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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

If all you have is intellectual dishonesty, you're finally out of ideas and cornered

[–] [email protected] 330 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Nobody has done more to disprove the "Rich people are smarter than everyone else" idea.

[–] [email protected] 177 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Remember a decade ago when he was being lauded as our time's Einstein?

........ Hahahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

The one where Tony blew him off and made him look a fool?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.

From what I have heard, that part of the line was not even scripted. The actor ad libbed it in hopes that it might lead to him being gifted a free Tesla vehicle.

EDIT: There was also the completely unrelated reference in a later episode, in which a character mentioned having gone to Musk Junior High School. That may have been a paid reference.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Literally had someone saying that earlier today. Something along the lines of "you don't become the richest person in the world without some competency." Just ignore the fact he started on third base...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I genuinely think he's had some sort of cognitive decline.

He went from being merely wealthy to the richest man in the world, and nearly everyone thinking he's a genius, to being hated by nearly everyone and losing money fast.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Looks more like too much Ketamine to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And lots of drugs & yes-men.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He collected data on all Americans from multiple government agencies, successfully killed multiple investigations into several of his companies, and secured additional government contracts for those companies. Is that what we're calling nothing these days?

[–] SpaceCowboy 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And Trump is now threatening to cancel those government contracts. So he's blown everything he's gained (and then some) from his little fling with Trump.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpaceCowboy 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah he's all TACO when doing things that'll break the economy. But killing SpaceX won't break the economy and he's looking for something he can do that'll make him appear strong. I wouldn't bet either way on this, they're both nutjobs.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (7 children)

None of them are geniuses, it's just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Its a human blind spot. A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence. In lower socio-economic levels, succeeding involves a lot of intelligence. Its a fucking struggle. Lots of fish trying to eat each other and take what little resources we have. One fuck up and it's all over. So anyone that is succeeding is also someone that with enough intelligence to foresee pitfalls and avoid them or escape with their wealth.

Those values are used to evaluate the people at the top which are swimming in a whole different pond. The neopotism and safety nets built into the upper crust of society is not part of the calculation that a lot of people use to factor into how they see these people. They still apply the same dog eat dog mentality to the upper crust of society.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk learned the hard way why other billionaires don't get directly involved in politics, and buy politicians instead. That way they get what they want, but let the politicians take the heat for pushing through the billionaires agendas.

The problem for Musk is that his ego wouldn't allow him to sit quietly on the sidelines calling the shots. He had to prove how smart he was, and how he was the only one who could fix the government. Now, he's pissed off almost everyone, has lost various large foreign contracts for his companies, drove sales of Tesla into the ground, and is watching Trump undo the "brilliant" governmental cost cutting that he did.

And, his ego still won't let it go, as now he's suggested he'll start his own political party. You just know the other billionaires are looking at him and going "What a dumbass!"

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Even if he loses hundreds of billions of dollars he's still richer than like 99% of individual people worldwide will ever be.

I will save the schadenfreude for when he pays for the deaths of men, women, and children who were denied care from the USAID funds being cut.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Do I even want to know what a pajeet is?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You probably don't.

I looked it up after not hearing the term before.

Tap for spoilerIt's a slur for South Asians. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pajeet

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Sadly I assumed correctly

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Just say "retard" if you're gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When's the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Somehow nobody has mentioned the drugs? And obvious signs of mental illness? Obviously high functioning, but that does not make the decisions less nuts.

Has anybody seen the Johnny Harris video on musk? It was all fun and games until the drugs came out to play.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Generational wealth leads to people who are both extremely rich and extremely stupid.

And Elon Musk is the best example of that in the history of mankind.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Next stop: Build an underwater city.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (9 children)

He already has fuck you money so he doesn't give any fucks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Are you serious? He wants people to think he’s cool SO bad it’s genuinely so pathetic lol. All the other billionaires you could say that. But Elon is so desperate for people to think he’s this funny cool based guy it’s hilarious

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuinely a retard and yes that is the correct word and stop trying to police it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No. If you use a slur about disabled people to insult anyone, you're just an asshole. No matter what a disgusting piece of shit anyone is, using that word to insult is just awful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

Also, your comment is offensive to fecalphiliacs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you serious? Like, someone says "please don't use shitty slurs that discriminating disabled people" and your instinctive reaction is "THEY SILENCE ME AND CRIMINALIZE KNOWLEDGE". That's just pathetic. You can be an asshole, but get over being called one then.

And unrelated, but Fahrenheit is an awful book lol. Good dystopias are 1984, Brave New World or We. Fahrenheit 451 is just the author mad about television and saying that it's so stupid and will ruin everyone's brain. While the thought itself of knowledge being forbidden can be interesting and is an element in other dystopias, Fahrenheit is mainly based on the pure belief that books are a better medium than television, which is beyond ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

TIL you haven't read Fahrenheit 451

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Centrist Dems will take him back and anoint him as the leader of the Resistance in a New York minute, if doing so will keep AOC on the margins.

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