• LeZero@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    I would be so embarassed if I ever was a fanboy of this fucking dunce

    Imagine being capable of getting enough loans to buy a company for $44B and not being able to envision basic consequences for your buisness actions

    • PM_STEAM_KEYS@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I am loathe to admit I was a fan (though not really a boy about it) in the early days of Tesla and SpaceX. I don’t even necessarily think I was wrong at the time, mind you — whether or not he deserved the credit for their achievements, his companies were pushing electric cars and rocketry in the right direction IMO — it’s just sad to see that once the curtain was pulled back, there was nothing but a narcissistic and delusional huckster behind it all.

    • Cynar@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ll admit I was a minor fan of him. He seemed to have his ego pointed in a good direction. It was around the time those kids got stuck in a cave that I realised something was off.

      I was never a hyper fan, but I’ll admit I was completely taken in by his PR machine, for a time.

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Oh man, you nailed the turning point. Literally everyone with eyes could look at the cross section map of the cave and immediately see that a rigid vessel was not going to get even half way through. And then the tweet calling the lead rescuer a paedo? I never liked the guy but that’s when I began to really dislike him. What an utter twat.