So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.

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For fucks sake.

I clearly said I do not like musk. I even went as far as saying I hate him but still that’s the first place you went. What the fuck?

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Yeah, but there’s also the cognitive dissonance of you saying SpaceX is fun because they don’t explode…

But they do explode. Waaaaay more than NASA. Because if a NASA launch goes bad, everyone pays attention. If SpaceX goes bad, people just shrug

So by your own metrics you just said…

NASA is better than SpaceX.

No matter what position I took, it would have disagreed with your comment, because your comment disagrees with itself. Which explains why you think spacex is a positive.

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I did not say NASA was better than SpaceX, or the other way around. You are putting words in my mouth. Don’t do that.

Here is a link to a comment that discusses exactly what you are saying, and it was posted before your comment. So maybe read first then comment.
https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.world/t/568410/What-are-some-companies-that-deserve-to-be-boycotted-to#entry-comment-3161709

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SpaceX has only had 2 mission failures out of 274 total missions. Since 2017 SpaceX has had a 100% success rate which is a vast majority of its total missions. The recent explosions have been test rockets and expected to blow up, it’s how they learn and innovate so quickly. NASA takes billions of dollars and 10+ years to successfully launch a rocket on the first attempt. It’s just 2 different approaches to design and innovation.

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Nah dude. You don’t understand. A guy we don’t like is tangibly related to the space program. Fuck all them scientists and engineers. They’re all evil. Every. Single. One of them.

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Personal insults and incorrectly using “big words”…

For some reason the people who defend Musk and his companies love doing that.

Does it work on 4chan? Is that where you all get this from?

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A minute and forty five seconds of hate isn’t gonna cut it today buddy

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Some people can’t get over the fact that spaceX is a net positive for humans. Just as Tesla helped push other manufacturers into the world of EVs. They just hate musk to the point that anything he is associated with is bad.

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everyone was moving to EV’s with or without tesla. if you want to credit anyone go back to the Prius way back in the late 90s. They set the trend, Tesla jumped on that trend.

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I can’t say that without Tesla EV would be as popular, mainly because at the time when Tesla started was 9 years after the GM EV1 was a failure. I don’t think other companies would have seen building EV as a good investment, but who could know?

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I’m not defending musk. So tired of that qualifier in this thread.

The prius is not an EV it’s a hybrid and nobody thought they were cool. Even tree huggers like me. Tesla made electric cars cool until everyone found out how poorly they were assembled. Then the other manufacturers, seeing that electric cars could be profitable, started tooling their assembly lines. You have your history completely backwards.

The new Prius Prime is cool af in my opinion.

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Tesla made rich people like EVs instead of making EVs viable for poor people. Tongue off boot please

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EVs are still going to be the wrong answer to the problem. Sure, more efficient than combustable, but still vastly less efficient than good public transport systems, walkable/bikeable cities, etc. If Elon really wanted to save the planet, he’d be building bullet trains.

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Tesla did help get the economy moving faster to EVs which is a net positive.

I think the way things turned out, anyone could of had that effect Tesla just happened to be in the right place at the right time though.

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I don’t get the crazy musk hate. I mostly ignore him but I love that he created the market for electric cars.

Being an adult means you can look at situations in more complex terms than Elon bad.

I think he’s a man child. I dislike his attitude like the Wikipedia name change. That’s just douche material.

I love that he funded Tesla and now we have a viable electric car market.

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but I love that he created the market for electric cars

This is like saying OJ Simpson invented Smuckers Uncrustables so he’s not all bad…

Firstly, it’s not true.

Secondly, even if it was true, it doesn’t amount to enough to celebrate him.

Because putting peanut butter and jelly in a sandwich was already a thing that was popular. It just became worse for the environment and more expensive for consumers by individuall packaging them and requiring them to be frozen.

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