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musk is genuinely not very bright and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing

and even if he DID actually understand his engineer's technology he opportunistically takes credit for (which he doesn't), the overt bigotry makes it painfully clear he was always an unremarkable piece of shit

there's a funny thing where, like, an important skill in raising money for tech ventures is to distill technical complexity WAY down so that the money people grasp it, and he is very good at SEEMING like he's doing that when actually he is just misunderstanding the complexity from first principles

god knows lazy tech journalism deserves the shade but it also works on more bankers and nasa administrators and ambitious politicians than one would hope