# I don't know how to think of SpaceX anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167 "2024-11-12T21:01:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167/21 "2024-11-13T11:11:20Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > I honestly can’t find it within me to believe that Musk does have the kind of competence and foresight necessary for that. But as far as exploiting an opportunity for all it’s worth and then some, this has to be a masterpiece. [As I’ve said previously](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/97), Elon Musk is a troll. He’s not a strategist or a long term thinker with original ideas even if he has convinced people that he is, buit he sure knows how to push buttons and exploit people. In that way, he is very much like his buddy, Vladimir Putin. I would like to imagine the two of them sharing a drink together…out of a bucket of dank water deep in the bowels of some prison-dungeon, answering for their crimes against humanity, but I think we all know how unlikely that is because regardless of how you believe the “arc of justice bends”, it usually misses the worst offenders. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167)._