Posted on 03/18/2018 1:37:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
'He was such a terrible human being, you have no idea,' he told an interviewer for the American magazine Rolling Stone with tears running down his face. 'My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It's so terrible, you can't believe it.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
full title, "Inter-galactic family feud: Elon Musk has called his father 'evil'... so we tracked him down to South Africa where he says his son needs to 'grow up' after 'tantrums' over his child with new model wife, 30".
Errol has maintained a dignified silence. Until now. For when he invited The Mail on Sunday into his elegant home overlooking a wide sweep of the rocky coast in South Africa's Western Cape, he had some choice words about their incendiary feud -- and made a shocking revelation of his own: he was once charged with manslaughter for shooting dead three men who broke into his home.
He was subsequently acquitted, after pleading self-defence. But it is an episode he speculates may be the reason for Elon's cruel words.
'Elon needs to grow up,' he says now. 'He needs to get over himself. I'm not going to hit back. I'm going to wait until he comes to his senses. He's having a tantrum, like a spoilt child. He can't have what he wants and now I am apparently an evil monster.'
A craggily good-looking man with a 1,000-watt smile and an easy humour, Errol still flies his own plane up the spectacular West Coast and has a fishing boat parked in the garage next to his silver Bentley Continental.
A collection of family portraits is spread out on the handsome mahogany dining table: Elon with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca, and their stepsisters Alexandra and Rose.
At least his real father back on Krypton wasn’t so bad ...
That might be a wee bit of exaggeration.
“Yo Dad, I’m gonna talk some smack about ya in the media. It’s for promotional reasons, so just roll with it...”
I like his father and think he’s right about Elon, whose tears are not manly.
I read the whole thing. His father sounds like a cool guy while Elon comes off as way too emotional with those so called unresolved daddy issues. (lulz) I rather have a beer with dad than Elon Musk.
The one thing I respect about Elon Musk is that he has been sounding the alarm bells about artificial intelligence.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/a-2020-candidate-sounds-the-alarm-about-robots-and-your-job/
I tend to believe the father since the son’s obviously exaggerating and because that stunt with the space car was definitely childish - albeit funny - not to mention wasteful.
You know, some people are perfectly happy and perhaps better off, with just pets.
Agreed.
Elon is a great salesman posing as a genius scientist. His accomplishment is tricking government into giving him money till he could assemble enough real scientists and engineers to build what he’s hyping. I will say he is better so far than all the other tech moguls because he has mostly kept his mouth shut about politics and religion.
I will compliment the Daily Mail for posting a very informative interview unlike their usual sensationalist fluff.
I said that on a thread about the launch and was well flamed.
I’m glad that I am not the only one that thought it was a waste of a good booster.
Self-promotion is all that stunt was.
“to believe the father since the son’s obviously exaggerating and because that stunt with the space car.”
It was a test flight so it couldn’t have a $1 billion payload so was he supposed to do, just send up a chuck of concrete like our wasteful government? He did it for marketing and it worked out well and even you are still talking about it. Musk had a marketing coup and set American kids to dreaming again so I consider it genious.
“Self-promotion is all that stunt was.”
Just like a Super Bowl ad, go figure. You would think he running a business or something. What a filthy “capitalist running dog” as Mao woukd say.
“Family Feud.”
Elon is getting old for this sort of thing. But sometimes emotional issues drive men to do great things, and Elon has been a visionary (even if I think Tesla is a con, financially speaking).
No, more of a personal self-promotion than a Company ad.
The stunt with the car was genius.
Most demo flights carry concrete or water as ballast. Instead, Musk got free advertising for both his companies that may have a value that will pay for the development cost of the rocket over time.
I hate it when people decide to word vomit all over a newspaper reporter
Gee you mean Elon is given to confabulation
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