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The more realistic outcome would be that Elon promises a cure for cancer is coming next year and repeats saying that every year until all of his competitors have caught up.



Yes, because famously his competitors have caught up in rockets and electric cars.


SpaceX is just an amazing anomaly in every sense of the word. Tesla is nowhere near that.


Point is they’re ahead of the competitors on pretty much any metric you could point to.


And then he calls the people who call him out on it pedophiles.


He called one specific british man living in a specific part of Thailand a paedophile


Are you saying it's ok to call someone you're arguing with on the internet a pedophile with no evidence, if it's just one British person living in Thailand? What point are you making?

Edit: Looking at your post history, do you own a lot of SpaceX and Tesla stock? You do a lot of name calling to defend Elon, so your opinion defending one of the world's richest guys doesn't seem altruistic.


Addressing your edit:

1. I have not called anyone names. That is also false.

2. All people deserve defending from untrue statements about them regardless of how wealthy they are, I'm not sure why anyone would think otherwise.


> And then he calls the people who call him out on it pedophiles.

> What point are you making?

That your statement was inaccurate.


It wasn't their statement, it was mine, and your response concedes that Musk did exactly that.

I just can't wrap my head around this. How can you both concede the behavior and be perfectly fine with and defend it?


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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, we've warned you many times before, and if you keep doing it we're going to have to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.


Dan it’s not flamebait. The person tried to falsely paint a single example of behaviour as a common thing.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to really hate Elon Musk, so “you’re right he only did this once but it was poor behaviour” turns into flagging anyone that points this out and then bringing up unrelated matters as an instance of whataboutism.

We’ve had three or four discussions over the last 16 years, one I’m fairly sure you’d now think you were in the wrong, so I’m not sure why you would say this is common.


Asking someone "Do you understand plurals?" is an insulting way of calling them dumb. Personal insults are certainly flamebait and definitely not allowed here.


OK fair enough. I did genuinely wonder how the parent did not understand that writing something happened multiple times when it happened once was untrue, but I should have used better language here.


Is that seriously your beef, that I said pedophiles instead of pedophile? You are completely avoiding the substance of the point.


Look at his post history and stop wasting your time.


You’re right. I need to do some serious soul searching to try to figure out why I am getting drawn into this head wall banging.


Yes. The fact you don’t think its a big deal to be caught saying something false says a lot.


I'm going to go out on a limb here with the way you've consistently dodged whether you think this is acceptable behavior and say that even if I brought up another example, Yoel Roth, you still would have a way of doing gymnastics around it.


I’ve stuck to the point about you lying rather than bothering with your multiple attempts to change the topic. Try again? Maybe it’ll work.


I have now directly addressed your defense that he has only done it once by bringing up another case.


No you haven't. You've added a story about a Twitter employee that committed harm being abused by people that aren't Elon Musk.


...or he finds someone who's just about to find one, buys the rights from them to say that it was him, and then charges $millions a head for the cure.




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