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Elon also didn’t manage to get out of the Twitter deal. Elon is basically a big bully, or rather a big child who screams when he doesn’t get what he wants. Ma

Elon also didn’t manage to get out of the Twitter deal. Elon is basically a big bully, or rather a big child who screams when he doesn’t get what he wants. Makes cool stuff though and has a pretty good sense of humor. And we’ll, it’s multi-billions at stake, so why not try :)

bandyaboot 3y ago
“Titter”
more_corn 3y ago
To be fair he didn’t get out of his deal to buy Twitter because he presented an absolute ironclad bulletproof offer. He did so to convince the board that they had no choice but to accept. Then when he reconsidered he couldn’t get out. Because… see above.
tssva 3y ago
> Elon is basically a big bully, or rather a big child who screams when he doesn’t get what he wants. > Makes cool stuff though and has a pretty good sense of humor. His sense of humor like his other behavior is similar to that of a 5 year old child.
- cyanydeez 3y ago
  He also coddles fascism in transparent greed.
- phatskat 3y ago
  Yeah, parroting memes poorly and saying “I’m rich, biotch” oh stage with Dave Chapelle isn’t exactly funny. He’s worth more than most of humanity combined and that line falls flat - heck he even got booed for it.
phatskat 3y ago
> Makes cool stuff though and has a pretty good sense of humor. I’m gonna need citations on both of these. What has he actually made? He’s been know to take credit for a lot of things, and he could from the point of view of spending the money and maybe hiring some people, but ultimately he doesn’t make or come up with much of anything that I’m aware of. Also his sense of humor is…awful. It does appeal to one particular group largely, and they all have blue check marks because that is a meaningless badge these days.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  > He’s been know to take credit for a lot of things, and he could from the point of view of spending the money and maybe hiring some people, but ultimately he doesn’t make or come up with much of anything that I’m aware of. The same could be said of Steve Jobs. It would be an unfair statement, for the same reasons I feel it's unfair with Musk: their vision strongly influenced the products their companies made.
  - ZeroGravitas 3y ago
    I was just thinking the other day, how long till we get the equivalent of folklore.org full of stories about Elon being a dick to coworkers: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Reality_Distortion_Field.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... > "A what?" > "A reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules. And there's a couple of other things you should know about working with Steve." > "What else?" > "Well, just because he tells you that something is awful or great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow. You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually likes it, exactly one week later, he'll come back to you and propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it
  - krapp 3y ago
    "vision" only goes so far and in the case of authoritarian narcissists like Jobs and Musk (perhaps more so Musk) can just as often sabotage progress as lead it. Elon Musk seems like the kind of leader you have to know when and how to lead out of the room just to keep things running sanely At the end of the day, he isn't designing the rockets. He isn't building the rockets. He isn't even flying the rockets. He pays the people who hire the people who do those things. That has value, but not the kind of "billionaire genius entrepreneur who built a technological empire with his bare hands" value that society gives him. People have called Elon Musk the most brilliant man who ever lived, the man on whom the very arc of human evolution and progress depends, Tony Stark, Edison, Einstein and Davinci in one. I don't think the parents' statement is unfair. I think it's unfair that the world will know Elon Musk's name a century from now and that no matter what he does (barring, maybe, mass murder) his carefully crafted narrative will live on, but the names and stories of the people who actually turned his vision into reality have already vanished under the sands of time because they are merely assets, no more important to the hierarchies of capitalism or the great man narratives of history than office furniture.
akomtu 3y ago
Your tower of wisdom must be really high if you judge Musk like this. The rise and fall of nations must lool like a kindergarten play to you.
caycep 3y ago
He has an interest in cool stuff, and that desire sometimes translates to results....assuming he, out of sheer good fortune, hires the right people to actually make the stuff (Gwynne Shotwell/Tom Mueller types, etc) Humor, well, let's say each to their own tastes...
- fundad 3y ago
  He’s Private Equity
ekam 3y ago
his "sense of humor" is literally just repeating 420 and 69
- walrus01 3y ago
  Elon Musk is the soul of an edgelord 14 year old boy trapped in the psyche of the ghost of an 1880s era robber baron.

bandyaboot 3y ago

“Titter”

more_corn 3y ago

To be fair he didn’t get out of his deal to buy Twitter because he presented an absolute ironclad bulletproof offer. He did so to convince the board that they had no choice but to accept. Then when he reconsidered he couldn’t get out. Because… see above.

tssva 3y ago

> Elon is basically a big bully, or rather a big child who screams when he doesn’t get what he wants. > Makes cool stuff though and has a pretty good sense of humor. His sense of humor like his other behavior is similar to that of a 5 year old child.

cyanydeez 3y ago
He also coddles fascism in transparent greed.
phatskat 3y ago
Yeah, parroting memes poorly and saying “I’m rich, biotch” oh stage with Dave Chapelle isn’t exactly funny. He’s worth more than most of humanity combined and that line falls flat - heck he even got booed for it.

phatskat 3y ago

> Makes cool stuff though and has a pretty good sense of humor. I’m gonna need citations on both of these. What has he actually made? He’s been know to take credit for a lot of things, and he could from the point of view of spending the money and maybe hiring some people, but ultimately he doesn’t make or come up with much of anything that I’m aware of. Also his sense of humor is…awful. It does appeal to one particular group largely, and they all have blue check marks because that is a meaningless badge these days.

bdcravens 3y ago
> He’s been know to take credit for a lot of things, and he could from the point of view of spending the money and maybe hiring some people, but ultimately he doesn’t make or come up with much of anything that I’m aware of. The same could be said of Steve Jobs. It would be an unfair statement, for the same reasons I feel it's unfair with Musk: their vision strongly influenced the products their companies made.
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago
  I was just thinking the other day, how long till we get the equivalent of folklore.org full of stories about Elon being a dick to coworkers: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Reality_Distortion_Field.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... > "A what?" > "A reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules. And there's a couple of other things you should know about working with Steve." > "What else?" > "Well, just because he tells you that something is awful or great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow. You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually likes it, exactly one week later, he'll come back to you and propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it
- krapp 3y ago
  "vision" only goes so far and in the case of authoritarian narcissists like Jobs and Musk (perhaps more so Musk) can just as often sabotage progress as lead it. Elon Musk seems like the kind of leader you have to know when and how to lead out of the room just to keep things running sanely At the end of the day, he isn't designing the rockets. He isn't building the rockets. He isn't even flying the rockets. He pays the people who hire the people who do those things. That has value, but not the kind of "billionaire genius entrepreneur who built a technological empire with his bare hands" value that society gives him. People have called Elon Musk the most brilliant man who ever lived, the man on whom the very arc of human evolution and progress depends, Tony Stark, Edison, Einstein and Davinci in one. I don't think the parents' statement is unfair. I think it's unfair that the world will know Elon Musk's name a century from now and that no matter what he does (barring, maybe, mass murder) his carefully crafted narrative will live on, but the names and stories of the people who actually turned his vision into reality have already vanished under the sands of time because they are merely assets, no more important to the hierarchies of capitalism or the great man narratives of history than office furniture.

akomtu 3y ago

Your tower of wisdom must be really high if you judge Musk like this. The rise and fall of nations must lool like a kindergarten play to you.

caycep 3y ago

He has an interest in cool stuff, and that desire sometimes translates to results....assuming he, out of sheer good fortune, hires the right people to actually make the stuff (Gwynne Shotwell/Tom Mueller types, etc) Humor, well, let's say each to their own tastes...

fundad 3y ago
He’s Private Equity

ekam 3y ago

his "sense of humor" is literally just repeating 420 and 69

walrus01 3y ago
Elon Musk is the soul of an edgelord 14 year old boy trapped in the psyche of the ghost of an 1880s era robber baron.