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Comment by WillPostForFood | Hacker News Reader

the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.

Ok so you want to move back to gas combustion engines, stop deploying internet to rural and third world countries, clamp down on free speech, and make sure there are no tunnels, just elevated highways dividing cities. Is that about right?

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You're thinking of the old Musk. He used to be a force for good before his mental break, which I timed when Grimes left him for Chelsea Manning and his oldest son came out trans. That's why I used the words "it's getting to be". Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis and Musk is no different, but supporting Putin seems a little extreme to me.

Frankly, I think Mrs. Boucher probably gave Elon too many stimmies, psychedelics, and expectations he can't live up to. I remember when she got into a spat with Azalea Banks because she had to trip sit Elon when they were trying to collaborate on a music project.

Yeah, I forgot about the psychedelics. I've done a fair number myself, but always in the woods or desert hoping for a spiritual experience, not in a business setting expecting them to help me make genius financial decisions.

He was never “good”, he was/is just an egomaniac who need attention.

It's not exactly free speech if you have to pay to be heard (new Twitter policy - only paying members' Tweets will be promoted). Hyperloop turned out to be Tesla-in-a-tunnel. He's got some smart folk working at SpaceX to be sure.

That guy didn’t do anything useful, he has money and some of his companies made a few successful products in spite of he being there.

You honestly couldn’t mismanage a company more than what he currently does with twitter - a goddamn cabbage would have done a better job, by literally not doing anything.

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