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[-] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Please flag slurs with NSFW and don't put them in your title.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago

Elon is autistic not retarded. Check your ableism.

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[-] [email protected] 322 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 172 points 1 week ago

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

........ Hahahahahahaha

[-] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago

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] 33 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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] 31 points 1 week ago

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

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

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[-] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

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] 53 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago

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)

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] 64 points 1 week ago

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] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

Do I even want to know what a pajeet is?

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

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

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

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] 36 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

Next stop: Build an underwater city.

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[-] [email protected] 29 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] 26 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

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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