Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee to fund the Republican candidate,” Fortune reports.
Said Musk: “What’s been reported in the media is simply not true. I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”
He added: “I don’t prescribe to a cult of personality.”
That’s smart, Elon. First, pledge money to Trump so progressives hate you. Then go back on your word and piss off conservatives.
But this doesn’t make any progressives go back to liking you. You just pissed off everybody possible. That idea is right up there alongside “I should buy Twitter”.
pretty sure progressives have hated him for a while now.
I know I have.
My respect for him tanked in 2014 when I first met someone who worked for him, and heard what working for him is like. Abusive managerial style sounds… too gentle. Somewhere during the Trump administration I lost my last ounce of respect for him, and somewhere in the last few years I started losing respect for people who still think positively of him.
Between his sense of humor that reads as ‘15 year old on 4chan’, his aggressive bigotry, and abject lack of redeeming qualities, I’m not sure what he could do to change my mind at this point. If he gave a billion to the Trevor project and apologized for the bigotry, I’d be skeptical about his angle.
I’ve never liked that guy.
But then I had the opportunity to meet the actual founders of Tesla; so when he started pretending he founded Tesla, it seemed pretty douchey to me.
Yeah I didn’t know about the “purchasing the right to call himself a founder” thing until fairly recently. I probably would have started in a similar place if I had
Oh. He didn’t just purchase it.
There was a lawsuit. Bought in with 6.5mil (10+ with inflation,) then sued them for the right to be called “co-founders”
Edit: whoever his PR team was before he fired them; they were insanely good. That’s when people started realizing how awful he was.
Oh. My. That is somehow even worse than I thought.
Yup. before his fall, it’s best if you just assume everything you read about him is pure propaganda. because it pretty much is.
he’s very punchable.
Prolly have to soak your hand in lab grade HCl, and then run it through an industrial sandblaster just to get the smell out