In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels.

“These NGOs are subsidized by the German government,” the account posted. “Let’s hope AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide.”

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    Ten or so years ago I liked the guy. He did great things with tesla and spacex. Now every bit of information I get about him deminish my respect more than the previous. It seems like tesla and spacex has done great in spite of him, not because of him.

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      He did great things with tesla and spacex

      His employees did, I doubt he knows jack shit about designing cars or rockets. He stole the credit to create this image that he’s like a real life Ironman.

      It seems like tesla and spacex has done great in spite of him, not because of him.

      Twitter is the perfect example of that, what happened to it is the demonstration of what happens when there’s no one to babysit him out of not taking stupid decisions.

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        In the 2010s, friends and family always rolled their eyes when I told them he didn’t found Tesla, wasn’t a rocket engineer and got kicked out of Paypal. I was always just a Debby Downer who just didn’t want it to work or something. Now after Hyperloop Vaporware, dead monkeys from brain transplants, shut down Starlink for Ukraine and the Twitter aquisition, they finally joined my choir. I will admit it’s quite gratifying to hear some of them say “you were right all along” after years of being dismissed.

        Of course nobody on the internet will admit they were wrong, though. They’ll either stick to him, claim they always doubted him or say he just changed. Whatever, it is what it is.

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      He was okay before he started engaging politics. Although his treatment of workers and women always had me concerned

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        The treatment of his workers and women is politics. Probably just not the kind of politics that personally negatively affects you.

        Musk was never okay.