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by ryanwaggoner 1304 days ago
It’s pretty bizarre take to think that just because Elon has done amazing things for humanity (which I’ll take at face value), that you should root for him to succeed at whatever he does, regardless of how destructive it is.

I hope he fails hard at this and returns to making rockets. Tesla could disappear at this point and I don’t think it would matter, but SpaceX feels important still.
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AlchemistCamp 1304 days ago
Well hopefully you're not implying that's my take, because I don't think you should root for him to succeed at everything he does.

I think you should focus on what you want to make in the world rather than how to hurt others.

Even within the scope of companies to destroy, Twitter seems like an exceptionally poor target. Is Twitter really so much more threatening than Apple, Google, MS, FB, Tiktok, Tencent, any company marketing cigarettes etc, that it's worthy of setting aside all the productive things you can do with your life and make it your ambition to bring it down?

The amount of negative energy focused at it is downright pathological given its size and impacts, IMO.

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ryanwaggoner 1304 days ago
That’s basically what you said, yes:

“The problem with that goal…is that you'd be advocating for the end of adoption of electric vehicles and keeping humanity a single planet species forever”

I don’t care about Twitter itself, but I hope that Elon’s cruel and destructive approach fails.

And I’m not so entranced by his self-aggrandizing mythology that I think him failing at Twitter will have any impact whatsoever on adoption of electric vehicles or our ability to get to space. Give me a break lol

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AlchemistCamp 1304 days ago
> ”I don’t care about Twitter itself, but I hope that Elon’s cruel and destructive approach fails.”

Cruel and destructive?

That’s quite the extreme and bizarre interpretation of recent events, and it’s not very charitable. I hope you find something a bit more positive to focus your energies on.

The truth is, neither of us can know what the long term consequences of the leadership change will be but it’s almost certainly not worth doing this to yourself over it.

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ryanwaggoner 1304 days ago
lol, I’m fine man, you seem more twisted up over other people’s opinions :)

Happy thanksgiving!

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