IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride

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IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride
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What has he created? He bought himself into Twitter and Tesla... and the work is essentially done entirely by other people. i.e his employees

Yep. And his pet projects that he personally drives always crash and burn. He's the one that pushed the autopilot feature hard despite his engineers publicly objecting.

what has he created

One of the best PR campaigns in modern history. Just five years ago people on both sides of the political spectrum were seeing this guy as one of the smartest humans alive, who would actually put man on another planet.

Then he got rid of the PR team and started doing his own PR, and it went as well as it always does when Elon has direct control.

That last part can and probably will happen despite his public perception