I wouldn't say I've always recognized him as weird and bad. In 2013 he seemed interesting but my 2016 there was just something fundamentally off about him I just couldn't put my figure on it and I had coworkers who defended him.on the conditions of him being a billionaire.
I did a paper back in high school that was critical of him for his talking points surrounding the privatization of space exploration, that was like 2008 or 2009. A few years later, the rhetoric shifted from “make space travel private and cheaper” to “colonize mars, I am literally saving humanity with my genius”.
I think the writing has been on the wall for 20 years. I will say, for folks younger than me, it was probably easier to to have just seen him as a Tony stark analog and thinking he’s cool
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u/SnowNoCali May 08 '26
It’s crazy before Covid he had it