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by panick21_ 851 days ago
Common Sense Skeptic is a ridiculous person whos literal whole identity is to trash everything related to SpaceX. When you said some commentator' I already knew who it was before I looked it up.

SpaceX could cure cancer and he would make a series of tweets about how its not an accomplishment because not every person with cancer is already cured.

For years now he has always used the worst interpretation possible and declared everything SpaceX hasn't done as impossible, and if they do it it suddendly becomes unimportant and something that others have done already done much better. And every prediction on the future is a worst case prediction.

And then he does the opposite for anything not called SpaceX.

He is also not an actual journalist with deep research or even really educated on the topic. His audiance seems to be mostly the anti-Musk people who dont usually care about space but need to say negative things.

He basically a meme, more like somebody playing character. He took the thunderfoot playbook and in order to make money on Musk hate. And yes, there are lots of only pro-Musk hype people around as well, and they are equally stupid.

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I agree that they too often chose to be petty and have a strong negative bias. They also sometimes seems to believe that insults are arguments.

My personal opinion of Musk is quite different[0], but I do believe that they are not factually lying about the numbers and court documents.

[0] it is much closer to how it is described here https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk