarnishing" anything. What's wrong with you people? 🤣

Saying that a wealthy guy wisely invested his money in various companies is not a slight on him in any way.