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For a supposed genius, I do get the impression this oligarch keeps taking many corrective measures for his own actions.
To be fair, very smart people can say very dumb things outside their areas of expertise.
Also to be fair, Musk isn't one of those people.
What area of expertise does he have?
Bullshitting
Apartheid-ism.
Being born in wealth
Deadnaming
Failing to create a successful company named X?
Tweeting, "hmm interesting," about Nazis' thoughts.
I have not seen a single indication of genius by Musk. I see a spoiled trust fund man-child in the right place at the right time and who frequently pays other people to come up for ideas for him. I can literally think of dozens of people I've known over the years who are far more intelligent and would do much more with his starter funds from daddy.
I've been in meetings with him when he was still active at SpaceX and before he truly dove off the deep end. I had direct conversations with him telling him his engineers were wrong about something. He was quite intelligent and knew his shit. He was arrogant and a dick, but it was obvious he knew a LOT about the rockets he was building. He wasn't doing the engineering, but he definitely understood the work going on.
Now, though, the dude is a fucking lunatic. I don't know if he just started taking too many drugs or if the billions of dollars made something break in his mind or what, but he was not like this back then.
No, he didn’t. He has no knowledge of rockets outside of Wikipedia. He has no knowledge of engineering outside of some shit science show.
I have worked with engineers who worked with him at Tesla and they say he is a functional idiot, borderline mentally defective. He will go into meeting and act like he understand magnetism and everyone has to sit there awkwardly listening for an hour about him rambling on like a moronic 6th grader until he leaves.
Yeah, you're right, what was I thinking? Your second-hand knowledge is totally more accurate than my firsthand knowledge. I definitely didn't have technical conversations with him about propellant margins due to boil-off during coast. I absolutely wasn't there when he agilely and correctly answered a barrage of technical questions from a 3-star General.
I'm not saying he is all-knowing and all-powerful. I don't doubt he is so arrogant that he would ramble on about something he doesn't understand... especially magnetism, since I never understood that shit even after years of physics classes during college. But just because he is an idiot about the deep physics behind how electric cars run doesn't mean he is stupid about all things.
I am sure I am not the only one who thinks a large amount of his success stems from Peter Thiel wanting to fuck him. And possibly actually fucking him.
Musk came in as "the money guy" to PayPal before Theil was rich. It's why he was CEO for 6 months, but everyone hated him as a leader so much they fired him.
They all got really, really rich together, and the Elon risked it all on Tesla and survived via government handouts for a decade.
Easy to take big risks when you know you can pop back to dads emerald mine for a fill up at any point.
For someone who likes to think of himself as a modern Nikola Tesla, he acts much more like Edison.
I work with rich ego maniacs like him. Mistakes that he does means nothing to his ego. Mistakes that others make are personal attacks.
It’s unknown why exactly Musk chose to delete the tweet but it may have had something to do with the discovery that Cooper has a habit of siding with Adolf Hitler on a number of issues.
That doesn't sound plausible, Musk frequently sides with Hitler too, so why should that be a problem?
He's got to keep that plausible deniability smokescreen up... for now. I'm sure he'll go openly pro-Hitler at some point though.
Is Elon playing some clever 5D chess that I don't understand? Why is he doing things like this, how is it benefiting him? Has he lost his fucking mind?
He really went off the deep end when Grimes dumped him. I'm not saying he didn't have issues before, but his compete public persona changed when their relationship ended. When his relationship with Amber Herd ended her did an interview with Rolling Stone where he was crying and talking about how life just isn't worth doing anything of you aren't in love. I think he really thought that with Grimes he found his true soulmate. My guess is that once she became a mother she realized that he isn't someone she wants raising her children and she broke his heart and he's gone full incel now.
One day she will be free of him and she's going to tell her story. I can't wait to hear it.
I don't know if it coincides with grimes, but his daughter disowning him and him blaming the woke school system for turning her against him is also where the anti work crusade started, which don't ya know, brings you down the far right rabbit hole into psycho land.
Edit: whatever his views were before this event, that was a defining moment where he had to make a real choice, and he made the wrong one.
He faced a lot of abandonment in a short time period and instead of self reflecting lashed out. And when an angry white man lashes out against other people for self preserving, there’s a chunk of the internet there to help guide him away from ever getting better
To add insult to injury (in his mind), Grimes dated a trans person after dumping him.
Remember those creepy, desperate Tweets from Grimes to Musk about seeing the kids or whatever? God. Imagine literally the richest person in the world is also your incel ex.
Nope!
Sounds awful though.
His villain origin story is because of a broken heart. A tale as old as time.
The trust fund baby concubine of a billionaire isn't the hero of the story.
Who the fuck said it was about being a hero? You ain't gotta think she's had the hard proletariat steel worker rice farmer barista life to have a shred of empathy for this particular situation. Your empathy isn't a finite resource, only to be delt out on a truly justified occasion after considering the class of the people involved. Rich or poor, having a child with elon musk probably sucks so much ass. Can't we just agree on that rather than punching air? Or did you walk up hill both ways to your job at the business factory too many times to care about the humanity of someone with one too many zeros in their bank.
I say this as an eat the rich, burn them down kinda motherfucker. Don't lose your humanity.
It's more likely that when she had his children, Elon felt like he had total control over her and could ramp up his abuse of her. This is a classic maneuver by abusive men. Marriage and moving in together also tend to cause them to lash out, but having a baby usually really does it for them because the woman is often physically weakened by it. This includes raping the woman after she gave birth and isn't healed.
Once the abuse escalates, the woman is able to realize he wasn't going to change and that he'd get worse. She is able to realize it's too much. Someone like Grimes with money and power can escape more easily once they realize this.
So yeah it's less to do with Grimes becoming a mother and realizing he wasn't good enough (implying his behavior has been steady/the same), and more like him trapping her and taking off his mask.
Men like Elon - narcissistic and obsessed with women, especially trans women - have a compulsion to control women like dolls.
No. He's stupid. Never had a functioning mind, he's been substituting money for one all along.
Hes a shitty racist that is extremely high at all times.
Imagine your meth'ed out rural cousins, but 200 million people/bots follow them on twitter for some reason.
He's a 4-chan troll that gained enough wealth from his parents that he can now actually believe and preach the things he used to read on those forums and not only barely see consequence, but actually ignite passions and movements in the world's most ignorant and mentally challenged chuds.
We have to stop wondering what his "plans" are because he has none, he is just a stupid man, like so many others, and yet commands legions of devoted followers because our species is fucking stupid.
Everyone replying to you is saying he is essentially a troll but imo it’s him affirming a narrative that benefits him.
He was born rich and then became a billionaire (and still would claim being self made). He truly believes some people are born better. That’s actually a core tenant of conservative ideology and the justification for social hierarchy that they support.
When you believe some people are born better, and that the market decides who has what it takes, then minorities over represented in poverty must mean that some races are born better/worse.
It’s basically social Darwinism and it benefits him if people believe that rich and successful people are better and thereby should be rewarded with more power. That is the benefit, the racism just part of the package deal.
He's just a Nazi with a shitposting addiction and he fired his PR team so they can't hide it anymore.
He's pandering to his right wing sycophants and pushing the boundaries of free speech on his platform so that when he inevitably faces consequences, he can immediately play the victim and say "see, I told you this is what the left would do!"
Normally I'd say don't give him the attention, but he's a Nazi sympathizer, and those motherfuckers deserve condemnation.
"Elon musk deleted" or "the last standing PR guy for Elon musk persuaded him to delete"?
We should probably just wait a few hours, maybe that person is about to get fired for going against musks free speech absolutism and the tweet gets restored
Tucker loves Nazis, and Putin, (authoritarianism, same boat) a d Elon wants in on that nonsense??
Believing that someone like Elon Musk, that is probably counseled by some of the best minds of the Earth (even if they're turned the wrong direction), is doing this out of stupidity isn't good. This is politically and economically fueled.
The problem is that “someone like Elon Musk” is a billionaire insulated from virtually every bad decision he could ever make, therefore he doesn’t need any counsel other than “this lawsuit could cost you money if you do (thing).
He’s almost worth $200Bn, and even is someone sued and won for half his entire worth, he’d still have more money and power than 99.999% of the rest of the entire planet.
He is exactly the someone he wants to be, he can be as stupid as he wants as long as he doesn’t think his actual worth or power is truly threatened.
Divorce!