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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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malfist ◴[] No.43470817[source]
The French monarchy is probably a good comparison
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dartos ◴[] No.43470833[source]
Did they have goodwill to begin with?
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1. ZeroGravitas ◴[] No.43471045{3}[source]
Well they had a lot of people on the payroll claiming they were literally chosen by God so they generated a similar amount of positive PR. There's suckers born every century.