• Cynar
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    1 year ago

    I’ll admit I was a minor fan of him. He seemed to have his ego pointed in a good direction. It was around the time those kids got stuck in a cave that I realised something was off.

    I was never a hyper fan, but I’ll admit I was completely taken in by his PR machine, for a time.

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      1 year ago

      Oh man, you nailed the turning point. Literally everyone with eyes could look at the cross section map of the cave and immediately see that a rigid vessel was not going to get even half way through. And then the tweet calling the lead rescuer a paedo? I never liked the guy but that’s when I began to really dislike him. What an utter twat.

    • Thassar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, before the cave incident I’m not sure I liked him per se but I figured he was better than most billionaires because he was willing to take risks in things that would help humanity. Then I realised he was just another rich asshole only this time with a saviour complex. He didn’t care about those kids, he cared about whether he got to play the hero or not. It’s been all downhill from there.