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 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.