Current Events > What is your opinion of Elon Musk

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I try to like him, consider him rational, believe he'll know better... but he's like a GameFAQs user with billions of dollars. Continues to betray any small amounts of trust I attempt to give him

Dumb

Why do you attempt to give him trust?

He fucking sucks and is a very, very terrible person with far too much power due to his wealth.

Antifar posted...

Why do you attempt to give him trust?

idk good point

He was born rich, daddy funded his first companies, and then he lied and conned his way to more wealth. Hes remarkably stupid and is a pathological liar; he lies non-stop about literally everything. One of the worst humans and one of the dumbest. His success through fraud and fraud alone is a reflection of how messed up our society is. See also: Donald Trump.

Looking at the way he's run Twitter, it seems like his success came mostly from a combination of being born rich, luck, self promotion, and being able to dazzle people with big promises that he doesn't make good on.

the strongest case for wealth redistribution in modern history

It's hard to measure or quantify an abstract concept like "injustice" or "the degree to which our society has failed." But Musk's wealth provides a numerical approximation

My headcanon is that both Trump and Musk have made unholy pacts with the same demon/devil which causes them to present themselves in such a similar fashion.

Douche.

A long time ago he merged his failing business with PayPal, something he immediately wanted to rename to "X." They subsequently kicked him from the board.

He is still that same moron in every way, he just no longer has anyone above him to stop him from doing his bad decisions. And his "big success" was buying a car company that he immediately got the cars to write "sex."

Tbh I have no opinion of him. I dont really follow news regarding him.

he ruined both Twitter and the letter X

He's an idiot.

He's a rich kid with daddy issues, who wants everyone to love him, and says the most cringiest stupid shit possible.

Seems like a legit genius but also kinda immature.

lilORANG posted...

Seems like a legit genius but also kinda immature.

Have you heard of Burger King?

Dumb guy, obnoxious, right place right time right strategy to soak up elite talent for his companies.

These days controlled mostly by spite for the �woke mob� that started to dunk on him as he got wealthier/more visible.

Now he�s invincible from any sort of consequences because it�s impossible to lose any meaningful amount of his wealth.

Like if you did a scale on my liking of him, it'd be a sharp decline from like 2015 to now. Let's say I thought he was pretty smart and innovative in 2015, today I think a dead dog would contribute more to society than he ever has.

i used to like him. then he called some guy a pedophile because he dared to call one of elon's stupid fucking ideas stupid. the facade shattered quickly and completely.

i do still like the idea of starlink, though. just need someone else to take it over.

lilORANG posted...

Seems like a legit genius

https://twitter.com/MikeLeePearl/status/1683900916884463616

ellis123 posted...

he immediately got the cars to write "sex."

sexy, technically. that's probably better, though it's still pretty weird.

Weird antivax loser that has never been funny in his entire life

Lunatic that probably has an entire room dedicated to toe nail clippings

Weird ass dude. I wouldn't consider him rational. Nor a genius.

World's richest manchild who is also going through an edgy teen phase.

most unfunny person in the history of mankind

Medussa posted...

sexy, technically. that's probably better, though it's still pretty weird.

True-ish. Not better, but I forgot about the Model Y.

Medussa posted...

i do still like the idea of starlink, though. just need someone else to take it over.

That is arguably his dumbest thing he has ever done. It is, quite literally, the start up of his own apocalypse. The only question is if the radiation or exponential "close call" computation bloat is going to cause the entire thing to come crashing down at this stage, because if there is anything that Musk excels at it's being the absolute worst to a completely unparalleled level.

It�s funny. In the mid 2010s I tried telling everyone that Musk is a stupid clown but Tesla will become one of the biggest companies. And everyone would tell me nooooo, I got it backwards, Musk is a genius but Tesla will flop.

Now it�s become literally undeniable.

He's an idiot who is all hype and spreads right wing bullshit.

Before this whole twitter debacle, I figured he was smart but bold and didn't know how to be told no.

Now I know he's just a fucking idiot

Today Musk intervened to reinstate the Twitter account of a guy who posted photos of child sex abuse
https://twitter.com/revhowardarson/status/1684305181369049089

That Wil Wheaton post on Facebook

I can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity, the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk.
He's the richest man on the planet. You can't go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he's part of in some way. There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he's a douchebag. Some number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor. They'll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist. They are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn't enough.
He can have any material thing he wants, and he will *never* be happy or satisfied. He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both.
So what does he do? He bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves like the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That's a tragedy for him, but it's dangerous for us. He doesn't care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he can not ever have.
You know the saying "hurt people hurt people"? He's a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people I care about less safe. The consequences of this one man's midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me.

Another born rich Narcissistic idiot whose wealth has shielded him his entire life from the Finding out stage and if he didn't have that wealth would probably be a nobody

Skankhair posted...

He was born rich, daddy funded his first companies, and then he lied and conned his way to more wealth. He�s remarkably stupid

idk that sounds pretty smart

ellis123 posted...

True-ish. Not better, but I forgot about the Model Y.

better in the sense that at least it could be talking about the cars themselves.

i won't argue the rest of your rebuttal. you may easily be right, i don't know well enough either way.

He's a mediocre guy that got super lucky initially. And again picking the right industry's to compete in at the best possible time.

Even Twitter wouldn't have been a catastrophe if the tech bubble didn't burst. But overall I appreciate his hand in creating things like tesla and spaceX. So he was a net gain to humanity overall as far as most other billionaires go in my book.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/6/AABM4yAAEso4.jpg

Medussa posted...

better in the sense that at least it could be talking about the cars themselves.

i won't argue the rest of your rebuttal. you may easily be right, i don't know well enough either way.

That's fair.

And the bigger one of the two I mentioned right now is the exponential computation issue ( https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-conjunction-increase-threatens-space-sustainabilit ). Because he is doing his best to blot out the sun the total number of satellites have increased dramatically. In a generic sense this is a bit of a problem but because he does so so *extremely* haphazardly it becomes a big problem as now each of the software suites that have to factor in the bloat. Now satellites are set up to automatically dodge one another somewhat so nothing problematic has happened so far, but all of these near misses requires that the satellites move out of their original paths. Prior to Musk this wasn't really something that happened at all, but with him the number became an actual figure. And because of these changes happening it is having an exponential domino effect in that every month is a new record for near misses. While it is still at the "near miss" stage this sort of exponential growth of an issue is apparent in how it's going to be a problem: eventually it won't be a near miss, and then it's going to go from big problem to "Welp, we just lost space."

Prismsblade posted...

He's a mediocre guy that got super lucky initially. And again picking the right industry's to compete in at the best possible time.

Even Twitter wouldn't have been a catastrophe if the tech bubble didn't burst. But overall I appreciate his hand in creating things like tesla and spaceX. So he was a net gain to humanity overall as far as most other billionaires go in my book.

idk enough about spaceX but Starlink is a great contribution, maybe ISPs in backwoods parts of the country will actually have to start to try a little now

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

idk that sounds pretty smart

Lol, no. It doesn�t take smarts to lie about everything. It takes a deficit of character not a surplus of intelligence.

He will be historically the most notorious dork there ever was.

ellis123 posted...

That's fair.

And the bigger one of the two I mentioned right now is the exponential computation issue ( https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-conjunction-increase-threatens-space-sustainabilit ). Because he is doing his best to blot out the sun the total number of satellites have increased dramatically. In a generic sense this is a bit of a problem but because he does so so *extremely* haphazardly it becomes a big problem as now each of the software suites that have to factor in the bloat. Now satellites are set up to automatically dodge one another somewhat so nothing problematic has happened so far, but all of these near misses requires that the satellites move out of their original paths. Prior to Musk this wasn't really something that happened at all, but with him the number became an actual figure. And because of these changes happening it is having an exponential domino effect in that every month is a new record for near misses. While it is still at the "near miss" stage this sort of exponential growth of an issue is apparent in how it's going to be a problem: eventually it won't be a near miss, and then it's going to go from big problem to "Welp, we just lost space."

ok, i am somewhat familiar with all that, i just didn't realize how big an effect starlink itself was causing.

i will also mention, because i forgot to earlier, that my opinion of starlink dropped when it was apparently dropped for Ukraine near the beginning of the invasion. that should never have been allowed to be a possibility.

He's an idiot and a narcissist who is the walking definition of "rich kid who failed upward."

And any time he ties himself to any actual worthwhile product or innovation, he inevitably fucks it up and poisons the well. He's literally "anti-progress" incarnate.

A stupid manbaby who managed to luck his way into fortune

MC_BatCommander posted...

A stupid manbaby who managed to luck his way into fortune

Some dumb luck for sure, but also a ton of fraud.

As long as he brings Twitter crashing down to nothing, that's all that matters