Live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name
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Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
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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
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Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He's more like
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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.
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how fast is this poisoning process because it's taking some sweet fucking time right now
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here's the Blue MAGA hindsight.
And this gets deleted by the mods here for 'no politics'.
As if the post itself isn't.
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The way he removed the original founders of Tesla and have himself the title of founder says otherwise, he was never a nice human being.
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I enjoyed him as a “This is what happens when some
ordinary dweebextremely privileged racist becomes incredibly wealthy
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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.
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Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.
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Never fell for this BS. Fuck elmo and fuck ironman too. No platform for fascism.
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Musk was already a notoriously lying grifter 10 year ago.
It's only naive fanboys who were too immature be able to set aside the natural human tendency to look up to famous people and/or did not had the life experience to recognize and be suspicious of salesman bollocks (whether decorated with techie terms or otherwise) when they heard it that didn't suspect the guy was something else than what the adoring fans thought.
It's not by chance that Musk's fanboys were mainly young adult and teen techies.
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I was never a fanboy, but 10 years ago I had hope that he and his companies would make the world a better place.
I never looked much into him as a person, but the promise of neat electric cars and humans living on Mars made it seem like the world was on a decent trajectory.
I was obviously naive in hindsight, but on the surface everything seemed to be fine.
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Well, a decade ago I had hope too, but also already felt the guy was fishy (because he already had a history of overpromising and under-delivering and in the areas I was an expert in, I had spotted him outright lying) and so was skeptical about his promises and his companies. Also, having been involved in Tech Startups, my expectation from people in his position and his language were already negative since the Startup World back then was already dominated by scam artists with a salesmanship or Finance backgrund for whom Tech was a vehicle for self-enrichment, not by idealists who loved challenges or the actual Tech.
Also by that point I had already spent a good period in Investment Finance and could recognize a certain style of bollocks a mile away.
I wasn't aware of just how much a shit person the guy was, but all my instints told me he was a sociopath who would only ever do anything better for the World if it made him more money than not doing it.
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All of his companies are complete garbage. Cars are a disgusting privilege literally destroying the planet. Colonizing space is a grift that does absolutely nothing for regular people on earth. Paypal jfc... Etc.
Never had a chance of changing the world for a better place. Didn't even try.
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When did his stupid submarine thing happen? I think that was the start of the public meltdown
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The actual public meltdown started there, but before that there was already a history of sales bullshit with unachievable promises with things like the hyperloop and solar tiles, which for those who were paying attention were enough to mentally classify Musk as part of the "Fishy and possible scam artist" category.
Musk hasn't really changed his swindling strategy much in the last couple of decades, he just started going beyond the script and sharing his actual opinions (which turned out to be "I'm a member of the Fascist elite" crap), possibly because the very cult of personality around him of all the fanboys made him think people loved him for him, rather than for the highly curate tech bro image (back when tech bros were seen as Heroes rather than Villains) he projected.
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He's not that competent, in either incarnation.
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These days he looks more like this:
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I hate to break it to the people 10 years ago, but Musk has always been a horrible person
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Ten years ago, I barely knew who he was. Would've liked to have kept it that way.
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more like
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Accurate in so many ways
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No on is looking at elon like that,and no one ever did
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He never was not a villain.
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Maybe. But he was seen as a competent person. I remember when SpaceX started testing the "reusable" rockets that landed themselves. He was a lot more "popular" back then
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Was more or less aware of who he was until the cave incident where all his worse tendencies came to light with enough reach to get to me.
Then some research later, I was aware of tech bros and their ilk.
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He transformed a car into space garbage for publicity in 2015.
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Yeah I remember watching that and thinking "what kind of absolute dummy thinks this is cool?"
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BLUE MAGA MODS DELETE THIS FOR RULE 2!!!
LOL
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I always saw Musk as a dumbass who didn't know what he was doing.
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Just another ADHD trust-fund baby billionaire on a coke binge.
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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.
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he was doing it to prevent the celestials from emerging from planets killing the population. im guessing he probably thought of that already that alreayd, adding more natural resources would accelerate the emergence. also seems the stones is not powerful enough to affect celestials, or primordial beings(death, GOD, angels,,,etc), otherwise he wouldve just used it to kill them. he is stupid in that having the 6 stones, why dint he conjure about things that can kill celestials.
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Because that was hamfisted in. Originally, he wanted to kill half the universe to impress Lady Death.
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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
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Back then he had a PR team. He probably fired them because he started buying their lies.
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Nah, at least Thanos thought he was doing the right thing. His goals were ultimately noble but psychotic.
Elon doesn't care about doing the right thing, he only cares about money and his ego.
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Wasn't there a story about him just wanting to score a date with Death in the comics?
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Filter didn’t work…
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Well fuck. I tried...
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Needs to be in the title I believe.
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I know, and thank you for that! It’s appreciated, truly. Thank you.
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Thanos, really? I'd say more like Hancock. Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later.
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nah, I like Hancock way more than Musk
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They were both definitely authored by someone who doesn't respect the audience
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Hancock's got a lot of problems but doesn't strike me as a narcissist. He's intimately aware of his character flaws and though he runs from them for awhile he eventually tries to fix himself, "turn a new leaf". Men like musk aren't capable of that sort of reflection, they simply know that they're the shit and it's everyone else who is wrong.
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A picture of his stupid mug in panel 2 would have been better
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I'm man enough to admit that I thought he was the closest thing we had to Tony Stark even though I knew at the time he wasn't really that close to Tony Stark, and now I know just how wrong I was. Damn.
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Round Iron Man 2 coming out and his cameo, I kinda felt that way too. Some 2-4 years later that feeling was entirely gone.
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He fired the public image prople because he thougth he can do it better.
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He’d look better like this
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Absolutely not.
Musky was an obvious scumbag since ever, just a money-grabbing mentality even if it means doing shitty things.
But it's easy for people with monies to just create a whatever fantasy image they wish.
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He was always a villian but tech bros wanted to circlejerk
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ITT: people saying they always knew
What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed
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We. Always. Knew.
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Kay but that's honestly a pretty awesome getup. It's only cringe in retrospect knowing what we know now. If I saw someone like this on the street I'd think, "slay, dude."
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I have a not-quite-physics degree (I could not mentally bring myself to do the proper physics capstone, but I basically have a physics degree.) I have had multiple conversations with astrophysicists, astronauts, and people who know their shit.
It has always been abundantly clear to me that he has been full of shit. I had to play coy a lot because I had some association with NASA, but the man does not know shit about rockets or physics and it’s always been abundantly clear to anyone who does.
I doubt he could do a simple kinematics problem.
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You could have let this be a top-level comment, but you chose to make it directly a response to mine about how I'm interested in hearing about people who didn't always know. Why did you do that.
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Watch Iron Man 2 again. Even Tony didn't want to deal with him.
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Thanos is not much of a tweaker though.
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He never looked like that.
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But Thanks did nothing wrong, he was the good guy in that story. Misunderstood, but he had the right idea.
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Relax, Thanos and Iron man had real power.
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No way. Thanos was actually cool.
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He also didn't take nearly as much ketamine as musk.
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Actual Elon.
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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.
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The Thai incident was I think the big event for a lot of people who until then though well of him.
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All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
what
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go away
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If you saw him as a hero at any point, you're not brighter than a MAGAt
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How I've always seen him
Yeah, always a dumbass.
Yep, its been obvious to those who've been paying attention / not fanboy fellating Musk's cock every day... it's been obvious for a solid decade that he is a lying, petty, temperamental, narcissistic con artist.
Now he's just worse.
What was your first impression of him that made you see him like that?
Buying his way into Paypal and acting like he invented the thing.
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.
The Hyperloop shit, it was never explained to me how a proprietary system that needed sealed tubes under constant reduced preassure could ever be cheaper or safer than normal rail.
Especially since I remember the last time this dumb concept showed it's face, Swiss Metro was the name then, and it fell on it's arse then just as the Hyperloop did now.