So he could have done it all along but he didn’t do it as countless Ukrainian civilians were being targeted and killed.
His image can’t be saved.
I’ve supported Nazis both in Russia and the USA but now I want a better image so that people start buying my cars again so I van become a trillionaire. All forgiven?
Fuck. Off. And. Die.
Ever since that submarine idea of his got shitted on. Ever since then. That was a real odd episode, and right about then is when my eyebrows went up and I started thinking that this fucker was projecting.
DIE
He got no options in repairing his image with me. Elmo can go fuck himself.
Idk, shooting himself on live television would redeem him slightly in my eyes. Slightly…
The part that stings the most about Elon to me is the failed potential or his missed opportunity to have been a great man and a true benefit to humanity. Larry Ellison has always, ALWAYS, been a cartoonishly evil fucker. So, when he does evil shit you aren’t shocked. Elon was, on the surface, trying to do things to help humanity progress. Instead, he shit on all of it and threw fuel to the fire that will burn the USA to the ground.
Elon Musk has never been anything more than an investor with a good PR team. He doesn’t have a brain to develop anything on his own.
I don’t think the person you responded to doesn’t realize this.
Yeah, no. He never could have been because there never was potential. I keep hearing this and talks about how smart he is and why would he use that for evil.
No.
The guy is a fucking idiot.
He has a certain charisma, and he is a great scammer, that’s for sure, and he got lucky like hell multiple times, but please stop pretending that this guy who got fired from his own company for incompetence has any abilities or redeeming qualities. He doesn’t. In. A different universe, he simply would have failed at step one and nobody would have known his name.
He is a dumb but lucky lying scam artist, nothing more. Any qualities that people think he has, are just other things he made up and claimed. He claims he’s the world best engineer yet literally every idea that comes from him directly is just too stoopid to even say out loud.
The earlier Tesla’s aren’t his (no he did not found Tesla, that too is a lie) but the cyber truck is his idea and design and that should show the absolute insanity in his head.
I never said he wasn’t an idiot. I know from personal experience he is cringe and an idiot. My comment relates to the path he had chosen, where he was focusing his energies and , more importantly, the investment dollars he was getting, and how he veered off that path.
i’ve read that he was always a fuck knob, he just used to have better PR.
He almost got himself and Peter Thiel killed by crashing a $1m car while trying to show off for Thiel. He got kicked out of PayPal for nearly bankrupting the company and insisting that they switch all their servers from Unix to windows for no fucking reason.
So yeah, he’s always been like this.
So Musk could really have been a hero in the end. 🤔
What a shame!
And he wanted to rebrand it to… you guessed it… X.
He had the x.com domain name purchased back then, too. A loser for the entirety of his life.
Ah, what could have been…
I think that’s what they mean by “on the surface”. If he had just kept the cringe quiet and stayed out of politics, he could have pushed the envelope on electric cars, rockets, robots, etc. and a majority of people would have been happy to see him do it. He had two things going for him: enormous wealth and a desire for cool tech.
He could have had as many stupidly named babies as he wanted, seethed about trans people and have time to actually get good at video games, all from the luxury of his many homes and jets. All he had to do was let his PayPal money get to work in his chosen tech industries and keep his personality out of it.
The world might have progressed a little, even. His companies would be better off. Many of us would have bought Teslas. The Cybertruck would never have happened. Twitter would… well, Twitter would still suck but it would be someone else’s fault.
This is exactly what I meant.
I dealt with Elon during the PayPal days. He was a cringey fucker back then too, and we essentially laughed him and his stupid idea out of the building. So, I knew the type of guy he was back before 2015.
Ultimately, Forest Gump’s momma said it best. Stupid is as stupid does. If Elon’s actions pushed forth positive change, it wouldn’t matter how big of a cringey fuck he was.
I’m glad he exposed himself for who he truly is.
Yea, I think its for the best.
I think he has always been an asshole, but at least he was working on things that actually helped humans, like popularizing electric vehicles and lowering the cost of getting to space. Nowadays he mostly just brainwashes Grok into spreading propaganda.
He was never working on things that hekped humans. He was a cheerleader for wild greed. Full stop.
False narrative. His children can tell you he’s been a shitlord for a long while now. He was a nepo baby from a family that got rich off exploiting human beings, and he did nothing to distance himself (not his image, himself) from that legacy. He hired people to do the work for him then took credit for it like he’s a genius.
Elon can eat shit.
Well, he got his mention in Star Trek as one of the great people to will have advanced humanity, so I guess after having that had crossed off his list he could just do something different next.
Let’s just gloss over his cameo in the MCU too.
Wait what? Where? When? Which episode?
How do you wanna be remembered in history? Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane? Or as a failed fungus expert? A selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others.
Well, that aged like shit
It was said by Lorca, a character from the evil Mirror Universe. So although it wasn’t intended at the time, the case could be made that we was accidentally outing himself as being from that universe since where else would Musk be remembered positively?
Currently doing a DIS rewatch. Not a big fan but not on the hate train either. But man, my intestines cramped from the cringe when that scene popped up.
I choose to believe that that is not a list of three similar things, but a list of different ways to be remembered.
Do you want to be remembered as dilettante competing in a crowded field who managed to have the right combination of skill and luck?
Do you want to be remembered as the one collosal idiot with a cult of personality, who claimed to work for humanity but only ever dipped us into a kessler syndrome and helped set the conditions for the Bell Riots?
Do you want to be remwmbered as the inventor of a revolutionary technology in desperate times that single-handedly averted the doomed fate of humanity?
Nazi pedo this guy is
Lol, fucking loser wasn’t even good enough to play with other rich pedos. He’s just a pedo wannabe
and he never even got the Pedo-island invite
Did it occur to anyone that Russia was blackmailing Elon over this and now that it’s out he can finally do what’s right regarding Starlink Access?
Bold of you to assume Elon needs a reason to be a bastard
Probably not, because he’s never shown much inclination to do what is right without significant, external, pressure.
That doesn’t mean they weren’t blackmailing him, just that cutting their access is more likely an attempt to be seen to be doing the right thing, rather than doing it becausevit’s right. Basically the direction of the external pressure has changed, and now this is the most advantageous approach for him.
Sure, potentially, that’s an interesting theory but what difference does it make? That doesn’t change his guilt or responsibility. Even if that were the case, being willing to own your mistakes publicly is a perfect antidote to blackmail.
Elon chose instead to try to weaponize the very Epstein files that apparently implicate him, against other people (who are granted also guilty and vile reprehensible individuals, so he gets a pass for that) while trying to convince everyone that he was completely innocent, and, assuming your theory is true, felt protecting his own reputation from the blackmail threat was more important than contributing to the death of over a million people to try to avoid the blackmail. Zero accountability and lies and murder, and we’re supposed to forgive Elon even a little and direct more of the blame to evil Russia instead? I don’t think so. There’s plenty of guilt and responsibility to go around, we don’t need to ration it. Elon is evil, Russia is evil, neither of them have done anything to deserve any sympathy from me. I don’t care what was going on behind the closed doors of those dirty, dirty people, the things they were doing to each other and why are irrelevant factors to me, all I care about is what they were collectively doing to other, innocent people, and that is what I will judge them for.
Thiel is blackmailing him for sure.
Rule #3: Title must match the article headline
Article headline: Musk steps in - SpaceX blocks Starlink use on Russian drones
Haven’t read a single rule, honest to be. Not so familiar with posting in communities, never really did it on reddit so I just thought of trying to contribute to the community given its much smaller here. Will do though.
Easy mistake for a newcommer to make. Now you know. Welcome, and keep it up.
FYI, you can (should) edit the title in this one so that it complies.
That’s in rule #1 on this community.
Dammit. I meant the third bullet in Rule #1… or something. 🫣
No source?
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/musk-steps-in-spacex-blocks-starlink-use-1769940889.html
Not sure why the link is not showing up.
Edit: Nevermind, just added it to the posts body.
