Maybe his politics are complicated. Did y’all consider that? That a white South African industrialist who dabbles in eugenics, treats employees like shit, and thinks catturd2 is funny might be a complex enigma?
Whatever could be the politics of the tech billionaire son of a South African apartheid blood-emerald baron?
I wonder
It’s spelled ‘enema’
It’s so mysteriass
And he’s the multibillionaire that actually wants to put microchips into people’s heads unlike Bill Gates who’s checks notes actually trying to cure malaria? (He’s probably still not a saint though, every billionaire is part of the problem.)
Bill Gates has strong enough ties to Epstein that his wife divorced him and left their charitable foundation they started together. So idk man, he’s not so great either
Yeah, that’s what I said. But Musk is literally doing supervillian shit while Gates seems to be at least trying to do some good to outweigh the bad. Still, billionaires are a cancer to a planet. I just find it ironic that Gates has become this demonic figure for something he never did and what Musk is literally trying to do with no one batting an eye.
Gates is a demon for fucking over the public education system. It’s not eugenics level bad, but definitely a level somewhere in Dante’s inferno.
What did he do to public education?
Lots, like the trend to make micro schools inside larger schools. So instead of hiring more teachers to drive down class sizes, you do the opposite and hire more admins. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-plot-against-public-education-111630/
Did you consider that you might not have the deep insight of a guy in a k-hole who spent 44 billion dollars to run a successful social media company into the ground?
Hey that was most likely a deliberate attack against journalism around the world so give him some credit
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/tweet-and-be-killed-c/
The Saudis backing him knowing he’d fuck twitter up was almost definitely deliberate. Musk himself fucking it up was likely just his ego and idiocy and not actually deliberate on his part
Idk man, he was pretty pissed about that Jet Tracker. I think he also felt like he could better pump Tesla stock with whatever dregs were left of Twitter
I get that, but the reason I think its incompetence is because he has a pretty fragile ego and the way he destroyed twitter makes him look INCREDIBLY stupid
“It’s complicated”. Nah, not really. An egomaniac, rich asshole took refuge in the right wing safe space because they kiss his ass and call him a genius. But they still won’t buy his electric cars.
Send this fucker to Orania along with all his supporters and enablers and burn the goddamn whole town to the ground. The world and South Africans would cheer.
Just pointing out that Musk is an immigrant.
Born in South Africa, immigrated to Canada to avoid military service, then used Canadian citizenship to apply for and obtain US citizenship.
He’s the white kind.
Right, sorry. Right kind.
*Reich kind
What a fucking pussy, or so I’m told by conservatives that weigh in on this without his name being shared.
New headline: Asshole shits on everything
Unwashed deviant asshole who Putin holds kompromat over forced to help another pedophile, who Putin also holds kompromat over.
Both met with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell…
Don’t forget about Elon’s significant financial ties to Saudi Arabia
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/elon-musk-twitter-saudi-arabia
“The Saudis could have cashed out, like most everyone else. That would have been the financially sound thing to do. Instead, they allied with Musk … There’s a clear political motivation to their decision, and CFIUS should get to the bottom of it.”
A source familiar with the situation adds that Murphy’s concern is exacerbated by the large amount of debt that Musk/Twitter now must service, and what demands that may enable Saudi to make. Particularly given that Musk, at least for the moment, is Twitter’s sole director.
Murphy on Monday asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) to investigate “potential national security concerns” arising from Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s involvement in Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Saudi Arabia and members of its extended royal family are regular investors in U.S. tech companies, both directly and via private equity and venture capital funds. But they’ve been largely ignored by CFIUS, which investigated just six Saudi-involved deals between 2019 and 2021. CFIUS is empowered to recommend to the President that mergers be blocked on national security grounds, including for transactions that have already closed. Many of its recent recommendations to that effect have involved China.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/elon-musk-says-he-had-saudi-backing-tesla-trial-testimony/
Elon Musk returned to federal court Monday in San Francisco, testifying that he believed he had locked up financial backing to take Tesla private during 2018 meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund
At this point, how is owning a Tesla car not just like walking around wearing one of those stupid red hats?
I agree and I drive a Tesla, unfortunately it’s paid off so for the time being it just makes sense to keep driving it because it costs me basically nothing.
But I feel like a POS in public and it sucks.
I’m sure there is a bumper stick that’s says “I got this before musk was crazy”
Those bumper stickers are bullshit. Musk was a nut job who profited from apartheid and then bought his way into the public mind as some kind of low rent Tony Stark from the get. San Francisco 2012 people thought I was nuts for claiming he was a huge charlatan and now those same people rock those bumper stickers.
Despite Musk, Teslas did have some positive effect as they helped push electric car adoption. The big automakers were not interested in taking risks, and nobody was eager to build out large charger networks.
I certainly don’t credit Musk himself for it, but no one should feel ashamed of having bought one of those cars back then. Today there are other good options for electric vehicles from companies run by slightly less bad people, but let’s not kid ourselves. Everything we buy comes from some company that is enriching monsters…it’s just that some of them are more monstrous than others.
True enough.
Just because shitheads run companies didn’t mean you can’t enjoy & appreciate the actual work, design, creation of brilliant, hard working people that made the actual product.
Musk never made anything. Nothing new, anyway. He made a hostile collar workplace noose and roped a group of companies into our modern, uncontested (except by unions) version of slavery.
The people at Tesla are groundbreakering pioneers of the future of transportation. Unfortunately, they’re not geniuses about how to properly deal with a strangling grifter owner.
That kind of terrible management, terrible treatment of people, workers is rampant across (most?) all companies. Musk just screwed the best of the brightest lights on the road to the future. Fucked everybody harder than the other CEOs cause, well, as others mention, he was born to it (Emerald apartheid slave driver heritage).
What’s sick is that what he did at Twitter was something many in the C-suite were in some cases privately cheering, and, in places where they were permitted, wanted to openly emulate. Sure, the excuse was that (some) companies overstaffed in the early covid days, but at X, they cut things to the bone and beyond when Musk took over, and it mostly seemed to be ideologically driven (“own the libs” but also, and this is the part others want to do as well, and in some cases, did: “crush those uppity tech workers”). This, combined with AI, was providing a beacon of hope to the corporate overlords eager to make even more undeserved money.
Ok so people didn’t know, that doesn’t make them bad people and it doesn’t make you as smart as you think you are.
If people ignore how shitty someone is, they are, in fact, bad people if they support their business.
I’m sorry but I have no idea who is the CEO, of say, Nissan or whatever, and I’m sure 99% of buyers don’t research that.
There are. I’ve seen them.
Yes, that’s called a Confederate flag. If you buy one after 2019, then it’s a Nazi flag.
Well fucking stop feeling like a POS.
Please?
Its just a car, and regardless of who elon turned out to be.
And ya know what? Elon is the reason they arent better cars. He is not the reason they are as good as they are.
Take politics out of it for a minute and just remind or consider, how is your tesla a better car than the ICE car you did and/or would have instead.
You can feel good about that. Its okay. Elon is a piece of shit. He didnt always seem that way and that does suck. You dont, he does.
When you decide to get a new car you are going to have so many awesome options next time.
And you wouldnt have those options then, if Teslas werent/hadnt pushing everyone else in the world into getting away from ICE
Thanks. Just what I needed for the day (from one of my favorite fellow Rocky Mountains crews).
You should be ashamed of yourself
Yes. They should be. Fuck the downvotes, I’m done with this shit.
Sell your fucking Tesla if you own one. It’s a dog whistle.
In many countries outside of the US, Musk isn’t a well known figure, and people buying a Tesla don’t have to know who is the CEO any more than who is the CEO of any other car manufacturer.
Effecting change in this world sometimes requires personal sacrifice. Things are the way they are because too many don’t want to inconvenience themselves. Downvote away.
I have a friend with a tesla who put on a bumper sticker along the lines of “I got this before he became a raging asshole”
I think I saw that sticker online and sent a link to a few people I know with Teslas, since they are in the same boat.
I like the “oil lol” style liscense plates
He’ll turn back to the left as soon as the he gets too clingy with his current audience and they turn on him.
Musk is worse, he doesn’t care about his political leanings, he only cares about where he can have the most people simping for him.
He’s gone way too far down Trump’s asshole for him to ever fool the left again.
He used to be different politically, because that was cool. Now he has enough money that people will tell him he’s cool no matter what his politics are, so he now supports the causes that benefit him. I don’t think he’s ever going back.
Could say the same about any American made truck, except they’ve had the association with stupid rednecks for decades so it’s just not talked about as much.
