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I’m don’t fall into one camp or the other: I think the guy is human, like everyone else, and riddled with faults.

But one guy has put humans into space, and the other sold steaks on infomercials.




That's quite the slanted framing.

An alternate framing: one was president of the United States and one got pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a kid because his father committed suicide.


But as a businessman, Musk has done far more for society with SpaceX and Starlink than Trump ever did as a sketchy real estate developer, or media personality. Let's give that to Musk, not withstanding his dubious personal choices, polarizing public persona, or this questionable decision of buying and then gutting an unprofitable social network.


I framed it this way because GP was make a pejorative comparison.




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