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Elon Musk. I know you guys hate him somehow but. HE DID build reusable rockets. HE DID build electric cars. HE DID restore Free Speech even though you guys somehow don't agree with that because people now can say anything they want and you can't live in your own little bubble without any criticism anymore (on twitter). And that's not what left wingers want lol.
His EMPLOYEES build reusable rockets. His EMPLOYEES built electric cars. Even if he participated in this process he would be on a supporting role. Similar to a janitor on spacex, a guy that maybe enables the real pros to do good stuff. (the janitor may actually be more important than musk tbh)
He did NOT restore free speech on twitter. Many activists a still being silenced every day. He gives their data to authoritarian goverments who have journalists executed. Free speech is about freedom from goverment retaliation and he actively aids goverments in suppressing free speech.
The rockets were really reusable without huge work anyway
Yikes lol
His employees built reusable rockets. His employees were not even the first to create electric cars, and he's not even the founder of Tesla. He did NOT restore free speech anywhere. People that were hating on him still got banned iirc (I might be wrong). All he did was create a payment service with his friend (PayPal), used the money to buy an electric car company (Tesla), hired people to build satellites and rockets for him (SpaceX), and decided to buy a dying social media company to revive it (Twitter), failing miserably in the process.
Link to prove Twitter failure:
https://en.shiftdelete.net/twitter-x-loses-over-30-of-users-in-two-months/
https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/09/10/twitter-downloads-dropped-30-post-rebranding-to-x/
Link for twitter bans (People that were sharing his location):
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/17/business/elon-musk-twitter-ban-reverse-conditions/index.html