Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[likesfish]

FFS he really needs to seek help. Buy a quiet island and chill for a couple of years.

Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’

The theory suggests that the only people able to think freely are ‘high [testostrone] alpha males’ and ‘aneurotypical people’

www.independent.co.uk

Musks Xcrescence
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that maybe true but this low to man knows how to build ieds
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail

 

[petee]

FFS he really needs to seek help. Buy a quiet island and chill for a couple of years.

Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’

The theory suggests that the only people able to think freely are ‘high [testostrone] alpha males’ and ‘aneurotypical people’

www.independent.co.uk

Musks Xcrescence
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* koff *

 

[Saul Goodman]

I listened to a really interesting podcast on Musk, Origins Story with Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynsky. Good on his history and background.View attachment 441008

Here's an abridged version that doesn't involve listening to over an hour of something on Spotify.

Elon Musk.
Born into money.
Turned into a cunt.
The end.

 

[NoXion]

Here's an abridged version that doesn't involve listening to over an hour of something on Spotify.

Elon Musk.
Born into money.
Turned into a cunt.
The end.

Given that he got thrown down a set of stairs for taking the piss out of another pupil's dad dying, the "turned into a cunt" stage must have happened pretty early on.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Given that he got thrown down a set of stairs for taking the piss out of another pupil's dad dying, the "turned into a cunt" stage must have happened pretty early on.

Immediately after the "Born into money" bit.
I think being a white South African with money would have helped shape him.

 

[Yossarian]

I didn't know what was meant by "the Reich effect" until I read this

The shared tweet itself, from an account called Autism Capital*, is captioned “Also known as the Reich effect,” as a dig on Robert Reich, a man who is about 85,000 times smarter than either of those motherfuckers. Right-wing lunatics are obsessed with the fact that Reich is 4’11,” due to multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, also known as Fairbanks disease — which has absolutely nothing at all to do with testosterone.

Because they are very nice, “high status,” “high testosterone” people who should be making all of the decisions, right-wingers like to share pictures of Reich next to taller people as if that means something other than “I am a complete asshole who mocks people for their appearance when I can’t come up with a comeback to anything they’ve actually said.

Reich has been openly critical of Musk and recently wrote an eloquent op-ed for The Guardian on the myriad ways he has gone off the rails. The fact that Musk’s response to this was a 4chan post written by an angry 14-year-old incel does not do much to refute that criticism.

Elon Musk Dazzled By Sublime Wisdom Of 4Chan Post About How Women Are Stupid

Wait til he sees the entire rest of that site.

www.wonkette.com

 

[hitmouse]

Just.........

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Fuck me, I know I always say no-one should be using twitter, but on the strength of this I should really get an account so I can slide into his DMs with the old "hello this is customer service from Apartheid Bank, please can you confirm your PIN number and the last three digits on your card so we can unlock your account?"

 

[teqniq]

Fuck me, I know I always say no-one should be using twitter, but on the strength of this I should really get an account so I can slide into his DMs with the old "hello this is customer service from Apartheid Bank, please can you confirm your PIN number and the last three digits on your card so we can unlock your account?"

I have actually blocked him on general principles but of course I still get to see screenshots.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I beg to differ, it’s a very fun - and funny - conversation.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Amen. A refreshing contrast to Rishi Sunak who interviewed this idiot about AI for almost an hour, like he has anything worthwhile to say:

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he hopes the crisis surrounding the social network X in Brazil might teach the world that “it isn’t obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich”.

Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’

Brazilian president makes comments after supreme court votes to uphold X ban over refusal to obey court orders

www.theguardian.com

 

[teqniq]

Brazilian authorities most definitely playing hardball:

 

[two sheds]

Can't see that but I hadn't come across Mandamus:

A writ of mandamus is a judicial remedy in the English and American common law system consisting of a court order that commands a government official or entity to perform an act it is legally required to perform as part of its official duties, or to refrain from performing an act the law forbids it from doing.

I did also see that Musk was told to delete some accounts that were offending and he refused but ironically enough the accounts then had to be deleted because they were Brazilian. Also that Starlink has now cut off the twitter transmissions.

 

[NoXion]

Is Musk too much of a skinflint piece of shit to hire a lawyer who knows Brazilian law? Or least one who knows enough not to try common law manoeuvres in a civil law legal system?

 

[kabbes]

Is Musk too much of a skinflint piece of shit to hire a lawyer who knows Brazilian law? Or least one who knows enough not to try common law manoeuvres in a civil law legal system?

Such things are inefficient waste. Musk knows how to do everything better than anyone, so he can just lawyer it himself.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Is Musk too much of a skinflint piece of shit to hire a lawyer who knows Brazilian law? Or least one who knows enough not to try common law manoeuvres in a civil law legal system?

I think its more that he thinks its beneath him to engage with a legal system in a developing country. He thinks people there should feel nothing but gratitude towards him and anybody who thinks otherwise is a tyrant. Alternatively, it might just be that he's too high on ket to get his act together to hire a lawyer.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Such things are inefficient waste. Musk knows how to do everything better than anyone, so he can just lawyer it himself.

He needs to commit to long hours or quite

 

[two sheds]

He's threatened the president if I can go and find it.

eta: this is a Starlink reference

 

[ska invita]

I think its more that he thinks its beneath him to engage with a legal system in a developing country. He thinks people there should feel nothing but gratitude towards him and anybody who thinks otherwise is a tyrant.

Absolutely this. His attitude to Latin American countries is "we'll coup who we want". He does, not totally inccorectly, believe that billionaries are above the law, and more powerful than states.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Absolutely this. His attitude to Latin American countries is "we'll coup who we want". He does, not totally inccorectly, believe that billionaries are above the law, and more powerful than states.

Damn, I'd forgotten he said that! What a POS, although I appreciate his candor on the topic. Many US state officials think the same but don't say it out loud.

 

[Dystopiary]

He's threatened the president if I can go and find it.

eta: this is a Starlink reference

Only a matter of time before he offers him out I reckon.

 

[teqniq]

I suspect that the Brazillian president doesn't much care:

Brazil’s president says world doesn’t have to put up with Elon Musk’s ‘far right’ ideology just because he’s rich

 

[Boo Radley75]

Interview by Tucker Carlson with Darryl Cooper who claims that Churchill was responsible for WWII and the holocaust was a consequence of the Nazis being inundated with POWs and not having the resources to feed them. Elon Musk calls the interview very interesting and worth watching.

 

[Dystopiary]

Interview by Tucker Carlson with Darryl Cooper who claims that Churchill was responsible for WWII and the holocaust was a consequence of the Nazis being inundated with POWs and not having the resources to feed them. Elon Musk calls the interview very interesting and worth watching.

Clicking on this stuff and encouraging others to do so only boosts it.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Only a matter of time before he offers him out I reckon.

He can offer him a cage fight once he's done with Zuckerberg.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[NoXion]

Interview by Tucker Carlson with Darryl Cooper who claims that Churchill was responsible for WWII and the holocaust was a consequence of the Nazis being inundated with POWs and not having the resources to feed them. Elon Musk calls the interview very interesting and worth watching.

If Nazi Germany was unprepared to deal with large numbers of POWs, then they shouldn't have plunged the continent of Europe into a war. This is exactly like the Kremlin bots weeping crocodile tears because of those meanie Ukrainians having the audacity to shoot back at the invaders. Carlson is filth.

 

[gosub]

Trinity College “Vacates” Degrees for Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters

Hartford, CT (eTruePolitics) - Trinity College has taken the unprecedented move to “vacate” the diplomas of Tucker Carlson (’91) and Jesse Watters (‘2001) who both majored in history at the prestigious school in Hartford, CT. “Carlson and Watters have demonstrated in their subsequent lucrative caree

www.linkedin.com

 

[frogwoman]

If Nazi Germany was unprepared to deal with large numbers of POWs, then they shouldn't have plunged the continent of Europe into a war. This is exactly like the Kremlin bots weeping crocodile tears because of those meanie Ukrainians having the audacity to shoot back at the invaders. Carlson is filth.

It's really disturbing how this stuff is going mainstream now because of Musk etc.

Also, I used know a few former 'lefties' (nobody here btw) who watched Carlson religiously on 'anti politics' grounds

 

[BigMoaner]

Interview by Tucker Carlson with Darryl Cooper who claims that Churchill was responsible for WWII and the holocaust was a consequence of the Nazis being inundated with POWs and not having the resources to feed them. Elon Musk calls the interview very interesting and worth watching.

The “very interesting” is another variation of “JAQ”. It’s a handy “but I didn’t say I agree with it” get out of jail card, whilst you freely go round spreading the same old shit over and over, decade after decade.

 

[BigMoaner]

Do you know what depresses me about people like musk is that it actually lets down the right. It doesn’t have to be this pathetic. Yes I know I’m going to get laughed at for this but can you imagine someone like John major, Ian hislop, even nob heads like gove, Cameron, etc ~ acting in this slippery high dopamine based alt right shite. Just fucking straight forward tories who approach each matter with some sort of careful argument that is outside of all this endless dopamine horseshit? If this is culture now, and online culture is culture then a lot has been lost these past few decades.