Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name
How I’ve always seen him
Yeah, always a dumbass.
What was your first impression of him that made you see him like that?
Not the person you replied to, but someone else that has always seen him as a dumbass.
I first became aware of him from a cameo in an Iron Man movie, which was aroun the time all of his ridiculously over the top and unrealistic goals was gaining media traction. His backstory was claiming the work of others, like his brief stint with PayPal. He was an obvious hype man, who believed his own hype. His fucking boast of putting humans on Mars in a short time frame was obviously overconfident bullshitting. Didn’t he end up putting a car in orbit, or some dumb shit instead?
This was all proven accurate with the hyperloop as originally reported having massive obvious issues beyond the science, such as needing land rights. Then as it transitioned into a shitty car tunnel it was more entertaining as it went on. He acted like he founded Tesla and took credit for shit he didn’t do while making sure to insert fart horns and other childish crap like trying to spell out sexy with the model numbers, but failing to get the ‘E’ so went with 3. Plus he insisted on keeping the auto driving camera only, like a dumbass.
He will always do some grand thing next year even though he has made the same promise for a decade. He was always a obvious snake oil salesman whose primary success was getting government welfare to prop up his businesses. His humor has always fallen flat. Naming his kids by itself was a huge sign of how much of a dumbass he is.
The Hyperloop shit, it was never explained to me how a proprietary system that needed sealed tubes under constant reduced preassure could ever be cheaper or safer than normal rail.
Especially since I remember the last time this dumb concept showed it’s face, Swiss Metro was the name then, and it fell on it’s arse then just as the Hyperloop did now.
False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat
Yeah, Thanos has principles and his actions are backed by altruism. Musk is a spineless self-serving parasite with actions backed my ketamine.
We talking movie Thanos, or comic book Thanos?
Movie thanos obv, comic thanos will ruin one particular person’s life just because.
Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
Exactly, not only moderate but extremely. Dude completely succeeds in his goal, entire universe against him. Elon is on twitter whining on X because his boyfriend kicked him outta the house
Problem was his goal was totally stupid. Kill half of all life and destroy the stones? So it can rebound in a few centuries if not decades?
Thanos just had a hard on for lady death
It was too prevent total collapse of a species. Giving them a chance to change.
and the population would still bounce back. He could have ended scarcity entirely and no one would have tried to stop him.
The comics version of him just wanted to have sex with Death. Its also stupid, but it at lease makes sense. The fact that it is stupid makes it even more realistic.
MCU != comics. That should be WELL established. I know they name-dropped 616 in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but that was more like a poor writing choice in an attempt to be an easter egg.
Adding more resources to remove scarcity is dumb. You’re acting as if you have 1000 units of resources and 1000 people, but then half it to 1000 units of resources and 500 people, well, they’ll just bounce back. But having 2000 units of resources and 1000 people, well, that’ll auto balance, and they won’t grow to match resources. Or even worse, infinite resources, to ensure scarcity is removed. Iron is a resource. Iron is found inside living things, and it’s found in the sun and the core of the planets. Double iron… what happens? The complete genocide of everything. Though it’s true, scarcity would be removed because everything is dead. Pick any resources and if you follow it, I mean really think about it, you’ll find it’s not a “oh just” type of solution. And it ignores the logistics of the whole thing too, he was snapping his fingers once, not putting out a beat, just so he can handle multiple worlds/species/requirements for each. It wasn’t open mic night at the MCU.
His plan, which I want to remind you, is in a movie which none of it needs to make sense… because ya know, magic rocks… If a planet is struggling, due to pollution or overpopulation… now that’s been solved, and they could potentially plan around that for the future. Put policies in place and whatnot. Other planets, well, people are very superstitious. The number of ghost stories on tv or YouTube, or the fact that organized religion exists, proves that. For those folks, seeing “Hey we got up to like X number of people and then god got mad (since 99.99999…% of all living things in the MCU would have no idea what or why half got dusted), we shouldn’t do that again”. And in the MCU, we see various gods do exist, and they don’t give a shit what happens to the mortals (Thor Love and Thunder).
I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.
Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn’t help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.
He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.
It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.
Because that was hamfisted in. Originally, he wanted to kill half the universe to impress Lady Death.
Hm that sounds even dumber to be honest. I guess it’s hard to write a plot that kills half the universe without it sounding idiotic
At least this one didn’t try to sound smart, all while trying to stay “apolitical”.
Yea true
Not that hard. Kill half the universe as a scientific experiment. Leave the other half alive as the control group.
This movie shit was virtuous vs what the giant walking hard-on was in the comics.
he was doing it to prevent the celestials from emerging from planets killing the population. im guessing he probably thought of that already that alreayd, adding more natural resources would accelerate the emergence. also seems the stones is not powerful enough to affect celestials, or primordial beings(death, GOD, angels,etc), otherwise he wouldve just used it to kill them. he is stupid in that having the 6 stones, why dint he conjure about things that can kill celestials.
I thought his threat was going to be that the universe either gets itself under control or he does it again?
He has always been…
Exactly.
Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He’s more like
If you get into the actual comic books, you’ll find out that Tony Stark is regularly portrayed as a sex pest, a substance abuser, and an outspoken fascist.
But, unlike the real Elon Musk, I don’t believe he’s ever been written as “full of pee”. Incidentally, ketamine abuse does result in bladder ulcers that leak urine into your body until you are quite literally poisoning yourself with your own urine.
Just something to think about.
how fast is this poisoning process because it’s taking some sweet fucking time right now
Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the “pedo guy” slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you’ve been paying attention he’s been outing himself for a long time.
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.
Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.
Well now that we know that he’s an idiot, I have to look back at the things that I just took for granted. I didn’t talk to any rocket scientists 10 years ago so I just believed him when he owned a company that was showing results. Hindsight is 20/20
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Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.
How id prefer to see him
He never was not a villain.
Maybe. But he was seen as a competent person. I remember when SpaceX started testing the “reusable” rockets that landed themselves. He was a lot more “popular” back then
I remember in the very early days not getting the full ‘hype’ of “MUSK IS SO SMART”, but I enjoyed him as a “This is what happens when some ordinary dweeb becomes incredibly wealthy - he wants to throw money at space and technology. That’s neat.”
His PR guys must’ve done a good job at keeping the worst of his tendencies behind closed doors - or at least further than most casual observers would look. Around the time of the ‘pedo guy’ incident it began to unravel for me. Curious that a social media addiction undid all the work of his PR team.
I think he genuinely changed as well though. Sure, some of the stuff people believe was obviously wrong in hindsight, but his unhinged tweets just weren’t a thing 10 years ago.
Yeah, he was always an idiot, but I remember reading a super interesting article about how he accidentally radicalized himself when he changed X’s algorithm. He tweaked it to be far right, and radicalized himself because he’s one of the most active users on the platform. FAFO.
Here’s the Blue MAGA hindsight.
And this gets deleted by the mods here for ‘no politics’.
As if the post itself isn’t.
HypocritesThe way he removed the original founders of Tesla and have himself the title of founder says otherwise, he was never a nice human being.
ITT: people saying they always knew
What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed
We. Always. Knew.
Kay but that’s honestly a pretty awesome getup. It’s only cringe in retrospect knowing what we know now. If I saw someone like this on the street I’d think, “slay, dude.”
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yeah exactly. very MCR.
I have a not-quite-physics degree (I could not mentally bring myself to do the proper physics capstone, but I basically have a physics degree.) I have had multiple conversations with astrophysicists, astronauts, and people who know their shit.
It has always been abundantly clear to me that he has been full of shit. I had to play coy a lot because I had some association with NASA, but the man does not know shit about rockets or physics and it’s always been abundantly clear to anyone who does.
I doubt he could do a simple kinematics problem.
You could have let this be a top-level comment, but you chose to make it directly a response to mine about how I’m interested in hearing about people who didn’t always know. Why did you do that.
I thought it was cool that he was making space ships and EVs. I like space. I like EVs. Guess I was naïve.
Same. I’d have rather space not be privatised, but was glad to see some interest in research again.
I pat the people on the back for calling him out all those years ago. I have always been indifferent to him to be honest, until five years ago he tried to interfere in the rescue of Thai school children who got stuck in underwater cave, and calling the rescue divers pedo. Some time after that, I remember telling my ex-colleague of mine who fanboys Elon that it is not necessarily I don’t like Elon, but that I don’t trust him after the incident. He got offended after I mentioned I distrust Elon, and I was surprised that he hasn’t heard of Elon’s childish spat with the rescue divers. Fast forward to now, I wonder what my former colleague thinks of Elon now.
He has been a scumbag since forever.
From the Thai ‘pedophile’ incident to wanting to keep his factories open in peak Covid times under Biden.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
HypocritesThe Thai incident was I think the big event for a lot of people who until then though well of him.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
what
go away
A picture of his stupid mug in panel 2 would have been better
