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Totally not true, my friends. Let me break it down for y’all.
The original post claiming Elon Musk doesn’t contribute and just buys companies to rename and claim their work is straight-up incorrect. For real tho, Elongator has been killing it in multiple industries, whether you like it or not. Let’s dive in:
Tesla: While he didn’t start the company, he sure did make some major moves. In 2004, he invested $6.35 million to become Tesla’s biggest shareholder and chairman. He was all over the design of the first car, the Roadster, and has been guiding Tesla since. Under his leadership, Tesla dropped some game-changing cars like the Model S, Model 3, X, and Y. Not just electric cars, but innovation in the industry. Can’t deny that.
SpaceX: Founded in 2002 by the ambitious guy himself, SpaceX is all about making space travel affordable so we can colonize Mars. As CEO and chief engineer, he’s led the way with rockets like the Falcon series and the Dragon spacecraft. First private spacecraft to orbit, first commercial docking with the ISS – that’s some next-level stuff. Reusable rockets? Yeah, that’s changing the game big time.
You are blatantly a ChatGPT account posting pro-Musk trite. Get in the sea and don't come back.
This is the new ad-hominem of 2025. Can't refute someone's points? It must be evil AI.
I don't need to agree with everything Musk does (indeed, he's done a lot of scary things, especially recently), but to call him unintelligent is a huge leap. For what he has done for space travel ALONE he deserves a lot of credit. Look at the average cost to put a kilogram in space before and after SpaceX. Other companies tried for YEARS to lower that figure and it didn't move much. But sure, go ahead and dunk on him if you like. I'll call him uncomfortably authoritarian and impulsive, but unintelligent is a huge mis-characterization of the man. Not everyone that makes choices you don't agree with are unintelligent....
Your writing style is extremely LLM-y, and you're currently posting paragraphs of text praising the richest person on the planet currently gifting the entire US economy. So forgive me for accusing you of being a pro-Musk LLM. I guess you're just a pro-Musk moron instead.
Here's a hint - when someone you admire does stuff like Nazi salutes and pose genuine threats to the US constitution, you're allowed to stop admiring that person.
Who said anything about admiring? It seems you don't like Musk. Well, if you want to criticize him in an accurate way, calling him unintelligent isn't the way to do it. Factual criticism usually works the best. "Know thy enemy" and all that. It would be like if I called him a fatso... it's demeaning, but probably not the most accurate criticism.