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by drummer 1314 days ago
Based on the comments, when exactly did Elon go from loved by HN to hated by HN?
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This place was almost exclusively into him until the cave diver thing; it was kind of cult-like. I think the "wait, maybe this guy is an arsehole, rather than a magical super-genius" tendency started growing at that point.
Everyone had (or will have) this wake up moment at some point. Here it was thai pedo slander, for me personally it was that Tesla will school Toyota how to make cars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...

When he tried to insert himself into the Thai cave debacle and called the local expert a pedo and then hired a fake detective to dig up evidence.