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by rsynnott 1203 days ago
Mentioned it before, but I think that to a lot of his fans Musk has become a sort of L Ron Hubbard figure; they see him as literally infallible, so they shoulder through the cognitive dissonance and go along with this stuff. If Dear Leader says it, it must be so.

It’s pretty remarkable, really. Even the Jobs people were able to acknowledge that Apple was not perfect, generally.