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    16 hours ago

    Elon Musk could have gone to the history books as the brilliant entrepreneur that started the electric car revolution and who made the starlink system that connects places fiberoptics can’t reach.

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    23 hours ago

    JK Rowling. Everyone used to have a very favourable opinion of her. I remember when the media would worship every tweet she made, as though she brought about world peace. Then she became obsessively transphobic and now that’s all people think of when they think of her as a person. At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it might be a misunderstanding. But then she went out of her way to make sure everybody knows how transphobic she is. It’s become her whole personality. Even Elon Musk, whose own child stopped talking to him because of his transphobia, told Rowling to knock it off because she was harping on transgender issues too much.

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      4 hours ago

      Ha ha yes, I thought maybe it was overwrought reporting, so I looked into what she was actually saying, and omg it was so much worse. She didn’t just double down, she tripled-downed, with extra sprinkles. Horrible, horrible person.

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    24 hours ago

    Rudy Giuliani was known for taking down the mob before being dubbed “America’s Mayor.” Now he works for the mob.

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      21 hours ago

      He only took down the mob by working with the Russian underworld, so it was all a ruse that didn’t really make NYC safer.

      If it wasn’t for his media handling of 9/11, he would have been completely irrelevant in the years that followed.

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      21 hours ago

      I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.

      I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.

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      23 hours ago

      I do think he had at least some empathy in the early days. The money destroyed that part of his brain though and he’s carttonishly evil now.

      That’s putting it lightly

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        20 hours ago

        To be entirely fair, I’m not sure he had the best shot at having empathy, his whole family benefited from the apartheid in south Africa.

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        23 hours ago

        Oh yeah. He’s absolute scum. There’s a Trumpian list I could write but why? The mother fucker threw a Nazi salute. He 100% knew what he was doing.

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    22 hours ago

    John Lasseter. He’s the reason why Pixar/disney had such strong story telling the years he was active. And then it turned out he was a perv. Sooooo disappointing.

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        24 hours ago

        Google will confirm he’s a comedian by trade, and pretty funny. But he showed up at the UFC thing on that guy’s lawn in DC, and didn’t really address the wave of hate he got by ruining his neutral image; not in the slightest.

        It was a bad look, to say the least.