Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name
How I’ve always seen him
Yeah, always a dumbass.
What was your first impression of him that made you see him like that?
Not the person you replied to, but someone else that has always seen him as a dumbass.
I first became aware of him from a cameo in an Iron Man movie, which was aroun the time all of his ridiculously over the top and unrealistic goals was gaining media traction. His backstory was claiming the work of others, like his brief stint with PayPal. He was an obvious hype man, who believed his own hype. His fucking boast of putting humans on Mars in a short time frame was obviously overconfident bullshitting. Didn’t he end up putting a car in orbit, or some dumb shit instead?
This was all proven accurate with the hyperloop as originally reported having massive obvious issues beyond the science, such as needing land rights. Then as it transitioned into a shitty car tunnel it was more entertaining as it went on. He acted like he founded Tesla and took credit for shit he didn’t do while making sure to insert fart horns and other childish crap like trying to spell out sexy with the model numbers, but failing to get the ‘E’ so went with 3. Plus he insisted on keeping the auto driving camera only, like a dumbass.
He will always do some grand thing next year even though he has made the same promise for a decade. He was always a obvious snake oil salesman whose primary success was getting government welfare to prop up his businesses. His humor has always fallen flat. Naming his kids by itself was a huge sign of how much of a dumbass he is.
False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat
Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
Exactly, not only moderate but extremely. Dude completely succeeds in his goal, entire universe against him. Elon is on twitter whining on X because his boyfriend kicked him outta the house
I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.
Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn’t help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.
He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.
It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.
Because that was hamfisted in. Originally, he wanted to kill half the universe to impress Lady Death.
Hm that sounds even dumber to be honest. I guess it’s hard to write a plot that kills half the universe without it sounding idiotic
At least this one didn’t try to sound smart, all while trying to stay “apolitical”.
Yea true
Not that hard. Kill half the universe as a scientific experiment. Leave the other half alive as the control group.
This movie shit was virtuous vs what the giant walking hard-on was in the comics.
I thought his threat was going to be that the universe either gets itself under control or he does it again?
He has always been…
Exactly.
Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He’s more like
If you get into the actual comic books, you’ll find out that Tony Stark is regularly portrayed as a sex pest, a substance abuser, and an outspoken fascist.
But, unlike the real Elon Musk, I don’t believe he’s ever been written as “full of pee”. Incidentally, ketamine abuse does result in bladder ulcers that leak urine into your body until you are quite literally poisoning yourself with your own urine.
Just something to think about.
how fast is this poisoning process because it’s taking some sweet fucking time right now
Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the “pedo guy” slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you’ve been paying attention he’s been outing himself for a long time.
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.
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Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.
Well now that we know that he’s an idiot, I have to look back at the things that I just took for granted. I didn’t talk to any rocket scientists 10 years ago so I just believed him when he owned a company that was showing results. Hindsight is 20/20
Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.
How id prefer to see him
I remember in the very early days not getting the full ‘hype’ of “MUSK IS SO SMART”, but I enjoyed him as a “This is what happens when some ordinary dweeb becomes incredibly wealthy - he wants to throw money at space and technology. That’s neat.”
His PR guys must’ve done a good job at keeping the worst of his tendencies behind closed doors - or at least further than most casual observers would look. Around the time of the ‘pedo guy’ incident it began to unravel for me. Curious that a social media addiction undid all the work of his PR team.
I think he genuinely changed as well though. Sure, some of the stuff people believe was obviously wrong in hindsight, but his unhinged tweets just weren’t a thing 10 years ago.
Yeah, he was always an idiot, but I remember reading a super interesting article about how he accidentally radicalized himself when he changed X’s algorithm. He tweaked it to be far right, and radicalized himself because he’s one of the most active users on the platform. FAFO.
Here’s the Blue MAGA hindsight.
And this gets deleted by the mods here for ‘no politics’.
As if the post itself isn’t.
Hypocrites
I pat the people on the back for calling him out all those years ago. I have always been indifferent to him to be honest, until five years ago he tried to interfere in the rescue of Thai school children who got stuck in underwater cave, and calling the rescue divers pedo. Some time after that, I remember telling my ex-colleague of mine who fanboys Elon that it is not necessarily I don’t like Elon, but that I don’t trust him after the incident. He got offended after I mentioned I distrust Elon, and I was surprised that he hasn’t heard of Elon’s childish spat with the rescue divers. Fast forward to now, I wonder what my former colleague thinks of Elon now.
He has been a scumbag since forever.
From the Thai ‘pedophile’ incident to wanting to keep his factories open in peak Covid times under Biden.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
HypocritesThe Thai incident was I think the big event for a lot of people who until then though well of him.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
what
go away
A picture of his stupid mug in panel 2 would have been better
Actual Elon.
No way. Thanos was actually cool.
Thanks would show up to the Zuck fight.
He also didn’t take nearly as much ketamine as musk.
15 years ago I thought he was a dorky rich guy with a well-connected publicist.
10 years ago I thought he was a too-full-of-himself car manufacturer who bought his way into the game who overestimated his own engineering prowess.
5 years ago I thought he was an asshole and wondered why other people seemed to respect him.
Now I think he’s a pathetic rich guy who got used and thrown away by Trump, the guy famous for using people and then throwing them away. Fuckin’ cuck of a chump who could have his cock in the US’s pussy and still wouldn’t have the balls to fuck.
