Can we all finally agree that Elon Musk is a fucking fascist piece of shit that sells overpriced

[yaesu]

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crap, lives off corporate welfare, thinks covid is a hoax & loves him lots of tRump.

[Zorro]

1. Uhhhh....nope.

[PNW-Dem]

28. Agree, nope

Tesla is, by far, the best American car company. The Model 3 is, by far, the best value in it's class. SpaceX has revolutionized the space industry. Musk joined Trump's business council to advocate for climate change policies and left because the U.S. withdrew from the Paris agreement. Is he strange? Yes. Is he as you describe him? No.

[Rstrstx]

32. I agree, Musk may be odd but Tesla and SpaceX are brilliant

Any doubters should try renting a Nissan Leaf and driving it across the country.

[mshasta]

2. Yes and No

He is a dick, however he innovated and rescue the electric car as well as the space rockets things

[BannonsLiver]

3. No argument here

I still don’t understand the appeal.

[ansible]

4. He's a billionaire who openly smokes pot, watches anime and makes neat space rockets

Like him or hate it, it's hard to deny he's definitely different from other billionaires

[Thekaspervote]

7. Different? He like all the other billionaires made billions more during this crisis and doesn't want

It to end. Bullies people who don’t give him his way. Has moved from being a liberal to a conservative asshole...different?? Nope

[Cha]

26. Musk tweeted he supported kanye.. that's all I need to know

about him.

[BannonsLiver]

30. He's a libertarian douchebro in my view

One or two rungs above Pete Theil in the pantheon of lowlifes.

[Nevilledog]

5. Runs in the same circle as trump.

Musk denied knowing Ghislaine Maxwell

[PTWB]

6. He says she photobombed him.

She does appear to be behind him.

[Nevilledog]

8. Guess time will tell.

If she talks and he's not mentioned, good for him.

[PTWB]

9. Agreed.

If we're going based off of who she is in photos with, well, Elon Musk is going to be the least of the bombshells.

[morat]

10. He's coked up to his eyeballs and she photobombed him.

[Nature Man]

37. dude is high as hell

[BComplex]

11. Of course he denied it.

He has attorneys who can dream up all kinds of photo bomb tripe.

[Midnight Writer]

13. I hate to ask, but what is going on inside her top?

It almost looks like she has her right arm tucked inside her top.

Surely that is not her right boob hanging over her belt.

[Iggo]

15. An unfortunate blousing.

A sad billowing, if you will.

[Midnight Writer]

16. OK. I thought perhaps she had her arm in a sling or something.

[softydog88]

21. She heard he's from Silicon Valley...

thought it was Silicone Valley and decided to pay tribute to him. Bad idea.

[Cha]

25. omg.. I didn't even notice.. it does look so

weird! I read someone said "unfortunate blousing".. that would explain it.. very unfortunate.

[Doodley]

19. He meets thousands of influential people each year. A photo taken at a party with one means nothing.

[rockfordfile]

34. interesting

[Ms. Toad]

12. Yeah, but my nephew's touch screen helped two people directly escape the disaster here

and his (my nephew's) family vicariously escape.

[Iggo]

14. I agree that he's a piece of shit.

I don't know who he loves. I'm not convinced he thinks covid is a hoax, but he might want you and me to think it's a hoax. He no doubt takes advantage of corporate welfare wherever he can. They all do. He sells amazing things that I think are overpriced. Fascist? I'm not sure aspiring oligarchs are fascists by definition. But if he joined the club, he's definitely a member, even if he had his fingers crossed.

You and I can agree on one thing at least: He is definitely a Grade-A Piece Of Shit.

[Cha]

27. Musk Tweeted he supported kanye so there's that.

[Iggo]

36. I understand.

I think he’s prepared to throw a ton of money behind a spoiler candidate. Chump change for Musk, but nothing to sneeze at. Nothing to do with Kanye and everything to do with perpetuating the kleptocracy.

[Doodley]

17. He has superhuman drive and vision to shape the future. I have a lot of respect for him.

[Blecht]

18. No argument here.

[Roy Rolling]

20. One thing we agree on

We agree to disagree. No in-between on Musk on DU, we love him, we hate him, and we tell it like it is. 😁

[caraher]

22. Strong ambivalence here

But my opinion of him is plummeting continuously... I think he's losing it, quite frankly. He suffers from the billionaires' delusion that they know better than everyone else, about just about everything, simply because they're rich (Bill Gates & Jeff Bezos are other examples), with this tempered by his having some actual rigorous training in a field related to some of his endeavors (he has a degree in physics).

His weird outbursts, forcing employees to work through COVID-19, the bizarre name he gave his kid, support for Kanye... I guess I've walked almost all the way over to the anti-Musk camp.

[Kablooie]

23. His politics are nuts but he's advancing technology like nobody else.

And in a positive way.
He's eccentric for sure but his contributions to the world are undeniable.

[BigmanPigman]

24. I do not like him for two reasons...

1. Years ago I read a very long article about him. Basically he got a great education and benefited from a lot of programs financially before he was successful. Then, after he became rich he said that these programs were no good (basically pulling up the ladder after he used it).

2. He was a bastard about his factory and the CA restrictions for Covid.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/09/elon-musk-claims-tesla-will-leave-california-sue-over-coronavirus-order-shutting-down-factory/

[Grokenstein]

29. "Pulling up the ladder" is always a dealbreaker for me.

He also continues to be an even worse bastard about his factory:

(via NBC, July 2nd) Employees also say that Tesla CEO Elon Musk covered up an outbreak at the plant. They want the facility shut down for a deep cleaning, and, among other demands, they are asking the Alameda County Health Department to do contact tracing instead of Tesla performing this function, as they allege is the case now.

On Wednesday, three former employees said they were fired after accepting Tesla’s offer to stay at home over fears of being exposed to the virus.

When Musk defied a health order and reopened his factory in May, he sent a letter to his employees, telling them that if they felt uncomfortable returning to work they were not obligated to do so.

The Washington Post reported that by the end of June, Tesla told the workers they had abandoned their jobs and fired them. One of the workers has a 1-year-old son with respiratory problems, another is caring for an aging family member and the third worker’s fiancée had recent heart surgery and suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

[BigmanPigman]

31. Sounds like Bezos and the Amazon workers.

He did something similar. Birds of a feather...

[rockfordfile]

35. I don't know if it was snark, but didn't he give support to that pos kanye west?

[ProfessorPlum]

38. Great Musk-bashing and some informative commentary

are here:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

39. He's the Ray Kroc of electric vehicles. nt