Musk is the personification of an idiot’s concept of a genius.
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In my job I've dealt with a number of multi-millionaires and I'm usually struck by just how dumb and incompetent they are.
The economy does not reward hard work or intelligence, it rewards hubris and megalomania.
Those qualities occasionally help people break through to wealth, but mostly the economy rewards already being rich. Having rich parents is how you become rich.
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His dock doesn't float, his wonder fuel is a disaster, his grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best, he didn't design the puzzle boxes, he didn't write the mystery and voila, it all adds up, the key to this entire case, and it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world I assumed that Elon Musk was a complicated genius. But why?
Just watched this movie. Not a great one, but the critique on musk was spot on
I'm lost, what movie are we talking about here?
Glass Onion
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The real answer is he oaid really good publicists to craft his image. The reality set in when he fired that team.
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Can AOC run for president in the next election? Or is there some DNC blood oath that only shitty candidates can run?
Yea she could, but pelosi will never let her pass. As long as pelosi and her "democrats" friends are around the dnc you won't see any bernie or aoc in control or any action leaning left.
The bitch is swimming in money since trump got elected.
https://finbold.com/nancy-pelosi-is-up-90-already-on-her-newest-stock-bet/
Pelosi etf is better than the sp500 🤣🤣
Yeah, Americans are notoriously love intelligent women, especially if they're not white.
I honestly think she has a real chance, TBH, although I can see the two cases where misogyny helped donvict into office....
I'm sure the cons and "liberal media" would do everything possible to paint her as the second coming of Karl Marx, though...even if most Americans actually agree with her policy positions on nearly everything, when you poll people on the issues.
But many Americans still think that Hillary (!) is some kind of radical leftist. Or that Obama is. Or that Biden is, or Kamala....after a while, trying to paint every single candidate as a Deep State radical Marxist fascist Communist socialist globalist (and every other stupid term they use with zero understanding of words) is going to wear off but still she has a HOOHAA is not white, so....
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Only neoliberals can run
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That's because the guy is a total fraud.
And always has been. He's a snake oil salesman who has never built a product someone wants to buy in his life. When his creativity is given room (aka the Cybertruck) it's overwhelmingly unsuccessful.
His start was in PayPal where he was just a money guy with stupid ideas that kept getting shot down. It's why he owns x.com he'd wanted to rebrand PayPal to X after the PayPal brand became well entrenched (which was an absolutely awful idea).
Actually he got his start selling some random website to Compaq in the middle of the "everyone throw their money at random websites" craze of the late 90s. So he was among the folks that won the dot-com lottery.
Then he took his winnings and rolled it into x.com, which was solidly on a trajectory to fail. He also wasn't allowed to be in charge.
Then after the merger with the much more popular PayPal (which could have done just fine without X.com ever coming along), Elon somehow got put in charge. He wanted to run the whole thing on Windows and it was a terrible terrible decision, with Paypal only being saved by kicking Elon out. Despite his role being just briefly in charge of it taking a wildly successful product and nearly destroying it only to be kicked out, people popularly credited him as 'the Paypal guy'.
So a guy got lucky and got $22 million from Compaq, and then $170 million from eBay because he still had a ton of PayPal stock despite no longer allowed to make decisions about it, and was carried by his "he was in charge of PayPal!" creds into Tesla, rewriting history of that company to declare himself a visionary founder rather than an early investor after the fact.
All the while the media sucking up to him hard, putting him in various cameos and references to portray him as a great mind of modern times, a real life Tony Stark. Feeding his ego while people close to him personally wrote about what a loser douchebag he was.
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Don't forget he almost ran it into the ground twice.
He's also currently running both Tesla and X into the ground... and he'd probably run SpaceX into the ground if it didn't start off with incredibly passionate and intelligent people.
Yeah. Was crafting a response to someone else's comment. But yours basically sums up my thoughts. Dude is so incompetent. He either hired the right people to dodge his incompetent. Which probably takes insane genius. Lmfao or the people have such passion they work around the insane dude to achieve greatness for humanity. Which Elon tries to claim as his achievements. I've seen the reports from staffs at his companies. I wonder if any of them have ever baited and switched his ass with a fancy showboating meeting. Then just doing what they need to ignoring the entire showboat BS.
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Whatever debatable intelligence he once had is gone, fried by drugs and huffing Xitter.
From what I have read, he's basically always been this way, but it was more hidden. People who knew him personally would write about his nature, but the media swept all that under the rug because they wanted to relish in the concept of a hotshot tech genius billionaire, and his ego drove him to be quite eager to play that part.
I read somewhere that he was singing praises about the high from Jenkem back in the day.
Oh wow, this part of the wiki is either just a perfect match or a sign of trolling:
Fumito Ichinose and Shesa Jobisnifa, both anesthesia specialists from Boston who conducted a study on the effects of hydrogen sulfide gas, or "sewer gas," on mice…
Fumito and Jobisnifa working with fumes, sniffing
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No wonder he thinks education is redundant.
His certainly was.
He's a Nazi. Therefore, I couldn't care less about him at all.
He is legit a complete fuckfing moron. You want 1 reason, and 1 reason only? He just got access to medicare and medicaid data, HIPAA is not something you fuck with, the fines alone could literally bankrupt musk at his all time richest point, which I think is now, the largest HIPAA breach I could quickly find was 113 thousand people. Cost 5.5 million in fines alone, and was sent to the DOJ for possible criminal charges... How many peoples information is in Medicare and Medicaid? All of them? Oh dear, musk can't afford what he is doing...
I love your optimism here but what makes you so confident the DOJ are going to be able to do anything? I sadly think we're way past the point of expecting normal laws to apply to these assholes
You are assuming he will face any consequences. He is completely shielded by Trump and has been granted authority to do whatever he wants. And even if he is breaking the law - the law literally means nothing if it is not enforced. The US government has been effectively coup'd from within and cannot and will not regulate or stop itself.
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Musk is pretty normal for billionaires. Completely detached from reality, drunk on power and his own ego, convinced his every idea is divine inspiration, except the god is him.
This is the way. Elon Musk loves to lie about his IQ and pretend he’s smarter than he is. Trump’s favorite insult is ‘low IQ’. Find something that digs into their skin and make them throw a tantrum.
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A lot of people have this misconception that rich people are "good with money". They're good at taking money from other people.
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I bet that on top of wanting to be sure nothing that fElon is doing is disrupted or slowed down in any way, the qons didn't allow fElon to be brought in for questioning, because they don't want everyone to realize just how fucking stupid he really is.
fElon is a weird guy, but also not even half as intelligent as the carefully crafted myth he's made for himself.
Can you imagine the dipshit being grilled by members of Congress? The asshat wouldn't be able to play edgy edgelord dooooosssshbro in that venue. He'd just look like the childish idiot that he totally is. And the cons don't want to see the spell broken when it comes to the ridiculous myth of fElon.
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