Current Events > Elon Musk has been melting tf down on Twitter for a couple days now

(+) Yeah! (+)

Highlights include:
- Having his girlfriend stand up for him and say (wrongly) he hasn't tried to intimidate union efforts
https://www.sfgate.com/g00/technology/article/grimes-elon-musk-dating-tesla-union-factory-defend-12932650.php
- Maybe violating labor law by intimidating union efforts via Twitter
https://twitter.com/josheidelson/status/999089137453027329
- Having a bizarre understanding of the American revolution and/or the concept of class
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998987396870950912
- Accusing a non-profit of doing clickbait investigations for ad money
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/999366564334845953
- Upon being corrected, saying they take their jobs too seriously
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/999383012944072704
- Whining about fake news
https://twitter.com/timkhiggins/status/999358853513990144
- Being celebrated by Donald Trump Jr. for whining about fake news
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/999366215696109569
- Whatever this bullshit is
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464
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@fluffygerm
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tc is just jelly that he doesnt have a gf with unshaven pits
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I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.
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Dude wants to be Dr. Evil with hair so bad, but fails miserably at it.
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we did it reddit
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Imagine being Elon Musk and claiming someone else is losing credibility

At least this is keeping him distracted from shitting out random AI doomsday theories after watching a sci fi movie or a backflipping robot
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Wtf we hate Elon now!?

Is he the same person as donald trump?
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I'm still trying to figure out how a billionaire goes from ultra hottie android wife to Grimes.
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I can't tell if the internet loves or hate this guy. It changes every other week.
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The Musk thing is weird, the media attacking him and his businesses is equally weird. Everyone involved is being weird about this shit.
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Elon Chump
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Kitt posted...

I can't tell if the internet loves or hate this guy. It changes every other week.

You're seeing different parts of the internet. My understanding is the Rick and Morty Imgur crowd loves him, but there are people with reasons not to
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Omega Hunter posted...

I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.

That's just because when management tries to screw over the employees, unions make you BTFO
Of course you're anti-union, they make your job more difficult
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Hexenherz posted...

The Musk thing is weird, the media attacking him and his businesses is equally weird.

Is reporting on the shortcomings of his business an attack?
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Antifar posted...

Hexenherz posted...

The Musk thing is weird, the media attacking him and his businesses is equally weird.

Is reporting on the shortcomings of his business an attack?

No since they raise legitimate criticisms of his companies.

Elon Musk cannot handle any criticism of his companies and has melties when it happens.
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is that really a threat, though? the stock options comment, I mean
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Hinakuluiau posted...

Omega Hunter posted...

I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.

That's just because when management tries to screw over the employees, unions make you BTFO
Of course you're anti-union, they make your job more difficult

No I expect to have union problem when we determine employees need to work more, be held to higher standards, or get paid less...duh. The reason I now hate unions is because they literally see management as their eternal enemy no matter what we do. They fight us on everything just to fight us and they do not negotiate in good faith.

Example: Management would like to update a 15 year old trash software that everyone complains about, union is fighting us for not negotiating a change in working conditions...really?

I have someone quit, the window office is vacant, I tell one of my employees sitting in an interior office and tell her she can have the now vacated office. Union is mad the space reallocation wasn't negotiated.

Unions can get fucked.
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Relevant!
https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-left-injuries-off-the-books-but-it-might-not-face-penalties/

Tesla Inc. recently added more names to its list of injured employees after Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting raised questions about whether the company was counting all of its work injuries, records show.

The electric car company added 13 injuries from 2017 that had been missing when Tesla certified its legally mandated injury report earlier this year.

Alaa Alkhaf**i, for example, smashed his face and arm in the paint department last fall. He said he had been asked to perform a task for which he had no training.

At the time of the injury, Tesla didnt put Alkhaf**i on official injury logs, even though the accident caused him to miss work. So it didnt count toward Teslas 2017 injury rate, which the company later trumpeted as matching the auto industry average.

Reveal wrote about Alkhaf**is injury last month as part of its investigation of injury undercounting and safety problems at Teslas Fremont, California, factory. By late April, Tesla had added him to the 2017 logs, dating his injury Oct. 1 and noting that he missed three days of work because of it.

Other recently added injuries include lacerations that made an employee miss more than 100 days of work, a dislocated knee for which a production associate remains out of work and various ergonomic injuries to the hand, wrist, back and shoulder.

Still, Reveal found Tesla has yet to record all of the 2017 injuries it should have by law. And the company might not face a penalty for it.

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So, he figured since he's having such trouble mass producing cars, he'd try his hand at mass producing tweets?
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also, the Model 3 is trash

haha
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grimes is trying to bring him down from within
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Thats what happens when you're a weirdo with nothing but moneyfriends and a bit of a mental disorder

Omega Hunter posted...

Hinakuluiau posted...

Omega Hunter posted...

I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.

That's just because when management tries to screw over the employees, unions make you BTFO
Of course you're anti-union, they make your job more difficult

No I expect to have union problem when we determine employees need to work more, be held to higher standards, or get paid less...duh. The reason I now hate unions is because they literally see management as their eternal enemy no matter what we do. They fight us on everything just to fight us and they do not negotiate in good faith.

Example: Management would like to update a 15 year old trash software that everyone complains about, union is fighting us for not negotiating a change in working conditions...really?

I have someone quit, the window office is vacant, I tell one of my employees sitting in an interior office and tell her she can have the now vacated office. Union is mad the space reallocation wasn't negotiated.

Unions can get fucked.

This. As an industrial engineer... Not all unions are the same, but some of them are pretty bad.

Antifar posted...

- Having a bizarre understanding of the American revolution and/or the concept of class
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998987396870950912

I don't really understand this one.
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Omega Hunter posted...

The reason I now hate unions is because they literally see management as their eternal enemy no matter what we do. They fight us on everything just to fight us and they do not negotiate in good faith.

I will say that I kinda get this, as a pro-union guy
I'm a part of a union and it's a government job, so it's all kinds of messy. but I see this all the time, my union reps always badmouthing the agency and treating them like the enemy

like I get it. the big guys can fuck over the little guys way more than the reverse, but it doesn't have to be full on 1v1 deathmatch every time they negotiate
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Live_Events posted...

Wtf we hate Elon now!?

No. A lot of us still recognize that he has accomplished what very few people ever will and his projects are important for moving society forward.
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Hes been railing against mainstream media for their unfair treatment to him and his company.

Sound familiar?
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Antifar posted...

Hexenherz posted...

The Musk thing is weird, the media attacking him and his businesses is equally weird.

Is reporting on the shortcomings of his business an attack?

Well it depends. Like some companies really seem to have it out for him, and one site, Jalopnik, seems to want him or at least Tesla dead.
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I've always thought Musk wasn't on the level, but now I suspect he is an outright fraud. It's beyond his union busting shit. His main idea is that capitalism can bring us to outer space, and he's either crazy for believing that or blatantly not thinking about how business doesn't thrive by making those investments, or just lying. It's going to take massive state investment. Which would be possible if the donor class wasn't dead-set against it. He tries to get around this by making himself a member of the donor class. But his car company is destined for failure. It is built on this idea that people want self-driving cars. Businesses want that, not everyday consumers that make or break big industry.

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on, this year hes been one of the most roasted mfs on the internet...
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Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on, this year hes been one of the most roasted mfs on the internet...

This is because the powers that be have stirred up the propaganda machines with even more lies about him and his businesses. It is because they are afraid of losing their influence and cash cows in the aerospace, automotive, energy, and intelligence sectors.

It's obvious that it is all a concerted and organized character assassination when the libertarians and the fucking communists are joining forces to badmouth him.

I don't blame him for not wanting to risk having them around. Most unions have been largely a positive force for workers as they ensure workers get fair compensation and benefits as well as decent hours and working conditions, but many other unions are pure cancer that will bankrupt a company because the final union-negotiated contract was placed in a gold-plated box instead of a solid platinum box (I know, total hyperbole) and thus should be Pinkerton'd once they are identified.
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Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on, this year hes been one of the most roasted mfs on the internet...

As Antifar said earlier in this topic, it's basically two different groups of people.

It's a very common cycle though.

1. Person innovates industry of some sort, proving some sort of competence.
2. People start praising person.
3. Person gets inflated sense of self worth and tries to stretch their expertise into many different areas or try to make the thing they innovated broad. In addition, person starts to make grandiose claims.
4. If sufficiently disguised by technology/engineering/science, a subset of the population starts worshipping the person.
5. Annoyed by the worship, people start investigating their industry, ideas, etc.
6. Often the innovation is designed in a way that produces huge short term results that are unsustainable. The grandiose claims are picked apart.
7. Person falls back down to Earth or in some cases right out implodes.
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Is he still working on that stupid hyperloop?
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Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on,

Those people still exist
https://twitter.com/JohnnaSabri/status/999170144172732416
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silentwing26x posted...

Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on, this year hes been one of the most roasted mfs on the internet...

This is because the powers that be have stirred up the propaganda machines with even more lies about him and his businesses. It is because they are afraid of losing their influence and cash cows in the aerospace, automotive, energy, and intelligence sectors.

It's obvious that it is all a concerted and organized character assassination when the libertarians and the fucking communists are joining forces to badmouth him.

Lol.
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prince_leo posted...

like I get it. the big guys can fuck over the little guys way more than the reverse, but it doesn't have to be full on 1v1 deathmatch every time they negotiate

Negotiation implies there's give and take. A bad enough union can say "Give us all of this or we strike and really fuck you!"

Anyway, I wasn't aware that people didn't realize Elon Musk is a massive man child. Some of what his companies end up working on just sound like a toddler went "IT WOULD BE SO COOL IF..." Except it's not a toddler, it's the head of the company. There's no way his ventures hold water forever. Well... ACtually, isn't Space X the only one making a profit and it's holding Tesla up?
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Antifar posted...

Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on,

Those people still exist
https://twitter.com/JohnnaSabri/status/999170144172732416

Well most of those people have DDIQ's based on their support of her plan.
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SK8T3R215 posted...

Antifar posted...

Gafemage posted...

The disparity between how people talked about him last year vs this year is insane. Last year people were kissing the ground he walked on,

Those people still exist
https://twitter.com/JohnnaSabri/status/999170144172732416

Well most of those people have DDIQ's based on their support of her plan.

what's that
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Anteaterking posted...

1. Person innovates industry of some sort, proving some sort of competence.
2. People start praising person.
3. Person gets inflated sense of self worth and tries to stretch their expertise into many different areas or try to make the thing they innovated broad. In addition, person starts to make grandiose claims.
4. If sufficiently disguised by technology/engineering/science, a subset of the population starts worshipping the person.
5. Annoyed by the worship, people start investigating their industry, ideas, etc.
6. Often the innovation is designed in a way that produces huge short term results that are unsustainable. The grandiose claims are picked apart.

This pretty much covers it, especially #3
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MacadamianNut3 posted...

Anteaterking posted...

1. Person innovates industry of some sort, proving some sort of competence.
2. People start praising person.
3. Person gets inflated sense of self worth and tries to stretch their expertise into many different areas or try to make the thing they innovated broad. In addition, person starts to make grandiose claims.
4. If sufficiently disguised by technology/engineering/science, a subset of the population starts worshipping the person.
5. Annoyed by the worship, people start investigating their industry, ideas, etc.
6. Often the innovation is designed in a way that produces huge short term results that are unsustainable. The grandiose claims are picked apart.

This pretty much covers it, especially #3

I mean, you can see it in Steve Jobs life. Twice actually, except he only fell once. Read into NEXT Computers, the company he founded after Apple fired him. Jobs really needed people around him that wouldn't let him do really stupid things. Like match a computer case to his stereo...
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Omega Hunter posted...

I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.

I've been saying that ever since I got my first job and saw them take dues out of my check and I'm like "I don't want to be in the Union" and they replied "it's mandatory"
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wait how did I miss verrit 2.0 lmao
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Omega Hunter posted...

I was sooo pro union until I became a manager in a unionized industry 3 years ago.

Now all I can say is fuck unions.

I've been saying that ever since I got my first job and saw them take dues out of my check and I'm like "I don't want to be in the Union" and they replied "it's mandatory"

The worst part is people have the nerve to defend that. I don't care who you claim to represent, I have a right to tell you to piss off and leave my fucking money alone.
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