He's not that competent, in either incarnation.
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Back then he had a PR team. He probably fired them because he started buying their lies.
How I've always seen him
Yeah, always a dumbass.
What was your first impression of him that made you see him like that?
Buying his way into Paypal and acting like he invented the thing.
Not the person you replied to, but someone else that has always seen him as a dumbass.
I first became aware of him from a cameo in an Iron Man movie, which was aroun the time all of his ridiculously over the top and unrealistic goals was gaining media traction. His backstory was claiming the work of others, like his brief stint with PayPal. He was an obvious hype man, who believed his own hype. His fucking boast of putting humans on Mars in a short time frame was obviously overconfident bullshitting. Didn't he end up putting a car in orbit, or some dumb shit instead?
This was all proven accurate with the hyperloop as originally reported having massive obvious issues beyond the science, such as needing land rights. Then as it transitioned into a shitty car tunnel it was more entertaining as it went on. He acted like he founded Tesla and took credit for shit he didn't do while making sure to insert fart horns and other childish crap like trying to spell out sexy with the model numbers, but failing to get the 'E' so went with 3. Plus he insisted on keeping the auto driving camera only, like a dumbass.
He will always do some grand thing next year even though he has made the same promise for a decade. He was always a obvious snake oil salesman whose primary success was getting government welfare to prop up his businesses. His humor has always fallen flat. Naming his kids by itself was a huge sign of how much of a dumbass he is.
car in orbit
He used a Tesla roadster with a mannequin in the driver's seat as a dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight in 2018.
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The Hyperloop shit, it was never explained to me how a proprietary system that needed sealed tubes under constant reduced preassure could ever be cheaper or safer than normal rail.
Especially since I remember the last time this dumb concept showed it's face, Swiss Metro was the name then, and it fell on it's arse then just as the Hyperloop did now.
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False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat
Yeah, Thanos has principles and his actions are backed by altruism. Musk is a spineless self-serving parasite with actions backed my ketamine.
We talking movie Thanos, or comic book Thanos?
Movie thanos obv, comic thanos will ruin one particular person's life just because.
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Accurate in so many ways
Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
Exactly, not only moderate but extremely. Dude completely succeeds in his goal, entire universe against him. Elon is on twitter whining on X because his boyfriend kicked him outta the house
Problem was his goal was totally stupid. Kill half of all life and destroy the stones? So it can rebound in a few centuries if not decades?
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I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.
Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn't help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.
He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.
It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.
Because that was hamfisted in. Originally, he wanted to kill half the universe to impress Lady Death.
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he was doing it to prevent the celestials from emerging from planets killing the population. im guessing he probably thought of that already that alreayd, adding more natural resources would accelerate the emergence. also seems the stones is not powerful enough to affect celestials, or primordial beings(death, GOD, angels,,,etc), otherwise he wouldve just used it to kill them. he is stupid in that having the 6 stones, why dint he conjure about things that can kill celestials.
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Thanos, really? I'd say more like Hancock.
Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later.
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He has always been...
They were in the same room in Ironman 2.
They filmed parts of Ironman 2 in a SpaceX factory. Interestingly the factory served as set for Hammer Industries.
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Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He's more like
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Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the "pedo guy" slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you've been paying attention he's been outing himself for a long time.
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Nah, at least Thanos thought he was doing the right thing. His goals were ultimately noble but psychotic.
Elon doesn't care about doing the right thing, he only cares about money and his ego.
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Musk was already a notoriously lying grifter 10 year ago.
It's only naive fanboys who were too immature be able to set aside the natural human tendency to look up to famous people and/or did not had the life experience to recognize and be suspicious of salesman bollocks (whether decorated with techie terms or otherwise) when they heard it that didn't suspect the guy was something else than what the adoring fans thought.
It's not by chance that Musk's fanboys were mainly young adult and teen techies.
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I remember in the very early days not getting the full 'hype' of "MUSK IS SO SMART", but I enjoyed him as a "This is what happens when some ordinary dweeb becomes incredibly wealthy - he wants to throw money at space and technology. That's neat."
His PR guys must've done a good job at keeping the worst of his tendencies behind closed doors - or at least further than most casual observers would look. Around the time of the 'pedo guy' incident it began to unravel for me. Curious that a social media addiction undid all the work of his PR team.
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ITT: people saying they always knew
What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed
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Ten years ago, I barely knew who he was. Would've liked to have kept it that way.
Never fell for this BS. Fuck elmo and fuck ironman too. No platform for fascism.
He never was not a villain.
Maybe. But he was seen as a competent person. I remember when SpaceX started testing the "reusable" rockets that landed themselves. He was a lot more "popular" back then
Actual Elon.
He has been a scumbag since forever.
From the Thai 'pedophile' incident to wanting to keep his factories open in peak Covid times under Biden.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
Hypocrites
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I thought it was cool that he was making space ships and EVs. I like space. I like EVs. Guess I was naïve.
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Just another ADHD trust-fund baby billionaire on a coke binge.
It's not the only option. What would you do if you could "snap" and all kids had school lunches, or houselessness went away? At least Gates is working on malaria. smh.
I hate to break it to the people 10 years ago, but Musk has always been a horrible person
I pat the people on the back for calling him out all those years ago. I have always been indifferent to him to be honest, until five years ago he tried to interfere in the rescue of Thai school children who got stuck in underwater cave, and calling the rescue divers pedo. Some time after that, I remember telling my ex-colleague of mine who fanboys Elon that it is not necessarily I don't like Elon, but that I don't trust him after the incident. He got offended after I mentioned I distrust Elon, and I was surprised that he hasn't heard of Elon's childish spat with the rescue divers. Fast forward to now, I wonder what my former colleague thinks of Elon now.
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