Bait or rtaration. Call it.

Yeah by his own PR team, mostly, but it was a pretty easy fascade to see through when you actually listened to the man speak. Still don't forgive Dan Harmon for letting him shit on R&M with the eLoN tUsK bullshit. Or Star Trek Discovery for that matter, which happened much later after he had already shown his true face to the world. I know Harmon got paid because he's talked about it, but I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.

And I am proud to have called bullshit on it from day one.

Whoever leads us to the promised land isn't going to have a for profit LLC

I still cringe at him being mentioned in Star Trek Discovery...

I've heard Tony Stark but not Einstein. I'd be insulted for Einstein.

Not even. He started on home, he just claimed he ran there and for some reason people believed him even though he still had a bat in his hand.

Elon has had "Penisdick" written all over him since day one

I mean, yeah he had a lot of advantage, but he did have to do something right to become the richest man. But making some good gambles doesn't make you a good person nor does it mean you're great at everything.

Maybe he was good at finding companies at the right time to invest, but that means jack about any economic or political acumen. Same reason why we don't want businessmen in politics, being good at one thing does not mean you're good at everything.

I don't know exactly how much his parents were worth, but his net worth has increased by many thousands of times. That's not "third base", saying he got where he is by luck and nepotism is just wilfully ignorant.

Trump, on the other hand, would have done better if he just left his money in a savings account.

Think is, he never was a genius - actually quite far off from it

He is just a spoiled boy having luck with gambling the money he got

Looks more like too much Ketamine to me.

And lots of drugs & yes-men.

Generally the truly smartest people (the ones who actually figure out spaceflight, electric vehicles, satellite internet) aren't the wealthiest. Sure many of them end up pretty wealthy due to stock options, high salaries, companies competing for them and the like. But often at the end of the day they just retire into their wealth and spend their days traveling or living in their huge houses or whatever.

But the CEOs, the politicians, the investors, the self-labelled "Founders," those approaching or in the 1%; For those it's not about making something, doing their jobs, changing the world, etc. It's about winning. They need to feel better than others. And for most of them that feeling never goes away. They rarely retire, and often even when they do they still pull strings from the background (see Bill Gates). Some psychopathic part of their brain makes it so their most important and purest drive is to constantly get to that next target, that next exponential stock valuation, that next acquisition, that next news broadcast they can jerk off to about how they beat someone else in a campaign or about how line go up or whatever.

So when these people are in the middle of their career, they're relatively unnoticeable by most. They're "founding" companies by employing those smarter than them with money they have. They're selling said companies, moving on. They're making shady deals, laundering money, because they are smart enough to beat the system and the system is against them because they're so smart.

But for those that amass enough wealth like Elon, the drive never goes away. But what do you do after you're the richest person in the world? Well, try to become the most powerful person in the world. But you can't just run for office, the ketamine has told you that it's faster to latch onto the recent rapid rise in fascism so you join up with Trump. Who gives a shit what kind of person he is, especially because eventually you'll beat him. He's a stepping stone for now, a boost pad to get you speaking with those who can get you real power, and more money because it's never enough.

But thinking that everything in the world works like a startup, and if you just hire more college grads, crack the whip, take stimulants to stay up to ship the product in a completely inconceivable world (government and social policy) to what you're used to (technology and product development), it all falls apart. And then when you've always had success with the investors siding with you because "line go up," you suddenly don't have success because "line don't go up" in the white house and Trump is getting pressure to find something to cover up giving 2 trillion dollars to the rich and there's no quick fix.

So you do more ketamine, lash out. You always knew trump was a pedo, a garbage human, but it didn't matter because he was a stepping stone, so now, probably earlier than you'd like, you pull out your cards of putting him down in the hopes that you can get that power that you need because the money doesn't matter now, feeling that you beat him is what's most important.

yeah that much power and money certainly does something to your brain, the guy can't think straight anymore

the one we didn't need but deserve

That's what trump does. He threatens. Then in the majority of times he gets distracted or backs down. Those contracts aren't cancelled until they are cancelled.

Even if we assume those contracts get canceled, unless they force him to destroy that data (which probably isn't possible at this point) and reopen all those investigations then that's not really true, is it?

TACO

honestly wealth at any level requires luck… intelligence barely factors into it. it’s less that 1 fuck up and it’s all over, and more that 1 fuck up without someone to cover it up or bail you out and it’s all over… the wealthier you are, the bigger the fuck up before you or someone else can bail you out:

poor? it’s an unexpected car issue

rich? it’s that you fucked over literally an entire country for years on end in a very public way that gained you very little

A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence.

Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism "works." It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.

You're right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They're making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they're confidently acting exactly as they've been taught from birth?

I guess Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were just hapless chaps stumbling around in the dark, until Elon lighted their way with his genius vision of how to build an EV. /s

So much so I had to google their names because even I can't remember them.

That...and developing some serious drug habits in recent years

We've both seen how quickly the legislative landscape can change, let's not write this loss off just yet.

Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.

Is it actually a slur, or just a stereotypical sounding name? Because if its the second isn't it just like Barry eating his 3rd pie and chips of the afternoon with a pint of wife beater?

So Indians are in this case bad because they are… particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace?

I don't know anything about Indian people to comment on how they are but in general, yes if you have an ounce of forgiveness for Elon or anyone like him you are a bad person. His kind should have absolutely nowhere to turn to at this point after the damage they've done. They're beyond salvation, anything less than excommunicating them from society is enabling them.

Sadly I assumed correctly

It's actually a name. Pajeet is a genuine Hindu name. It's a pejorative, in the same way "Paddy" is both an Irish name and used as a slur for Irish people.

So is the implication that all Indians think Mush is a hero?

Antisemitic..? It's just a general racist term towards Indians

I run into that shit with cripple.

Fuck them, I'm the one on the fucking cane, I call myself what the fuck I want, and I will gladly fight about it.

But, yeah, the edge lords will fuck things up

This has always felt very doublespeak-y to me. Sort of like a control mechanism.

I don’t know anyone “unhoused” who has ever been offended at the word “homeless”. It just seems silly to me.

I'm convinced that Thiel is spared this fate solely by his homosexuality and shame in it. He understands the value of keeping some things close to the chest and the risks of being the face of anything. He just came to it in a sad and fucked up way.

Comparatively, Musk thinks himself a glorious hero who should be the face of everything.

Thiel rarely puts himself in any spotlight unless he's either curated it, or drugged up, freaked out, and kinda losing it.

I wish more billionaires would get on those... and visit WW1 era military shipwrecks...

That is partly true, but also he's a strong narcissist. They make up their own stories. They'll play up the feud to take eyes off of other bad shit.

Don't think for a second he lost or he's gone or it's all over for him. He doesn't see it that way.

While you're absolutely correct, even if Musk lost 99.7% percent of his wealth he would still be a billionaire (depending on whose net worth number you choose to use). I wouldn't hold out seeing him in a bread line or starting a gofundme.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was about people like you.

Also, your comment is offensive to fecalphiliacs

Who is? I know this is the narrative on Fox News, but I've yet to see any major Dems doing this.

Having an expensive vehicle doesn't mean you can afford it. You can probably make the payments, but you can only really afford the vehicle if you're keeping up with other financial goals.

My coworker has two luxury cars, and he's in debt up to his eyeballs. He makes the same as me, his SO also works (mine doesn't), and he's always complaining about not having enough money, while we're doing just fine.

You were so close to becoming a super villain

So much wasted potential

or create a compatibility layer for x86/64 for ARM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

I always assumed he was a moderately intelligent tech CEO until I saw a clip a few years ago where he was showing off the evolution of Starlink rockets and he referred to the piping and whatnot on the outside of the rockets as "the fiddly bits".

Unrelated, but he was also wearing a t-shirt that highlighted his noodle arms and his man boobs. You would think that somebody vain enough to get hair implants and plastic surgery would have enough sense to at least dress in a flattering manner.

He used to be stupid. He still is, but he used to be, too.

"He was also stupid" - Ron Howard.

k-hole'd

For any confused readers.

It's always autism