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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

When I first heard about him, it was when he took over Tesla and was pushing electric cars to become mainstream against a huge amount of industry pressure trying to squash any effort to move away from fossil fuels. It was an inspiring underdog story, and I was genuinely rooting for the guy. Maybe not in a crazy fanboy way like some people o today, but whenever I heard a positive news story about him it was uplifting to a certain degree.

Then he absolutely humiliated himself with the "pedo guy" comments and his bizarre feud with the truth/reality and my opinion of him flipped then and there. It only went downhill quicker when he started showing his true colors - switching from Democrat to Republican and indulging himself in conspiracy theories, antisemitism and racist ideology cemented my opinion of him. He's a true blue piece of shit who will say or do anything if he can make money off of it.

[-] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

I love what he did with Tesla to get it going. That was pretty amazing.

Now he is more of a boat anchor for the brand.

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