This picture was taken when Mr. Musk was the First Lady of the NATION, yes yes.

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DavidM47@reddit

It’s really sad that political partisanship has led to his pariah. This dude literally built the electric car company we needed.

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sci-fi-rec@reddit (OP)

That's almost true, but they are pretty unaffordable for most drivers.

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He bought the company and as part of the acquisition he stipulated he would get the title of founder lol. Also BYD produces over 1 million more cars annually than Tesla for a much lower cost at equal or higher quality.

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DavidM47@reddit

Good for BDY. Let’s see Toyota or Ford fix their shit.

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dsaddons@reddit

Ford's CEO drives Xiaomi's EV, so I wouldn't put your hopes on them

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archimidesx@reddit

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, actual engineers, built Tesla. Elon was an investor. I cannot fathom how he’s convinced so many people he’s some tech/engineering genius when he’s not.

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DavidM47@reddit

You are the brainwashed one. They didn’t even have a prototype when he joined as an investor.

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archimidesx@reddit

If true, irrelevant. He’s not an engineer or a technologist. When he talks about these things you can tell he’s full of shit. Source: I’m a principal software engineer with patents on software.

Tesla and space-X aren’t successful because of him, rather in spite of him.

But I mean, go on suckling his taint while he falls further into a k-hole…

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DavidM47@reddit

If true? These are indisputable facts. Tesla was the shell he decided to buy to make his electric car, because he liked the name. The company was nothing without him.

He’s an idiot in a couple ways, but he’s doing what normal people would do in his situation: use their money to change the world for the good. So you can go on licking the taint of your party leaders. I’ll give credit where it’s due.

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