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Scott Alexander’s review of a 2015 biography of Elon Musk. Elon Musk, to me, is one of the world’s most confusing people. He’s simultaneously both one of the smartest people in the world, creating billions of dollars of value in companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and one of the dumbest, in burning billions on Twitter. Scott’s review I think is a good explanation of what’s up with Musk.
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Whether one is an ardent of Atheism+ supporter or a devout Christian from birth, there is agreement on the fact that right-wingers use a great deal of religious rhetoric and argumentation to push a narrative that LGBT and its followers are evil. The only disagreement would be on the accuracy of the statement, not whether it was accurate. I never said anything about provocation either.
No part of what you've said contradicts my description. Again, I don't understand why you want to try and win an optics battle in a place that is highly sympathetic to your viewpoint.
Suppose I claimed that whether one was an Atheism+ supporter or a devout Christian from birth, there is agreement on the fact that left-wingers use a great deal of rhetoric and argumentation to push a narrative that Christianity and its followers are evil. Would you hold that this statement was straightforwardly, unobjectionably factual? If so, I withdraw my objection. If not, I'd ask what you consider the difference between the two statements to be.
If I had to make any correction, it might be that both are not totally at the "other side is intrinsically evil" point. But a substantial symmetry certainly exists. Currently, I have no inherent objection to that line of argumentation as a premise for another, which is what I was doing.
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