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Not wanting to be affiliated with Elon Musk or his business enterprises is not "derangement."
by otterley 4mo ago
Not wanting to be affiliated with Elon Musk or his business enterprises is not "derangement."
- gordian-mind 4mo agoIt's deranged to believe correctly naming something is "affiliation".
- sroussey 4mo agoElon is known for purposefully not naming people correctly…
- gordian-mind 4mo agoElon is known for landing rockets
- otterley 4mo agoIt is possible to be known for both.
- halostatue 4mo agoI thought it was his actual rocket engineers known for landing rockets, where he's routinely kept out of the loop by having to make choices about the duck the queen is holding.
- ericd 4mo agoYou’re not reading/watching/speaking to primary or secondary sources if this is what you think.
- halostatue 4mo agoGiven that the egotistical maniac we're talking about is well known for lashing out at people who don't tell him what he wants to hear…I have no reason to trust primary or secondary sources, aside from what selfsame white supremacist egotistical maniac says about himself through the demonstrably false conspiracies he supports and how he treats his own children. Like most egotistical maniacs, he must be managed around. Hell, even Jobs had to be managed around because he made incorrect choices as often as he made correct choices -- and he was infinitely more likeable on a bad day than Elon Musk on a good day.
- bobthebob 4mo agoYour talking about someone you’ve never met in real life, using things you read from the internet (true or not) to form an opinion of him. Not just a regular opinion either, an intensely hostile negative one. This isn’t healthy.
- halostatue 4mo agoI think that it's extremely healthy to have a hostile negative one of someone who has demonstrated repeatedly that they are assholes. - He threw a "roman" salute; this is incontrovertible fact - He routinely misgenders and deadnames his daughter Vivian because he's a man-child - He routinely says things which are demonstrably untrue and have never been true (there is no "white genocide" going on in SA and has never been) - He routinely insults people with sexual language and has accused someone he disagreed with of being a "pedo guy" — and was exonerated in US courts because US courts have a much lower standard than most of the rest of the world about making false statements He's not a nice person. He's not really that smart. He's a wealthy nepo baby who took advantage of his mother's Canadian citizenship to make it easier for him to immigrate to the US and was forced to work with Peter Thiel as part of the "PayPal Mafia" because each of their individual projects was tanking pretty badly since neither one was actually as smart as the engineers they had hired (but they get the credit). There are a bunch of things that I've read about him that I don't believe to be true or simply don't care, and I am unhappy to see the body dysmorphic criticism leveled at him since that hurts other people with similar body types or issues more than it will hurt this psychopathic egotistical asshole. What's unhealthy is the need for some people to defend someone who is objectively an asshole for his most assholish moves. I felt the same way when people defended Jobs for asshole behaviour.
- KingMob 4mo agoI know Space Coast techies who knew SpaceX people. They were talking about how they had to prevent Musk from making dumb changes whenever he showed up, and this was a decade ago.
- gordian-mind 4mo agoNope, they're his rockets. He did employ people to help with the project, alright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8HrxfSZMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8HrxfSZMc
- halostatue 4mo ago[flagged]
- throwitaway222 4mo ago@dang "He's a rich white asshole taking credit for other peoples' hard work." this is racism.
- halostatue 4mo agolaughs in white person Dude. You can check out my GitHub Profile (it's the same as my HN handle). This isn't racism, this is calling out fact. EM takes credit for other peoples' hard work. He's ludicrously rich. He's an asshole. All facts. Also a fact: he's white and he's definitely a white South African with everything _that_ means he grew up with as a privileged child on the oppressor side of SA Apartheid. It's all facts and none of it racism. Don't be stupid.
- otterley 4mo agoIt was a comedic naming. You might be taking things too seriously.
- gordian-mind 4mo agoPolitical signaling is not comedy, and it's not funny. Just be normal.
- otterley 4mo agoMost of the world would beg to differ!
- Sabinus 4mo agoYou're about a decade behind the times. It's currently 2026 and political signalling is comedy. Donald Trump is the President of the USA for the second time, and posts AI generated media of himself as Jesus, or depicted in plane, wearing a crown, shitting on No Kings protestors. Plus X is a terrible name for anything.