• @taiyang
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      2917 days ago

      Yes, please let’s not pretend he was that. I dislike such an accusation.

    • @SlothMama
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      1617 days ago

      People are saying that didn’t happen, but I genuinely remember when I would constantly see sentiment that he would save the human race back in like, 2012?

      It was a majority opinion in tech and liberal circles.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, I remember all that, I just don’t remember him being part of the “new atheist” group that was popular around that time. Mostly it was the cars and “colonizing” Mars…nothing to do at all with religion or lack thereof, really.

        • @SlothMama
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          717 days ago

          I remember having the impression he was an atheist too for some reason, maybe it was some next level PR trying to make him seem like a super logical tech bro with big dreams and the means to achieve them.

    • @[email protected]
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      1217 days ago

      Seriously, he at best seemed questionably okay 10+ years ago.Then he turned out to be a giant piece of shit, an unintelligent, horribly cliche villain from an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

      • Stern
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        517 days ago

        Fired his P.R. team and went from Tony Stark to a somehow worse Justin Hammer.

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          917 days ago

          He fired his PR yeam years agter he called that diver a pedophile. He’s always been like this, there’s just no one trying to cover for him anymore.

    • @aLaStOr_MoOdY47
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      017 days ago

      Before he publicly shared his political views. Redditors used to simp for him.

      • @[email protected]
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        317 days ago

        I definitely remember that, but it was more about saving humanity and being an interplanetary species and stuff. I don’t recall anything specifically referring to his religious/spiritual beliefs or him being an atheist leader, icon, hero, etc, like Dawkins or Harris. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t, I could have missed it, but personally this is the first time I’ve seen him connected to atheism so that’s why I’m a little confused. And sadly I’ve kept a close eye on him over the years because sometimes my job involves interfacing with one of his companies. I don’t love it.