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Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

Or a very small fraction of a volcano.

You can say that about anyone, suddenly pollution is then non-issue.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#822
post #795

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I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world. What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy.

You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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post #781

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He doesn't have to fly in a private jet.

When you managed several companies headquartered in various places in the US, you have to.

First of all, when you're the CEO of what, 5 companies at the same time? you're probably not working that much. Or being a CEO should be a part time job, 20% of regular working hours.

Secondly:

Twitter is in San Francisco, Neuralink is in San Francisco, Tesla is in Austin, The Boring Company is in an Austin suburb, SpaceX is in the LA metro area.

I'm quite sure there are regular commercial flights each day between Austin, San Francisco and LA.

Let's be real here, he just uses a private jet because it's cool and convenient.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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post #809
post #798

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I do give him credit for those things, but the guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and uses that power to bully. He keeps using his position of power to punch down at people who usually don’t deserve it. It’s petty and pathetic. For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. It’s not even the first…

> For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. Uh no. He simply posted a screenshot from the guy’s thesis.

He also misrepresented what the thesis was saying in the same tweet, deliberately playing into homophobic tropes associating gay people with pedophilia.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#825
post #814

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I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world. What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy.

> I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world. > What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy. Turns out, you should care about both. First of all, his private jet costs as much as a yacht, plus he doesn't own…

Renting yachts seems like a great mitigation to me. One yacht can service dozens of billionaires' 1-2 week vacations without sitting around in port useless 90% of the time.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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post #795

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You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

Considering SpaceX, definitely not.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#827
post #735

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Debunked how? I have not seen it before. Welcome to the open Internet, where millions of people may independently arrive at similar conclusions. Is this your first time here?

Right? I'm actually interested in hearing the counter argument but unfortunately, it wasn't provided.

Yellow Pages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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post #809
post #798

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do give him credit for those things, but the guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and uses that power to bully. He keeps using his position of power to punch down at people who usually don’t deserve it. It’s petty and pathetic. For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. It’s not even the first…

> For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. Uh no. He simply posted a screenshot from the guy’s thesis.

Ironically, digging up out-of-context history to disparage someone sounds like a “cancel culture” tactic.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#829

The thing he actually doesn't want everyone to realise is that he is a dumbass billionaire who goes on costly trips all the time. As soon as the world sees him as the kiddo who happens to have whims and does whatever he want with the mass of money he has (he bought twitter just for fun?), his aura will be over.

The first sentence might be true, but the second one has it exactly wrong. The unpredictalbe kiddo with too much money is his aura.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#830
post #795

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You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

lets not talk about how he lead the electric car revolution, that's just a huge positive thing.
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