> You're projecting your opinion onto someone who doesn't share it.
Two things:
1. interfacing with politicians (I'm including both executives and senators in this group from personal experience) has taught me that many are exceptionally diligent with the words they use. "Brave" and "creative" are neutral adjectives politically even if they have positive connotations interpersonally. If a politician doesn't say something exclusively, denotationally positive, it's almost always a deliberate hedge. I'm not saying that's the case with Reed, but I'd bet a dollar that it is, because most people who's impressions he'd likely care about (execs, congress, etc) use and read the same language.
2. Unless you spoke with him and heard otherwise, aren't you likewise projecting?
No, I'm not projecting, I'm taking what he said at face value...
He didn't just say "brave" and "creative". He said more than that, including some semi-negative comments about Elon's general behavior, but the thrust of his comments is very positive.
It's absolutely hilarious to see people who hate Elon react this way. You can't compute someone you respect disageeeing with you.
> It's absolutely hilarious to see people who hate Elon react this way. You can't compute someone you respect disageeeing with you.
The fact that you jumped to this conclusion when I said nothing to indicate how I feel about Elon in my only comment on this entire thread says a lot about where you're coming from.
Anyhow, the fact that his comments were:
"[I am] 100% convinced that he is trying to help the world in all of his endeavors"
"He's trying to help the world on that front because he believes in free speech and its power for democracy,"
and
"how he goes about it is not how I would do it."
should give you a pretty clear read about where he lands right now:
1. Reed at least publicly believes Elon is coming from a good place
2. Reed disagrees with the methods Elon's using.
3. "Brave" and "most creative" contextualized by the statements above are given a neutral tone and meaning.
Tldr: Reed basically said "he's coming from a good place but his approaches are bad"
I read you correctly. Congratulations on looking up the full comments (or at least more of them) but you're still reading it wrong because you can't handle the fact that someone smart disagrees with you.
