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In a civil society he shouldn't have lasted past calling someone a pedo in public. Most CEOs would have been ejected from their companies pretty damn quickly.

by cgcrob 2y ago

In a civil society he shouldn't have lasted past calling someone a pedo in public. Most CEOs would have been ejected from their companies pretty damn quickly. Why not Musk?

DonHopkins 2y ago
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- Jtsummers 2y ago
  It is remarkable the number of comments scarab92 has posted defending Musk. Shows a weird obsession with the man.
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    Yes, you're not the only one who's noticed. He's not the only one in the least -- sociopaths like that are a dime a dozen and there are many more in the pipeline -- but he's a perfect example of the kind of ignorant angry mentally ill hateful people who Musk attracts and inspires to worship and parrot and emulate himself (but without all the money to get away with it). Imagine how terrible it must be to be his wife or child! I bet he mistreats them just as badly as he behaves in public. They can't just ban him like dang can. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124217 dang 8 hours ago | parent | next [–] Could you please stop posting flamebait comments and please stop duplicating comments? You've been doing way too much of this and are over the line at which we'd ban an account. I don't want to ban you because everyone goes on tilt sometimes, but please stop now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html krapp 11 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | prev | next [–] You've posted this same comment verbatim or nearly verbatim at least five times in this thread. You keep getting flagged and you keep pasting it in. You're the one who has devolved into incurious and uninformed ranting here, not the people criticizing Musk. Go touch grass or something. 9283409232 13 hours ago | unvote | parent | next [–] I notice you very actively defending Musk in threads but typically leave the conversation when someone ask you to defend the indefensible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113638 moron4hire 1 day ago | unvote | parent | prev | next [–] This is either woefully naive or active disinformation. Edit: OP dramatically edited their post. It originally made all kinds of claims of process and propriety that just aren't happening. This was the original that I was replying to: ”Most of the animosity comes from misunderstanding. Trump tasked "DOGE" with reviewing government spending across it's 400+ agencies, and coming up with recommendations on how to reduce wasteful spending. They have 1 year to complete this task. To make sensible recommendations, DOGE needs data about the major programs within each agency. They can't tackle each agency consecutively, since there are more agencies than days until the deadline, so they are parallelising the work. The access is read only, and they are not linking personal data between agencies, but rather doing a bunch of separate audits in parallel. Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in with the review in agencies where he was a material conflict (FAA for example).” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112911 ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1 day ago | parent | prev | next [–] Do you have an alert setup to tell you when people are bashing the DoGE? shrikant 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] Wouldn't be a DOGE thread without scarab92 carrying water for this nonsense. reply kennysoona 7 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] This is the type of indoctrination we need to fight against (not your comment but what it references), and it's an open question as to how.
    - insin 2y ago
      I wondered why the username sounded familiar, one of the very few people I've ever muted on HN, but I suppose the threadshitting is the point.
      - AnimalMuppet 2y ago
        How do you mute someone on HN? I've got a few that I wouldn't mind doing that to...
        justin66 2y ago
        An hn killfile feature would be a total gamechanger, in a positive way.
        insin 2y ago
        I implemented it in my HN browser extension: https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
  - belter 2y ago
    We found Elon HN account...
    - cgcrob 2y ago
      Sorry but I exhibit far higher levels of clue than Musk.
  - buttercraft 2y ago
    Wait till it drops that the doge team is wasting taxpayer dollars shilling on HN Wait, am I joking? Not sure, honestly
    - Jtsummers 2y ago
      That's why they send so many things overnight. Trolling all day and charging taxpayers OT to send out poorly written memos at night.
- cgcrob 2y ago
  My father was a big Musk fan and a notorious abusive asshole. He blindly followed the loudest authority figure of the hour because there wasn't an ounce of rational thinking in his head. There are a lot of people like that in society. It becomes their personality and identity which means any defence even if rational becomes a personal attack. End game is defensive measures are rolled out and even the person is brought up in normal conversation so that they can defend them. He is dead now. That is probably better for the world. I actually had little to no opinion of Musk until he started meddling in politics. An asshole CEO is expected. The market should kill them if they go over the line. An asshole politician is a very very big issue. More than stocks can be harmed.
- scarab92 2y ago
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  - SauciestGNU 2y ago
    My brother the only way he could be more mechanically similar to Hitler is if he blew his brains out in a bunker.
  - computerthings 2y ago
    It's the exact same gesture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0 As is what Steve Bannon did: https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3linqzuoecs2d https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3linqzuoecs2...
ZeroGravitas 2y ago
His companies don't have great governance ratings because the board is stuffed with family members, friends and his divorce lawyer as General Counsel (that last one sounds like satire but isn't).
- rsynnott 2y ago
  > and his divorce lawyer as General Council (that last one sounds like satire but isn't). ... Wait, really? That's absurd.
  - belter 2y ago
    Even cried during the court session... :-) "A former Tesla lawyer broke down in tears during Elon Musk's compensation lawsuit" - https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-pay-lawsuit-todd-maron-1851217016 https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-pay-lawsuit-todd-maron-185121... "...It wasn’t just Maron. Musk had a 15-year relationship with Ira Ehrenpreis, who chaired the committee that determined the CEO’s compensation. Antonio Gracias, another member of the compensation committee has a 20-year business relationship with Musk, and they’re such good friends that the two even go on vacation together..."
5aherFGi 2y ago
He has good contacts with the MIC, provides Starlink in Ukraine, works on missiles, has friends who work on drones. He also is the right wing voice that keeps the culture wars theater going and will reduce workers' rights even further. Therefore, the uniparty likes him. The only issue where he ever had to recant was Israel.
- deleted 2y ago
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by cgcrob 2y ago

In a civil society he shouldn't have lasted past calling someone a pedo in public. Most CEOs would have been ejected from their companies pretty damn quickly. Why not Musk?

DonHopkins 2y ago

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Jtsummers 2y ago
It is remarkable the number of comments scarab92 has posted defending Musk. Shows a weird obsession with the man.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  Yes, you're not the only one who's noticed. He's not the only one in the least -- sociopaths like that are a dime a dozen and there are many more in the pipeline -- but he's a perfect example of the kind of ignorant angry mentally ill hateful people who Musk attracts and inspires to worship and parrot and emulate himself (but without all the money to get away with it). Imagine how terrible it must be to be his wife or child! I bet he mistreats them just as badly as he behaves in public. They can't just ban him like dang can. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124217 dang 8 hours ago | parent | next [–] Could you please stop posting flamebait comments and please stop duplicating comments? You've been doing way too much of this and are over the line at which we'd ban an account. I don't want to ban you because everyone goes on tilt sometimes, but please stop now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html krapp 11 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | prev | next [–] You've posted this same comment verbatim or nearly verbatim at least five times in this thread. You keep getting flagged and you keep pasting it in. You're the one who has devolved into incurious and uninformed ranting here, not the people criticizing Musk. Go touch grass or something. 9283409232 13 hours ago | unvote | parent | next [–] I notice you very actively defending Musk in threads but typically leave the conversation when someone ask you to defend the indefensible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113638 moron4hire 1 day ago | unvote | parent | prev | next [–] This is either woefully naive or active disinformation. Edit: OP dramatically edited their post. It originally made all kinds of claims of process and propriety that just aren't happening. This was the original that I was replying to: ”Most of the animosity comes from misunderstanding. Trump tasked "DOGE" with reviewing government spending across it's 400+ agencies, and coming up with recommendations on how to reduce wasteful spending. They have 1 year to complete this task. To make sensible recommendations, DOGE needs data about the major programs within each agency. They can't tackle each agency consecutively, since there are more agencies than days until the deadline, so they are parallelising the work. The access is read only, and they are not linking personal data between agencies, but rather doing a bunch of separate audits in parallel. Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in with the review in agencies where he was a material conflict (FAA for example).” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112911 ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1 day ago | parent | prev | next [–] Do you have an alert setup to tell you when people are bashing the DoGE? shrikant 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] Wouldn't be a DOGE thread without scarab92 carrying water for this nonsense. reply kennysoona 7 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] This is the type of indoctrination we need to fight against (not your comment but what it references), and it's an open question as to how.
  - insin 2y ago
    I wondered why the username sounded familiar, one of the very few people I've ever muted on HN, but I suppose the threadshitting is the point.
    - AnimalMuppet 2y ago
      How do you mute someone on HN? I've got a few that I wouldn't mind doing that to...
      - justin66 2y ago
        An hn killfile feature would be a total gamechanger, in a positive way.
      - insin 2y ago
        I implemented it in my HN browser extension: https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
- belter 2y ago
  We found Elon HN account...
  - cgcrob 2y ago
    Sorry but I exhibit far higher levels of clue than Musk.
- buttercraft 2y ago
  Wait till it drops that the doge team is wasting taxpayer dollars shilling on HN Wait, am I joking? Not sure, honestly
  - Jtsummers 2y ago
    That's why they send so many things overnight. Trolling all day and charging taxpayers OT to send out poorly written memos at night.
cgcrob 2y ago
My father was a big Musk fan and a notorious abusive asshole. He blindly followed the loudest authority figure of the hour because there wasn't an ounce of rational thinking in his head. There are a lot of people like that in society. It becomes their personality and identity which means any defence even if rational becomes a personal attack. End game is defensive measures are rolled out and even the person is brought up in normal conversation so that they can defend them. He is dead now. That is probably better for the world. I actually had little to no opinion of Musk until he started meddling in politics. An asshole CEO is expected. The market should kill them if they go over the line. An asshole politician is a very very big issue. More than stocks can be harmed.
scarab92 2y ago
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- SauciestGNU 2y ago
  My brother the only way he could be more mechanically similar to Hitler is if he blew his brains out in a bunker.
- computerthings 2y ago
  It's the exact same gesture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0 As is what Steve Bannon did: https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3linqzuoecs2d https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3linqzuoecs2...

ZeroGravitas 2y ago

His companies don't have great governance ratings because the board is stuffed with family members, friends and his divorce lawyer as General Counsel (that last one sounds like satire but isn't).

rsynnott 2y ago
> and his divorce lawyer as General Council (that last one sounds like satire but isn't). ... Wait, really? That's absurd.
- belter 2y ago
  Even cried during the court session... :-) "A former Tesla lawyer broke down in tears during Elon Musk's compensation lawsuit" - https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-pay-lawsuit-todd-maron-1851217016 https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-pay-lawsuit-todd-maron-185121... "...It wasn’t just Maron. Musk had a 15-year relationship with Ira Ehrenpreis, who chaired the committee that determined the CEO’s compensation. Antonio Gracias, another member of the compensation committee has a 20-year business relationship with Musk, and they’re such good friends that the two even go on vacation together..."

5aherFGi 2y ago

He has good contacts with the MIC, provides Starlink in Ukraine, works on missiles, has friends who work on drones. He also is the right wing voice that keeps the culture wars theater going and will reduce workers' rights even further. Therefore, the uniparty likes him. The only issue where he ever had to recant was Israel.

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