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no doubt, we all have our own view on this, and nothing wrong with anyone expressing their's here VA.
my two cents on all this
1. I've found over years, Tesla and Elon's actions have been quite in accord with the company's stated mission (to accelerate the advent of sustainable transportation). I have little to no discount that they are working at an exhausting pace toward that mission.
2. I discount some Elon's timelines re product development. Many of us here have for years.
What's more, many of us have proactively and repeatedly advised newcomers to do the same.
3. Far, far, far, far, more than the discounting in item 2, is the discounting I do of the media's portrayal of Elon Musk, Tesla, its products, and TSLA.
This immense discounting of media narratives, includes swimming against the tide of the media flooding us for years with the narrative that Elon is full of promises he will never deliver, and only "true believers", "cult members" would invest their money in Tesla, and, they will come to find out they have been taken for fools for doing so.
Here's an example of that particular narrative which I remember watching in 2012. So glad the message I took from this video was not that Elon never delivers (as it happens Elon delivered on all the promises they show footage of him presenting in the video, including those they framed with the "fraudster caught red-handed music" playing in the background), but, rather, the message that understanding Tesla involves understanding that there is a tremendous effort underway to filter public perception of Tesla, Elon, and TSLA through a funhouse mirror of negativity.
I recommend actively correcting for that fun house mirror presentation of Tesla and Elon, whether you have been exposed to this distortion via traditional media sources, chat boards, blog sites, etc.
You have to love the Internet where what you’ve said gets to live on forever. I remember that video and that disingenuous bag of wind. Props to him though, has stuck to his guns all these years later telling the same story. What an admirable trait persistence. The same trait Elon possesses in spades.