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by akudha 496 days ago
What did you like about him until 2018? He is not some visionary or genius or even smart. Neither is/was he a decent person to deal with (read up on his PayPal days). He is however, extraordinarily ruthless and thin skinned.

So what is it that you saw in him that you liked him?

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(Not OP) I liked his willingness to invest so much in exciting, lofty goals (Tesla, SpaceX).

Twitter wrecked his mind. I'm not talking about buying it, I'm talking about being such a heavy user of it.

Shows how vulnerable anyone is to propoganda, no matter how high your quality of life.
This. He is definitely not a genius and not even smart. He can’t formulate any interesting, original thoughts. He parrots, daily, dumb ideas and state propaganda (for example, russia) without any critical thinking.

The average person on the street is smarter than him.

Circa 2010 he still had the image of being an outsider and optimist instead of whatever we've got going on today.