They insulted him, he angrily insulted him back with "pedoboy". Childish? Sure. So what. Nobody believed he was really a "pedoboy". Musk did not mount a campaign against him.
They insulted him, he angrily insulted him back with "pedoboy". Childish? Sure. So what. Nobody believed he was really a "pedoboy". Musk did not mount a campaign against him.
Are you forgetting the part about hiring a private investigator to go dig up dirt on the man who risked his own life to save a bunch of trapped children? Not jealous of whatever weird reality you're living in that this is all even remotely similar to a child calling another child "gay" on the playground, but that's cults for ya!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-unswo...
Forgetting? No, I never heard of it.
It seems from the article that he hired the investigator because of the "imminent lawsuit". So yeah, he went looking for dirt to defend himself against a guy who was suing him over a childish insult.
Both parties behaved poorly here. But stepping back a bit from it, the whole thing was a nothingburger.
Bummer all your comments got flagged. It was actually much better as a cautionary tale of motivated reasoning and cult beliefs.
For future readers, WalterBright here thinks that one of the world's richest (adult) men publicly calling a rescue worker a pedophile is pretty much the same as a child calling another one "gay" on the playground.
Here, he's explaining that a rescue worker calling Musk's useless PR stunt a PR stunt is "behaving badly" the same way as Musk calling a rescue worker a pedophile when that rescue worker risked his own life to actually succeed in rescuing a bunch of kids.
And yes, as far as I can tell, he's serious.
If there was a crisis that captivated worldwide attention, and you offered your time, millions of dollars, and your engineering team to help out, and the response was "useless PR stunt", would you be mad about that? (All they had to say was "no thanks, we'll handle it".)
What do you feel about Musk providing Starlink to the Helene victims?
Do you call people pedophiles when they hurt your feelings? If so, you're an asshole too. Do you do it to your 22.5 million followers? Then you're an even bigger asshole.
> What do you feel about Musk providing Starlink to the Helene victims?
To the extent that he did: great! People believe it was philanthropic to a far greater extent than it was. He didn't give away or even loan any Starlink terminals, he gave people essentially 2-3 free months of service after they purchased the ~$400 terminal. The free service is cool! Generosity is good and I'm thankful he gave away what he did.
And obviously it's great that Starlink exists at all to be able to help out in such a situation, even if victims and/or the federal government are footing the majority of the bill.
And FWIW, I think Musk's heart was in the right place trying to help those kids. I was very excited by his work while it was happening. But yeah, the pedoguy thing was a turning point and, unfortunately, quite indicative of an overall slide into a very, very weird mindset that afflicts him to this day. It's a real bummer, because he's obviously capable of incredible things.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies/ind...
"He can stick his submarine where it hurts" said Unsworth first on CNN.
> 22.5 million followers
What's CNN's audience?
It's two grown men childishly insulting each other. A big "so what". It's hardly monstrous.
Sounds good dude! You’ve done a fine job illustrating my point. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have disdain for him and the people who can’t see that are engaged in remarkable gymnastics.
Have a good week!
Order of insults:
"Stupid PR stunt" - Unsworth to reporters
"He can stick his submarine where it hurts" - Unsworth to scores of millions on CNN
"Pedo guy" - Musk replies on twitter to 20.5 million
Sorry, I don't find your case persuasive at all. The court didn't find Unsworth's defamation suit to have any merit, either.