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api ◴[] No.43470792[source]
I'm having trouble thinking of even historical examples of a single person burning this much goodwill.

It makes me really sad when I think about it. We needed, and still need, the person Elon Musk was at least pretending to be when he founded SpaceX.

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1. aaronmdjones ◴[] No.43470823[source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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2. moritonal ◴[] No.43470936[source]
Just for what it's worth, the whole speech is a fairly insightful and approachable talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9BZz71yQE, were it not the gaffe it'd have been viewed very positively.