Hard to take this seriously when the CEO keeps peddling right-wing conspiracy theories and calling out advertisers who have reduced their spend due to concerns about the platform.
Who is musk hanging out with or reading that encourages his crazy views; he didn't use to be that way, I almost feel sorry that one of the world's riches people is so full of self-justifying bs. For most humans, the idea that you'd laugh at an attack on an 80 year person with a hammer in their home is horrible, out of bounds. There's no reason to believe this story is true of course, but on top of not laughing at horrible attacks, who cares if some older person is having sex with a younger person.
> Who is musk hanging out with or reading that encourages his crazy views
I don't get where this line of thought comes from. Why must it be someone else who is encouraging him? He's a middle aged man who is the wealthiest person in the world by some metrics. He should own his words and actions and can't blame others.
When people show you who they are, believe them. Which means he probably is the kind of person who would, as you say: "laugh at an attack on an 80 year person with a hammer in their home."
Making electric cars and space rockets doesn't make him any less likely to be exactly that kind of person.
That's a great point. Someone can be incredibly successful and be that horrible person, lol-ing at someone else's suffering. I want it not to be that way, but he does seem to be telling us who he is.
> Someone can be incredibly successful and be that horrible person, lol-ing at someone else's suffering
It's just my opinion, but I would go further and say "lol-ing at someone else's suffering" can actually help with becoming incredibly successful (though obviously it's not enough by itself). This is especially the case in spaces where success involves crossing ethical or legal lines.
The issue might be he isn't hanging out with enough real people and instead just drinking the koolaid of those @'ing him. Lil bit of the ol' chronically online sickness.
Nearly all of his public replies are to some of the worst right-wing grifters on Twitter, so ironically maybe he spent too much time on the platform he just bought.
No, he said "more than meets the eye" because of contradicting news reports in the medias early on when the story broke, with many unknowns and incoherencies remaining today.
Lol no, the "news report" Musk linked explicitly accused Paul Pelosi's attacker of being a spurned lover. Even the report you linked was apparently retracted because of some weird minor details about how the encounter with police went down, not the overall premise which is that the Pelosi house was broken into by a stranger looking for Nancy.
Attempts to paint it otherwise are either just covering for Musk for some reason (which I don't know why you would feel the need to do that) or trying to rewrite the narrative on what the right-wing conspiracy theory here is that Musk peddled in the first place.
I'll admit I had vague memory of Musk's tweet and thought he was merely questioning the overall narrative (which was quite messy honestly) with a text reply, but apparently he linked to an article with baseless claims like you mentioned.
I was willing to give Musk the benefit of the doubt about this initially, but that was clearly misjudged on his end.
