Elon Musk is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year

That's not quite accurate. He said the company had deadlines to meet in the next year that mattered and if they were unable to handle the workload they'd likely be in real danger of bankruptcy.

Bit different.

 

Just on this point of government subsidies, Elon Musk is opposed to them.

Elon Musk says the US should ‘get rid of all’ government subsidies - The Verge

Elon Musk slams federal subsidies for electric vehicles (msn.com)

Musk calls for end to electric vehicle maker 'subsidies' | WRAL TechWire

 

You seem to be saying that Badaboom is a fraud.

 

Yeah, this is what we call talking from both side of your mouth.

 

No, Musk is the fraud. You’re just too occupied sucking his south Afrikaner dick to say something intelligent.

 

lol, Ok buddy, keep digging.

 

How many links did you provide to try and prove Musk was a fraud?
Seems theres only one fraud I can see

 

I love the way Musk handed Pocahontas her ass over his taxes.
Elizabeth Warren got all bent out of shape when Musk was named person of the year and tried to accuse him of tax fraud claiming he was freeloading of everyone else.

Musk answer was
"Stop projecting, calling Warren a "fraud." "You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend’s angry Mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason. Please don’t call the manager on me, Senator Karen."
And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year.

Guess Pocahontas got her ass handed to her. She went silent real quick. lol

 

Musk is #1.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012715/5-richest-people-world.asp

Musk beats #2 Bezos by $85B

While Elon Musk was attempting to restore free speech at Twitter, he was also humiliating the Russian military juggernaut

"Single combat heroism, on two fronts. What a gladiator."

At the request of Zelenski, after Russia shut down Ukraine's internet, Musk repositioned his global satellites to restore it. Russian Electronic Warfare specialists immediately attacked Musk's satellites. Musk's engineers went to to toe patch for hack and prevailed:

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An increasing amount will be renewable, but now cars are entering into that equation

 

Actually he's the richest.

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Musk may have been a good and smart guy a long time ago. Now, he is just another egotistical maniac, who has too much money for his own good, and who became drunk on power, thinking that he can do anything. Eventually, like Icarus, he, too, will fly too close to the sun and come back down to earth.

 

Is that really a nice thing to say about the richest African American on the planet? Musk is a living repudiation to those that say African Americans can't succeed in America. He is an inspiration.

Sure, sure.... just like what happened to Bill Gates. Apparently you are unfamiliar with how unfathomable wealth works in America. Let me help you out. It nearly always translates into unfathomable power and even more unfathomable wealth. If you are betting against Musk, you are betting against reality.

 

He is not only African American but also African Canadian and of course a 'true' African.

 

FYI, it can be done by both.

Keep playing the electric vehicle is not going to work game.

 

Good for him.

 

No game. I'm aware electricity works. I'm aware solar can be used for the charging stations. How are the solar panels made? Any fossil fuels involved?
I'm just trying to see how green this is. I'm not ant-electric car FYI, I just like to know details

 

They now have panels that use ultraviolet radiation, so they work even without sunlight.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90578605/these-solar-panels-dont-need-the-sun-to-produce-energy

 

I don't use Twitter but I do understand the power it has in the influence of opinions. If he is successful in making it non-partisan, it is a huge deal for free speech in America. To me it is more important to our society than his cars or spacecraft.

 

I guess I finally need to point out, in case nobody bothered checking, that I opened this thread back in December, before Musk was associated with Twitter...

And Twitter is completely non-partisan today.... It's just seems that one side cannot follow their rules as well as the other side...

Perhaps it's reading comprehension or simple public decorum... I cannot say...

 

Since you chose to reactivate this thread, with nothing new, I have a question for you (or anybody who cares to weigh in).

Is there ANY possible way that anybody other than Zelensky wins 2022 Person of the Year? I say no chance....

The only question is: Does the Person of the Year have to be alive when the award is given??

 

No...
On 11 December 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was named Time magazine's person of the year for his work in journalism, along with other journalists who faced political persecution for their work. Time referred to Khashoggi as a "Guardian of the Truth".
https://www.insider.com/time-person-of-the-year-2018-2018-12

 

Yeah, that was sort of rhetorical as I knew they had given it to deceased people in the past (although Khashoggi was part of one of those group awards anyway)

My point is that Zelensky has been directly targeted by Russia a couple of times so far, and yet he bravely refuses to leave Kiev... I certainly wouldn't put his odds of seeing 1/1/2023 at 100%...

It's sort of scary to go back in time and see all the scum that have received this award....

2016 - T****
2007 - Putin
2001 - Rudy
1995 - Newt
1979 - Khomeini
1939, 1942 - Stalin
1938 - Hitler
1931 - Laval

I'm not saying they weren't people important to the year, but scum nonetheless...

I leave Nixon winning 2x off my scum list, but he's certainly honorable mention...

 

Rent Seeking Scum Dish and Viasat’s fight against Starlink satellite deployment fails in court.



Dish lost because their claim that Musk's satellites would interfere with theirs failed to be convincing.

Musk's are certainly better and provide much faster speeds with far less latency (latency makes satellite streaming very difficult).

Viasats claim that Musk's satellites would collide with debris that would then collide with their satellites was simply too speculative to achieve standing. "A party must show both that the risk is substantial and that the challenged action substantially increases it, but, Viasat posits too many unlikely contingencies to clear those hurdles."

'First, one of SpaceX's satellites would have to suffer a collision. The FCC estimated this risk to be a chance between 1-in-44 and 1-in-200 over the next century.'

'Second, the collision would have to generate a debris field of its own, with particles large enough to damage another satellite. According to Viasat, only 0.5 percent of debris particles currently in orbit are large enough to cause such damage. Finally, a debris particle large enough and traceable to an impact with a SpaceX satellite would have to happen upon a collision course with Viasat's satellite, remain undetected, and thwart satellite protocols to avoid collisions. Viasat's standing affidavit is long on the general problem of space debris, but short on the probability that any SpaceX impact might imminently harm a Viasat satellite. Viasat's theory of space-debris collision does not cross the line from speculative to certainly impending.'

 

Yea, here are some other "greats"
Owen D. Young for the "Young Plan" that basically caused the rise of Hitler and ultimately caused WWII
Jimmy Carter for the same reason that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bill Clinton for getting impeached.
Kamala Harris (sharing with Biden) for not getting beat by Trump.

Then there are the stupid ones. The non-specific (or even non-person) person of the year.
The American fighting-man
The Hungarian freedom fighter
U.S. Scientists
The Inheritor
The Apollo 8 astronauts
American women
The Endangered Earth
The Peacemakers
The Whistleblowers
The American soldier
The Good Samaritans
You (The stupidest one of all)
The Protester
Ebola fighters
The Silence Breakers
The Guardians