Alternatively, “a stopped clock is right twice a day”, “the worst person you know just made a great point”, etc.

Today’s example is (again, sigh) Musk. A strange number of people seem extremely devoted to the idea that the Starship launch was a failure.

The guy is basically a Nazi and not at all bright to boot; but the official position of SpaceX was “making it past the tower is a win”, and it did that. Trying to make weird parsings is just … there are so many other things to bag on that guy about. They said X is victory, X occurred, please stop trying to twist it into something other than what it was.

It’s fine to muse about it in the bigger picture, of course; some people were making note of the number of engines that failed, or damage to the pad. That’s fine! Those weren’t on the table as success criteria, so go ham, who cares.

I just … I hate it when someone can’t even allow that sometimes it’s OK if good things happen to bad people. Wanting SpaceX to fail has a weird foot-bullet feel to it. Do I want Musk richer and more powerful? No. Do I want to go back to no competition at all for space, stagnation, and lack of options for an important component of our technological backbone? Also no.