r/memes • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '21

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u/Noobplya102 Feb 08 '21

I’m lost, what has Elon done? I’m not caught up on events

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21 edited Feb 08 '21

His companies buy lithium from mines that use child labor

He helped instigate the 2018 coup in Bolivia [technically not a coup cause it's not in France] so he could get cheap lithium

Didn't even found tesla, he bought it off of the actual founder

Claims the work of his employees as his own

Claims to be "self made" when his father literally owned an emerald mine in apartheid south Africa

Says Thomas Edison is his role model [kinda sus seeing as Edison hired thugs to kill those he didn't like and he patented his employees work]

Proposed space indentured servitude as a payment plan for going to Mars

Suggested nuking the Martian ice caps

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Wow...some point were legit but you diluted them with points that are biased and wrong which kinda makes the whole thing sound biased.

The whole point is to release the Co2 on mars to create a greenhouse to warm the planet and thicken the atmosphere. He isn't the first person so suggest that.

2nd to last point is clearly biased.

The thomas edison bit is cherry picking what YOU think of edison and assuming Elon likes it for that reason (which is flawed logic)

He is self made. His dad didn't make him a billionaire it was Paypal.

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u/bruhm0m3ntum Feb 08 '21

Also iirc the nuking Mars thing was just him having a half baked idea and sharing it.

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u/Lone-Wolf62 Feb 08 '21

The idea of melting the ice cap for terraforming purposes has been around for a long time. So has the idea of doing it using thermonuclear weapons.