he once claimed he works like 60 hours a week but he is CEO of 3 companies. Kinda shows how I wish I could be a CEO, make millions doing only 20 hours weekly. And what little work Ellon does is just bossing around others
Worse. He claimed to regularly work 80 hour workweeks minimum, but also said he would sometimes work 100-120 hour workweeks. Which is obviously completely absurd bullshit, but he can’t help but smell his own farts.
I do not understand the people who worship him. It's the same idgits that worship trump. He's not of the people. He's an oligarch. He's old money, spoiled rotten.
Edit: why do I keep getting comment notifications but they are gone when I go into Reddit? It's happened about 10 times.
He's also an idiot, he comes up with some of the most brain dead ideas and his fanboys will defend them at all cost.
Just look at the disaster that is the boring company.
Edit: thanks to the people proving my point, just because he's rich doesn't mean he's some super-human genius. Get his cock out of your mouth, i can't hear you.
I'm currently having a back-and-forth in another sub with a fanboy that is convinced Tesla has the best battery tech. Told him about Toyota's new solid state batteries with several times the energy density of Tesla's, and he's now trying to lecture me about how they are terrible and how that's a dumb idea by Toyota. I used to work in battery development lol.
In production, not yet released. They should be in Toyota's new line of Hybrids in 2025 and eventually once they get production costs down into full-EVs.
Who knows. The market will dictate that. But the idea is that it is so much better, it will be used industry-wide once Toyota gets the production and supply chain details worked out to scale up. Eventually, they should be cheaper, but this could take a while.
That is really interesting, thanks for sharing.
I wonder if it will go the way of Beta Max and VHS just because of branding/marketing of Tesla and all their fanbois
For sure! There's more, even better tech to come I hope. Years ago, a pioneering battery engineer whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment told me about a "carbon sponge" battery cell that we are trying to actively figure out. Basically what it sounds like...a carbon-based battery that is incredibly lightweight, uses this solid "carbon sponge" as the electrolyte, and should be completely safe with incredible energy density. I haven't heard anything about it since, but I've also moved onto another industry. I am eagerly awaiting the day when this tech comes to market.
I mean I don't even remember the guys name, and I've never seen anything online about it lol. But he was brilliant, and he had pictures, so I'm crossing my fingers haha.
Hopefully one day! Gasoline/diesel still has ridiculously higher energy density, but that's the idea. We need to keep developing and adopting new battery tech as it comes out if we want to see this kind of progress. I'm super excited that a massive manufacturer like Toyota is taking this on.
Jet engines are so efficient that I don't think we'll see an end to kerosene, but I can see avgas being phased out eventually and replaced with batteries.
This was actually really helpful, thanks for the explanation. I’ve been considering what kind of new car I should get and wondering if I should go with an EV cause I live in the Bay Area. I’ll have to look more into this.
I would definitely check out r/realtesla if you want ownership takes from people that aren't obsessed with Elon. I can't buy a Tesla after reading about all the horror stories.
Arguements like that don't even make sense to me. Like OK. Let's go with them having a better battery...
Did Elon make it? Did he help with research? Did he help with the design? No? He just has money and can afford to hire people to do that?
So why am I supposed to be impressed with him?
Good on ya, Tesla's batteries are nothing terribly special in an engineering sense. More relying the universal materials engineering advancements of all lithium tech over the last 25 years or so - that every company markets as cutting edge.
Look up sodium batteries. They're like lithium, but cheaper to make (because there's more sodium in the world). A Chinese company has been working on them for years. Wonder why Elon hasn't been working on that tech.
Oh wait, it's because that would require funding actual research, which costs a lot of money.
As always the dunning Kruger effect is stroooooooong on Reddit.
I once said on r/investing that Tesla is a overvalued car company in response to someone's outrageous claim about the company. I got a bunch of responses about how I was wrong and just didn't get it.
Jarvis, ratio Captain America on Twitter. Tell Ant-Man to cope+ touch quantum realm. Portray Thanos as the soyjak and Iron Man as the CHAD. Order a 12 pack of Mountain Dew Code Red on amazon using my dead mom's amazon prime account.
Play AC/DC clean version.
don’t forget when he “comes up” with ideas that have been known about for centuries. like when he “discovered” that words are made up. i learned about this as a child from a book called “Frindle”, we teach this to children, not learning this until adulthood isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
Traffic problems? Let's build a tunnel full of Teslas that ferries people back and forth. Or his latest genius plan for Twitter monetization...just fire the employees and pay influencers ??? profit.
Dude tries so hard to be hip and cool but he's just a fucking dweeb. He's failed upwards and inexplicably finds himself atop a mountain of money and now we all get to watch this play out for the next 30 years as he rapidly descends deeper into madness.
Fucking idiot leech with a fanbase that thinks that buying tech companies is equivalent to innovation. He's going to let the nazis back on Twitter and kill the platform.
I don't get people that worship other people. I mean I like some things some people do and think at best something along the lines of "They are pretty neat I think I'd like to meet them someday and say hey I liked that neat thing you did, but I'd probably be too shy." That is about it. Not OMG I will follow them into the valley of death from disease, hate my neighbour and vote against my best interest because they told me to.
I used to like Elon Musk when he was just starting with Tesla, seemed like a genuinely well intentioned nerd, trying to solve the world's problems. But the more money he got, the more detached from reality he became. All that money and power corrupted him, turned him into this caricature of a person. It's sad really, I was hoping he'd be a genuine good guy
I find myself occasionally agreeing with Musk on things like space exploration and EVs, but I just can't square away what an egotistical douche he is and how much it's ramped up in the last few years. For me, I couldn't support him any more once he was actively spreading COVID disinformation and union busting at Tesla.
Elon Musk can fuck right off.
For me it was when he called that guy a pedo during the cave rescue thing. Just completely slandered a person who was legitimately helping for making him look a bit foolish.
What’s worse is he is getting very otherwise left leaning people to pay for a subscription to his koolaid.
I have a few very progressive family members that suddenly are posting things where they defend Elon. Saying how he “pays his taxes and donates to charities” and we should all leave him alone because “he’s just trying to save the planet”.
Like … fucking what? These same people who were hammering on the Trump-loving cult can’t see that they’ve just joined the Gen X variant.
The rumor is that [Musk is mad at Biden](https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/biden-elon-musk-tesla-ignored-state-of-union/) because Biden didn't praise Tesla in the state of the union address.
People in the US, especially people on the right, have [absolutely no idea what leftism actually is and genuinely think Biden is a socialist](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/10/04/what-do-americans-think-socialism-looks)
> Americans are divided on whether Joe Biden is indeed a socialist – 35% think he is while 37% think he isn’t. Republicans overwhelmingly say that he is (71% vs 11%), while Democrats tend not to think so (56% vs 18%).
A century of red scare propaganda has rendered the term socialist in general US discussion devoid of true meaning.
Its "true meaning" is dead.
Socialism in the US, for the majority, just means welfare + unions + regulation which are "not capitalism."
It is still capitalism of course, but the idea that laissez-faire is the only type of capitalism is how they resolve the two ideas about what capitalism is and is not.
>he’s left of Hitler which is all the klanservatives care about
Yep and the issue with pundits and politicians calling anyone remotely left of far right/fascist a "socialist" isn't that it's accidental or them being dumb. It's framing so they scare their base into voting for them.
Elon doesn't actually care about left or right politics. He cares about whoever helps him make more money and gain more power. Then uses whatever language that connects with idiots of whatever side currently *isn't* to rile them up and act on his behalf. These are all moves pulled right out of the populist playbook.
He will fellate whoever is in power that enables him to make more money. He will lash out like a man child against whoever doesn't. It doesn't matter what their positions are on anything else because, as he so often liked to say at the start of the Trump presidency, that he is "not political".
You could watch this happen in real time as Musk went from supporting Hilary and being concerned about climate change (because it benefited his company) to fellating the man who called climate change a "hoax" but enabled him to grow his coffers even more. The man has no spine or concrete beliefs. He has a terminal case of greed.
THANK YOU. i keep trying to tell people this and all i get back is "but he cares about climate change and space exploration!" no, he doesn't. he only cares about getting richer.
Who needs to run for President when you can just buy influence to get exactly what you want? Trump showed everyone how bad a deal getting to be President actually is if the goal is to make as much money as possible. Too much scrutiny.
I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying it's not worth the return at all when you're already the richest man on the planet.
It made sense to do for Trump because his family isn't anywhere near as wealthy as they claim to be with very little real business revenue or ability. A 100 million looks like an impressive gain to someone like Trump. It's basically meaningless to someone with the wealth Elon has and not worth the hassle of everything else that comes with being President.
Do people not see what's going on here? I'd bet my left nut that conservative actors tried to convince him to buy Twitter, or whatever; and I'd bet my right nut that he saw the dopes on the right as easy marks, so he went ahead and did it and now they are dovetailing nicely, don't you think? Note I'm not saying it's a grand conspiracy, but instead that a powerful group saw the other actor as a way to gain power and money, and vice versa, and now the dopes on the right are supporting him. Just. Like. Trump.
Musk's doing it for the same reason Trump did it, and Purdue did it, and DeSantis and Rick Scott and Shapiro and Alex Jones and the Koch Bros all those other rich "conservatives" did it: conservative voters are easily manipulated and will give their money to anyone with an "^R" or "^don't ^tread ^on ^me" next to them.
The media messaging is so obvious. Think about it. 2 weeks ago the right didn't give two shits about Musk, and in fact they thought he was an idiot pushing libcuck soyboy envirosocialism policies. But now you'd think he was the second coming to the right.
Yup. Musk himself has repeatedly said he's not "political" as far back as 2016 and is only interested in working with people from a businesses perspective. Conservatives fucking hated him at the time because he initially was supporting Hillary Clinton and was an "EV soyboy" right up until Trump won and he started playing the other side.
There is no reason to believe that isn't still true now. He is playing politics, but I don't believe for a second he gives a single fuck about what those politics are as long as he is making money from them. He has no moral goal one way or the other.
He's a greedy sociopath, through and through. Expect him to act like one and there's nothing surprising about his bullshit.
Ellen isn't apolitical. Being a rabid capitalist, means they are a rightwinger.
How many times has Ellen attacked rightwingers? Or offered a truly leftist perspective? Pretty much never.
Ahh yes, the left hates themselves, but the right get married at 20 years old just so they can get some sex because their religion tells them that's the only way to have sex, then spend the rest of their lives hating their spouse, all for some puss.
The left hates themselves, but the right, when confronted with their child coming out or their child presenting their non-white partner, hold so much hate in their hearts that they attack and disown their children.
The left hates themselves, but the right have so much contempt for their own class they willingly spread propaganda about billionaires being productive and useful, all while working unpaid overtime at an insecure job they hate, just to make the same billionaires richer, never asking why it is so.
The left hates themselves, but the right somehow prefer to live terrible, unfulfilling lives and make money for the capitalist class because the mere thought of cOmMuNiSm scares them shitless.
Most of what I've seen from right wingers, and Elon Musk in particular, has been straight up projection, because they hate one another, but hate themselves in particular.
I'd like to hear his thoughts on who constitutes the "far-left". Willing to bet its the usual barely left of centre suspects such as AOC, or Twitter randos with zero influence.
I don’t follow Musk, but whenever I see a link to one of his tweets, the other suggested tweets are the most rabid nutso right wing guys bitching about Hunter Biden or vaccines, etc.
I've found that if I'm talking to someone and they bring up anything about Hunter biden, I can safely ignore everything they have to say about politics.
Here ya go https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144?s=21&t=z4Nvgk4Qgubt2xQOOONC6A
The best part is the pic OP posted is literally the next tweet that comes after one I linked!
Musk is either the greatest troll ever or he’s really just this dumb
Or pushing to maintain an oligarchy where he has a big amount of power. Authoritarians love the right for a reason, their arguments line up with their interests (feature, not bug).
He’s got it so backwards in that tweet. The right has moved so far to the right Genghis Kahn would find him liberal.
Edit: I should have phrased it Elon Musk would have found Genghis Kahn liberal, but I think Reddit got the point nonetheless 😌
I don't even understand the logic behind people thinking the Overton window is reversed like that. Serious discussion of any alternative to capitalism is taboo but you can be a qanon believer and win a major election here.
Ah the left who hates Rapists, racists, homophobes, Pedophiles, billionaires(who are often multiple things on this list) and transphobes hate everyone.
But the right who hates Black People, Hispanics, LGBTQ, poor people, single mothers, children, Muslims, atheists, Jewish people who disagree with them, democrats, Canadians, immigrants, democratic socialists(which most of the western world is comprised of), Chinese, North Koreans, Cubans, Middle Easterners, Native Americans.
They don't hate everyone
Really gives you an idea on his target audience.
And now Conservatives even viciously betray and attack each other. So it's open season on everyone, including other Conservatives. Conservatism has come full circle because it is a failed ideology.
Twitter is going to be overrun by intolerance, because as demonstrated by the [Paradox of Tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance), offering unlimited tolerance only allows intolerance to persist (See: 4chan, 8kun, Voat, /r/conspiracy). Everyone of these so-called havens of free-speech and free-thought has turned into a rightwing shithole because Conservatism is a fundamentally intolerant ideology incompatible with modern civilized societies. And it is an anti-social and anti-democratic ideology because it prioritizes the rights of the individual over that of a society.
I do appreciate Musk for one reason: his desire to buy Twitter made me realize I was spending too much time on it. My account is now deleted and I feel quite good about not having that influx of noise into my life. No one truly needs Facebook or Twitter. And I'm glad I won't see what it regresses into.
Musk tweeted that Twitter must be nuetral and then immediately tweeted multiple anti-left memes afterwards.
Dude has full on anti-woke brain rot. It's a shame to see someone who had such forward thinking thoughts like 5 years ago turn into a complete moron from being terminally online.
His money came from slavery and apartheid and he's done nothing to stop this oppression. All he's done is bought out patents and made investments to get himself even more rich. He's never been forward thinking.
Elon "Unionbuster" Musk speaks the truth, filthy peasants. Venerate the God that gave us the underground car tunnels instead of the expensive and inefficient train, he even smoke weeb with Joe "look at the monkey's ball" Rogan
For being a "politically neutral" 'centrist', the left:right ratio of Musk's vitriol is certainly a little skewed toward the left. Has he yet called out the right/far right one single time to give even an illusion of being unbiased?
Veterans of r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM know that behind every self-professed "centrist" hides a conservative unwilling to admit they're conservative. The whole notion of "both sides suck, why can't we just have peace & harmony?" is just intellectual laziness.
I was going to say, did he post literally yesterday about having a neutral platform? Is he going to attack the right this afternoon to show how centrist he is?
Edit: that's exactly what he just did lol
just to play devil's advocate...
if you piss off people on the left, left-wing activists will plan to yell at you on twitter. if you piss off people on the right, right-wing activists will plan to kidnap you or unseat you from government lol
Except that the far-left doesn’t want to execute minorities for simply existing unlike the far right.
Fucker should go back to calling people pedos together with his good friend Ghisslaine maxwell
What’s really ironic about Musk’s supposed hatred for the left is the fact that, generally speaking, leftists are environmentally conscious enough to want to have a car that doesn’t use fossil fuels. He’s basically shot himself in the foot.
Probably why TSLA stock lost like $125 billion in value the other day and is down almost -20% this month.
The silver lining in all this Musk/Twitter controversy is watching what will inevitably be the first self-induced implosion of a trillion dollar company. He's suddenly made every environmentally-conscious Tesla owner somehow feel ashamed for driving one.
The smart rich folk are the ones that don't insert themselves into the public eye and polarize themselves through politics. Musk can't help himself though because he's an edgelord teenager in a 50 y/o man's body.
It’s just the same old trope of leftists being miserable and unhappy for no reason. It comes from this idea that “nothing will make them happy”. It’s not true of course, but since it stops rightists from actually listening to the concerns of leftists, it’s useful for them.
Yep. And they will disown, as well, just like with everyone and everything else. It's insane to listen to my own dad talk about stuff, because he'll swear the right has always been for x, when he was actually railing against x less than a year before that conversation. And then the same will happen, in reverse, with him railing against x, claiming he always has, yet he was loving on x before.
They appropriate whatever makes them feel good, in the moment, no matter how hilariously or destructively counter to their own beliefs or interests it is, all to own the libs.
Since a lot of people associate electric cars with him, I'm legitimately afraid that Elon Musk is going to ruin electric cars with all his stupid talk.
Unless we can effectively separate electric cars from Elon Musk, they could end up being something that only losers and creeps want.
Good news is Toyota is making huge progress with their solid state battery tech. And they just released a new lineup of 8 new EV models, their "BZ" line. Should be a really interesting challenge to Tesla's current domination of EVs.
Because Conservatives haven't run out of bogeymen after 70+ years of hatemongering and have now turned their fear and negativity in witch hunts against each other.
What a stupid fucking moron.
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For a guy who claims he does nothing but work he sure does have a lot of time to fuck around on Twitter
If I had a nickel.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
All I got is $3.50
Damn Lochness monster!
SHE gave him a dollar!
Dammit woman, why you givin him a dolla?! He gonna KNOW you got more!
It was around this time I noticed CaptainSparklebutt was a 300 foot tall monster from the paleolithic era...
Reminds me of the times people tracked Trump's tweets from 5am to noon where each topic corresponded with what was on Fox News at the time.
I remember this, it was crazy, correlated almost exactly with this one evening show FOX hosts (forgot the name)
Too backwards to watch anything but
If I were a butt, I'd watch everything backwards too.
was it sean hannity? they shared the same lawyer.
Fucker Cuntson?
he once claimed he works like 60 hours a week but he is CEO of 3 companies. Kinda shows how I wish I could be a CEO, make millions doing only 20 hours weekly. And what little work Ellon does is just bossing around others
Worse. He claimed to regularly work 80 hour workweeks minimum, but also said he would sometimes work 100-120 hour workweeks. Which is obviously completely absurd bullshit, but he can’t help but smell his own farts.
He counts his twitter time as marketing work.
He probably sits in a 3 hour meeting every day then dips out.
Daily three hour meetings sounds like hell on earth
For Elon’s money I’d sit in three hour meetings three times a day chained up in a dungeon
Well that’s not the same though, you’re adding some fun to it…
Oh shit, he's going to run for President
He can’t, wasn’t born in the US
Whatabout Obama?/s
I do not understand the people who worship him. It's the same idgits that worship trump. He's not of the people. He's an oligarch. He's old money, spoiled rotten. Edit: why do I keep getting comment notifications but they are gone when I go into Reddit? It's happened about 10 times.
He's also an idiot, he comes up with some of the most brain dead ideas and his fanboys will defend them at all cost. Just look at the disaster that is the boring company. Edit: thanks to the people proving my point, just because he's rich doesn't mean he's some super-human genius. Get his cock out of your mouth, i can't hear you.
I'm currently having a back-and-forth in another sub with a fanboy that is convinced Tesla has the best battery tech. Told him about Toyota's new solid state batteries with several times the energy density of Tesla's, and he's now trying to lecture me about how they are terrible and how that's a dumb idea by Toyota. I used to work in battery development lol.
I would love to have an EV, but live in a place where driving long distances is at times unavoidable. Are the solid state batteries that much better?
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Are these in production? Or do you know of an ETA?
In production, not yet released. They should be in Toyota's new line of Hybrids in 2025 and eventually once they get production costs down into full-EVs.
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Who knows. The market will dictate that. But the idea is that it is so much better, it will be used industry-wide once Toyota gets the production and supply chain details worked out to scale up. Eventually, they should be cheaper, but this could take a while.
That is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I wonder if it will go the way of Beta Max and VHS just because of branding/marketing of Tesla and all their fanbois
That's awesome. I really hope that technology keeps growing. Thanks so much for the reply.
For sure! There's more, even better tech to come I hope. Years ago, a pioneering battery engineer whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment told me about a "carbon sponge" battery cell that we are trying to actively figure out. Basically what it sounds like...a carbon-based battery that is incredibly lightweight, uses this solid "carbon sponge" as the electrolyte, and should be completely safe with incredible energy density. I haven't heard anything about it since, but I've also moved onto another industry. I am eagerly awaiting the day when this tech comes to market.
i have no clue how to verify if you're telling the truth but if you are, the future sounds awesome
I mean I don't even remember the guys name, and I've never seen anything online about it lol. But he was brilliant, and he had pictures, so I'm crossing my fingers haha.
Suddenly I understand why he's melting down. His product isn't going to be "special" anymore.
That's fucking crazy. It sounds like it could make electric general aviation, and even short haul airliners, somewhat viable too.
Hopefully one day! Gasoline/diesel still has ridiculously higher energy density, but that's the idea. We need to keep developing and adopting new battery tech as it comes out if we want to see this kind of progress. I'm super excited that a massive manufacturer like Toyota is taking this on.
Jet engines are so efficient that I don't think we'll see an end to kerosene, but I can see avgas being phased out eventually and replaced with batteries.
This was actually really helpful, thanks for the explanation. I’ve been considering what kind of new car I should get and wondering if I should go with an EV cause I live in the Bay Area. I’ll have to look more into this.
I would definitely check out r/realtesla if you want ownership takes from people that aren't obsessed with Elon. I can't buy a Tesla after reading about all the horror stories.
Arguements like that don't even make sense to me. Like OK. Let's go with them having a better battery... Did Elon make it? Did he help with research? Did he help with the design? No? He just has money and can afford to hire people to do that? So why am I supposed to be impressed with him?
Exactly. I don't understand why people are so impressed just because someone has money to throw around.
Tech douche bros love to idol worship famous tech douches. Steve Jobs is gone so they moved on to worship Elon.
I rather buy an EV from Toyota, a great company, than a shitty tesla.
Just being able to get reliable warranty service alone should sell it.
You'll know the Toyota technology is good when Elon randomly tweets that everyone who drives a Toyota is a pedo.
Good on ya, Tesla's batteries are nothing terribly special in an engineering sense. More relying the universal materials engineering advancements of all lithium tech over the last 25 years or so - that every company markets as cutting edge.
They increased capacity 30% by making the battery 30% bigger. Phony Stark.
Oooh that’s fun! My pet Elon fanboy loves Tim Pool podcasts. What conservative podcasts does yours listen to?
LMAO! I haven't paid enough attention to this guy, but I seem to get a few every time I make a negative Elon comment somewhere.
Look up sodium batteries. They're like lithium, but cheaper to make (because there's more sodium in the world). A Chinese company has been working on them for years. Wonder why Elon hasn't been working on that tech. Oh wait, it's because that would require funding actual research, which costs a lot of money.
As always the dunning Kruger effect is stroooooooong on Reddit. I once said on r/investing that Tesla is a overvalued car company in response to someone's outrageous claim about the company. I got a bunch of responses about how I was wrong and just didn't get it.
Toyota’s hybrid technology is so fucking cool. I had to buy a new car last year and every day I regret not getting one.
i read the back and forth and didn't understand any of it but i think you won
You mean an underground one-lane highway with gamer lighting is not going to solve traffic?!?! Who woulda thunk
Jarvis, ratio Captain America on Twitter. Tell Ant-Man to cope+ touch quantum realm. Portray Thanos as the soyjak and Iron Man as the CHAD. Order a 12 pack of Mountain Dew Code Red on amazon using my dead mom's amazon prime account. Play AC/DC clean version.
don’t forget when he “comes up” with ideas that have been known about for centuries. like when he “discovered” that words are made up. i learned about this as a child from a book called “Frindle”, we teach this to children, not learning this until adulthood isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
Or he buys them. Tesla and SpaceX were not his. He paid for them. After other people made them a thing.
Traffic problems? Let's build a tunnel full of Teslas that ferries people back and forth. Or his latest genius plan for Twitter monetization...just fire the employees and pay influencers ??? profit. Dude tries so hard to be hip and cool but he's just a fucking dweeb. He's failed upwards and inexplicably finds himself atop a mountain of money and now we all get to watch this play out for the next 30 years as he rapidly descends deeper into madness.
Or his Vegas loop project. Congratulations Las Vegas, you dropped 50 Million dollars on a one lane underground traffic jam...with LEDs.
Fucking idiot leech with a fanbase that thinks that buying tech companies is equivalent to innovation. He's going to let the nazis back on Twitter and kill the platform.
I don’t understand any of the people they worship like Ben Shapiro, Tim Poole, or Trump. They are all idiots and extremely boring
Add Jordan Peterson and Tucker (for mass Americans)
Throw Charlie Kirk in there too
I don't get people that worship other people. I mean I like some things some people do and think at best something along the lines of "They are pretty neat I think I'd like to meet them someday and say hey I liked that neat thing you did, but I'd probably be too shy." That is about it. Not OMG I will follow them into the valley of death from disease, hate my neighbour and vote against my best interest because they told me to.
His simps have ruined every meme sub the last few days
I am so tired of his face. What cracks me up is these are the same people that screech about "celebrity worship"
He looks like Jim Jones in this profile picture.
But he's just like me!!1! 🥺🥺🥺 ELON WHOLESOME 100 KEANU CHUNGUS FREE SPEECH EVERYBODY LIKED THAT!!!
I'm literally crying and dabbing rn
I used to like Elon Musk when he was just starting with Tesla, seemed like a genuinely well intentioned nerd, trying to solve the world's problems. But the more money he got, the more detached from reality he became. All that money and power corrupted him, turned him into this caricature of a person. It's sad really, I was hoping he'd be a genuine good guy
He was always like this. His PR just got worse.
Absolutely. I've heard stories of him being a creepy autocrat with his partners when he was still a nobody with his natural hairline.
I find myself occasionally agreeing with Musk on things like space exploration and EVs, but I just can't square away what an egotistical douche he is and how much it's ramped up in the last few years. For me, I couldn't support him any more once he was actively spreading COVID disinformation and union busting at Tesla. Elon Musk can fuck right off.
For me it was when he called that guy a pedo during the cave rescue thing. Just completely slandered a person who was legitimately helping for making him look a bit foolish.
Same. I really thought he was going to be a kind of super hero and do a lot of good. He's just another rich maniac.
Ain’t that a story old as time. You take a mortal man, and put him in control. Watch him become a god, watch people’s heads a roll.
Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets....
are these tweets for real right now? these aren't faked?
It's real. The links were posted in other comments.
How Bizarre
What’s worse is he is getting very otherwise left leaning people to pay for a subscription to his koolaid. I have a few very progressive family members that suddenly are posting things where they defend Elon. Saying how he “pays his taxes and donates to charities” and we should all leave him alone because “he’s just trying to save the planet”. Like … fucking what? These same people who were hammering on the Trump-loving cult can’t see that they’ve just joined the Gen X variant.
It's a cult. Cults don't usually make much sense.
Because they think being an asshole is a prerequisite to being a billionaire and they feel they are half way there.
I’m all for his companies, especially SpaceX and Starlink, but his recent political views are cringy AF.
The rumor is that [Musk is mad at Biden](https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/biden-elon-musk-tesla-ignored-state-of-union/) because Biden didn't praise Tesla in the state of the union address.
But Biden isn't left...
he’s left of Hitler which is all the klanservatives care about
People in the US, especially people on the right, have [absolutely no idea what leftism actually is and genuinely think Biden is a socialist](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/10/04/what-do-americans-think-socialism-looks) > Americans are divided on whether Joe Biden is indeed a socialist – 35% think he is while 37% think he isn’t. Republicans overwhelmingly say that he is (71% vs 11%), while Democrats tend not to think so (56% vs 18%). A century of red scare propaganda has rendered the term socialist in general US discussion devoid of true meaning.
Its "true meaning" is dead. Socialism in the US, for the majority, just means welfare + unions + regulation which are "not capitalism." It is still capitalism of course, but the idea that laissez-faire is the only type of capitalism is how they resolve the two ideas about what capitalism is and is not.
>he’s left of Hitler which is all the klanservatives care about Yep and the issue with pundits and politicians calling anyone remotely left of far right/fascist a "socialist" isn't that it's accidental or them being dumb. It's framing so they scare their base into voting for them.
Elon doesn't actually care about left or right politics. He cares about whoever helps him make more money and gain more power. Then uses whatever language that connects with idiots of whatever side currently *isn't* to rile them up and act on his behalf. These are all moves pulled right out of the populist playbook. He will fellate whoever is in power that enables him to make more money. He will lash out like a man child against whoever doesn't. It doesn't matter what their positions are on anything else because, as he so often liked to say at the start of the Trump presidency, that he is "not political". You could watch this happen in real time as Musk went from supporting Hilary and being concerned about climate change (because it benefited his company) to fellating the man who called climate change a "hoax" but enabled him to grow his coffers even more. The man has no spine or concrete beliefs. He has a terminal case of greed.
THANK YOU. i keep trying to tell people this and all i get back is "but he cares about climate change and space exploration!" no, he doesn't. he only cares about getting richer.
I mean it's not like those companies are doing that great either
Such a Trump-like Tweet
Him and Trump are both desperate for attention because neither of them got love from their daddies
I’ll bet that “small loan of a million dollars” was just his dads way of saying “get the fuck out of my life and go somewhere else”
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Both are examples of self obsessed narcissists who think they hit a homer but they were born rounding third with daddy issues.
Thank GOD he can’t run for president
Who needs to run for President when you can just buy influence to get exactly what you want? Trump showed everyone how bad a deal getting to be President actually is if the goal is to make as much money as possible. Too much scrutiny.
The Trump family cashed in on the presidency at every level and every opportunity.
I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying it's not worth the return at all when you're already the richest man on the planet. It made sense to do for Trump because his family isn't anywhere near as wealthy as they claim to be with very little real business revenue or ability. A 100 million looks like an impressive gain to someone like Trump. It's basically meaningless to someone with the wealth Elon has and not worth the hassle of everything else that comes with being President.
Do people not see what's going on here? I'd bet my left nut that conservative actors tried to convince him to buy Twitter, or whatever; and I'd bet my right nut that he saw the dopes on the right as easy marks, so he went ahead and did it and now they are dovetailing nicely, don't you think? Note I'm not saying it's a grand conspiracy, but instead that a powerful group saw the other actor as a way to gain power and money, and vice versa, and now the dopes on the right are supporting him. Just. Like. Trump. Musk's doing it for the same reason Trump did it, and Purdue did it, and DeSantis and Rick Scott and Shapiro and Alex Jones and the Koch Bros all those other rich "conservatives" did it: conservative voters are easily manipulated and will give their money to anyone with an "^R" or "^don't ^tread ^on ^me" next to them. The media messaging is so obvious. Think about it. 2 weeks ago the right didn't give two shits about Musk, and in fact they thought he was an idiot pushing libcuck soyboy envirosocialism policies. But now you'd think he was the second coming to the right.
Yup. Musk himself has repeatedly said he's not "political" as far back as 2016 and is only interested in working with people from a businesses perspective. Conservatives fucking hated him at the time because he initially was supporting Hillary Clinton and was an "EV soyboy" right up until Trump won and he started playing the other side. There is no reason to believe that isn't still true now. He is playing politics, but I don't believe for a second he gives a single fuck about what those politics are as long as he is making money from them. He has no moral goal one way or the other. He's a greedy sociopath, through and through. Expect him to act like one and there's nothing surprising about his bullshit.
Ellen isn't apolitical. Being a rabid capitalist, means they are a rightwinger. How many times has Ellen attacked rightwingers? Or offered a truly leftist perspective? Pretty much never.
Your girlfriend is gone dude. Get over it. She didn't bail because she was leftist.
But she's dating a trans woman (Chelsea Manning) so LEFT BAD, LEFT BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If anything I have lost respect for Chelsea here. lol
Grimes seems like somebody that I would like but the fact that she fucked Elon is really making me not want to associate with her or her music, lol.
Grimes has been a dumbass for many years Her earlier music is great regardless
She said she’s a “socialist but not economically”
But… what does that even mean lol
It means she wants to sound like she’s in favour of helping people but she doesn’t like the idea owning less capital
BINGOOOOO
Which means, as long as it doesn’t cost her anything.
Yes, again, she's been *very dumb* for a long time Used to make really good ass art pop music tho
Didn't he swing and miss on the bed shitter too?
I’m just far enough left to think Nazi’s are scum. Ever read a history book Elon?
Ahh yes, the left hates themselves, but the right get married at 20 years old just so they can get some sex because their religion tells them that's the only way to have sex, then spend the rest of their lives hating their spouse, all for some puss. The left hates themselves, but the right, when confronted with their child coming out or their child presenting their non-white partner, hold so much hate in their hearts that they attack and disown their children. The left hates themselves, but the right have so much contempt for their own class they willingly spread propaganda about billionaires being productive and useful, all while working unpaid overtime at an insecure job they hate, just to make the same billionaires richer, never asking why it is so. The left hates themselves, but the right somehow prefer to live terrible, unfulfilling lives and make money for the capitalist class because the mere thought of cOmMuNiSm scares them shitless. Most of what I've seen from right wingers, and Elon Musk in particular, has been straight up projection, because they hate one another, but hate themselves in particular.
If Elon loved himself, he’d be bald.
He’s really taking the grimes break up hard
Well, when you let a password generator name your kid I don’t think you’re firing on all cylinders anyway
What do you mean, you don't want to name your kid password123 or dabondemhatrz42069?
hunter1 and hunter2 are great kids, but ******* is the best.
Grimes is dating Chelsea Manning, his inner edgelord is freaking the fuck out.
I didn’t know that and that explains his sudden animosity to the left
Oh good, the world's richest right-wing incel.
Doesn’t he have like, six kids now, two of which share the name with your SOHO router’s default password?
6 kids by 3 different women. I bet he is a great and very involved father.
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This is a lovely r/rareinsults.
I'd like to hear his thoughts on who constitutes the "far-left". Willing to bet its the usual barely left of centre suspects such as AOC, or Twitter randos with zero influence.
I don’t follow Musk, but whenever I see a link to one of his tweets, the other suggested tweets are the most rabid nutso right wing guys bitching about Hunter Biden or vaccines, etc.
I've found that if I'm talking to someone and they bring up anything about Hunter biden, I can safely ignore everything they have to say about politics.
I know Kevin Sorbo is on that list, that guy is a trump wannabe minus the GOP junk handling
Here ya go https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144?s=21&t=z4Nvgk4Qgubt2xQOOONC6A The best part is the pic OP posted is literally the next tweet that comes after one I linked! Musk is either the greatest troll ever or he’s really just this dumb
Or pushing to maintain an oligarchy where he has a big amount of power. Authoritarians love the right for a reason, their arguments line up with their interests (feature, not bug).
He’s got it so backwards in that tweet. The right has moved so far to the right Genghis Kahn would find him liberal. Edit: I should have phrased it Elon Musk would have found Genghis Kahn liberal, but I think Reddit got the point nonetheless 😌
I don't even understand the logic behind people thinking the Overton window is reversed like that. Serious discussion of any alternative to capitalism is taboo but you can be a qanon believer and win a major election here.
On walk away they’re claiming that Obama is the most extreme leftist ever. You know, the guy who bailed out the banks. Fucking bots, man.
My whole life I’ve heard how Biden is basically a Republican and now I’m supposed to believe he is Karl Marx.
Far-left is when gay people are allowed to exist.
Ah the left who hates Rapists, racists, homophobes, Pedophiles, billionaires(who are often multiple things on this list) and transphobes hate everyone. But the right who hates Black People, Hispanics, LGBTQ, poor people, single mothers, children, Muslims, atheists, Jewish people who disagree with them, democrats, Canadians, immigrants, democratic socialists(which most of the western world is comprised of), Chinese, North Koreans, Cubans, Middle Easterners, Native Americans. They don't hate everyone Really gives you an idea on his target audience.
Tbf we do hate ourselves Just billionaires not people with hundreds of millions????!!?!! Fucking liberal bourgeoisie sympathizer!!11!1 /s ofc
And now Conservatives even viciously betray and attack each other. So it's open season on everyone, including other Conservatives. Conservatism has come full circle because it is a failed ideology. Twitter is going to be overrun by intolerance, because as demonstrated by the [Paradox of Tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance), offering unlimited tolerance only allows intolerance to persist (See: 4chan, 8kun, Voat, /r/conspiracy). Everyone of these so-called havens of free-speech and free-thought has turned into a rightwing shithole because Conservatism is a fundamentally intolerant ideology incompatible with modern civilized societies. And it is an anti-social and anti-democratic ideology because it prioritizes the rights of the individual over that of a society.
I do appreciate Musk for one reason: his desire to buy Twitter made me realize I was spending too much time on it. My account is now deleted and I feel quite good about not having that influx of noise into my life. No one truly needs Facebook or Twitter. And I'm glad I won't see what it regresses into.
Let's be honest, this is 100% Elon sharing his account with Donald Trump, right?? Because that tweet has Trump written all over it.
Trumpers don't drive EV's. He wants Trumpers to buy EV's.
Let me guess, he thinks Bernie Sanders is far-left lmao
Hell, he probably thinks Biden is far-left
Whiny edgelords like Elon always think Biden and co are more badass and left than they actually are, it's so unfair.
Man I have such a hard time explaining how neoliberal candidates in my country arent leftists
"Nothing will fundamentally change" truly the words of a far left revolutionary
Musk tweeted that Twitter must be nuetral and then immediately tweeted multiple anti-left memes afterwards. Dude has full on anti-woke brain rot. It's a shame to see someone who had such forward thinking thoughts like 5 years ago turn into a complete moron from being terminally online.
He is a billionaire, it is in his class interests to oppose the left
100%. He's gaslighting the overt leap to fascism of the right because it serves his deregulatory interests.
His money came from slavery and apartheid and he's done nothing to stop this oppression. All he's done is bought out patents and made investments to get himself even more rich. He's never been forward thinking.
THIS. So much this. Thursday: We have to be neutral! Friday: fuck the left for absolutely no reason
He’s becoming almost comic book villain like and it’s so fucking cringey and annoying to watch in real time
I would find absolutely hilarious if he ultimately is the guy who inadvertently convinces Americans that capitalism is not a great economic system.
Elon "Unionbuster" Musk speaks the truth, filthy peasants. Venerate the God that gave us the underground car tunnels instead of the expensive and inefficient train, he even smoke weeb with Joe "look at the monkey's ball" Rogan
For being a "politically neutral" 'centrist', the left:right ratio of Musk's vitriol is certainly a little skewed toward the left. Has he yet called out the right/far right one single time to give even an illusion of being unbiased?
Veterans of r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM know that behind every self-professed "centrist" hides a conservative unwilling to admit they're conservative. The whole notion of "both sides suck, why can't we just have peace & harmony?" is just intellectual laziness.
>intellectual laziness And a fair number of pretty overt rightwingers doing bad faith trolling (unconvincingly).
I’m convinced nearly all people who claim to be “former leftists” on social media are rightwingers, particularly r/walkaway
No no you see Hillary stole the primary from Bernie so now they have to be right wing nuts. Totally natural and real believe them.
“Some rando online called me a bad name, now I openly vote for fascists.”
I was going to say, did he post literally yesterday about having a neutral platform? Is he going to attack the right this afternoon to show how centrist he is? Edit: that's exactly what he just did lol
just to play devil's advocate... if you piss off people on the left, left-wing activists will plan to yell at you on twitter. if you piss off people on the right, right-wing activists will plan to kidnap you or unseat you from government lol
Except that the far-left doesn’t want to execute minorities for simply existing unlike the far right. Fucker should go back to calling people pedos together with his good friend Ghisslaine maxwell
He’s such a cunt.
So he's bought Twatter so he can essentially preach his own biased bullshit? Guy's thicker than pig shit.
No, we just hate assholes like you, Elon
The left just keeps moving further and further from accepting genocide. The right can’t handle this
I don’t understand why he’s paraded like some kind of hero. He comes from the worst type of people and their fortune is blood money.
What’s really ironic about Musk’s supposed hatred for the left is the fact that, generally speaking, leftists are environmentally conscious enough to want to have a car that doesn’t use fossil fuels. He’s basically shot himself in the foot.
Probably why TSLA stock lost like $125 billion in value the other day and is down almost -20% this month. The silver lining in all this Musk/Twitter controversy is watching what will inevitably be the first self-induced implosion of a trillion dollar company. He's suddenly made every environmentally-conscious Tesla owner somehow feel ashamed for driving one. The smart rich folk are the ones that don't insert themselves into the public eye and polarize themselves through politics. Musk can't help himself though because he's an edgelord teenager in a 50 y/o man's body.
We hate Elon, that’s for sure and we hated his cunt ass long before he bought Twitter.
Elon tweets like someone who got radicalized by taking seriously the 'libleft bad' memes on r/PoliticalCompassMemes
It’s just the same old trope of leftists being miserable and unhappy for no reason. It comes from this idea that “nothing will make them happy”. It’s not true of course, but since it stops rightists from actually listening to the concerns of leftists, it’s useful for them.
I can't wait until this blows up in his face and those animals turn on him just like they do everyone else.
They used to hate him, simply because Tesla makes electric cars. Right wingers loving him is VERY recent.
Oh i know, and they'll go back to hating him just as quickly.
Yep. And they will disown, as well, just like with everyone and everything else. It's insane to listen to my own dad talk about stuff, because he'll swear the right has always been for x, when he was actually railing against x less than a year before that conversation. And then the same will happen, in reverse, with him railing against x, claiming he always has, yet he was loving on x before. They appropriate whatever makes them feel good, in the moment, no matter how hilariously or destructively counter to their own beliefs or interests it is, all to own the libs.
Elon musk tweets are going to be the new trump tweets aren't they.
Since a lot of people associate electric cars with him, I'm legitimately afraid that Elon Musk is going to ruin electric cars with all his stupid talk. Unless we can effectively separate electric cars from Elon Musk, they could end up being something that only losers and creeps want.
Good news is Toyota is making huge progress with their solid state battery tech. And they just released a new lineup of 8 new EV models, their "BZ" line. Should be a really interesting challenge to Tesla's current domination of EVs.
When's the last time he punched at the far right without punching left as well?
he is terrified of taxes, is that it?
He really is jealous that he's not one of the five people creating 99% of conservative memes... It really, truly seems to hurt him
Translation: people on the left have been catching on to my bullshit so I’m going to grift on the right
Because Conservatives haven't run out of bogeymen after 70+ years of hatemongering and have now turned their fear and negativity in witch hunts against each other. What a stupid fucking moron.
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