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I'm very fortunate in that none of my children has died.

But I expect there's something particularly poignant about the moment of death.

So to me, Musk's inaccuracy about that detail is very significant.



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I'm not a Musk fan but "died in my arms" doesn't have to be read literally and i wouldn't consider this as a lie.

Jesus Christ, are you seriously calling Musk a liar based on who held the child the exact moment the child died?

Like he has to provide forensic level testimony with a timeline of who's holding a child while it's dying?

That's some psychopathic level lack of empathy for someone who's child died.


> Musk's public response was “My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat, I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

It's worth noting that Musk's ex-wife, Justine, disputes this version of events.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justine-mu...


Not even sure I fully trust Musk on this, after he lied about holding his child that died; when it turned out the mother did and it was SIDS related, he's got form on using his children to manipulate the outside world.

https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696


I'm no fan of Musk, but the tweet you linked does not say the response has been overblown.

He's not incorrect in the tweet you linked: both cpf and mortality are currently overstated due to lack of testing and asymptomatic cases.

He has plenty of other silly tweets such as: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12360294490421985...


That is really not Musk's message, not even implied.

That's one reason I cited Musk's claims. Not all his claims are accurate.

So the towing company confirmed that the car was DEAD. Musk wasn't there, so he cannot extrapolate from his logs.

So Musk wrong again.

Yea, too many coincidences with Musk's side of the story.

Musk is trying to be precise, I did exactly to him that he was trying to do to NYT's reporter. And yes, my pedantry was on purpose.


17 fatalities don't indicate that musk is a sociopath, but they certainly don't prove that musk cares about human life. They provide no useful information one way or the other.

I wasn't claiming Musk was right, just that the article is a non-sequitur

It's amazing to watch many commenters here try to justify the miss wasn't really a miss. Or if it was, it was so slight as to not matter.

What's the motivation here? Are people talking their book, or is it idolatry of Musk?


But this hasn't happened, it's the opinion of this person who wrote the article. That doesn't vindicate Musk

This always was the case and there are zero recorded instances of such so no need to trot out this argument. Musk himself has Tweeted out the location of his child in real time.

Yep, this is trivial to falsify, Musk jumped to an incorrect conclusion based on some anecdotes that he did not follow: https://twitter.com/Popeska/status/1592179502838435847

>Musk's blatant disregard for human life to protect the value of his company

He could also be developing autopilot to save human lives. There are a lot of road deaths each year which is not going to be fixed by doing nothing.


I don't think this is true. It's something Musk likes to say, but a source would be useful.

Such is the level of weird Musk devotion around that up to the last line, I thought this was serious. I'm still not _100%_ sure...

To be fair, that is a pretty unlikely assumption.

edit - just found out Musk pretty much said that. Still....


It doesn’t mean that - Musk is blatantly doing the incorrect comparison you mention.
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