[jleyank]

Isn't it time to consider Elon "performance art" and just ignore the guy? He's either clueless or trolling on the political scene, and he's sorta demonstrated that he's untrustworthy on the business scene. Take his good products and leave the rest.

[throwawaylinux]

I love hearing from and thinking about different and contrary opinions, and it's very interesting to hear them coming from someone like Elon. I don't think being rich or making successful things necessarily gives him more credibility per se, but being obscenely rich and running large companies does give him access and connections that are unavailable to a commoner like myself so I think that does actually make him interesting to listen to.

Much more interesting than the usual hack endlessly regurgitating the current corporate-political propaganda talking points, and pretending that confers to them some special authority or expertise about how the world works and what should be changed, which is just mind-numbingly tiresome.

I don't have to agree with Musk about everything or anything, but I think it's very interesting to hear this unfiltered opinions, and I don't think he's clueless at all, I think he's very brave to occasionally defy the narrative. Maybe not always right, but still brave.

[bamboozled]

Oh and what’s “the narrative” in this case ? A country doesn’t want to be part of a communist dictatorship subject to madness like “zero covid”? Is that a narrative ?

[throwawaylinux]

It's something whose adherents become bewildered, angry, and afraid when they find a skeptic, someone who has questions or different beliefs. You'll know it when you see it.

[clouddrover]

It isn't performance art. He is showing you who and what he is. Believe him.