Smarts. He has it.

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[u/BossMagnus]

Remember when he called that guy a pedo because he saved those Thai Kids from a cave and Elon didn’t get a chance to use his boring tech?

[u/Astrodm → u/BossMagnus]

That’s when I realised he wasn’t who I thought he was.

[u/river0f → u/Astrodm]

I used to think he was super cool and very bright after watching what SpaceX was doing, but now he looks like a moron every time he opens his mouth.

[u/Cthulhu625 → u/river0f]

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

-Rod Hilton

[u/InquisitorPeregrinus → u/Cthulhu625]

When I realized he had named his Tesla models S3XY, I knew all the smarts were hired and he was still a socially-maladjusted adolescent. When I realized that socially-maladjusted adolescent would fire the smarts if they didn't do as ordered, I knew any company he owned was a time-bomb.

[u/RareConference → u/Astrodm]

Same

Sam Altman puts it best:

Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it

[u/HappyLittleGreenDuck → u/Astrodm]

Same.

[u/IntelligentTanker → u/HappyLittleGreenDuck]

Same three

[u/Sharp_Pride7092 → u/IntelligentTanker]

You & tens of millions of people that had barely known about him. Others learn fast, Musk does not.

[u/Smodphan → u/Sharp_Pride7092]

I remember that happening and my first thought was..."No, I was right about mever getting self driving. He's a fucking moron." I got into argu.ents every day because I worked in tech. You wouldn't believe how many people argued that it was fine to prepay for a fucking car with no delivery date and that was normal for new tech. It was always part of some brilliant plan or other.

One coworker said it was the same as an iPhone because he had prepaid for his. I asked him for the receipt...it had a date of delivery. He changed his argument and it became...because it was way more popular than an iPhone, actually and companies always do this. I couldn't get him to concede that he just loved the idea and really wanted one despite it being an absurd process. He wouldn't even agree that it was about emissions or some other social issue. His fan base got really quiet, finally.

[u/kvothe5688 → u/Astrodm]

yuuup about same

[u/1-800-GANKS → u/Astrodm]

Dude same. God I remember that like "man Elon wru doing 💀" I guess power corrupted.

[u/BigMcThickHuge → u/BossMagnus]

He openly mocked the design and idea, saying they would VERY likely just kill the users, and VERY likely cause even bigger problems like getting stuck and now blocking the little space they had in the first place.

That got Elon all in a tizzy. He wasn't just ignored/missed a chance - someone spoke openly about him/his product in any sort of negative light. That's what drives this dipshit.

[u/dizzymiggy → u/BigMcThickHuge]

I've recently been on a cave diving kick on YouTube. I didn't realize how much of a stupid idea the Elon kid coffins was at the time of the rescue.

[u/Snowmoji → u/BigMcThickHuge]

Kinda like when Top Gear "tested" the tesla.

[u/Obvious_Ad3810 → u/Snowmoji]

Which episode was that? (NM I'll Google it. )

[u/doc_daneeka → u/BossMagnus]

Don't forget though, that since Musk demonstrated in court that 'pedo guy' is somehow not defamatory, it's apparently ok to publicly refer to him that way now.

[u/fltonii → u/doc_daneeka]

Wait... did this rly happen? How the fuck can anyone make that case?

[u/warthog0869 → u/fltonii]

On Twitter.

Just not in Brazil anymore.

[u/BossMagnus → u/doc_daneeka]

He said that it’s a common thing to call people 😑

[u/bassoontennis → u/BossMagnus]

If I remember correctly, the thing he wanted to use wouldn’t have worked right?

But It is crazy how quickly people who at least portray themselves as liberal so easily turn to the conservative side once they get that first taste of the grift. But I guess that just means they only portrayed liberal because at that time it made them more money. I remember all the liberal people I knew talked about getting a Tesla and all that jazz a while back, not just a short time later liberals are branching out to other brands and instead conservative are now fawning over shit like the Cybertruck.

[u/timetravel50]

Twitter is the cybertruck of social media.

[u/JoJackthewonderskunk → u/timetravel50]

Melts and starts on fire if rain gets on it?

[u/insertrandomnameXD → u/JoJackthewonderskunk]

Melts and starts on fire if rain air gets on it?

[u/SeniorMiddleJunior → u/insertrandomnameXD]

It's fine, just don't expose it to the environment.

[u/Snoo-14301 → u/SeniorMiddleJunior]

Exposing it to the environment invalidates the warranty, sorry.

[u/UpperApe → u/JoJackthewonderskunk]

Only appealing to people who are themselves deeply unappealing

[u/AsleepRespectAlias → u/timetravel50]

I'd say Twitter is more like the guy who lives across the road with severe substance issues. Under its previous owner, people forget twitter was still pretty bad, i mean it was a sewer of Nazis, but they were at least doing some moderation, so it was like the dude across the road had a drinking problem but that shit was mostly contained and he was still going to work and mowing his lawn, granted he was absolutely Jim Lahey drunk doing it but he mostly kept to himself.

Elon took over and now its like that dude across the roads on meth and president of the home owners association

[u/Sunstorm84 → u/timetravel50]

I want to say X is worse, but DAMN the Cybertruck is a piece of shit.

Edit: typo

[u/warrensussex → u/Sunstorm84]

Typo is still there. It's spelled twitter.

[u/onefst250r → u/warrensussex]

False. Its twatter.

[u/patchyj → u/timetravel50]

Elon himself is the brake pedal that fell off. You could say it became...unhinged

[u/pricklypear90]

It’s the Temu Leo DiCaprio toasting meme.. I see what you did there.. lol

[u/Frequent-Piano6164]

I remember when musk called out Zuckerberg to a MMA fight. once he realized Zuckerberg was training and would win, musk canceled the fight. He is a walking turd. Each mistake is worse than the last. Remember, musk is a “free speech absolutist”, meaning only free speech he likes.

[u/SuckNFuckJunction → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

lol Musk's mom even tweeted for them to call of the fight, he is a literal child in a 50 year old man's weird steroid body

[u/jd3marco → u/SuckNFuckJunction]

Don’t blame steroids for that slab of miso physique. That looks more like the sloth and gluttony of a dimwitted billionaire.

[u/AverySmooth80 → u/jd3marco]

There are a lot of pics out there where he looks like Grumio from Plebs.

[u/chefcoompies → u/jd3marco]

Ah yes “miso physique” will definitely be added to my vocabulary that with underdeveloped kumquat.

[u/boxen → u/SuckNFuckJunction]

Weird steroid body? What? He's a chubby, aging man. I've never seen anyone on steroids with that poor of a physique.

[u/Edraitheru14 → u/boxen]

You probably have. Lots more people are on steroids than the huge or ripped dudes. Steroids won't do shit for you if you're not putting in the work in the gym and kitchen and bed. And even then genetics still have a big factor.

Dunno why op would assume steroids though. But it wouldn't surprise me if he took steroids thinking they were some muscle drug and didn't realize you still had to be a gym rat to get results

[u/OverFjell → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

I think that potential fight was the only time I've ever rooted for Zuckerberg on anything. I wanted Elon to get Zucced

[u/brashboy → u/OverFjell]

Mess with the Zucc, you get Fucc

[u/browser17 → u/OverFjell]

You wanted to see him Zucceed :D

[u/MarginalOmnivore → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

No, no, no. This manly paragon of Western Values® had his mommy cancel the fight.

Apartheid Clyde and his sycophants, just like the leaders of their Brownshirt inspiration, actually embody none of the values they claim to hold dear. Except the racism. They are quite skilled at showing the world how racist they are.

[u/Booksarepricey → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

I would’ve loved to watch Zuckerberg of all people beat the shit out of Musk on live TV

[u/SeniorMiddleJunior → u/Booksarepricey]

Dear Zuckerberg,

If you beat up Musk, I'll finally sign up for Facebook.

[u/tomahawkfury13 → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

You're forgetting the best part. He called it off cuz his mommy said to so as to give him an excuse

[u/saccharind → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

fuck zuck and all but god it would be so funny to watch him absolutely body the sad sack of shit that is musk

[u/fakeDEODORANT1483 → u/Frequent-Piano6164]

Yeah i wouldnt even have a problem with this extreme free speech absolutism if all these proponents of it were at least consistent. But they never are. Like i would consider myself very pro-all free speech, i think its important to give everyone a voice no matter how crazy they might be, but this guy just does jack shit to promote that.

[u/Fight_those_bastards → u/fakeDEODORANT1483]

Yeah, he’s ok with actual Nazis and white supremacists posting their horseshit, but woe betide the man who uses the “cis” prefix to describe a person.

[u/BernieTheDachshund → u/[deleted]]

Yup, all he had to do was hire another Brazilian lawyer to be available and he refused.

[u/jfadras → u/BernieTheDachshund]

Sorry for broken english but I need to contextualize a little bit.
I'm a law student here in Brazil (last semester of university) and the thing is, when you sue a company, the legal representative of the company is normally the owner or CEO when the company is situated within the country, or another appointed worker. What happened was, when Elon closed the brazillian offices of Twitter, they let go of the person that was in charge (as legal representantive of the company), they had and still have a lawyer present in the Case (the subpoena the Supreme Court posted on Twitter was first seen by their lawyer, who signaled being aware of it). So it's not as simple as just hiring another lawyer, he will have to hire someone that is willing to be Legal representantive of this shitshow that we are watching

[u/-P-M-A- → u/jfadras]

This is a classic “sorry my English is bad” post. You are more articulate than most native English speakers.

[u/arzis_maxim → u/-P-M-A-]

When it is your second language, you feel more self-conscious about it

[u/FILTHBOT4000 → u/arzis_maxim]

It gets worse when you know more than two languages, even moreso when they overlap. I've had numerous times when my brain freezes and goes "Was that the word for it in Italian... or Spanish...? Which one is it?" check "They're the same! FUCK!"

[u/arzis_maxim → u/FILTHBOT4000]

I speak hindi, and honestly, my normal day to day speech is now 50% English, so much that I have to Google English words into hindi

Even for simple words like table I am like wtf was it in hindi again

[u/fairlife → u/arzis_maxim]

English words are so common in Hindi nowadays that it is a very frequent occurrence....I for the life of me cannot remember what they call a table in Hindi, fuck.

[u/tissuecollider → u/fairlife]

.I for the life of me cannot remember what they call a table in Hindi, fuck.

I don't know Hindi at all but I feel confident saying that 'fuck' isn't the word for 'table' in that language.

I'm not so sure that Ikea hasn't named a table 'Fuck' yet though.

[u/Penguin_Butter → u/tissuecollider]

I love that they have a tillslag though

[u/H3J1e → u/arzis_maxim]

I bet you switch languages mid thought too cause you can't find a world in one of them.

[u/BurghPuppies → u/arzis_maxim]

I speak a fair amount of Spanish, enough so that when I hear Espanglish I just take it in stride. Was driving some Indian students around last week and chuckled to myself every time I heard a bit of Hinglish!

[u/OverFjell → u/arzis_maxim]

Most of the native Hindi speakers I knew mostly spoke Hinglish anyway. 😂 My old landlady was from Goa and she'd just switch from Hindi to English mid sentence when talking with other Indians

[u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo → u/OverFjell]

My best friend would do this when we were in middle school. She would switch to her native language, and I would lose the plot. What's funny is that it would take me a couple of seconds to figure it out. Like what? What are you saying?

[u/Crunchycarrots79 → u/FILTHBOT4000]

Yup... I grew up speaking English and Greek (dad was from Greece) and later studied German in high school and college. Now I'm learning Spanish. There have been numerous times where I've used a word from a different language while speaking another. Another common mistake of mine involves Spanish and Greek... There's a few false cognates... In particular, "aquí," pronounced "ah-KEE," meaning "here" in Spanish and "εκεί," pronounced "eh-KEE," meaning "there" in Greek. I often screw that up in interesting ways in both languages.

[u/Would_daver → u/Crunchycarrots79]

I’d just like to note that I learned the German equivalent to the English phrase “It’s all Greek to me” to be “Es ist mir Spanisch”, and your repertoire of languages makes me feel for the strain that must be on your brain all the time lol

[u/SuccessValuable6924 → u/FILTHBOT4000]

And the reverse "I'll just say it in Italian, must be the same as Spanish" and then you get punched in the face. 

[u/2074red2074 → u/SuccessValuable6924]

This is a huge trap in French. The literal translation of "excited" is excité(e) and that's what Google Translate will tell you. But in French, excité(e) means excited in the sexual sense, like horny.

[u/SuccessValuable6924 → u/2074red2074]

Heh, well, at least 90% of the time I would still be honest 🤣

[u/wicosp → u/2074red2074]

Same in Italian, btw. Do not say sono eccitato if you’re not ready to get frisky.

[u/Luckcrisis → u/FILTHBOT4000]

THIS! I am always impressed with folk that speak multiple languages. I worked with a gent who knew 4 languages AND 17 Spanish dialects. Which I can not fathom.

[u/Cornemuse_Berrichon → u/FILTHBOT4000]

I have the same problem between the Spanish and Slovak. I use Spanish every day at my work. So I might have an exchange that goes something like this:

Random person: ¿Qué perdió? (What did you lose?) Me: Busco mis kľuče..... [shit].... ¡LLAVES! Llaves. (Looking for my kľuče..... KEYS! Keys)

That did happen once.

[u/Fight_those_bastards → u/arzis_maxim]

Meanwhile, the vast majority of us in America are all,

wait, there’s a second language?

[u/Open-Industry-8396 → u/Fight_those_bastards]

Funny, I was interviewing potential employees. This woman proudly said that she speaks both languages. I just looked at her, thinking she was going to clarify. Nope, just proudly stared at me. She was so proud of herself that I just had to hire her. You go on and kick some ass young lady!

It turned out to be a great hire.

[u/DontPutThatDownThere → u/Open-Industry-8396]

...do we know which languages "both" refer to yet or is that an Easter egg for the future?

[u/Open-Industry-8396 → u/DontPutThatDownThere]

It was a Portuguese community in southeast Massachusetts. It's all she knew existed. 😁

[u/SteveTheOrca → u/arzis_maxim]

Can confirm. I can speak Spanish the way I preffer to, but when it comes to English, I try to be as accurate as I can

[u/City_of_Lunari → u/SteveTheOrca]

I assume you also speak Orca.

[u/SteveTheOrca → u/City_of_Lunari]

We don't talk about it

[u/Working-Telephone-45 → u/-P-M-A-]

"I apologize for the flaws that might be present in this comment, you see, English is my second language and I am still learning"

"Na bruh u gud"

[u/HappyHappyFunnyFunny → u/Working-Telephone-45]

"I've never been good with words, which is why I'm in such a delicate conundrum."

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/-P-M-A-]

[u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot → u/-P-M-A-]

There’s also no accent when you write. I’ve met people who can write perfect English but have an extremely hard to understand accent because most of their practice is writing.

[u/SuccessValuable6924 → u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot]

And also the intonation of the sentences and how words blend with each other. I know.

[u/RedofPaw → u/-P-M-A-]

Sorry, my English is bad, I'm 50th generation English.

[u/anninnha → u/jfadras]

Another important thing is that the judge didn’t decided of his own will for no reason that X/Twitter needs another representative in the country, it’s the law, right?

[u/jfadras → u/anninnha]

Our Civil Law Code says that is necessary for every Foreign Company to have a legal representative, what happens is a lot of web companys do not have this LR (I will shorten it like this so I don't get to spell everytime), so what the courts normaly do when there are litigations involving those companies is: 1) The courts will issue a warning to the company; 2) A Fine is established so that the company appoint a LR; 3) If the company has yet to appoint a LR, the Courts can determine the temporary suspension of the activities, then in the last step 4) The Courts can effectively block the activities in the country.
Just to add, the monocratic decision that was given by Moraes (the SC Judge) was just unanemously endorsed by the 1º Class of the Brazilian Supreme Court (that means that another 5 judges agreed with him, but also made him clarify what the infamous fine for people that used VPN, this question in specific is not yet settled.
And to be frank, I don't condone every action that was taken by Moraes, blocking the Starlink accounts was way too far in my opinion (and in the opinions of a lot of progressive and leftist jurists) but Musk really snobbed the brazilian law, while blocking content and accounts in other countries without arguing (Turkey, India), he tried to gamble and it has not (yet) paid off, because the decision to block the app is controversial, but the endorsement of other SC judges and a large part of the Lawyers, Law authors and Professors in Brazil had made it quite clear (to whoever wants to understand) that there is reasoning behind the decision.

At last, I will say that if Musk was not a shithead and Moraes was not so self-absorved and selfish we would not be seing this situation (he is following the law to the letter, but he is only doing this because Musk provoked him to). I would compare it to a unstoppable force meets an imovable object.

[u/iLoveFeynman → u/jfadras]

At last, I will say that if Musk was not a shithead and Moraes was not so self-absorved and selfish we would not be seing this situation (he is following the law to the letter, but he is only doing this because Musk provoked him to). I would compare it to a unstoppable force meets an imovable object.

That's a completely counterfactual conclusion to reach. This has very little to do with the specific personality of the specific judge. As you just pointed out yourself other jurists agrees with him, from scholars to practicing lawyers to other supreme court judges.

No judiciary anywhere is going to idly suffer such an attack on their authority and legitimacy.

The only instances I'm aware of in history where a judiciary does are the ones where a fascist party/dictatorship takes complete control of the country itself.

That is not the case here.

[u/jfadras → u/iLoveFeynman]

I do think you are right in this, I must've shared my personal opinion in a way that's not clear that I think he did the right thing by following our local law

[u/animalmasochism → u/jfadras]

Your English is great. Thanks for the context!

[u/shewhololslast → u/jfadras]

There is nothing wrong with your English; you did a wonderful job of breaking down the exact situation and further highlighting what an egotistical idiot Musk is.

Thanks for the added context!

[u/stinkykitty71 → u/jfadras]

Hey, your English is far better than my Portuguese! Which is zero, so you rock! Thanks for the info, appreciate it.

[u/I_was_bone_to_dance → u/BernieTheDachshund]

Trump would have at least had it drag out another 17 years. You gotta play the game! Even Orange Don knows that!

[u/12altoids34 → u/I_was_bone_to_dance]

Trump would have started with several $100,000,000.00 counter suits against the country of Brazil the judges on the case the prosecutors on the case and anyone in the country that wears a brassiere because he gets the word confused with the word brazil.

[u/bob- → u/12altoids34]

and anyone in the country that wears a brassiere because he gets the word confused with the word brazil.

😀😂

[u/gcruzatto → u/BernieTheDachshund]

If the accounts were progressive like in Turkey, he would've banned them real quick. Free speech my ass

[u/Happy_Accident99 → u/gcruzatto]

“Free speech only for what I agree with.”

[u/eulersidentification → u/gcruzatto]

Anyone else remember last week on one of the first reddit posts about Brazil banning twitter, when weird little accounts popped up saying "take it from me mr. brasil from brasil, we're having our free speech trampled by tyrants :((("

[u/ambird138 → u/BernieTheDachshund]

He's probably just wondering how many a Brazilian is.

[u/minicpst → u/BernieTheDachshund]

Or, you know, block nazis.

[u/leoleosuper → u/[deleted]]

Judge says Twitter has to appoint new legal representation. Elon says nope.

It's even funnier: since Elon had no legal representation, they couldn't serve him. So they did it by tweeting the notice. Elon replied to it, which serves as legal evidence he got the notice. All he had to do was ignore it, and he'd get some leeway in this case. Instead, he joked about it, and caused the case to move on to Twitter getting blocked.

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/leoleosuper]

He thought he had that one weird trick that judges hate.

[u/Edelgul → u/EpiphanyTwisted]

He had it.
He used it.
Judges hated it.

[u/Pksoze → u/leoleosuper]

For a genius he seems like a real moron.

[u/BlondieMenace → u/leoleosuper]

I loved this part, everybody debating on Twitter itself whether or not he had been legally served and then he tweets about it... Everybody just goes "welp, moot point now I guess"

[u/OldJames47 → u/[deleted]]

Two years ago Elon agreed to block some accounts at the request of the Right Wing Modi government in India.

I wonder why he’s taking a stand here. Hmmmm.

[u/alextremeee → u/OldJames47]

They’ve also banned thousands of people for using the word cisgender despite it being a widely recognised term.

[u/Edelgul → u/OldJames47]

He also banned a bunch of opposition accounts in Turkey shortly before the first round of elections, crippling the opposition communication before the second round of elections ( the difference we close to 4%).

[u/Fig1025 → u/[deleted]]

there are plenty of real examples where Musk doesn't give a shit about free speech rights and bans people just because he doesn't like what they are about

[u/soarraos → u/[deleted]]

Free speech only if he agrees with what you say*

[u/happynargul → u/[deleted]]

He also doxxed the 7 nazi accounts, so there's that

[u/12altoids34 → u/happynargul]

Does that mean he's now going to ban himself from Twitter for doxing? Would it make a difference if he has a blue star?

[u/ChickenDelight → u/happynargul]

It's important to note that the basis for the ruling ordering the accounts deleted was that they had been directly involved in planning the January '23 attack on the Brazilian Congress, and had used Twitter to do so. The judge is also investigating them for hate speech, but these 7 accounts aren't being targeted simply because they're far-right racists.

It's completely unsurprising that accounts used to plan an attempted military coup would be ordered blocked, that's not actually considered free speech anywhere (it's furtherance of a criminal conspiracy). It's also a result that could happen in any country on earth, including the USA.

[u/BolinhoDeArrozB → u/[deleted]]

to add some context, the issue wasn't just about blocking right wing extremists and Nazis, it was also to do with the fact that some Brazilians were using twitter to spread CP and commit other illegal activities (such as inciting a coup to take over the country due to election results, etc.) and Elon refused to share their data with the authorities to help with the arrests

[u/Nqmadakazvam → u/BolinhoDeArrozB]

To add some more context, Elon has bent over backwards to satisfy right-wing dictators such as Erdogan, but when it comes to Brazil suddenly he's a free speech absolutist again

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/Nqmadakazvam]

He claims regarding the rightwing autocracies "I'm following the law" while he refuses to follow the law in Brazil and appoint a representative.

[u/mycurrentthrowaway1 → u/[deleted]]

Perfectly happy to suppress modi and erdogan critics though

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Dude has mental issues and enough money to get them fixed...but is too mentally ill to recognize he needs to change in any way.

[u/android24601 → u/[deleted]]

Whoa. This version of Citizen Kane is kinda weird

[u/nitelite-]

Wait till the EU does this same thing

[u/PitchBlack4 → u/nitelite-]

Around 90~ million users only in EU, not counting EU adjacent countries that would do the same.

115 million with the UK which will happen 100% if the EU does it since Muskrat has pissed them off badly.

This would total to more users lost than there are in the US.

[u/whorlax → u/PitchBlack4]

How does the UN only have 115 million when Brazil has 7 Brazilion?

[u/EmperorBamboozler]

It's wild that people think this man is smart given the evidence we now have to the contrary.

[u/Satanicjamnik → u/EmperorBamboozler]

At this point it's difficult to believe that he is of average intelligence.

[u/Lsfnzo → u/Satanicjamnik]

Don’t insult my intelligence level

[u/Satanicjamnik → u/Lsfnzo]

As someone painfully below average in every aspect, I wouldn't dare to.

[u/Hatdrop → u/Satanicjamnik]

"Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of them are stupider than that" -George Carlin

[u/Satanicjamnik → u/Hatdrop]

This is one of the best quotes about humanity ever.

[u/silly-rabbitses → u/Satanicjamnik]

As someone who doesn’t even register on the scale, I’m waiting for someone else to tell me how to feel about it.

[u/12altoids34 → u/silly-rabbitses]

Dude, my intelligence is so low they told me if I lose one more point I will HAVE to vote for Trump.

[u/Finbar9800 → u/12altoids34]

Better start studying then

[u/12altoids34 → u/Finbar9800]

I wanted to, but I live in florida, and you know how they feel about books here...

[u/Delamoor → u/silly-rabbitses]

Dude sucks hard. Don't be like that dude. Twitter sucks. Vote Pedro.

[u/iijoanna → u/Delamoor]

2 votes for Pedro.

[u/WestboundSam → u/Satanicjamnik]

Rich = Smart, for many people…

[u/PupEDog → u/WestboundSam]

Rich, loud, asshole = super smart

[u/GrumpyGiant → u/Satanicjamnik]

I suspect his critical thinking ability has been warped by the extreme insulation from consequences that comes from being the richest person on the planet.

If he had to actually seriously consider consequences he might surprise us by showing average or better mental acuity.  But he’s reached a level of “success” that distorts his perceptions and allows him to make terrible decisions while still feeling like he is coming out ahead.

[u/kenwise85 → u/GrumpyGiant]

And all the Ketamine. Can’t forget the years of abusing Ketamine.

[u/Neveronlyadream → u/kenwise85]

Which, I want to add, isn't a rumor. It's the one thing he's admitted to. The rest he's stayed silent on, but he's admitted to the Ketamine.

Fuck knows what else he's on. There have been rumors, but nothing solid. It definitely explains why he's so fucking erratic, though.

[u/Re_TARDIS108 → u/GrumpyGiant]

The world's richest person is a super greasy fucking edgelord/undiagnosed sociopath :(

We really do live in the worst timeline lol

[u/Reverend_Schlachbals → u/Re_TARDIS108]

Best way to make shit tons of money is to lack empathy of any kind.

[u/Re_TARDIS108 → u/Reverend_Schlachbals]

I really, really wish we could find a way de-incentivize being an absolute subhuman gremlin when it comes to being a decent participant in capitalism

It's almost like capitalism encourages being an asshole or something /s

[u/Satanicjamnik → u/GrumpyGiant]

For sure. It's like he's playing a game with the infinite money cheat mode on .

[u/vividtangerinedream → u/GrumpyGiant]

No matter how much money someone has, the very basic part of being human is being a good parent. If you stripped him of everything he has, he still is a horrendous shithead of a father to his kids. He can't even be a base human.

[u/SunshotDestiny → u/GrumpyGiant]

I think it goes beyond being the richest. The guy obviously had relationship issues long before he became a billionaire, it's just at that point he then had literal "fuck you" money. Combined that with obvious self esteem issues and warped sense of masculinity and suddenly his behavior makes a lot more sense.

He is an asshole regardless, but he is also definitely a question of "nature vs nurture".

[u/katmom1969 → u/SunshotDestiny]

There's going to be an entire chapter in a future DSM that describes the mental illness caused by extreme privilege.

[u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 → u/SunshotDestiny]

Don’t forget Elon harassed a kid because his dad committed suicide so hard the kid ended up having to push Elon down a flight of stairs to get him to stop. This was back in grade school, the one he was driven to everyday in a rolls Royce. Elon own dad wasn’t even on his side in this one, and yes that’s the same dad who has impregnated his own step daughter twice now.

[u/ChadThundercool → u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748]

Whenever I hear this story, I like to imagine that the push down the stairs happened with all the other kids around, and every single one of them just laughed at Elon as he struggled not to cry, most assuredly wondering why nobody wanted to be his friend.

[u/FranksWateeBowl → u/Satanicjamnik]

He just bought other peoples shit, he's not a fucking genius, he's a toaster oven.

[u/PupEDog → u/FranksWateeBowl]

Toaster ovens are actually useful

[u/metfan1964nyc → u/EmperorBamboozler]

The Cybertruck is all the evidence anyone needs.

[u/trizkit995 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

When I found out that none of his successes are actually his just bought and products from somebody else that's when I realized he was a fucking idiot

[u/gahidus → u/EmperorBamboozler]

He was in the right place at the right time starting PayPal. It was a good time to be starting things on the internet.

He is not Tony Stark though, and it seems ridiculous that anyone thinks he is.

[u/katmom1969 → u/gahidus]

He didn't start paypal though.

[u/djseifer → u/katmom1969]

No, that was other evil billionaire Peter Thiel. Elon was part of another company that merged with the company that would become Paypal.

[u/UnknownAverage → u/djseifer]

And Elon tried to take over PayPal and be a giant asshole like always, and got booted, I think? He is incapable of being anyone's equal and has to be top dog wherever he is. It's just so sad that so many people fall in line for him and people like him.

[u/sandgoose → u/UnknownAverage]

Correct, he then took the money from getting booted from Paypal and invested that into Tesla on the stipulation that he gets labeled a co-founder. IIRC He was trying to Paypal --> X when they booted him.

[u/Mr_Figgins → u/gahidus]

I was painfully reminded a month ago that fuck face musk is in Iron Man 2 and it immediately put me off.

[u/Doriantalus → u/Mr_Figgins]

How do you think we Star Trek fans felt when Star Trek Discovery lists him off as one of the great inventors alongside the Wright Brothers and Zephram Cochrane (the man who invented warp for humanity in universe)?

It was like saying, "like those great feminists, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B Anthony, and Donald Trump."

[u/SuckNFuckJunction → u/Doriantalus]

The Simpsons had him on one episode at some point during the shitty seasons which is like 24 of them now. Lisa, always the bullshit detector in the show, fawns over him and calls him "one of our greatest living inventors" or something along those lines. Really highlights how the show mostly revolves around guest stars playing themselves more and more as the show went on and quality declined.

[u/Unmasked_Zoro → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Same could be, and often is said, about Mr trump.

[u/Artistic-Pay-4332 → u/Unmasked_Zoro]

Many people are saying

[u/thebinarysystem10 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

He’s openly defying their government. What happens when he does that in America and decides to start selling rocket technology to Russia and Saudi Arabia?

[u/BabyDog88336]

This misses the point.  Most likely Musk’s empire is collapsing and he is intentionally doing things to make it look like it is collapsing for reasons other than the fact that his businesses suck.  Free speech is a canard.  

Tesla is losing sales and was cash flow negative in quarter 1.  It will get worse. And you can lose a ton of money fast in the car business.

Twitter has never come close to making money

We have no insight into whether SpaceX makes money.  My guess is no.

Neurolink is a money sink.

Boeing is a money sink.

Folks- he just owns a bunch of bad businesses that were largely built on the government dime.  

Musk’s greatest asset is the perception that he is a shrewd businessman.  You always protect your greatest asset.  That is what he is doing here.

[u/FridayNightRiot → u/BabyDog88336]

Space X likely does make a profit only because the aerospace industry has massive costs even when not operating. It would be extremely obvious if they were losing money because stuff would actually start falling apart and out of the sky. Space X gets lots of huge government contracts, whether they deliver on them or not, aerospace government contracts are some of the biggest cheques in the world. It probably will go down the tube's eventually once the stubborn government catches on, but for now I think they are still at least turning a minor profit.

[u/KWAYkai]

Please put your shirt back on.

[u/HauntedHippie → u/KWAYkai]

If you squint your eyes, his farmers tan and lack of definition to his torso make it look kinda like he’s wearing a shirt lol.

[u/Swedzilla → u/KWAYkai]

The beacons are lit, Gondor calls for aid!

[u/MisterProfGuy]

Well 7 Brazilian is a lot of accounts.

[u/nigelthewarpig → u/MisterProfGuy]

How many zeros are in a Brazilian?

[u/Amster2 → u/nigelthewarpig]

If we consider that every Brazilian is born with an infinite potential to become anything they desire, then in theory, each Brazilian starts with an infinite number of zeros—zeros representing the limitless possibilities yet to be explored. Of course, once they start making decisions, those zeros start collapsing into ones

[u/Taylamade87]

[u/koolaidismything]

He’d rather let the world collapse rather than him miss being an edge lord. He’s gonna be a case in point for why the current setup is fixed and screwed.

[u/9lobaldude]

[u/Mandrakearepeopletoo → u/9lobaldude]

This guy looks like a live action Wallace n Gromit character.

[u/Speciaalbiertj → u/Mandrakearepeopletoo]

Quagmire come to life.

[u/Trosque97 → u/Mandrakearepeopletoo]

What horrified me is I recognize him, I've seen him in several TV shows, so why oh God why does he look like a bloody chipmunk here?

[u/Saragon4005 → u/Trosque97]

Because that's the character he plays. This is Louis from Suits and he's been commonly described as a "rat" and he acts as he looks.

[u/davejjj → u/Trosque97]

He has that ability.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389069/

[u/Cucker_Tarlson_666]

That's why Trump likes Elmo so much. He's mastered 'The Art of the Deal'.

[u/SmackedWithARuler → u/Cucker_Tarlson_666]

Looks more like he’s mastered “the eats at the deli”

[u/NubEnt]

Trump and musk have the market of people convinced of their own brilliance covered.

[u/Ok_Figure_4181]

All the text aside, what is that physique? I’ve never seen a person who looks more like a human version of the blobfish

[u/katmom1969]

He's not brilliant. He started with money and was lucky to be able to buy other people's ideas.

[u/tycoon39601]

Damn that’s like sacking a queen to save a pawn but in sacking the queen you hang the exact same pawn because you get put into check when they take the queen.

[u/CathedralChorizo → u/[deleted]]

The same amount he demanded from Tesla as an annual remuneration and bonus package.

[u/EbbEnvironmental9896]

Looks like a Low T kind of guy.

[u/TeeVaPool]

His dad is right he’s a moron.

[u/leggmann]

Soft, pasty and squinty is no way to go through life.

[u/BumpoSplat]

Who knew "life" was actually Moby Dick hunting and harpooning that great white whale! Bravo.

[u/BernieTheDachshund]

He thinks he makes all the laws worldwide, refusing to comply with Brazilian legal requirements. All the judge wanted was for him to have a Brazilian lawyer to be available for government requests.

[u/Ambitious_Trifle_645]

Built like a potato, and also has the intelligence of one.

[u/valencia_merble]

He really is a bloated Nazi whale. No offense to whales.

[u/WhatsRatingsPrecious]

If you see a rich person in the media, it's because they're stupid.

I don't mean celebrities or social media people or actors or whatever, entertainment people.

I mean Jeff Bezos or this asshole Elmo Musky.

The smart billionaires avoid attention. The Sackler family that pretty much runs the pharmaceutical industry. Or the Walton family that runs Walmart.

These people and people like them, they're the ones to watch. They sit back quiet-like and donate efficiently and basically rule a portion of the world with minimal muss and fuss.

[u/AriochBloodbane → u/WhatsRatingsPrecious]

There are smart billionaires, and then there are narcissistic sociopaths who crave attention

[u/Fight_those_bastards → u/AriochBloodbane]

Yeah, and smart billionaires make the news for shit like “donated 500 million dollars to combat disease in third world countries, and also built a bunch of schools.”

The headlines generally leave out the part where they donated the money to their foundations, which they control, and there’s a bunch of tax fuckery afoot, because they actually are doing some things to help. Without the philanthropy, it’s just “rich folks dodge taxes.”

[u/Alpha_Leonis545]

It's not only about the nazis. In january 8, hundreds of far right wings supporters invaded the congress and tried to overtrow the left wing government that just got elected. This was HEAVILY supported by a lot of far right influencers who manly used Twitter. Alexandre de Moraes gave and order to take theirs accounts down. Elon said "lol no"