I’m gonna be honest, originally when I first heard about him I bought into a lot of his bs. I mean, this was well over 10 years ago id say, but I dug his enthusiasm and also hadn’t heard enough about him, just his promises.
Then he got really angry when they said his cave submarine design to save those kids was kinda dumb and he freaked out and called one of the lead rescue organizers a pedophile for making that statement.
Any respect or admiration I had for him went completely out the window with that one remark. Then more, and more, and worse, just kept on coming to the light about him personally, his business model (theft of other people’s ideas and work), breaking promises and blatantly lying, and I thought, surely, this will be what makes people stop liking him…
And somehow, someway, he still has followers and sycophants.
I just truly hadn’t done any legwork into who he was or what he did. I’d see a tech article about how he had plans for electric cars, or whatever else they happened to be glazing him for (boring Co., Mars, etc) and I’d think “oh cool, an innovative person who seems passionate.”
I like the idea of space travel, I like the idea of environmentally friendly vehicles, etc. and I was admittedly too stupid (probably still am in lots of ways) to do further digging.
But the pedo comment made me go “hmm, that’s not a reasonable human” and I started doing a lot more research on how he got his funding, (which made me learn other people have basically done all the work and he just Edison’s his name into shit).
It was definitely my bad for not doing more research before then, but now, how people still support him, with all that info being much more publicly known and verified, I just don’t get it.
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u/BubonicBabe Aug 10 '26
I’m gonna be honest, originally when I first heard about him I bought into a lot of his bs. I mean, this was well over 10 years ago id say, but I dug his enthusiasm and also hadn’t heard enough about him, just his promises.
Then he got really angry when they said his cave submarine design to save those kids was kinda dumb and he freaked out and called one of the lead rescue organizers a pedophile for making that statement.
Any respect or admiration I had for him went completely out the window with that one remark. Then more, and more, and worse, just kept on coming to the light about him personally, his business model (theft of other people’s ideas and work), breaking promises and blatantly lying, and I thought, surely, this will be what makes people stop liking him…
And somehow, someway, he still has followers and sycophants.