I love it, competent leadership is...
Showing up. Such a high bar.
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People who have no idea how competence works, and none of their own, tend to assign it sort of randomly or based on strange criteria. He may genuinely believe that Russia has incredibly competent leadership, because of nothing more than they make things simple and everyone else makes things complicated.
Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.
Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.
Yeah, my cousin used to work at SpaceX, and it’s sort of an open secret that they need to actively keep Elon away from the engineers. They have entire teams of people dedicated to shoving menial decisions and distractions in front of him, so he doesn’t have time to wander over to the engineers. Like as soon as he steps out of his office door, there are multiple people whose sole job is dedicated to subtlety redirecting him off to other non-critical wings of the building to keep him distracted. Because if he ever talks to the rocket engineers, he’ll try to one-up them by dropping some asinine “we’re going to do it this dumb way instead” decree that requires them to scrap their entire current project and start over from scratch (for the third time this week.)
Yeah. A guy I know who works at one of the Musk companies told me a much more abbreviated version of the same thing years and years ago. At the time, I along with everyone else thought Musk was a super-genius, so I just assumed the guy didn't want to deal with the emotional pain of having his work critiqued and have to go back and make it better, and thought no more about it.
Nah, he is Putin's puppet, just like trump. They have him on something too probably. Remember when he tried to assault a massage worker?
Here’s a look at Musk’s contact with Putin and why it matters
A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed to The Associated Press that Musk and Putin have had contact through calls. The person didn’t provide additional details about the frequency of the calls, when they occurred or their content.
It would make perfect sense. I sort of assumed that something like that was the case, but I haven't been saying anything because I saw no actual indications or any evidence. But it would make perfect sense. Maybe they realized that Trump was too big a dope to be able to really deliver what they want, whereas Musk is the perfect supervillain to have as the new pledge trying to join their club.
That settles it then. My official prediction at this point is:
- Musk keeps fucking everything up, with no one in our sclerotic government doing anything about it, until something goes really wrong. It actually might happen that bird flu or some geopolitical event happens first, and all the Musk-induced fuckery can kind of get overlooked in the chaos, but if no external crisis happens to divert attention I think it is inevitable that Musk will eventually pull the wrong lever and fuck things up badly enough for enough people that the country gets genuinely angry for real.
- Trump blames Musk and throws him under the bus, which is a 100% predictable pattern
- Musk flees to Russia, and keeps doing his shtick there until the end of time
Making predictions about the future is a fool's game, but every step of the process (except where that one first-step caveat is concerned) seems so absolutely inevitable that I feel comfortable tentatively laying it out as a prediction.
That doesn't tell us anything...
That doesn’t tell us anything…
I forget to link the article, my bad.
https://apnews.com/article/musk-putin-x-trump-tesla-election-russia-9cecb7cb0f23ccce49336771280ae179
I think his Twitter showing is where most of us learned how bad he is. Forums over sample tech people and his dumb as a rock takes on tech exposed it all.
I mean it tracks for him, it's literally all he's ever done
Good point. You can't make objective judgements of talent when you have a silver spoon shoved so far up your butt everyone lies to you about how you're doing. You just don't have the base of experience.
I think not going is competent leadership by Zelenskyy.
“Yeah ok I’ll just walk right in to the lions den then durp durp”
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You mean that they can land an airplane? Is that what makes them competent?
He means departing a plane without falling, or having toilet paper on his shoe, or getting his ass beat by an umbrella.
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It's almost like he's a screaming drugged out pile of shit with all our fucking money
Insane Clown Country.
Ah yes, the same government that put a price on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan?
I didn’t know these “talks” were in Saudi Arabia.
Why the fuck would Zelenskyy go to Saudi Arabia for any reason? It’s a place well-known for murdering visitors that recently signed a military agreement with Russia.
I hate that there aren't actual timestamps on these.
I’m confused. Russians are great, but you’re sending guns and bullets to Ukraine…who are fighting Russia?
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Is he praising Russia though? Seems like he's praising trump for arranging the negotiations.
There's so much real shit to talk about I don't understand the obsession with deliberately misinterpreting stuff to make up fake things to get mad at.
The subtext is he's calling Biden incompetent by praising trump's competence. As compared to what, implying trump is incompetent in comparison to Russia? Why would he do that?
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Putin has kompromat on Musk. I guarantee it.
I'm so fucking tired of hearing about the guy with a Twitter comments history that looks like it came from the child porn section of 8chan being targeted with kompromat. There's literally nothing you could say about Elon that will make him look worse than any five minute clip of him speaking in public.
"Trust me! Putin has a picture of him fucking an IVF sample bag with his mechanical penis while watching clips from Rick and Morty! He's sitting on a stack of Consumer Protection reports that say the Cybertruck project is losing $1M every day and kills 14% of its owner base! If this gets out, he's done for."
No he's fucking not. Such a disclosure would only make him look cooler among his base of support. And his investor bro friends would high five him in private while simply ignoring it during the next quarterly report.
Sergei lavrov is a weird choice to claim competency.
russia leapfrogging large economies to become the 4th largest in the world while under ??? how many us sanctions? how do you explain it if not affording them their competence at meeting those challenges imposed?
Russia is either the 11th largest economy or the 8th largest economy. It depends on which reputable source you use. In no world is it the fourth largest economy. It's not even larger than California's economy.
It has the eleventh-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest economy by GDP (PPP) (purchasing power parity)
- its a fair point you make, there are various and contested metrics for comparing economies.
even acknowledging and conceding my argument is contestable and just one of many ways to perceive the claim, i have not done enough and must now eat my downvotes, fair play, i'll keep trying to bring better reasoned arguments that don't rely on simply dismissing my opponents as radical or irrational and continue to eat the downvotes, i just want others to see what it looks like when you actually try to have a conversation in some of these corners.
what i say is not the message so much as your reaction
What conversation??? And who the heck you think you're writing, anyway? You provided no source, not even for your "alternative facts".
This what you think a conversation is? No wonder you have no success. 🙄
That guy feels like such a bot.
Unfortunately you're probably just training it.
That would explain the completely weird "quote" in the reply. You're probably right.
exactly: what conversation??? you only speak to hurl insults, go back to the woodwork and practice your downvotes if that's all you're good for.
GDP is a funny thing. So because Russia's currency has cratered like a Boeing aircraft, the PPP-adjusted value of its GDP has skyrocketed. That doesn't mean it's doing well.
Russian inflation is at 10% and its government is spending almost half its federal budget on the war, and still not winning. 11% of the world is Russia, by far the largest country on Earth, and yet the total amount of revenue its government has to spend half of on that war is just above Spain's, which might explain why it is failing to defeat an enemy which it outweighs, outnumbers, and is outspending all by at least 10 to 1. Its standard of living for ordinary people is 50th in the world, roughly even with famously pleasant places like Kuwait and Romania (And no hate to people who live in those places, just saying your government is badly representing your interests. Give me another year here in the US and I might well be in that part of the list alongside you, or lower.)
I have no room to be giving criticism to any government, living in the US as mentioned, but if you are holding up Russia as an example of competent government you are reading the chart upside down.
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Oh damn, what a sick alternate timeline. Too bad I am not able to see this for myself
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It's not the 4th largest economy in the world, but it does contain 11% of the Earth's habitable land. It would be sad if they couldn't create a large economy with all that land.
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You never answered me the other day when I asked you how many human rights organizations you were a member of. Why is that?
because you're a troll who thinks trump is out to genocide your gay daughter. - that was your response to my being critical of democrats for genocide... frankly, i don't trust you to be fair enough to engage with and you've been targeting me quite a bit.
because you’re a troll who thinks trump is out to genocide your gay daughter. - that was your response to my being critical of democrats for genocide…
What on Earth are you talking about? Basically none of that was correct.
Also, that's a pretty weird dodge around the fact that you are not a member of any human rights campaigns. You would have looked less silly if you had just lied and said Amnesty International or something.
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Putin is gonna die soon. Like dude, I could die tomorrow or maybe in 40 years, but Putin has a leg in the grave. Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. And the when part is soon enough.
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