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.

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

Twinsies!

how fast is this poisoning process because it’s taking some sweet fucking time right now

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.
Hypocrites

The way he removed the original founders of Tesla and have himself the title of founder says otherwise, he was never a nice human being.

Well, a decade ago I had hope too, but also already felt the guy was fishy (because he already had a history of overpromising and under-delivering and in the areas I was an expert in, I had spotted him outright lying) and so was skeptical about his promises and his companies. Also, having been involved in Tech Startups, my expectation from people in his position and his language were already negative since the Startup World back then was already dominated by scam artists with a salesmanship or Finance backgrund for whom Tech was a vehicle for self-enrichment, not by idealists who loved challenges or the actual Tech.

Also by that point I had already spent a good period in Investment Finance and could recognize a certain style of bollocks a mile away.

I wasn’t aware of just how much a shit person the guy was, but all my instints told me he was a sociopath who would only ever do anything better for the World if it made him more money than not doing it.

All of his companies are complete garbage. Cars are a disgusting privilege literally destroying the planet. Colonizing space is a grift that does absolutely nothing for regular people on earth. Paypal jfc… Etc.

Never had a chance of changing the world for a better place. Didn’t even try.

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.”

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.

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