To think Elon has lost his mind?

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I used to be a big supporter of his. I was absolutely obsessed with his work on SpaceX and neuralink. His Joe Rogan interviews are some of the most interesting conversations I've ever listened to. Since he bought twitter I feel like he's been radicalised. I honestly can't square the man he seemed to be while building this extraordinary career with who he had become.
I still agree with him on quite a few topics, but his outbursts on twitter this week to stoke the riots is just reprehensible. His comments seriously make me feel sick. I really hope he is held to account when the dust settles. Although I don't hold out much hope.

In the app so can't set up voting properly, but essentially
YABU - Elon Musk is of sound mind
YANBU- you're right, he's lost it

Nice try Grimes, keep trying to protect your kids inheritance…

Anyways many more of us remember this whole thing rather differently. Musk was aggressive, distracting from a rescue operation and wanted to use the situation to boost his own ego and promote his tech.

He was disgusting to that guy and should have lost the case.

He’s always been pretty awful I think. But yes he’s got worse.

You remember it differently because people like you keep spreading the lie on the internet and want to believe it cos you don't like Musk. Even though I say with certainty that you don't have the faintest idea about him or any of his companies. You know, it's really not hard to find the actual facts - Google is super easy to use. But there's probably not much point in you doing any research as no doubt you'll decide that everyone, including the judge and 12 jurors who found Musk innocent, are all wrong and you are right. And anyone who says differently is obviously Grimes - the ex-girlfriend who is suing him?!! Grow up, dear.

He is a revolting person. Openly supporting Trump, changing X's algorithms to favour Trump, not Harris.

And his comments on the riots! Inciting violence. He should be in prison.

His latest demonstration of a superior mind is to sue his customers.

If you think 99% disagree with Musk as we see on here, you're living in cloud cuckoo land 😅

Regardless of what the rioters believe they are representing, their actions are not supported by the British public, with 85% of Britons opposing the unrest at recent protests and just 7% saying they support the violence.

yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/50257-the-public-reaction-to-the-2024-riots

Many use the platform he owns and I’d say support is there too

Disingenuous post, deliberately designed to misinformation for those that can't be bothered clicking on it. No one sane supports the " violence". Your link shows only 54% oppose the protests, and in the second question only 49% think the riots were unjustified.

That indicates a split in view showing many people whilst not condoning violence, understand the unrest over not just recent events but recent years. Epic fail from you here

More senseless violence & more people will turn away from them.
It's not political discourse, it's thuggery.

Exactly this!!

I am not ‘obsessed’ by Elon Musk but have read a fair bit.

I’m amused you think he was ‘radicalised’ by Twitter, rather than the reverse. I would engage in a debate about Twitter’s stance on freedom of speech/objectivity in reporting various world events and Musk’s views on that, but given hate speech has increased massively since he acquired it - what makes you think he isn’t the instigator?

Maybe if you'd watch real news, you'd be aware of all the discussions around immigration that have been going on. Especially the ones that included our politicians.🤷‍♀️

I don't believe I said Twitter radicalised him. I said he seems to have become radicalised since. It's a chicken/egg scenario. None of us will know the truth here.

I just want to add that I really despise twitter. I deactivated some time ago after using it for years. I actually think it's become worse since he acquired it. I'm definitely in favour of free speech. X/Twitter however seems to amplify the voices of the worst extremes on all sides, and the nature of the app means people are rewarded for being snippy and short with people. It essentially destroys any chance for a nuanced discussion.
Also, I'm not buying the idea that community notes is somehow unbiased.

@otnot - I am a technologist. The tech that ended up saving the boys was tried and tested, and was in the hands of experts. Musk's prototype was months away from being ready to use.

Please take your ill-informed nonsense elsewhere. Musk's position on that sub was putting him in the same realm as that CEO whose submersible imploded on the ocean floor taking his customers with him. Imagine how that would have gone for those children.

He helped push renewables to the forefront of tech, at a time and in a country where the very idea is very unpopular. Moreover, the tech in Neuralink could mean an end to physical disabilities. Then there's the whole Space X thing helping push space exploration further. I mean, I really don't understand how anyone wasn't impressed with him before he bought twitter.

I really don't want to defend him. I am seriously disgusted with his comments lately. The riots have been quite frightening and as an ethnic minority, it's made me feel unsafe for the first time since I moved to this country. I'm just in shock that he's stooped to the level of stoking the fires of riots. I do believe he's gone mad. Totally lost it.

It does show that 54% oppose the protests, but 34% support them, the other 12% are don't knows.

When it comes to the riots, 85% oppose and 7% support.

For the question regarding if the unrest at the protests are justified, 88% say no and 8% yes. Reform voters are most likely to have said yes, followed by Conservative.

Notonthestairs was correct in their interpretation.

Musk is a total gobshite, and dangerous to boot.

On X I follow

Nasa
New Scientist
European space agency
Prof Brian Cox
Special needs parents

So why in five clicks am I shown endless videos of BAME people fighting? Mostly black Americans? Why is this shit being pushed at me and by whom? He is rotting people's minds and becoming a parody of an Evil super villain.

Facebook and X are a cess pit of lies. It's a septic tank 🤣 if I saw the New Scientist tweeting that bacteria multiple on FB or X I'd need to fact check it.

He’s an agent provocateur obsessed (and has done well for himself) with being disruptive.
He also owns a platform that does best during times of controversy.
Of course he’ll have an opinion.

No she wasn't , she posted just 1 stat referring to violence which most condemn. She didn't post the fact that less than half 49% said the riots were either somewhat unjustified or completely unjustified which is quite telling meaning around around half the population thought they were or were on the fence. In other words slightly less than half the population is against them - the violence part is clearly a stat she included to make it out as if it applied to everything. 60% also had sympathy with the protests so hardly a tiny number and hardly the miniscule percent on here that think they are all "fascists, nazis , islamophobes, daily fail readers, ku klux klan members , bigots, gammons, far right hooligans, ex colonial slave masters ". Did I miss any out?

You're being unreasonable to enjoy his joe rogan interviews and not realise what a lunatic he's always been

I think he's great.

Great for a laugh?

Or so bad he's amazing ?