We all owe Elon a huge debt of gratitude for thoroughly destroying the "billionaire genius" and "great man" myths we've been obsessed with and attributed to many unworthy people for years.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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An immigrant worried about immigrants. Fuck you, Lonnie.
He really is a trump wannabe. why?
He wants people to like him like the fanatics love Trump. He doesn't know how to generate that attention, much less how to create affection, so he and others like him copy Trump to try to recreate that fanaticism.
Articles like this feed that craving for attention so he keeps making an ass out of himself for the views.
I think it’s the vague incoherence of Trumpfs ramblings that give him an edge, it allows him lots of forgiveness with his base because they say “he mustn’t have meant it like that.” Where if someone like Elon misspeaks he has no excuse. That and as destructive and inept at being president as Trumpf was he could be seen as disarming with his childish fun side where as Elons past actions follow him and he comes off as a jerk when he’s having fun.
Fortunately we don't have to worry about Musk becoming president.
Fortunately further, we can also eliminate changing that from the GOPs goals.
Not president on earth anyway. It’s kind of funny and sad that the only place he could become president is on a distant planet in a place he paid for everything.
Nah, I highly doubt he'd risk the exposure to radiation.
As much as he might like to paint himself as the man to bring humanity to the stars, it won't happen. Not in his lifetime, anyway.
Well if his actions around avoiding suckaturds fight is any indication he’s a pussy when it comes to personal safety.
Nah he'd insist it was safe enough and that he knew better than everyone else
So he can grab em by the…without repercussions?
He does. No other ceo would be able to get away with the sex scandals he has.
Oh I know. Believe me, I know.
He comes from apartheid. It's not an "immigrant" thing, it's a skin color thing.
How do you put a cowboy hat on backwards? Shit has tags, stitches on the inside, specific head shape, formed crown usually... what a gimp
By being extremely stupid.
By being rich enough that he's never had a consequence of being stupid.
Baseball hats = cool.
Backwards baseball hats = rad.
Cowboy hats = manly.
The guy is trying to apply maths he doesn't understand to a situation he has no experience in to try and appear like he belongs.
Classic musk.
Backwards baseball hats = rad.
Ehhhh...
It makes you better at Pokèmon battles, and that's pretty rad.
Elon would be the type to trade for a perfect IV/EV Dragonite and brag about how good it is and he is -- and then accuse you of cheating when an ice type move KOs it.
The front top of the hat is even perfectly shaped for your fingers to put it on
He wears like three things so it's probably easy for him to get basics incorrect.
starting to think this man has a humiliation fetish he's tricked the world into indulging
If only there were some kind of realtime broadcast application that would have let us alert him to his faux pas when it happened.
I was going to post something worthwhile, but I'm just so sick of seeing Elon and his bullshit all over the Internet. There isn't anything tangible he produces that affects me in any way.
Outrage. He produces outrage.
This is why most corporations have PR teams. Trying to convince folks of blatant lies like, “I’m just a regular guy, with the same concerns as other plebs”, is not as easy as it looks.
Can we just send him back to where he came from ?
It's a thought. He'd be pretty miserable being there now that black people are in charge.
It's difficult, I mean he ha been trying too, but Mars is quite far away.
I believe it is a worthy use of taxpayer dollars to fund a one way mission to Mars for Elon to explore the surface.
So he does have free time. Well I guess that flame trench for his destroyed launch pad isn’t getting installed any time soon.
Asshat ăs′hăt″ noun A contemptible or detestable person. A clumsy or socially inept person. An obnoxiously ignorant person; a fool.
The joke is that SpaceX/Starbase is already on the Texas/Mexico border. People in Mexico were watching the Starship launch a few months ago. He's very frequently by the border already.
Windscreen cowboy right there.
I get the feeling he is going to go for the Republican presidential ticket when the Trump train ends.
Musk is not a natural born citizen of the USA, so he can't even run as a candidate. Same as Schwarzenegger, the Simpsons lied to us. I can see Musk run for Texas governor though.
Ah my bad, yeah agree some form of government leadership position. Anything to butter up his ego a little more and tick off his billionnaire bingo card.
Did McConaughey ever commit to running or not?