Thread by @grescoe

It's weird to live in a world where @elonmusk, that swaggering, maleficient nebbish, is perceived as a force for good.

I tell my boys that it's like Gotham City: some "civic leaders" are actually Super-Villains in disguise.

After the banquet, they continue wrecking the world.

#SlavaUkraini

#DeleteTesla

#DeleteElon

These guys aren't Super-Heroes. They're Greed-Heads, ruining the planet one product at a time. The fact that this isn't more obvious should worry everybody. (It sure worries me, as a parent.) Every time you celebrate them, you celebrate greed, irresponsibility, and selfishness.

But..."Electric Cars!"

Right. Lithium mining on indigenous land. Replacing 1.3 billion gas-powered products with costly coal- (and other-) powered products. Driving down demand for transit, walkability, more livable cities. That's Super-Villain stuff, in a not-so-clever disguise

Not to mention holding up the mirage of the Hyperloop to make sure high-speed rail never gets built, and the mirage of Self-Driving "in five years" as a way to make sure we aren't working on the decent, equitable transport systems we needed to be building yesterday.

Also, this. What a human canker.

Mr. Melnyk said it best.