India's Modi has obviously never heard of the Streisand Effect.

WaltSee wrote on Jan 26, 2023, 09:58:
I think Musk is a really decent guy, actually, who has done and is doing a lot of good in the world.

What a joke you are. You know we can read your post history, right?

Beamer wrote on Jan 21, 2023, 18:16:

WaltSee wrote on Jan 21, 2023, 17:08:
Amazing... when the poor folks on the partisan left thought he was with them, Musk could do no wrong. Now that he's declared he isn't with them politically, they say he can't do anything right...;)

Walt, you're too intellectually dishonest to ever respond to this, but you're applying a standard to a wide group of people that you don't to yourself. Yes, some liberals thought Musk could do no wrong, but many didn't like him. It isn't necessarily the same that loved him and now loathe him, not to mention, we've learned a lot more about him lately.


But you've been praising him now that you think he's on your side, because you treat politics more like sports than anyone here. Let's review the tape on what you used to think, though:

WaltSee wrote on Oct 6, 2017, 17:31:

More like a big con man...;) I've been amazed to see Musk "coming up" with idea after idea taken straight from 1950's and 60's "B" sci-fi...;) And it's all to pitch for more government loan guarantees...Musk is just the resident version of Solyndra who unfortunately won't go away...;) Just more fallout from the Obama administration's nuking of America.

WaltSee wrote on Jan 12, 2016, 20:48:
Musk is getting dry rot on the brain, I think. Lately, his "predictions" keep getting more and more bizarre.

WaltSee wrote on Jun 19, 2018, 18:08:

Nimh wrote on Jun 19, 2018, 17:23:

Musk is an asshole boss with a prosecution complex. I have no idea how he gets the press coverage he gets.

It's the perfect thing to say when your entire electric car scheme is falling apart and you consistently cannot meet your targets for product production. "It's not me, it was Employee X who sabotaged the works." I don't think Musk needs any help with sabotage...;) He's been doing a splendid job of it for years, imo.

He gets coverage because he is another of Obama's ridiculous "Green Genius" projects backed by government money--like Solyndra *cough* ($500M of taxpayer money down the rabbit hole, and nobody knows where all that money went!)--that seems to be going nowhere fast. Musk is what happens when the government tries to make fiscal decisions and design products, etc. Often what looks good to the government is simply a fraudulent giveaway. Musk is into the government pie by a few billion $ so far--we shall see, but I think his time with Tesla is running out rapidly.

Try being more honest about who is the real partisan around here.

I'm on Twitter regularly these days--sometimes browse and post for hours out of curiosity. Haven't seen a single thing I'd call "hate speech." Not once. Have no clue as to why all the animus towards Musk. People sure do say many hateful things about Musk, however. There's a lot of hate speech sent towards Musk from certain quarters, *cough*. I think Musk is a really decent guy, actually, who has done and is doing a lot of good in the world.

I'm the opposite of a musk stan and find him deplorable. There has been a rash of hate speech on Twitter ever since he took over, which has been linked to real world violence.

Musk reinstated 24-year-old white supremacist Nick Fuentes yesterday and to no ones surprise, just one day after being reinstated, he has once again been kicked off the platform.
Stop the Steal organizer and fellow far-right personality Ali Alexander also had his account banned today. Alexander’s account was reinstated earlier this month.

Elon may need to rethink his blanket pardoning of hate figures, white nationalist and anti-Semites. That is if he wants to make a buck.

Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in Dec - data https://www.reuters.com/technology/ad-spending-twitter-falls-by-over-70-dec-data-2023-01-25/

Ex-Twitter engineer tells FTC security violations persist after Musk https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/