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KeckyOK t1_iu4tg97 wrote

Reply to comment by riphitter in why Elon musk is A true Edison of our time ? by zaham_ijjan

Twitter is just a repeat. He bought some stock, then moved up to purchasing the company and vacating its CEO position.

..and I guess he's like Edison too, while not robbing Nikola Tesla's inventions directly but pretty much using his name to give an EV company some 'sciency cred'.

The Nikola company tried to do the same thing with EV trucks, but that was just a scam from the very start.

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Reefer-eyed_Beans t1_iu6c6fz wrote

Nope not at all. You know it's a stretch if you're comparing two people yet saying of one of them, "while not..." doing what the other person was doing.

Edison took credit for inventions that weren't his. Elon Musk invested in a company already named "Tesla"... the "sciency cred" coming from Tesla being one of the inventors of the electric induction motor. There's 0 comparability in these scenarios.

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dewayneestes t1_iu6l4v4 wrote

I think it’s important to be respectful of the truly amazing technological feat that a Tesla vehicle is. Watch the 8hr takeapart of a wrecked model 3, it’s truly amazing tech. I’m not saying Elon is the reason, but the cars are truly innovative.

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Hot_Carpenter8959 t1_iu68ju6 wrote

Buying Tesla before they even made a vehicle and turning it into a real car company, staking your whole net worth on it and buying Twitter after it's fully developed are not the same thing.

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DRY_D3Y t1_iu87upf wrote

But he didn’t buy Tesla before they made the Roadster. He didn’t stake all his net worth on it, not even close to it, not to mention that he had already lost all his money once at learned daddy warbucks will feed into his dumb bullshit over and over again. Elon is nothing but a spoiled idiotic entitled little boy who is currently waking up to the fact that he as amounted to nothing and no one can actually stand him or his unjust fame he just bought

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