r/facepalm Sep 02 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Smarts. He has it.

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u/BossMagnus Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 03 '24

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?

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u/Astrodm Sep 02 '24

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

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u/river0f Sep 03 '24

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.

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u/Cthulhu625 Sep 03 '24

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

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u/InquisitorPeregrinus Sep 03 '24

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.

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u/oversized_toaster Sep 04 '24

THAT'S THE NAMINH SCHEME?

I don't know much about tesla, sk I could never figure out what the pattern with the model names were.

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u/Sharp-Introduction75 Sep 08 '24

I know a lot about cars, I know a lot about software. I always knew that the man was a dumba. But even if you don't know a lot about anything, you should know how to spot an ahole and the only thing that comes out of that is crap.

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u/XboxLiveGiant Sep 03 '24

Yeah. It was super exciting that a regular Joe was dabbling into space. With that money he could’ve done amazing shit for space exploration but he turned out to be a quack.

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u/RareConference Sep 03 '24

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

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u/IAmBaconsaur Sep 03 '24

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u/EighteenAndAmused Sep 03 '24

Yeah it's not true.

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u/LorenzoStomp Sep 09 '24

It's true, it's just not a complete statement. Elon desperately wants the world to be saved, but only if he can be the one to save it, and only if it doesn't cost him anything, including future profits.

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u/IAmBaconsaur Sep 09 '24

So it’s not true, you added additional qualifiers.

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u/LorenzoStomp Sep 09 '24

None of which negated the first or second statements, only clarified the specific conditions under which they are true. A statement isn't only true if it is able to stand independent of the truth of any other statement.

"You are alive." Is this a true statement? I have no way of verifying it, but I'll assume it is. 

"You are alive, but only if you have consumed at least the minimum amount of water required to survive to your current age." I can't verify whether this qualifier is true either. Should I consider the possibility you may be dead?

"You are alive, but only if you have consumed at least the minimum amount of water required to survive to your current age, and only if you have not engaged in any physical activity that raised your hydration requirements above the minimum, including sweating to regulate your temperature in a hot environment." Now you're dead, by your reasoning. If you can only be alive if you drank at least the minimum survivable amount and didn't do anything to raise your requirements, and I have no proof you did any of those things, I have to assume the beginning statement is false. Should I send flowers to your funeral, or would you prefer I make a donation to a charity of your choosing?

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u/IAmBaconsaur Sep 09 '24

It’s still wrong; nice hissy fit though. He doesn’t want to save the world. He wants to rule the world. He doesn’t care if the world burns as long as he has power and glory.

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u/IAmBaconsaur Sep 09 '24

It’s still wrong; nice hissy fit though. He doesn’t want to save the world. He wants to rule the world. He doesn’t care if the world burns as long as he has power and glory.

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u/IAmBaconsaur Sep 09 '24

It’s still wrong; nice hissy fit though. He doesn’t want to save the world. He wants to rule the world. He doesn’t care if the world burns as long as he has power and glory.

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u/drewrod34 Sep 03 '24

That sounds too much like lex luthor ngl

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck Sep 03 '24

Same.

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u/IntelligentTanker Sep 03 '24

Same three

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u/Sharp_Pride7092 Sep 03 '24

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

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u/Smodphan Sep 03 '24

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.

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u/AngelSlayer666 Sep 03 '24

You work in tech with a guy that likes his iphone. This is not the guy in taking tech advice from, lol

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u/kvothe5688 Sep 03 '24

yuuup about same

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u/1-800-GANKS Sep 03 '24

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

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u/noonegive Sep 03 '24

He was an Apartheid emerald mine Nepo baby the whole time.

🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀🌚

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u/Witty_Active Sep 03 '24

Yes same. Very egoistical small dick energy guy.

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u/gilbeys18 Sep 03 '24

Turning point for me.

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u/theSafetyCar Sep 03 '24

I stopped being a fan when I found out that he planned for people to pay for trips to Mars via endentured servitude. Things only got worse after that.

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u/oORattleSnakeOo Sep 03 '24

Hahaha you ever thought a rich guy was a good guy wtf

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u/haygurlhay123 Sep 03 '24

Who did you think he was?

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u/firstanomaly Sep 04 '24

I think that was the point for ALOT of people.

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u/BigMcThickHuge Sep 02 '24

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.

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u/dizzymiggy Sep 03 '24

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.

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u/sethsyd Sep 03 '24

My YT has been dropping caveing\diving videos too I've been super interested lately.

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u/Snowmoji Sep 03 '24

Kinda like when Top Gear "tested" the tesla.

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u/Obvious_Ad3810 Sep 03 '24

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

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u/GentrifiedSocks Sep 03 '24

It was a sham episode where the set it up to fail. Plenty to hate on Elon about but that one isn’t it

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u/BattleOfTaranto Sep 03 '24

whats the story here i'm OOTL

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u/klausklass Sep 03 '24

In 2011 Tesla gave Top Gear a couple Roadsters for them to make an episode on. Top Gear wanted to make an “interesting” episode so they staged the test drive so the car would “unexpectedly” run out of battery way before it should have and also lied about the motor overheating and brakes not working. Tesla tried to reach out, but the BBC just ignored them. Tesla then sued for libel, but the judge said no one would think Top Gear had made a genuine review??? Overall a boneheaded move by Top Gear imo

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u/BattleOfTaranto Sep 03 '24

sounds about right, Top Gear was a good show IMO but constantly fudged their narrative

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u/doc_daneeka Sep 02 '24

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.

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u/fltonii Sep 02 '24

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

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u/warthog0869 Sep 03 '24

On Twitter.

Just not in Brazil anymore.

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u/doc_daneeka Sep 03 '24

He was sued for calling someone that, and a jury ruled in his favour. So clearly that's not really defamatory, right?

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u/BossMagnus Sep 03 '24

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

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u/SxyLilBobcat Sep 03 '24

Oh I am sure their AI content scrubber they use found plenty of hits with that phrase on X.

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u/According_Fold_7580 Sep 03 '24

Also didn’t his own AI twitter posting bot end up calling him a pedo after a few interactions too? And he just labelled that a glitch…

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u/bassoontennis Sep 03 '24

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.

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u/WillOrmay Sep 03 '24

He wanted to BUILD A SUBMARINE. Like, whip up some schematics, and build a newly designed submersible… for a crisis that needed to be solved in like hours/days.

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u/YeahManSureCool Sep 03 '24

My mom sold her tesla stock because of that interaction; even if she barely broke even then I respect her so much now

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u/TITANFALL2RONIN Sep 03 '24

Am I the only person who JUST learned this?

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u/Dreamo84 Sep 03 '24

Really? I don't remember this. Do you have a link?

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u/kmflushing Sep 03 '24

I missed this. I knew he was an ass but Jesus.

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u/EternityAwaitz Sep 03 '24

Omg I forgot about that!

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u/Amano_Jyaku Sep 03 '24

Remember how many years ago that was? Nothing worse happened since then, so this is still the go to #1 for reddit. Not a bad track record.

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u/FlyoverHangover Sep 03 '24

Bro you talk about it like happened during the fuckin Reagan Administration

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u/Amano_Jyaku Sep 03 '24

Musk did apologize for the comment. He stated in court and on X that his words were spoken in anger and not meant to be taken literally. This acknowledgment can be seen as a form of accountability, where he admits the remark was inappropriate.

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u/BossMagnus Sep 03 '24

He still does the same shit, but now with weird AI.

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u/BossMagnus Sep 03 '24

It’s the go too because before this, everyone liked him.