That makes perfect sense, you are describing Tony Stark.
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Elon Musk pledges to fund fixing water in Flint homes contaminated above FDA levels
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That makes perfect sense, you are describing Tony Stark.
According to the tweet thread I linked to, no. There's people that were diagnosed with legionaries disease. The issue goes well beyond filtering water.
This is completely backwards.
Modern politics has done nothing to address root problems.
Meanwhile:
Bill Gates is literally funding and curing human society of entire diseases like polio.
Musk is changing how businesses and societies consume energy at a systemic level with Tesla and Solar City.
Al Gore accomplished jack shit in office but has been more effective than anyone on the planet at raising awareness at national and grass roots levels for action against global climate change.
Signing money over Carte Blanche to politicians is what the KOCH BROTHERS do, because they don't give a shit about leading by example. See how that works out.
These guys made billions of dollars. Gates and Buffet are giving it ALL away. Buffet doesn't even want a memorial fund in his name for his charity. Everyone here is also pledging to give away 99% of their wealth, right?
These people are actively helping through action and it should be encouraged, especially in this shitty political clinate. Stop whining about purity on social media and join them doing something to make the world better.
Jesus, some people on this forum.
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The hate has been steadily building for a while now. First it was his anti-labor stances, then him joining Trump's committees and being one of the last to leave, them he started doing vanity projects like the Not-A-Flamethrower, then he had some real bad anti-journalist takes, and then recently the Thai rescue "sub". Add to that Tesla's struggles to meet deadlines with the Model 3 and his non-stop tweeting and inserting himself in so many different stories and people are just getting tired of him.
Personally, I think the good he is trying to do with Tesla and especially SpaceX outweigh the bad. He is doing more to help the human race than pretty much any other billionaire CEO on Earth. It's just hard for people to wrap their head around the idea that humans could go extinct and for humanity to live on, we have to become a multi-planet species. I only wish he would let a social media manager run his Twitter and he just focused on getting us to Mars.
Not sure I trust the government doing it themselves, either.
This I can get behind.
Haha, government inefficiency isn't a Republican-only problem.
Get a clue?
The Government has yet to complete the removal of lead pipes etc. There is so many layers to this whole thing. On top of Abhorrent charges being applied on residents who are not even using water
Why don't you just do it first and then you can go get your fame and it might be deserved at that point.
My impression of the ongoings was that the remaining lead pipes were not impacting the available drinking water supply, which is why the bottled water was no longer needed. Is that not correct? It seems like even recent tests show water levels being under the requisite lead levels.
Talk is affordable and cheap.
If I had Musk money, id put it on the table and talk later
But he is. Did you miss the links to the things he's pledged to do and actually followed through on?
He's already one of the most famous men on the planet. I don't think "extra fame!" is his motivation for installing filters in a mid-sized US city.
Also:
1. He was called to help on Twitter.
2. He responded saying he would help on Twitter.
?
Musk is not the government. He's doing plenty to help society as it is through his business.
He is always pledging but hasn't so far done anything tangible
Except for all the things people posted last page for things he did.
Guess these were actually imaginary...
Only thing Ive seen is his Puerto Rico efforts... which makes sense because energy is his lane.
Ive always been one whos more prone to action then hearing 'promises' though
You know, it'd be cool if he just did shit and didn't self promote everything he is doing.
Bill and Melinda Gates do a ton of shit with their money, and they don't shove it in your face... they just actually help people.
Bill and Melinda Gates do a ton of shit with their money, and they don't shove it in your face... they just actually help people.
He also donated way more than the stated 2k bucks to a crowd campaign for new bikes for Flint kids. So he did that, delivered on SpaceX, helped Puerto Rico and managed to build and test a working mini sub in a matter of days - it just didn't end up being useful. With a different turn of events it might have. Personally I don't really care for what reason he does these things, he clearly follows through on a lot of them and it's better than nothing being done. Also a lot of things take time
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Can you name a commitment that hasn't been followed through on or isn't in the process of being followed through on?
I mean, his entire career is a testament to positive action. PayPal, Tesla, Space X, Solar City. Not everything succeeds, but I'll take that intent over the legions of freaking billionaires funding GOP for purely self-preservationist reasons.
Ideas need to start somewhere and be discussed and verified. Maybe he should quit social media, but that closes off a lot of avenues for public engagement.
Then again, as my post history suggests I'm always in favor of people getting off social media and actually doing something.
damn guys i know we're not all billionaires here but how many of you have ever even called an elected official about some topic that is "important" to you. Even if all he does is hire some dudes to go install some filters on a few houses it's better than nothing which is basically what most people are doing.
I love how responding to a tweet is considered self promotion. I don't recall him making a grandiose press event or making a huge deal out of this. I guess to a skeptic everything can be twisted into a negative...
Out of curiosity, what happens generally when a person calls their elected official? Do you just get a secretary or voicemail? Why is this considered effective?
Try it and report back. Don't depend on others to do your civics.
You leave a message or speak to an aide. They take notes and everything is passed on. It's considered effective because they are taken seriously, especially when there's a lot of them.
Uh, they're talking shit about him on social media...because he talks shit sometimes on social media. True internet warriors.
Elon musk is an asshole.
Ok, he did land a reusable rocket. His cars are meeting production... I see them everywhere in cali.. and he's working on his hyperloop tunnel...
What are the issues with follow through? I don't care for the dude when he opens his mouth. But he's still a thing. Folks have been shit talking him for ages. He's still here.
I'm with you all that let's see it happen because everyone has let flint down. But, he seems to have better things to do than fix some water for minorities.
Ok, he did land a reusable rocket. His cars are meeting production... I see them everywhere in cali.. and he's working on his hyperloop tunnel...
What are the issues with follow through? I don't care for the dude when he opens his mouth. But he's still a thing. Folks have been shit talking him for ages. He's still here.
I'm with you all that let's see it happen because everyone has let flint down. But, he seems to have better things to do than fix some water for minorities.
LOL at people desperately hoping he is their Tony Stark. Good luck with that.
At some point this guy is at least trying to use his wealth for good.
Same with the boys trapped in the cave. Sure he's not the one with the perfect solutions but he put his resources on it and tried coming up with ways to solve the problem. That's admirable in itself.
To the people who insult the guy and shit on him, what the hell are you doing for Flint behind your keyboard? Yeah, I figured.
Same with the boys trapped in the cave. Sure he's not the one with the perfect solutions but he put his resources on it and tried coming up with ways to solve the problem. That's admirable in itself.
To the people who insult the guy and shit on him, what the hell are you doing for Flint behind your keyboard? Yeah, I figured.
you leave a message. I believe it's considered effective because people who call probably vote, so a large volume of calls on a particular subject might indicate that it's important to the constituency of a particular official.
I just wanted an explanation because 'calling your local official' didn't intuitively seem productive. These politicians carry themselves as not caring what their non-rich constituents think so I assumed a phone call from me would have just been "yeah yeah yeah'd" to death by the person on the other end and the substantive matter of the call ignored.
Thanks!