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Elon Musk could have been remembered as a cool tech guy. All he had to do was just keep running his companies and let the smart people working for him do the talking. Nobody would be the wiser that he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Instead, he let his ego get in the way of things and people know him for who he really is. I used to think he was pretty smart. After reading the things he writes, it became apparent that his companies thrive despite him, not because of him.
I know he still has a lot of dick riders but, honestly, I think him streaming Path of Exile live really hurt him with the demographic that was his main fans. White young to middle age males that play video games.
It became the perfect analogy to use to explain to that group of people why actual engineers and scientists know he's an idiot. He could hide behind criticism because the average person doesn't know enough about those things to know what he doesn't know.
But when all the gaming channels started mocking him for not knowing the games UI and not knowing his (paid for) character at rank 3 had some of THE BEST gear. Dude confused "level required" vs gear item level.
It was just such a great example to show people how much of a complete fraud he was. At least people in that demographic. You didn't even need to play PoE, if you ever played a game you could tell he had no idea what he was doing in his supposedly top ranked player in the world.
Though you still had people defending it, I think for the casual Elon "fan" in that demographic it was pretty eye opening.
It also says a lot about him that he thought he could get away with faking that. He fakes all his other achievements.
Well said.
Nah he couldn't cause he's a fraud. Going right is his exit plan.
We noticed.
Musk's ketamine dealer should do the world a favor and add a big dose of fentanyl to the next delivery.
Let's not. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans try to pin the blame on Canada or some bullshit to push their agenda.
One thing I do wonder though is what happens to his empire/money if he were to OD and bite it. Would banks just absorb it to cover loans or is it going to be split across a few dozen illegitimate kids?
Good question. I think it would certainly tank Tesla, xAI, and investors will take over X.
"Combination Of Depression, Drugs And Stress"
Sounds like my life without billionaire part.
Weird, been a stressed and depressed druggo for a decade and I've still somehow avoided becoming a nazi
I thought that he always was an asshole and just dropped the facade, but him once being somewhat sane (as far as billionaires go) and going mad from stress and drug abuse seems like a plausible hypothesis, too. Either way, doesn't change that he needs to be stopped
He fired his PR team and after that he has been shouting out his true inner self.
So we gave up 1 mad king 250 years ago only to pick up 2 now?
🎵 You'll be back... 🎵
In my opinion, he's long gone mad, just look at all this nonsense with Twitter and his "awesome" ideas.
Someone who cares about him needs to take him off the internet permanently
there's your problem innit
Oh no.. anyways..
Wonder what would happen to Elmo if Grimes drops the pegging tapes…
Fox News would suddenly push how awesome and Alpha pegging is?
Sounds like a net gain for society.
So get him the fuck out of anything important
someone buy him a pistol.
Its speaking of Musk, but whose this skinny Asian guy in the picture?
He's doing it too himself, fuck off.
No one asked him to be a co-nazi. No one asked him to take over Twitter. No one asked him to play make-believe auto maker. No one is asking for his fucking biography. He's acting like everyone is pulling him in all these different directions, and no one wants him.
He is the world's richest fucking man. Fuck him. He could have the best doctors/therapy/drugs in the world, could travel the world and "find himself," maybe even do something worth writing about. But he chooses to be a completely waste of human flesh that will be nothing but a smear in history. That's his legacy. A shit smear on an already shit covered era. He's not helping anyone, not even his own kids, he is willfully putting his effort into being the biggest piece of shit.
Fuck him. Fuck his depression, fuck his addiction, fuck his stress, and fuck him. He's ruining my country and wants pity because it's stressing him out.
FUCK HIM
Also calling it stress is so fucking gross when normal people have to deal with soul crushing extisence of inadequate food, housing and life of wage slavery, and he's just upset cause his world domination plans makes people say mean things to him.
Yeah. He could fuck off and never have to speak to another person or do anything he didn't want to do if he wanted with just a tiny fraction of his wealth. He doesn't have to be this way. He chose it. He's like a child breaking things for attention.
It’s devastating to see the toll fentanyl takes on hundreds of thousands of lives every year, destroying families and communities. Yet, it feels incredibly unfair to see someone like Elon Musk openly joke about or trivialize its use. While he may have the privilege to brush it off, so many others don’t have that luxury. It highlights the stark divide between those who face the real consequences of this crisis and those who seem untouched by it. Accountability and awareness matter, especially when it comes to something as serious as fentanyl.
If he gets the wrong batch of K he may very well get dosed with fent.
We should be so lucky
Going?
I think it's more the money. money causes mental illness.
but you know, there's a cure, and he employs so very many engineers who could build him one.
Power disparity derived from wealth disparity inevitably leads to unchecked corruption.
Late Stage Capitalism is a malignant cancer on both society and the planet
So sad. :(
Clearly for Musks own sake the best solution is to launch him into the sun.
I thought that CEO's got that mighty scratch because they were made of sterner stuff.
I expect the problem is that, when you get that rich, people stop caring about you, they start caring about your money. A string of women who just smash a kid out for him then fuck off. Kids who don't seem to want anything to do with him. Does he have anyone he actually considers a true friend? Probably not. He's just surrounded by bootlickers and yes men, and deep down he knows it. He's probably deeply lonely and paranoid.
Not that I care. He's also a cunt.
He's depressed so he decided to go full Dr.Evil I suppose...
Make everyone suffer along with him.
Oh no please don't kill yourself live on X, that would own the liberals too hard
Musk may well be going mad and I certainly hope he is. I hope his lack of recognition and watching his empire crumble is eating him up inside.
But Seth Abramson is not a reliable narrator let alone "biographer" whatever that means. He has a very long and storied history of embellishing facts, or placing too much weight on rumours and extrapolating way too much from them.
I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn't read anything by him anyway.
Now that I've read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He's a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or "citizen journalist" who just liked being incendiary, and that's not the case at all.
So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don't understand this particular take on him. He's very critical of Trump and has said he's directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don't think he's someone to ignore for that.