• bastion@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Someone else here, but eh… …he’s ok. Like any human, he had some decent qualities and some crappy ones.

        People with obvious power show their flaws obviously, but nobody’s really fit to replace them, either. What you mostly get is ‘If i was rich, I would…’ …but the reality is, most of those people would cave, and the institutions they led would either fall apart or become rudderless and decay.

        Some people lead, and they do it until they crack, then they start to fall apart and others take over. Other people bitch, and shove wedges in the cracks and say ‘we all knew he was an asshole all along!’ then elevate someone else that they’ll tear down later.

        The leaders are by no means golden, but they aren’t worse than the raise-up tear-down crowd, that’s for sure.

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        I don’t admire his tweets or latest shenanigans, but I do admire his work in engineering and AI. In those specific fields, he is quite the visionary, knowing how to position the right people in the right places with a clear future goal in mind. More often than not, his foresight proves accurate. Specific examples of the engineering decisions and designs manifested in SpaceX or Tesla include innovations such as the Octovalve, Gigacasting, FSD computer, the reusability of Falcon 9 with landings, Merlin and Raptor rocket engines, and the general software architecture in Tesla cars. The list goes on for technology enthusiasts like me.

        You don’t have to appreciate everything about him — I certainly don’t — but as someone who loves technology, I can’t help but recognize how his vision has propelled America further into the future.

        Part of me wishes he had delved into nuclear science to solve fusion instead of purchasing Twitter. Perhaps, though, he’s past his prime.

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              Ya of course that’s why we all should be here, I dislike him but that doesn’t mean if you do I can’t talk to you or hear your side of things, that mentality is why we are in this current shitstain of a culture war

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      1 year ago

      You’re mistaking deserved scorn and ridicule for hate, a common tactic amongst people trying to defend ridiculous people.