When he called the submarine expert a pedo was when I started to go, “Is this guy being for real?”
Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It astounds and amazes me that there was a time Elon could have feasibly been considered a smart, level-headed entrepreneur. The whole submarine thing with the trapped kids really was the beginning of his unraveling. I for one thank Elon Musk for proving once and for all to even the most shameless corpo-apologists that having a ton of money doesn’t magically make you smart or cool. The dude’s an idiot, and I love watching him self-destruct.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same. I actually looked up to him before that.
bobman@unilem.org 9 months ago
and I love watching him self-destruct.
I guarantee he’d rather be in his position than yours.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 months ago
Yeah, can lose all this wealth and still be fucking wealthy in a way that literally dozens of people only know.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At one point they even had him cameo in iron man, and had him name dropped on star trek as a pioneer of human discovery. People used to jerk off to this dude’s PR image like he was a real life Tony Stark.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If he stayed off Twitter he’d have a pretty impressive CV. Mainstream electric cars, actually usable Satellite Internet, Major Solar Panels etc. Even weird shit like Hyperloop would just be random neat things.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Same with JK Rowling, Kanye West, Notch, etc. It’s literally so fucking easy for people like this to remain loved by everyone. Just keep your fucking mouth shut. Give nice polite interviews about your job, stay out of politics, let a boring publicity agent manage your social media for you, and enjoy your billions of dollars in peace.
Why is it so hard?
Palerider@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Ego.
RekcuffuckeR@feddit.de 9 months ago
Why should they care about being loved by people they don’t care about? It’s normal to have the desire to express your political opinion.
greavous@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The problem is that they don’t want money any more. They want attention.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I would have a think tank. I would pay a hundred or so smart people obscene amounts of money to tell me my ideas are daft and come up with really great ideas for me.
The mind boggles as to why someone like musk doesn’t do this. It would be like achieving global eternal financial domination on easy mode. A world hack if you will. It would cost a mere fraction of his wealth.
Imagine if every descision you made was well informed and well reasoned instead of just shit.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
He admitted hyperloop was complete bullshit he pushed just to try to sideline California’s high speed rail.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Wonderful. The bar keeps going lower doesn’t it?
Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
They put him on Rick and Morty in the most cringe inducing fashions and it was like watching a cartoon suck off a guy.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Which is weird because it’s usually the guys sucking off Rick and Morty
Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 months ago
He's mentioned in star trek discovery as if he took us to mars. Those lines aged so poorly
100@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Putting aside that that whole show is pretty rough and I’ve mentally decanonized it, the guy who said it is technically a mega space nazi from the space nazi dimension so I choose to believe he just thought that Musk being an aspiring space nazi was as cool in our universe as it was in his.
keefshape@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Truth.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I prefer to pretend that they’re taking about another person named Musk, one of his many kids perhaps…
elbarto777@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or the story is happening in the other better timeline.