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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

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Attached: 1 image The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled. He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars. https://newrepublic.com/a...

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

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Elon Musk admitted
I'm not saying it isn't true, but I'm not seeing any quote from him or link to an interview or anything. Just assertions from third parties of what his motives "seem" to be.
When you lie about shit like this, it undermines valid criticisms and makes anyone actually reading the original article question the trustworthiness of the source.
The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. It was all about fueling opposition to California's high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
That is a blurb that doesn't resort to lies, and gets the same exact point across, without YOU looking like a liar.
You don't need to lie about monsters to make them look bad. Just show facts about their monstrous actions.
If you're spreading lies, regardless of intent, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
- I agree that the original source isn’t 100% unimpeachable, but I also wouldn’t call OP’s post a “lie.” A reporter included this assertion as fact in a biography of Musk based on extensive reporting. It’s always difficult to gauge the veracity of anonymous sources, but Vance seems very confident that the Hyperloop thing is true. Whether that’s based on a conversation with Musk himself or someone close to him, we don’t really know.
  
  The quote from that biography is "It seemed that Musk...." - Using the phrase "Musk admitted" Is quite directly a lie.
  The admission was never part of the original biography, nor the source article this is linking to. It was specifically added by the tooter, and was completely unnecessary.

Obviously, disgusting behavior without a shred of ethics. My only question is why or how it worked… Hyperloop is one of the absolute stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard of. It’s literally something I imagined when I was 6 years old. When I was going to sleep, I’d imagine that I could drop down under my bed into a tunnel with a wooden car that would take me to my friends’ houses. Just like Elron Musk, I never pondered safety, as in what would happen if my magic car broke down or started on fire.
- When I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this is before I had even heard of one or seen one. I just drew a picture of a horse that could fly over rainbows and had a huge spike in its head. I was five. Five years old! Couldn't even talk yet.
  
  Based off the downvotes I’m guessing there’s not a lot Office fans here yet….. so I’ll be the one to say well played fellow Lemmite. Well played. 🍻
- My only question is why or how it worked…
  Because "without a shred of ethics" describes most politicians too.
  Most of the "work" of politics, at least once one is in office, is figuring out ways to justify doing whatever it is that one has been bribed to do.
  So in this particular case, some number of politicians wre bribed to kill the high-speed rail project, so they needed some excuse to do it, then the hyperloop came along and gave them one.
  It didn't need to be compelling or even reasonable - it just needed to be sufficient. And it was.
  
  I guess i was wondering whether anyone believed it, as far as, did it have an impact on public opinion?

Not that I'm doubting Elon's a big enough POS to have done this, but I don't see any quotes here of him actually admitting to it
- Trust me bro

As if I needed another reason to hate his ass… 😡
Please just crawl in a hole and shit the fuck up Elon.

Not surprising, elon is a pretty shitty person. Plus this would help tesla

Dudes a huge piece of shit

As far as I can tell this is just an article where someone's theorizes Musk's plan?
- Musk never claimed in any way, shape or form that he was going to build the Hyperloop. In fact he explicitly ruled out doing it. You can blame the guy for a lot of things but this is just nonsense. Full disclosure: I also never intended to build a Hyperloop.
  
  https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_building_and_boring/transcript?language=en

This has been posted many many times.
- And each time some poor person has to point out that the quoted text doesn't have Elon admitting any such thing directly. It is an possibly floated by Ashlee Vance (who is a good journalist).
  
  Apparently today I'm that poor person. Now I just feel like a rube.

What a fucking butthole. We need some kind of rapid transport able to get from one end of the state to the other quickly. How backed up does traffic in LA/SD or between the valley and the bay need to get before people stop being hella stupid about this?

no he didnt

My favorite American past time is gaming the government subsidy system in favor of corporations so they can get tax money for projects that go nowhere or don’t get done at all. Verizon and national broadband was a government deal so well played I think that American politicians should be hailed as heroes and awarded Medals of Honor.

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