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THE PRESS NOW WANTS TO DEMONIZE ELON MUSK
He had just repented just four days ago in Bloomberg magazine: "I came to the wrong conclusion, and I will try to improve on it, to think that just because someone is on Twitter and attack me, anything goes. That's my mistake. And I will correct it, "he said. But the good intentions of Elon Musk lasted very little and on Sunday he called the British diver Vern Unsworth a "pedophile", one of the rescuers of the 13 Thai boys trapped in a cave. Unsworth told CNN that the owner of Tesla and SpaceX "could stick the submarine where it hurts most." Unsworth made it clear in several interviews that Musk's plan to remove the boys in a submarine was unfeasible by the characteristics of the rocks and that it was a publicity set with less real interest in removing the live boys and more willingness to sell globally as a superhero with the best gadgets. Faithful to his style, Musk responded by calling him a pedophile, and when other Twitter users told him he had no basis for saying that, he said that he "bet a dollar" as he was right. Now the diver is studying to process it.The billionaire, who in February put the world's most powerful rocket into orbit, continues this way with his summer of hatred on Twitter. Since May, he has published hundreds of angry Twitter posts, dedicated to journalists, trade unions (by working conditions in his company, often described as cruel and draconian), nanotechnology experts, Silicon Valley investors and general to anyone who dares to criticize it. During the days when he was studying how to make the rescue in Thailand, if someone questioned his strategy of the submarine, he did not hesitate to call him "jackass" (idiot). In April, when numbers circulated that claimed Tesla was broken, Musk made ironic publications such as "They found Elon Musk dead alongside a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by TeslaQuila bottles and with tear marks still visible on his face." Also published photos in which he was made dead. Since that very week the first death occurred in one of his self-guided cars, the joke was not very funny.
Before attacking heroic divers, Musk reserved his worst insults to the "traditional" press. He prides himself on not giving interviews (but does) and hates being "proud to publish the truth when in fact they write only enough to sweeten their lies." For all this, he intended to create his own vehicle of communication called Pravda, as the historical official organ of the USSR. Once the domain of the name already has owner, he was satisfied to use PravDuh.The New York Times compares its behavior to that of another millionaire of some prominence: "Tends to blast out of tune on Twitter. It does not support criticism. It abhors the press for its supposed lies and threatens to create a Soviet apparatus to control it. It makes people give you money by promising things you can not keep. He's a multimillionaire whose business flirts with bankruptcy. He sold himself off as an anti-establishment iconoclastic, but he is little more than a lucky player. Their legions of fanatics are, we must admit, a bit stupid. " In fact, according to journalist Bret Stephens, Elon Musk is "Donald Trump of Silicon Valley."


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