I qualified it as "every single criticism I see" for a reason - if there are good, strong critical points, I haven't seen them, because they're drowned in a sea of nonsense. Honestly, even recent HN threads have been suffering from the same problem of people just repeating trivially disprovable or purposefully misrepresented nonsense without a second thought. I think we may just need to wait until Musk stops being Internet's Public Enemy #1 to see anything clear.

> It's not hard to find valid things to criticize, from bullying behaviour to overpromising (Tesla FSD) and lots of other stuff.

Also, I should perhaps have qualified more clearly that I meant criticism on the level justifying the current level of dislike and hatred. Of the things you mentioned:

- Tesla FSD overhyping is a valid one, though it's been exaggerated by the media and then dumbed down to a simple gotcha on social media. As far as I know to date, he didn't go beyond what's common in marketing in general.

- Bullying behaviour - I believe he did things that could be construed as bullying, but back when there were stories on it years ago, I couldn't dig into anything solid - everything I read had clear markings of usual journalistic misrepresentation. I'm giving it a big "shmaybe".

- "Lots of other stuff" - other than that diver debacle, can't think of anything. All I see people post is trivially disprovable bullshit like "he's not an engineer" (he is), "he isn't doing engineering at SpaceX" (he is), "his money comes from his father's apartheid emerald mine" (it doesn't, the mine was in literally the most anti-apartheid country there was, and his father IIRC was an anti-apartheid activist). Or "RPC in 21st century, he must clearly be an idiot". It's an unending stream of this kind of "arguments", posted by supposedly smart people. All it makes me is to lower my opinion about people posting this stuff.