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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

5d chess or not, hear me out.

He may be autistic enough to burn it all down from the inside.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

why are we still using autistic as an insult in 2025?

he may be moronic enough to burn it all down from the inside, but autism doesn't have shit to do with it. I'm tired of people trying to use autism as an get out of jail free card for utter stupidity. autism has very little to do with intelligence levels, and even if it does, it's the other way around according to most studies.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

Why??

Cause it's not so much an insult as a funny stereotype. And there's partial truth to it. Autistic people sit outside cultural norms. I don't find anything about that insulting. Especially in a world where the culture has become so toxic. Having a billionaire who is potentially taking Roy of the grid is a huge fantasy of mine and it's potentially happening. Only an autistic person is able to do this. No one else can.

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[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

He is secretly a shareholder in BYD and shorting Tesla. Nothing else makes sense.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Are people that stupid to overvalue Tesla that much for years or is somebody stabilizing the market rate? Somebody is playing 5D chess but it is not Musk.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

It's because so many institutional investors own Tesla stock. Most of the big hedge funds and that kind of thing. At least that's what I've heard, but it makes sense to me.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Sometimes Internet racism really confuses me. So Indians are in this case bad because they are.... particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace? Just generally not hateful people? I don't get it.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.

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You mean S Asia? India isn't exactly east...

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

That was my thought. I've never tried ketamine, but watching this clown dance through crises that would destroy a normal person makes me tempted to experiment.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk learned the hard way why other billionaires don't get directly involved in politics, and buy politicians instead. That way they get what they want, but let the politicians take the heat for pushing through the billionaires agendas.

The problem for Musk is that his ego wouldn't allow him to sit quietly on the sidelines calling the shots. He had to prove how smart he was, and how he was the only one who could fix the government. Now, he's pissed off almost everyone, has lost various large foreign contracts for his companies, drove sales of Tesla into the ground, and is watching Trump undo the "brilliant" governmental cost cutting that he did.

And, his ego still won't let it go, as now he's suggested he'll start his own political party. You just know the other billionaires are looking at him and going "What a dumbass!"

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

And still some dumb Americans will think:

"Billionnaires got a lot of wealth, so they must know what they're doing. Let them fix it."

When the actual answer is:

"Billionnaires never once worked as much as we did. They got born with a fuckton of money. Let them eat cake."

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 317 points 1 day ago (28 children)

Nobody has done more to disprove the "Rich people are smarter than everyone else" idea.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 167 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Remember a decade ago when he was being lauded as our time's Einstein?

........ Hahahahahahaha

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Yeah by his own PR team, mostly, but it was a pretty easy fascade to see through when you actually listened to the man speak. Still don't forgive Dan Harmon for letting him shit on R&M with the eLoN tUsK bullshit. Or Star Trek Discovery for that matter, which happened much later after he had already shown his true face to the world. I know Harmon got paid because he's talked about it, but I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.

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[–] thepenismightier@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago
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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He's not stupid, only suffers from drug induced dementia

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (4 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I always assumed he was a moderately intelligent tech CEO until I saw a clip a few years ago where he was showing off the evolution of Starlink rockets and he referred to the piping and whatnot on the outside of the rockets as "the fiddly bits".

Unrelated, but he was also wearing a t-shirt that highlighted his noodle arms and his man boobs. You would think that somebody vain enough to get hair implants and plastic surgery would have enough sense to at least dress in a flattering manner.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

if you've seen his body you know there's no fabric on this here earth that can flatter his troglodyte figure.

he was always assumed to be somewhat smart by people who don't know what he's talking about. the moment he talks about anything you know you realize he's full of shit. that's why astronauts he idolized for example never bought his shit, even when he was at his peak of popularity.

he's the embodiment of "it's better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt". he's also the best counterargument to any idiot who thinks we live in a meritocratic system.

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 135 points 1 day ago (8 children)

He collected data on all Americans from multiple government agencies, successfully killed multiple investigations into several of his companies, and secured additional government contracts for those companies. Is that what we're calling nothing these days?

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Somehow nobody has mentioned the drugs? And obvious signs of mental illness? Obviously high functioning, but that does not make the decisions less nuts.

Has anybody seen the Johnny Harris video on musk? It was all fun and games until the drugs came out to play.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Peter Thiel also does a shit ton of drugs and you don't see him spiralling this hard

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Even if he loses hundreds of billions of dollars he's still richer than like 99% of individual people worldwide will ever be.

I will save the schadenfreude for when he pays for the deaths of men, women, and children who were denied care from the USAID funds being cut.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i don't understand these figures

Lost $300,000,000 with Trump Losing billions more by the day

[–] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

$300mil was about how much he paid to buy the election, he’s lost about $33bil in stock value of Tesla in the last few days due to the public sniping with Agent Krasnov

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Ah, that makes sense

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