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He was definitely not always like that, at least loudly in public.
by soared 1y ago
He was definitely not always like that, at least loudly in public.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHe lost me when he called (EDIT: REMOVED NAME) a respected cave diver a "pedo". (I guess 7 years ago now.)
- j-bos 1y agoThe man refrenced might prefer his name be continually indexed with said term.
- immibis 1y agoIf I were Vernon Unsworth I'd be fine with searches for "Vernon Unsworth pedo" coming up with discussions about how stupid Elon Musk is for calling me a pedo out of spite and how he really should be in jail for that absurd defamatory statement, but isn't because he's politically untouchable.
- hengheng 1y agoThat was the moment the veil was lifted. There's a model Y with The Sticker on it in my street, introduced years after he showed his colors like that. No, dear neighbor, when you bought that car, you knew.
- SonOfKyuss 1y agoI don’t think a majority of Tesla buyers knew about the “pedo guy” thing. His recent antics have been much more high profile
- rightbyte 1y agoI think you can estimate the later bound of his meltdown to when he called the rescue diver a "pedo"?
- Zambyte 1y agoHe made a space rocket company called Space Sex and your choices of Tesla cars are S3XY. Maybe he wasn't like that in the PayPal days, but ever since he has been loud in public, he has been like this loud in public.
- wat10000 1y agoThe difference is that it used to be combined with some pretty cool stuff. He was a loudmouth jackass but he was (running companies that were) doing neat things with electric cars and rockets. Now the cars and rockets are stagnant, his newer ventures are jokes, he blew up Twitter, and is making a decent attempt at wrecking the country I call home. The loudmouth jackassery was kind of amusing when there was cool stuff to go along with it. Not so much anymore.
- Grimblewald 1y agoHe wasnt running those companies so much as they were running him. These groups had dedicated soft protocls for handling elon's bullshit and disasterous influence. He's always just been the money guy. His ideas have always been shit, and the ideas he shared that were good invariably were ones he was handed and was repeating (often handling related questions rather poorly). just look at his consistent and extreme lack of comprehension of fairly basic engineering. The man is a talentless hack, who paid his way into fame and the appearance of success. His contribution to paypal was his money. When paypal and x (at the time elons online bank) merged, paypal's code etc. Weren't really infleunced by elon or even x. X was crazy unsafe and unreliable, and so merging really only brought together intelligent havenots with a decent product with an unintelligent nepobabies wealth. he didnt invent tesla either. He just bought into the company and bought the right to call himself a founder and marketed that angle aggresivley. elon is an idiot, and always has been. Idiots need symbols though, so other idiots idolize him, propping him up.
- wat10000 1y agoWas he just lucky, then? SpaceX and Tesla have both been very successful, with business models that looked pretty dubious at the time. Electric cars and rockets looked like good ways to turn large fortunes into small ones, not the other way around.