Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man

It's a real shame it wasn't this cretin rejecting Luigi's medical claims instead of that no name CEO nobody gives a flying feck about already.
 
MrMarcello said:
How soon before a T-800, T-1000, or TX arrives to takeout Musk?
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We better hope time travel isn't possible because it's ultra rich cnuts like Musk that would end up having access to it. If Reform, RN and AfD win their next elections, that might be solid evidence that it's happened.

RN really is quite a fitting name, from a Norwegian perspective. The Norwegian translation is Nasjonal Samling, the Nazi Party which collaborated with the Germans during WW2.
 
Simbo said:
So he could be buying it to effectively buy a future president and get whatever he wants.

Or he could be buying it to try and genuinely revolutionise social media as he has said, which means combatting its main problem - Its massive boatloads of disinformation and use as a political manipulation tool for the far/alt-right. If he has some idea how to do that.

I've always got the impression he leans toward saving the world rather than destroying it so one can hope huh.
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I thought I'd read through the first few pages of this thread just to see what people envisaged vis-a-vis the reality he's brought/bringing forth. I think your post encapsulates his agenda succinctly. Unfortunately, "save" was never part of the plan.
 
Fortitude said:
I thought I'd read through the first few pages of this thread just to see what people envisaged vis-a-vis the reality he's brought/bringing forth. I think your post encapsulates his agenda succinctly. Unfortunately, "save" was never part of the plan.
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Yikes, how wrong I was. April ‘22… I think this was around the time he was helping in Ukraine, before daddy Putin had a word.
 
Charlie Foley said:
Oof. I’ll be nice and say you were optimistic!
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To be fair, while Musk outed himself as a clown during the diving incident, I don’t think many could have predicted how far down this path he would have gone, how quickly he would become a real life supervillain or how open he would have been about it. His biggest businesses are an EV company and a space company, both of which you would say aren’t exactly far right friendly, so you would have thought then that he’s at risk of alienating his customer base. Evidently we were all wrong about that.

Like openly talking about how the AFD is Germany’s only hope, giving donations to Farage, etc., it feels like he’s gotten exponentially worse in the last two years (Or he has always been this bad and just isn’t pretending to be subtle anymore)

The man is legitimately a real life supervillain.
 
I'm not a genius, far from it (but I wish myself a speedy recovery), but I don't think it seemed particularly implausible that Musk would become this or publicly display it even in mid 2022. I'm not saying I accurately predicted it, I haven't even checked my own posting history in this thread, but I'm pretty positive I've been concerned (!) about Musk and his influence on American and global politics for well over 2 years now.
 
Cloud7 said:
To be fair, while Musk outed himself as a clown during the diving incident, I don’t think many could have predicted how far down this path he would have gone, how quickly he would become a real life supervillain or how open he would have been about it. His biggest businesses are an EV company and a space company, both of which you would say aren’t exactly far right friendly, so you would have thought then that he’s at risk of alienating his customer base. Evidently we were all wrong about that.

Like openly talking about how the AFD is Germany’s only hope, giving donations to Farage, etc., it feels like he’s gotten exponentially worse in the last two years (Or he has always been this bad and just isn’t pretending to be subtle anymore)

The man is legitimately a real life supervillain.
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A South African whose fortune comes from emerald mines and is currently building an army of autonomous robots. His super villain arc is a little on the nose, if anything.
 
nimic said:
I could swear we already knew this?
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I dunno, a fanboy of his seems to pop up every few weeks, utterly baffled that we plebs could think the richest and smartest man in the world is an insecure loser.
 
To be honest, it's an utter failure of modern democracies that it allows billionaires to exist and to shape politics that much. We (rightfully) despise Musk, but if it wasn't Musk it would be someone else.

The point of modern democracy (i.e. post French revolution) was to overthrow the monarchy and oligarchy, the unelected elite that had an outsized influence on how the country was run, tilting it to their own benefit. But allowing so much wealth to accumulate in individuals, means that they buy the media and while they distract the plebs with either "bread and circuses" or "cultures wars" they buy the politicians so the democracy becomes as much of a sham as in places like Russia.
 
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MadMike said:
To be honest, it's an utter failure of modern democracies that it allows billionaires to exist and to shape politics that much. We (rightfully) despise Musk, but if it wasn't Musk it would be someone else.
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Yeah, and it has been for decades already with the likes of the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch, etc. It's been well-known for a long time. Trump and Musk are just taking it to extreme new levels of absurdity, because of Trump's shamelessness and Musk's creepy ideology and power hunger.

Hopefully people will wake the feck up and question why billionaires are directly controlling the government. Not holding my breath though.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Yeah, and it has been for decades already with the likes of the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch, etc. It's been well-known for a long time. Trump and Musk are just taking it to extreme new levels of absurdity, because of Trump's shamelessness and Musk's creepy ideology and power hunger.

Hopefully people will wake the feck up and question why billionaires are directly controlling the government. Not holding my breath though.
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I think people know, there just isn't a damned thing we can do about it. The people that benefit from it are the people that make the rules so they will never change. We would need 300 more elected officials like Bernie Sanders and that can't happen under this campaign financial system.
 
I think he has a plan to run for president one day. Yeah currently he cant do it but who knows what happens in 4-8 years time. He has his nose too deep into politics. A bit hypocritical if you ask me for someone who has "no interest in politics, just technology". Him buying twitter isnt for the tech, its for politics. Then he followed it up with stupid tweets that are all about politics.
 
tenpoless said:
I think he has a plan to run for president one day. Yeah currently he cant do it but who knows what happens in 4-8 years time. He has his nose too deep into politics. A bit hypocritical if you ask me for someone who has "no interest in politics, just technology". Him buying twitter isnt for the tech, its for politics. Then he followed it up with stupid tweets that are all about politics.
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Pretty confident that he never runs for POTUS. Even disregarding whether he technically can according to the constitution, I think he is happy to just be the rich benefactor influencing from behind the scenes. Also, he is just not likeable to the normal person. He's just a giant dork, and that will dawn on people real quick if he was to ever take center stage.
 
tenpoless said:
I think he has a plan to run for president one day. Yeah currently he cant do it but who knows what happens in 4-8 years time. He has his nose too deep into politics. A bit hypocritical if you ask me for someone who has "no interest in politics, just technology". Him buying twitter isnt for the tech, its for politics. Then he followed it up with stupid tweets that are all about politics.
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You are vastly overestimating just how capable of long-term planning he is. This is a man that does regular 180s because he stops getting attention for 5 minutes.
 
nimic said:
There's zero percent chance Elon Musk runs for president. In the current climate there's no way a constitutional amendment of that magnitude is going to happen.
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There’s 6 judges who are very open to donations
 
States have to ratify as well and that requires 3/4 majority. He'd have to buy a lot of people to get support behind that particular change. And there is zero environment for this particular change.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention. The Congress proposes an amendment in the form of a joint resolution. Since the President does not have a constitutional role in the amendment process, the joint resolution does not go to the White House for signature or approval.
 
So I was reading a local news comment section about him endorsing the AfD. Many had no issues with it.

The arguments were essentially that when famous people such as artists or athletes endorse the left, then everything is OK, but if someone endorses the right, then suddenly it's bad.

I'm paraphrasing:
"When Swift and others call on women to vote Democratic, no one cares. Suddenly people are now up in arms when Musk endorses a right wing party? Or if Mbappe requests people not to vote for extremist parties, that's also OK but not for Musk to share his opinion?"
 
MrMarcello said:
States have to ratify as well and that requires 3/4 majority. He'd have to buy a lot of people to get support behind that particular change. And there is zero environment for this particular change.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention. The Congress proposes an amendment in the form of a joint resolution. Since the President does not have a constitutional role in the amendment process, the joint resolution does not go to the White House for signature or approval.
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if he wanted to he'd probably try though

he has enough money and power to buy the votes change the political environment

and seeing as Trump probably wants the same thing you never know
 
Red Star One said:


I wonder what the odds are on him offing himself in 2025
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Or just firing himself off to Mars.

I just can't deal with all his fecking brainwashed sycophant followers who genuinely see his Mars quest as the key to human advancement and a future home for our species. They are all fecking morons. They don't see the irony of destroying a planet of beauty and life in the quest of moving to a inhabitable barren ball of rock millions of miles away.

I don't support terrorism but I would cheer loudly if someone blew up Twitter HQ and destroyed all their servers. At least we would get a rest from the Ketamine fuelled cnut who runs it.
 
VorZakone said:
So I was reading a local news comment section about him endorsing the AfD. Many had no issues with it.

The arguments were essentially that when famous people such as artists or athletes endorse the left, then everything is OK, but if someone endorses the right, then suddenly it's bad.

I'm paraphrasing:
"When Swift and others call on women to vote Democratic, no one cares. Suddenly people are now up in arms when Musk endorses a right wing party? Or if Mbappe requests people not to vote for extremist parties, that's also OK but not for Musk to share his opinion?"
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Well Mpabbe and Taylor Swift essentially work in entertainment. Musk owns companies with enormous influence, importance and profit
 
VorZakone said:
So I was reading a local news comment section about him endorsing the AfD. Many had no issues with it.

The arguments were essentially that when famous people such as artists or athletes endorse the left, then everything is OK, but if someone endorses the right, then suddenly it's bad.

I'm paraphrasing:
"When Swift and others call on women to vote Democratic, no one cares. Suddenly people are now up in arms when Musk endorses a right wing party? Or if Mbappe requests people not to vote for extremist parties, that's also OK but not for Musk to share his opinion?"
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There’s a whole world of difference between a celebrity giving their verbal or written endorsement vs what Musk is doing. It’s not even comparable.

He’s richer than god and ploughing money behind his candidates in a way that nobody should be able to. Democracy should never be for sale.

Then you have his ownership and nefarious running of X, regardless of what side he is on he’s using disinformation and putting a giant, greasy fat thumb with ketamine lodged under the nail on the scales is hugely problematic.
 
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