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[–] phoenixz 11 points 2 days ago

Genuine retard, it always was genuine retard

[–] [email protected] 130 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 329 points 3 days ago (29 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 176 points 3 days ago (13 children)

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

........ Hahahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago (11 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget completely mismanaging Twitter, and turning it into even more of a cesspool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

that may have been entirely or mostly intentional, because it's now 100% a right-wing propaganda machine and it got Trump elected

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 3 days ago (8 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?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days 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] 37 points 3 days 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?

[–] skisnow 6 points 2 days ago

If his wealth were a US treasury bond, he'd have to spend at least $50,000,000 every DAY in order to not still keep getting richer.

Take a moment to think about how difficult it is to spend $50,000,000. If I gave you 24 hours to do it using Brewster's Millions rules, you'd struggle.

There is no good reason for billionaires to exist.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Next stop: Build an underwater city.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

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

spoilerThe reason why that is a terrible idea is because during WW1, many naval artillery shells used picric acid as an explosive filler, picric acid reacts readily with metals to form highly sensitive picrate salts that are very sensitive to detonation upon being disturbed. Meaning messing with them even slightly has a significant risk of a massive underwater explosion happening. WW1 era military shipwrecks are strictly off limits to divers for that very reason.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (19 children)

I wonder if the trump cult also now hates him after saying he was the goat for the last 6 months.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days 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] 45 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if Kimball, Leon's brother, is involved and quietly working behind the scenes.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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