| Wow, okay. This is still an incredibly bizarre point: >Some cultures have the death penalty for sodomy whereas the acceptance of critique is celebrated as wise in most cultures Anyway, he actually said Elon Musk to "stick the submarine where it hurts" and called it a PR stunt. Elon then responds with this tweet, which I think is relatively appropriate: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016960469737693184 Elon then also made this statement: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1018513062855364608 And a series of other tweets doubling down on the sentiment. This is insane and depraved. You can argue that this is all inflamed by the media, outrage culture , etc, but at the end of the day, the CEO of a hugely popular tech company took to twitter (where he has 23m followers) to spread vile and baseless accusations about someone. He made these tweets originally and publicly in JULY. It was only recently (and after apologizing) that he REPEATED the accusations to Buzzfeed news. And the buzzfeed reporter also preempts your accusations that the emails were leaked improperly ("He prefaced the email with "off the record" though I did not agree to that condition. Off the record is a two-party agreement.") > Both of these people tried to save the lives of children Yah, sure. But one of them also took to their social media and their millions of followers to accuse the other of being a pedophile, and then repeated the accusation, and then apologized, and then REPEATED the accusation again months later. With no proof. And so Musk can both be someone who tried to save the lives of children and a piece of garbage who is prone to emotional outbursts that can do real damage to real people. |
Yeah, bad way to make my point. I know that there is very clear adversarial search for and an adversarial amplification and adversarial provocation of all Elon Musk's flaws. This amplification involves a game of telephone in which their is mounting outrage which turns 'shove it where it hurts' into 'dared to critique the proposed engineering solution'. I'm trying to introduce reality again in the hope of stopping the mob mentality death threats toward Unsworth and the harming of the mission of electrification of transport. People are intentionally trying to help feed this system, to see what happens [1]. I've seen enough of what happens to know this is a bad idea.
Pretty sure the right thing to do is let the conversation die. Due process will bring much more justice than social media amplification.
[1]: https://twitter.com/TeslaCharts/status/1008405211432570880