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by nugga 2887 days ago
You seem to be referring to the erroneus and hostile narrative on the thai sub thing. Apparently Elon was in contact with the people leading the rescue and seemed to be level headed and cautious and courteus in dealing with them and approaching the situation when he offered to help, as can be seen from the tweets and what appear to be email exchanges between someone close to the rescue team and him. Of course he capitalized on the publicity but he it seems like his effort was trying to do good and did not impede the rescue efforts as far as I can tell.

The pedo thing was a stupid mistake stemming from anger that got lit up by accusations by someone criticizing what Elon probably perceived as sincere offer of help, and he says to have later apologized.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019471467304513537 https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks...

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I thought this was a sincere reading of the situation minus the typos. Is it too naive to trust Elon's word or is there something wrong here?