• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    1 hour

    Killed off USAID,

    Donated 288 million to Trump’s election,

    Trump thanks him (and his Gen-Z computer nerds) for “being good with voting machines”.

    Emails of him literally begging to go to Epstein’s Island.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    2 hours

    Let’s see what the great American magnates of the past are remembered for:

    • Henry Ford was remembered for selling his cars at a low enough price and paying his workers a high enough wage that they could easily afford to buy the cars they made.
    • Andrew Carnegie was known for paying for the construction of a library in every town.
    • J. P. Morgan was known for bailing out the economy of New York using his personal wealth and influence when the Federal Reserve did not yet exist.

    All these men were also known as ruthless barons of industry who stamped out those who opposed them without second thought, but at least they also did a fair bit of good to at least try to offset their ills. Elon is just openly a horrible person. History will not be kind to his memory.

    • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
      2 hours

      Henry Ford is also still known as a nazi empathizer. You can be a lot of shitty things, but Nazi tends to stick. Reminds me of the end of Inglorious Bastards.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.world
        2 hours

        Well, I’m not saying that they’re only remembered for the good things. But you’ve almost certainly heard about the good things that Ford’s done as well. What notable good thing will Elon be known for? I can’t think of anything at all.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51 minutes
          one can only hope he turns his image around [mildly NSFL]

          Because this is what we expect

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      2 hours

      Henry Ford is known for the production line, which is what made vehicles affordable.

  • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
    3 hours

    VonBraun was also famous for rockets, but was still, under it all, a fucking Nazi.

    Nothing he did after being a Nazi made up for that.

  • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 hours

    Near the bottom of the list of the saddest things I saw last year was a video clip of an “every day” major Musk fanboy coming to terms that their hero was a wackjob drug addict. It looked like Musk had taken a bit too much MDMA, Ketamine, or some amount of both as he was having these spastic episodes of body shakes and eye rolls during the middle of the interview. Mysteriously difficult to find the video clip now.