Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Elon Musk: The Fraudster trying to Destroy America!" video.

I'm an aerospace engineer and there's 2 points I like to remind people of just so the Muskrats don't go screaming and howling and claiming we are BLIND. And being fair there is a very mixed bag when we objectively look at Musk and his companies. 1) SpaceX did an amazing thing in breaking through the barriers to the space launch business that companies like Boeing dominated. We tend to forget that Boeing got more money to help develop Starliner which is yet to have a 100% successful flight. Crew Dragon in my view is a very good success. Its not ideal but it did get NASA back into flying its own astronauts from its own facilities back into space without having to fly via the Russians. HOWEVER that success does not and will never excuse Elon's stupidity over the Mars fantasy or idiocy on other space related things like Starship. YES my view of Starship is the complete opposite of Crew Dragon because Crew Dragon fulfilled an actual need while Starship does what other than pump Elon's ego? 2) Tesla did an amazing thing by becoming a successful EV manufacturer. I have worked in the Auto sector and getting that sector to change anything is staggeringly hard and yet Tesla go that entire industry to change. HOWEVER when you look at Elon's actual involvement in the development its been disastrous. There's a court case between Martin Eberhard one of the actual founders (with Marc Tarpenning) that's been covered by the YT channel Common Sense Skeptic. The really obvious thing is Cybertruck. That's not something Elon can blame on anyone else. The real tragedy in my view is that there's some fantastic engineers in both SpaceX and Tesla who have done some amazing work. Unfortunately its likely they will never get any credit because Elon will take that from them and once Elon does trash his empire the reputation of those people will also be trashed.
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@dogwalker666 Thanks I agree 100% with TF00t about Elon and his nonsense BUT I wished he'd show a little more perspective on the other people at both Tesla and SpaceX who have done good work. Not all of them deserve to be painted with Elon's brush. I know TF00t has had several goes at Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX) and for sure she's said some dumb things. But she has also lead a team that has dramatically outperformed Boeing on getting Crew Dragon and other things working. The craziest aspect is that if Elon just got out of the road and let his people get their jobs done without interference then where would these 2 companies be? I think after he's wrecked both companies then there's going to be some of the greatest bargain investments in history because there's IP in both that's worth a lot.
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@dogwalker666 spot on
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The only way you could see this as a plot twist is that you are claiming that this has gone from a straight dive into the ground into a spiral dive into the ground.
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