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It astounds and amazes me that there was a time Elon could have feasibly been considered a smart, level-headed entrepreneur. The whole submarine thing with the trapped kids really was the beginning of his unraveling. I for one thank Elon Musk for proving once and for all to even the most shameless corpo-apologists that having a ton of money doesn’t magically make you smart or cool. The dude’s an idiot, and I love watching him self-destruct.

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and I love watching him self-destruct.

I guarantee he’d rather be in his position than yours.

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7 points

Yeah, can lose all this wealth and still be fucking wealthy in a way that literally dozens of people only know.

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At one point they even had him cameo in iron man, and had him name dropped on star trek as a pioneer of human discovery. People used to jerk off to this dude’s PR image like he was a real life Tony Stark.

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36 points

If he stayed off Twitter he’d have a pretty impressive CV. Mainstream electric cars, actually usable Satellite Internet, Major Solar Panels etc. Even weird shit like Hyperloop would just be random neat things.

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57 points

Same with JK Rowling, Kanye West, Notch, etc. It’s literally so fucking easy for people like this to remain loved by everyone. Just keep your fucking mouth shut. Give nice polite interviews about your job, stay out of politics, let a boring publicity agent manage your social media for you, and enjoy your billions of dollars in peace.

Why is it so hard?

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He admitted hyperloop was complete bullshit he pushed just to try to sideline California’s high speed rail.

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25 points

He’s mentioned in star trek discovery as if he took us to mars. Those lines aged so poorly

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I prefer to pretend that they’re talking about another person named Musk, one of his many kids perhaps…

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Putting aside that that whole show is pretty rough and I’ve mentally decanonized it, the guy who said it is technically a mega space nazi from the space nazi dimension so I choose to believe he just thought that Musk being an aspiring space nazi was as cool in our universe as it was in his.

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27 points

They put him on Rick and Morty in the most cringe inducing fashions and it was like watching a cartoon suck off a guy.

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Which is weird because it’s usually the guys sucking off Rick and Morty

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When he called the submarine expert a pedo was when I started to go, “Is this guy being for real?”

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6 points

Same. I actually looked up to him before that.

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