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It’s kind of sad. I can’t believe I used to like him back in the iron man days. Back then I thought he was cool for the various ideas and projects he was workin

It’s kind of sad. I can’t believe I used to like him back in the iron man days. Back then I thought he was cool for the various ideas and projects he was working on. I still think many of those are great but he as a person let me down. Now I have him muted on X.

jordanb 9mo ago
Back then he had a PR firm working for him, getting him cameos and good press. But in 2020 he fired them deciding that his own "radically awesome" personality doesn't need any filtering. Personally I don't think Elon is the worst billionaire, he's just the one dumb enough to not have any PR (since 2020). They're all pretty reprehensible creatures.
- majormajor 9mo ago
  Any number of past mega-rich were probably equally nuts and out of touch and reprehensible but they just didn't let people find out. Then Twitter enabled an unfiltered mass-media broadcast of anyone's personal insanity, and certain public figures got addicted and exposed. There will always be enough people willing to suck up to money that they'll have all the yes-men they need to rationalize it as "it's EVERYONE ELSE who's wrong!"
- leptons 9mo ago
  Yeah, Putin is probably the worst billionaire. Elon might be a close second though, or maybe it's a US politician if they actually are a billionaire.
  - graemep 9mo ago
    Peter Thiel who thinks the Pope or Greta Thunberg might be the antichrist, and that freedom is incompatible with democracy https://www.nationalmemo.com/peter-thiel-antichrist https://www.nationalmemo.com/peter-thiel-antichrist
    - catdog 9mo ago
      Exactly, other billionaires having calmer personality types does not make them less nuts.
    - randomNumber7 9mo ago
      I think you did not understand his argument. He said it is a great danger that people might unite behind an antichrist like figure.
- k3nt0456 9mo ago
  The watershed moment for me was when he pretended to be a top tier gamer on Path of Exile. Anyone in the know saw right through it, and honestly makes me wonder if we just spotted this behavior because it's "our turf", but actually he and people like him just operate this way in absolutely everything they do
miroljub 9mo ago
> Now I have him muted on X. Props to him for letting people mute him on his own platform. The issue with Sam and OpenAI is they their bias on any controversional topic can't be switched off.
mattmanser 9mo ago
But you're still on Twitter and calling it X...
- moomoo11 9mo ago
  So? I bet you think you're clever. You're using platforms daily that are ran by insane people. Don't forget that the internet itself was a military invention.

jordanb 9mo ago

Back then he had a PR firm working for him, getting him cameos and good press. But in 2020 he fired them deciding that his own "radically awesome" personality doesn't need any filtering. Personally I don't think Elon is the worst billionaire, he's just the one dumb enough to not have any PR (since 2020). They're all pretty reprehensible creatures.

majormajor 9mo ago
Any number of past mega-rich were probably equally nuts and out of touch and reprehensible but they just didn't let people find out. Then Twitter enabled an unfiltered mass-media broadcast of anyone's personal insanity, and certain public figures got addicted and exposed. There will always be enough people willing to suck up to money that they'll have all the yes-men they need to rationalize it as "it's EVERYONE ELSE who's wrong!"
leptons 9mo ago
Yeah, Putin is probably the worst billionaire. Elon might be a close second though, or maybe it's a US politician if they actually are a billionaire.
- graemep 9mo ago
  Peter Thiel who thinks the Pope or Greta Thunberg might be the antichrist, and that freedom is incompatible with democracy https://www.nationalmemo.com/peter-thiel-antichrist https://www.nationalmemo.com/peter-thiel-antichrist
  - catdog 9mo ago
    Exactly, other billionaires having calmer personality types does not make them less nuts.
  - randomNumber7 9mo ago
    I think you did not understand his argument. He said it is a great danger that people might unite behind an antichrist like figure.
k3nt0456 9mo ago
The watershed moment for me was when he pretended to be a top tier gamer on Path of Exile. Anyone in the know saw right through it, and honestly makes me wonder if we just spotted this behavior because it's "our turf", but actually he and people like him just operate this way in absolutely everything they do

miroljub 9mo ago

> Now I have him muted on X. Props to him for letting people mute him on his own platform. The issue with Sam and OpenAI is they their bias on any controversional topic can't be switched off.

mattmanser 9mo ago

But you're still on Twitter and calling it X...

moomoo11 9mo ago
So? I bet you think you're clever. You're using platforms daily that are ran by insane people. Don't forget that the internet itself was a military invention.