To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.
To me, it was Musk’s “pedo guy” rant back in, what was it, '16, '17? Up until then, I thought he was an okay guy, doing tech things to improve humanity in general, and all the negative stuff being just… him being on the spectrum. It took me the moment he started throwing a very heavy accusation around quite baselessly to realise how shitty he is. A singular moment, a singular event, a singular piece of information made me re-evaluate everything I knew about him and see him for the shitstain he is.
What we know now about him begging to go to Pedo Island his choice of accusation makes so much more sense than it did at the time. Just goes to show, insults say a lot more about the insulter than the insultee
To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.
Oh - for sure, yeah. I suppose I may have been too absolute in my phrasing. It also depends on where you’re coming from. “Seems okay” is a lot closer to “is terrible” than “He’s gonna save humanity” is.
I had a similar “I think this guy’s doing some cool shit” to “waitaminute - why’s he calling some guy trying to save kids a pedophile” moment myself.
That was the point he jumped the shark for me. His Twitter takeover, constant placating of the right and efforts to get Trump re-elected had already pushed him from “edgelord memer and shitposter” to “alt-right nutcase”, but the salute immediately jumped him to “irredeemably evil monster”.
Oh, the fascist confirmation came in 2020 + the takeover of Twitter to “give right wing voices the platform they deserve” or whatever absolute pile of bovine faeces he claimed.
Also crushed whatever goodwill I had toward Tim Urban as a balanced and neutral intellectual in pursuit of a better world through education and truth. Just another paid hack sucking the musky dick.
To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.
To me, it was Musk’s “pedo guy” rant back in, what was it, '16, '17? Up until then, I thought he was an okay guy, doing tech things to improve humanity in general, and all the negative stuff being just… him being on the spectrum. It took me the moment he started throwing a very heavy accusation around quite baselessly to realise how shitty he is. A singular moment, a singular event, a singular piece of information made me re-evaluate everything I knew about him and see him for the shitstain he is.
What we know now about him begging to go to Pedo Island his choice of accusation makes so much more sense than it did at the time. Just goes to show, insults say a lot more about the insulter than the insultee
Oh - for sure, yeah. I suppose I may have been too absolute in my phrasing. It also depends on where you’re coming from. “Seems okay” is a lot closer to “is terrible” than “He’s gonna save humanity” is.
I had a similar “I think this guy’s doing some cool shit” to “waitaminute - why’s he calling some guy trying to save kids a pedophile” moment myself.
And the Nazi salute. The pedo thing made me think he was just a piece of shit. But that confirmed he was also a fascist.
That was the point he jumped the shark for me. His Twitter takeover, constant placating of the right and efforts to get Trump re-elected had already pushed him from “edgelord memer and shitposter” to “alt-right nutcase”, but the salute immediately jumped him to “irredeemably evil monster”.
Oh, the fascist confirmation came in 2020 + the takeover of Twitter to “give right wing voices the platform they deserve” or whatever absolute pile of bovine faeces he claimed.
Also crushed whatever goodwill I had toward Tim Urban as a balanced and neutral intellectual in pursuit of a better world through education and truth. Just another paid hack sucking the musky dick.