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It's been a long year. Will the Titan submersible be destroyed? That was only six months ago, although it feels like it should have been at least two years ago considering what has happened since then. Elon Musk in particular was constantly and rarely in the news for anything positive. Yes, he finally managed to deliver 10 Cybertrucks, which is great news for Joe Rogan fans, and he cut prices on most Tesla models, but he also made it clear last year that even if If you like Teslas, you shouldn't do it. I'm not giving him your money.
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In fact, Musk has been in the news so often that it can be incredibly difficult to keep up, especially when it comes to all the racist, anti-Semitic, transphobic and generally bigoted views he spews on Twitter, a website that Vox is reporting on now worth less than half of what Musk paid for it in 2022. And for some reason, telling advertisers to go fuck themselves after they decided they didn't want their ads to appear next to bigoted posts didn't solve the problem. His behavior on Twitter is more than enough reason to have nothing to do with Musk, but as John Oliver explained on the latest episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight, the problems with Musk run much deeper.
Yes, Oliver dedicated more than 30 minutes of this episode to exactly how much Musk sucks and how dangerous it is to give so much power and influence to a man so fucked up. Unfortunately, since this is Musk, 30 minutes isn't even close to enough to cover every single reason why Musk sucks. Unless we missed it, some important things like the widespread racism in Tesla's factories and Musk's long-standing hatred of unions didn't make it. Trust us, the episode still covers enough to be worth 30 minutes of your time (or 15 minutes if you speed it up).
Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
This article originally appeared on Jalopnik.