Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        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.

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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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    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.
        Hypocrites

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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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      4 days ago

      Yeah, Thanos has principles and his actions are backed by altruism. Musk is a spineless self-serving parasite with actions backed my ketamine.

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    3 days ago

    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.
    Hypocrites

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    But Thanks did nothing wrong, he was the good guy in that story. Misunderstood, but he had the right idea.