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If only other babies could launch and land rockets. Call Musk what you want, but he is not a baby.



A man-baby is an adult man who acts like a baby, e.g. throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way and being overly petty and vindictive, not a literal baby.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Manbaby

It is incredible that I have to explain this and that that is the part you object to. So you’re fine with despots, but “man-baby” is where you draw the line?

Either way, your objection makes absolutely zero difference to the point.


>acts like a baby, e.g. throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way

A man in the emotional state you described wouldn't be able to lead a company like SpaceX -- he would throw a tantrum when a rocket blows up instead of doubling down on perfecting it.

>So you’re fine with despots, but “man-baby” is where you draw the line?

I'm Russian and what's happening in the US government is your problem, we have our own problems. However, I have the respect for a man who has advanced the space industry so much even though it directly hurts my country -- in the end, we all are a part of humanity and the wars will end some day.


> A man in the emotional state you described wouldn't be able to lead a company like SpaceX

Clearly you haven’t been following his actions. This isn’t new. See for example when he called a rescuer a pedophile or when he told companies to not advertise on Twitter, or a myriad of other instances. You can literally search for “tantrum” with his name and find more examples than you’ll know what to do with.

> what's happening in the US government is your problem

Don’t assume everyone you talk to on the internet lives in or is a citizen of the USA.

> we have our own problems

Including a despot. Which is unfortunate. You shouldn’t wish it on anyone else.

> we all are a part of humanity and the wars will end some day.

Indeed they will. Probably because we’ll all die.


Did he actually launch or land rockets? Or did he hire a bunch of people who actually did that?

I'm not saying that there isn't skill involved with hiring smart people, but I don't think it's correct to act like he single-handedly invented self-landing rockets.


He bet his entire fortune on that, for one thing.


I spent my entire life savings on lottery tickets, and one of them wins the Powerball, does that mean that I am somehow gifted in managing my money? Or would it mean I just got lucky?

Elon's stuff might be due to some kind of "skill", but that's not implied by him "betting his entire fortune" and winning.


Just an edit: it was a hypothetical, I meant to write “if I spent my life savings on lottery tickets”. I don’t actually play the lottery.


I think he's well on the path to reverting to baby status.


Musk doesn't do that. He bought a company and claims all the credit for it, he's just a rich brat using daddy's blood money.


> He bought a company and claims all the credit for it

Dude, Musk founded Space X. It's because of these kinds of ridiculous comments that I find it hard to take the Left (at least the ones on the internet) seriously.




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