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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 219 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Child of apartheid emerald baron doesn't like democracy.

Shocker.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Frankly he’s more child of 4chan than anything else mate.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 150 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And no, the headline isn’t exaggerating. It’s literally that cringe.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a fucking 4chan screenshot

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

No but that's even cringier than I think some people would imagine.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 120 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Elon, if you don’t like the USA system, why the flying fuck did you move here?

Go back to South Africa you ladder pulling, entitled piece of shit.

Take Canadian wannabe secessionist Ted Cruz with you.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Ted Cruz is Canadian???

So, let me get this straight.....a Canadian moves to Texas, and then when it snows and gets cold, he flees to Mexico???

Welp. Nobody can say that Ted Cruz is a stereotype. We CAN say he's an asshole though. Which I will. Ted Cruz is an asshole. There, I said it.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Yep. Asshole and secessionist Rafael “Ted” Cruz was born in the taint of Canada 🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

His mother was American and his father was, I believe, Cuban. Neither had Canadian citizenship. They happened to hatch him in the territory of Canada while his mom was working in Alberta, so he technically was Canadian until this all came out in 2014 or 2015 when he was running in the Republican primary and he renounced his citizenship. Unfortunately for you, he was a dual citizen thanks to his mother so you can't deport him back to us. Feel free to deport him into the Gulf of Mexico if you want, though.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Ted Cruz is Canadian???

It's not that we're downplaying it. It's just that we wouldn't want the USA to deport him back here...

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

lol. Dude is retweeting a chan board.

Yup, that’s where all the greatest minds congregate.

[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"high-T alpha males" This is something a 12 year old would post on r/redpill in 2014.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 points 2 months ago

If only they didn't keep saying it as a 22 year old in 2024.

[–] Jonnynny@lemm.ee 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Some of the replies are hilarious. "you do not get to drop “low t men” when you look like shane gillis after a baron harkonnen-style milk bath"

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He has people that shower him. That’s pretty fucking pathetic if you ask me.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Never heard of "ketamine chest" before but apparently it's a thing.

[–] Communist_Synthesizer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Holy shit, that is the whitest white man in existence. Isn't South Africa hot? How did he survive down there?

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait till he finds out that the consensus is that he is not a high status male despite his net worth.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait until his constant hostility to business partners, the devaluing of Teslas as a luxury status symbol, and defaulting loans tanks his net worth as well.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Same old story, same old song and dance. Dudes with power and influence been screeching this since Plato's dong dangled beneath his toga.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

As an autist, I'm revoking his diagnosis, he's neurotypical now.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We don't want him, either. Maybe we need a new classification.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

He never had a diagnosis. He just claims to have autism.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

He specifically means Engineers and "High IQ" men, and it's because of his grandfather - who was a hardline Technocrat and part of a kind of Ayn Randesque cult called "Technology Incorporated".

...but his grandfather didn't think the cult went far enough:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/

So that's where he's getting his ideas/inclinations.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All his engineers must be yes men, because the engineers I know support much more interesting new social structures.

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[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The funny thing is he thinks he's included in that when he most certainly is not. He's a dolt.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

White land owning males, like the republic of old.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I get people are gonna say he was always this bad but I honestly don't buy it.

While he was always an asshole, everyone has some ratio of bad/good. In the early/mid 2010s he was able to keep enough of a lid on things that he had a positive reputation with among both the public and investors. The limited comments he did make on politics were pretty liberal, and usually specific to the environment. He was liked enough in heavily liberal circles to get multiple positive shoutouts. One of them was from freaking Star Trek, which as a sidenote inadvertently ended up aging like wine.

Modern Elon is absolutely unhinged. He seems to spend more time on Twitter making an ass of himself in ways you'd normally associate with a teenage edge lord. He's an active and aggressive liability to his companies, both in terms of his persona and business decisions. He's huge on politics to the point where he tried to interfere with the Russo-Ukraine war for a bit. A lot of times it feels like it's a matter of time before he gets on stage with Kanye and starts trying to rap.

I think a combination of social media and covid broke him. I know Lemmy doesn't think rich people are human, but I think it's more nuanced than that. While they often have quirks, at the end of the day we're all human. There are millions of people whose brains became fried due to culture war shit on social media post 2014. There's no reason Elon would be immune to the same mechanisms that radicalize an average person.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

While he was always an asshole, everyone has some ratio of bad/good. In the early/mid 2010s he was able to keep enough of a lid on things that he had a positive reputation with among both the public and investors.

Back then he still had his handler/business mommy Mary Beth Brown. She had basic control over his scheduling and publicity outreach since he started Tesla. In 2014 he canned her after she asked for a raise, he's been handling his own pr and schedule ever since.

The problem with assuming that this is a recent change in personality is that it requires ignoring all his prior reported behaviour. It ignores how much media marketing actually changes our perceptions of powerful people.

No Elon did not become an asinine child overnight, he's been that way the whole time. He just believes he's now rich enough that he doesn't have to pretend to be a different person. No JFK Jr did not become an insane person because he watched too much fox news, he's literally been eating roadkill since he was a child.

All of these wealthy and powerful people have an entire system working for them dedicated to protecting their public image.

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[–] Zess@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Guy who did nothing to earn any of his power thinks he should have more power."

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Muskrat is the DJ Khaled of technology.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The OP was the definition of "I'm 12 and this is deep."

The original post that Elon upvoted was the biggest pile of steaming shit. It was in stupid, ignorant, and shows a total lack of healthy social interactions. Here's what the original post said that Elon responded with "Interesting observation":

"People who can't defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information though a consensus filter as a safety mechanism. They literally do not ask 'is this true', they ask 'will others be ok with me thinking this is true'. This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says teh same thing they will adopt that position because their brain tinterprets it as everyone in a tribe believing it. Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical poeple are actually free to parse new informaiton with an objective 'is this true?' filter. This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democraxcy only for those who are free to think."

This is a load of horse shit without an iota of real life insight.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that line of thinking can easily be mirrored to show how people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder can think they are correct when everyone thinks they are wrong. I'm sure you'd see serial killers exhibit thinking like that.

It's important to realize when you're falling into an echo chamber situation, and it's also important to realize when you're disconnecting from reality.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, that's pretty much what we've always had...

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yep, originally only wealthy white land owning men could vote or run for office.

In theory we have a democracy, but in practice money still decides elections and most of our politicians are wealthy high status white men.

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[–] symthetics@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

This guy is laughabley brain dead, as was the post he promoted.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Wouldn't it be much nicer and easier if we lived in an oligarchy?" Said the man who would benefit the most from an oligarchy.

It's such a crazy stance to have when you consider the fact that America is basically already a corporatocracy and this guy literally owns parts of the corporations that have huge influence on American law and policy. Like, I guess already being able to lobby and fuck over the people just isn't enough for these people and they need to have full authoritarian control?

I guess it's true what they say, "Give them a inch..."

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What will he be doing while they run things?

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[–] lemmyviking@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the same argument that pro-slavers here in the United States were making before the Civil War that said no to that idea.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

aneurotypical people

I am a 4chan autist and I reluctantly accept the heavy burden of ruling you all with an iron fist.

(I hope it's autist || high_T rather than autist && high_T.)

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Musk should have his photo in the dictionary under C for ‘creep’, ‘cunt’, etc

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[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But Musk can only be part of the leadership if he wins cage matches with 10 other randomly chosen billionaires, and beats 20 random women (each best of 3) in chess, 20 random women in poker, and 20 random women in billiards (8-ball, snooker, and carom: best of the 3).

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