They do it because his political views don't align with their own. It's a fairly simple thing to understand about human nature.
But I still totally agree, arguments to downplay his role in Tesla are totally illogical. Founder or whatever, he took control of a company that was totally irrelevant and led it to 1+ million vehicle per year, 10s of billion revenue, and pretty undeniably caused a huge momentum shift in the industry.
But literally his first act as CEO of Tesla in 2008 was to lay off 20% of the company. He's always been very fire-happy.
The Twitter files tell us about the level of corruption going on with real implication on the live of way more people that the select few that worked at Twitter.
But also yeah, generally he gets a lot of hate for a long and increasingly public track record of being a jerk.
For example, big jerk move to announce he’s “switching parties” to try to frontrun a story about him sexually harassing an employee. Dragging 300MM people already in a lot of stress and cultural tension into your own sexual misconduct issues is really bad form IMO.
When Elon changed his political opinions, articles were generated to tell people he's stupid so he could then be called a bad person without violating the narrative.
Has he changed his political opinions?
His downfall to me started when he called an actual hero a pedo for no reason at all, except to salve his damaged ego.
It's getting awful tough to separate the serious from the satire nowadays.
If you're a techie that is still holding onto Elon as a hero, good businessman or otherwise decent human being after the Twitter fiasco I'm not sure there is much left to save (or the horse incident, or the time he had secret children with an employee, and the time he stole Grimes' eggs to have a child with a surrogate, and the time he.... )
Did Elon ever really change his political opinions? Or just become more clear about them? Either way, I think a lot of it was the Twitter takeover just going full "he's either taking this 0% seriously, or doing the most insane maneuver ever" and I'm not sure the evidence has come down on the side of him being all that serious about it.
You can debate if it'll ultimately work out better for him/Tesla/Twitter, but it certainly seems like he's playing pretty loose with his money, Tesla's future, and a lot of other things.
There's a lot of articles about how he maybe is doing something dumb because he may be doing something dumb. It's not the first time he's done it, and most of the things I've seen have included a caveat that this could very well work out.
The counter for Donald Trump being stupid is that Greta Thurnberg is smart and good and everyone must listen to her and do what she says when she is at best very average.
Beyond his usual behavior of believing the last thing anyone told him, when you let him in front of kids he tells them Santa isn’t real, he gave a bunch of Boy Scouts an unrehearsed speech mostly anecdotes about high society parties he went to as a kid in NYC… is that “smart”?
(Also, after he got hospitalized for covid, it was notable he kept bragging in public that he’d passed a dementia test.)
You're in a cult, and you dont know it. I was raised in this cult too, now I see the light (so to speak)
Also, this is again irrelevant to the discussion of Musk's business/engineering prowess.
Amercian Nature.