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u/LifesARiver Aug 14 '26
He's nowhere near smart enough to be a PT Barnum.
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u/oh_my316 Aug 14 '26
And NONE of his charisma 🙄
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u/herpaderpaburpa Aug 14 '26
He used to hold a good "progressive" charade, then the dude turned himself into a nut job.
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u/Numar19 Aug 14 '26
I would say he is more of an Edison: stealing all the inventions his workers come up with and claiming to be a genius who single handedly invented all of it.
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u/Exciting-Cancel6468 Aug 14 '26
Ironic that a moden day Edison is mostly stealing the credit from the people that created Tesla.
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u/Chicano_Ducky Aug 15 '26
not once did Edison say he wanted to break into the "government" industry and say it was unfair the only way for an "entrepeneur" to "break in" is through a war, election, or revolution.
thats why tech bros want "freedom cities" for "disrupt" the "government" "industry"
Edison wasnt this stupid. Elon Musk is NEXT LEVEL stupidity and so is all the other tech bros who say this shit.
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 14 '26
Definitely a fraud, and up until just before the pandemic he had pulled it off pretty remarkably. Then it started to unravel and now everyone can see what a deranged lunatic he is.
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u/Atomicmooseofcheese Aug 15 '26
Many folks had the blinders lifted when he called the cave diving hero a pedo.
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u/Snakestream Aug 14 '26
The more he talks about subjects you actually know, the more obvious it becomes that he is completely full of shit.
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u/youjustdontgetitdoya Aug 14 '26
But we’re so close to colonizing mars!!! Just 1 trillion more tax payer dollars should push us over the finish line!
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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe Aug 15 '26
What?! We are going to have self driving cars by 2016!
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u/testtdk Aug 14 '26
As someone with experience in programming, physics, and mathematics, some of the statements he’s made about his participation in his own companies are baffling. I know he tries to sound like he knows what he’s talking about in public, but I can’t even fathom why he would say what he does to people who know what they’re doing. Each and every one of them have to know he’s utterly full of shit.
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u/fafalone Aug 15 '26
I never thought he was a genius, but for me, as a programmer, he hit 'dumb as a box of rocks' for me when he took over Twitter and asked all the developers for a screenshot of their best code in order to evaluate them.
For the non-programmers out there, that's exactly as it sounds... like judging the work of novelists by asking them for a picture of a random paragraph in one of their books.
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u/StatusCodeFailed Aug 15 '26
Those leaked Twitter meeting calls shortly after he bought it were amazing - he was essentially saying "let's rip out all these server appliances until we hit something critical" and calling for pretty much the entire tech stack to be re-done and the senior engineers called him straight out on his bullshit.
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u/Poor-Life-Choice Aug 15 '26
I’m a mechanical engineer so I had years of hearing his bullshit before he bought Twitter. Zero surprise he was spewing similar bullshit on the software engineer side when he bought Twitter.
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u/cjarrett Aug 15 '26
Been known too forever. I remember chatting with my bud a decade ago who got hired at SpaceX and the higher ups told him to ignore anything elon said and defer him to them if he was intruding.
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u/ackillesBAC Aug 15 '26
He's like trump. Just says what he wants to happen with no logic behind it. The only difference is musk has one skill, employing people smarter than him.
The world is lucky that trump fires anyone smarter than him.
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u/flojo2012 Aug 14 '26
We got the cyber truck didn’t we?!
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u/Numar19 Aug 14 '26
You mean the child killer car that rusts away in no time?
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u/Aleksandrovitch Aug 14 '26
You know, if you put one of those parliamentary wigs on him and an old world suit, he’d look exactly like one of those old portraits you look at and think, “It feels like a realistic charicature of a Human, but no one actually looked like this, did they?”
This fucking guy would. Cant tell if wealth, stupid, genes, drugs, aliens, or power cause this kind of… aspect. Probably some cursed combination.
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u/ZPMQ38A Aug 14 '26
He’s a professional con artist. He’s a good salesman because he could sell ice to an Eskimo…because he’s so dumb that he honestly believes the Eskimos need ice so his pitch is very convincing.
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u/OddlyMingenuity Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
While facts agree with you, I cannot understand how anyone with money to give was ever convinced by his delivery and demeanor.
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u/The_Lou_Dynassti Aug 15 '26
around Trump part 1, 2016 there was a window where he did seem like a relatively normal only mildly weird guy who was at least smart and level headed enough not turn into a fuckin alt-right nazi, but boy did that last
Same thing with J.K. Rowling, writes this huge story that's an obvious allegory against the nazis and then ends up basically siding with the people who think the nazis were onto something or are nazis.
I think Elon's always been a piece of shit bull conman loser, he just had a PR team that kept him in check for a long time.
I think J.K. Rowling's brain has melted from the internet and all the money and her being high on her own farts all the time has made her senile and weird and mean. Her abusive ex husband who would physically threaten her and her most prized possessions didn't help either.
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u/bobsocool Aug 15 '26
If you look up Sam Bankman-Fried he impressed investors by multitasking playing lol while talking with them and they invested 24 million.
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u/Agile_Tomorrow2038 Aug 14 '26
His delivery is stock manipulation and financial engineering, the tech and product side is just the vehicle to commit massive fraud, enriching everyone helping financially
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u/FeedFast2549 Aug 14 '26
Totally agree with her take
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u/Some_Ebb_2921 Aug 14 '26
"one of the most", sure... but I bet Trump still got him beat
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u/igcipd Aug 14 '26
She said Billionaire not Pedophile
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u/igcipd Aug 15 '26
That’s fair. Trump is only a billionaire because of the open corruption taking place, he’s never been successful in anything other than shitting his pants.
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u/penilesensorydevice Aug 14 '26
He was on Rogan a year or two ago, and he was playing with his AI chatbot thing on his phone as the show began. He was showing Rogan how he could make it insult him and call him names, and he was tittering and giggling like a total imbecile. If I had money invested in one of his ventures, it'd have been quite alarming.
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u/D0CTOR_Wh0m Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
Insult Rogan or himself? Former is childish, latter is childish and bizarre self owning/self-loathing
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u/Jeans_Intelligence Aug 14 '26
His example was going to a party and having grok insult your friends as a roast. Extremely normal social interaction.
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Aug 15 '26
Rogan is a shit comedian, but he knows how desperately unfunny this is and he just has to hold his tongue. It's absolutely pathetic.
Musk repeatedly shows himself to have the maturity and sense of humour of a 12 year old who just discovered 4Chan.
That clip is so fucking awkward.
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u/Aelig_ Aug 15 '26
Epstein thought he was too weird to be around. Trump's best friend thought someone was significantly weirder than Trump.
The fact that such a person exists is mind boggling.
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u/FlatwormAway2228 Aug 14 '26
He and Trump are cut from the same cloth of children forever trapped in adult bodies.
It's profoundly pathetic. And dangerous.
Neither of them would have amounted to anything if they weren't born into wealth. But they probably wouldn't be pathetic losers if they'd had to work for a living all their lives.
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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Aug 15 '26
At the same time had they not been born into wealth maybe they would have had to develop social skills as part of life. Everyone's a little shit as kids, the important thing is to learn so you don't grow into a big turd
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u/RaindropsInMyMind Aug 15 '26
Imagine someone in a regular job doing the type of nonsense that they do, it’s unimaginable. They would be fired, in Trump’s case he would be an absolute nightmare to work with, on top of being childish he’s a sociopath. They would be changed if they were in a normal work environment but not completely. Trump didn’t even have the attention span to sit down and explain his life to the guy that wrote his book, that’s why he had to be followed around. He doesn’t have the attention span to read, that’s why he just watches TV all the time and doesn’t understand concepts in depth.
His parents completely fucked him up, you can see how absolutely desperate he is for attention and approval and how full of vitriol he is when people don’t do what he wants. Like an elementary school bully.
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u/IfItHurtsThenMaybe Aug 14 '26
Since the Thai cave fiasco I’ve known this turd was rank…
https://giphy.com/gifs/0ZWzpdd0wUhhGZ7gqe
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u/FlatwormAway2228 Aug 14 '26
I think the Thai cave thing was the wakeup call for most people. Myself included. Assholes can't hide their true nature for long. Once the spotlight fell square on him he put on his clown nose and started dancing.
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u/ukco6 Aug 14 '26
The Thai cave event was an eye opener for me too. I always thought he was a bit odd/quirky, but with some good ideas. That was one of the first times he spoke on a subject that I actually know quite a lot about. He seemed like a complete moron. He’s a lot more unhinged now. He doesn’t seem content at all, I wouldn’t swap places with him given the chance.
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u/NoLibrarian5149 Aug 14 '26
Yep. I fell for the lie that he was a real world Tony Stark and then that incident happened and it opened my eyes.
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u/GoodAge7519 Aug 15 '26
If anyone have ever seen Musk sit down and talk to a real theoretical physicist and how gently they have to be to correct him because of his arrogance, you know that Musk has always been levels and levels below in comparison. This guy is trying to save humanity while not realizing that he is the threat.
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u/wanker7171 Aug 15 '26
Was about two years earlier for me, when he cancelled the investor’s tesla order because he wrote a blog critical of a Telsa launch event, in part for how late Musk was to it. Musk called him personally and afterwards cancelled the dude’s order. Anyone who is calm and collected knows Elon cancelling the order was probably the goal from the start.
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u/DreamPhreak Aug 15 '26
Same turning point for me too. When he didnt get his way and started calling one of the cave divers a pedo. Also funny how we now know that he was begging to be invited to epstein island but not even those pedos or billionaires liked him either.
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u/Scaryclouds Aug 15 '26
Had some Tesla stock at the time, and also full bought in on the Musk hype.
However leading up to the Thai cave “rescue” noticed his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic.
Once he decided to intervene with his stupid submarine idea, I was out. The decision was immediately validated when he called the actual rescue diver a pedophile.
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u/Resident_Lion_3947 Aug 14 '26
remove the money and he is the creepy neighbor that your parents tell you stay away from...
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u/Grouched Aug 14 '26
Dude definitely rolled a natural 1 on charisma.
Just pure awkward weirdo energi and no amount of money will ever change that.
Also, parents should definitely tell their kids to stay away from him even with the money.
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u/Powderedeggs2 Aug 14 '26
She is probably right.
Of course, the all-time dunce award goes to Trump.
But Musk is definitely in the running.
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u/Ok_Being5461 Aug 14 '26
Elon is a pathological liar and narcissist and his employees have to walk on eggshells around him. That by itself is unintelligent. It's really that he's not that special. He half got lucky, starting with his massive Paypal stock payout that he was able to use to buy Tesla, after he got kicked out of Paypal for being a dummy. Was starting a rocket company intelligent, sure. Is a lot of what he says, no. But let's be real, the intelligent people doing the actual work are his engineers and scientists.
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u/Arthur_Boo_Radley Aug 15 '26
Was starting a rocket company intelligent, sure.
Well, no. Had the government not helped him it would've been a case study bust.
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u/JakeHelldiver Aug 14 '26
What he is, is a brutally fragile and deluded narcissist, and his narcissistic delusions drive him to do incredibly weird, hurtful and stupid things. He has the emotional and intellectual maturity of a fourteen year old boy because he is incapable of acknowledging, growing, and learning from his failure because he cannot pathologically handle admitting they exist.
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u/ChiLolla28 Aug 15 '26
Elon Musk should be in prison for all the millions that will die and the tens of thousands who have already died because of all his purposely incompetent cuts to USAID, NIH, etc
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u/futuristicplatapus Aug 14 '26
Most millionaires or billionaires are not the smartest they just learned to play the game
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u/FlatwormAway2228 Aug 14 '26
They learned to play the game of Monopoly after starting out with way, way more cash and properties than the other players. Not impressive.
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u/dragon-fence Aug 14 '26
Yeah, if you’ve actually met and dealt with any multimillionaires of billionaires, it becomes abundantly clear that they didn’t earn that position. They’re the dumbest, most fragile, most entitled, pettiest losers you could imagine.
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u/nonlinear_nyc Aug 14 '26
They were born into it, man.
Squash your meritocratic dreams.
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u/PantsFullaPoo Aug 14 '26
He looks like a wax sculpture of a fat old white lady that is slowly melting.
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u/AtreiyaN7 Aug 14 '26
Elongated Muskrat would be right at the top of the list of most unintelligent billionaires if Trump didn't exist.
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u/Higher-Frequencies Aug 14 '26
The only intelligence Elon has is nefarious and self-serving.
He’s smart in the same way raccoons are smart. He’s just another grifter who channeled any potential he might have had into exploitation for gain without regard for anyone but himself.
The day he sheds this mortal coil, the collective net happiness and good of the world will soar. Much like his frienemy Donald Drumph
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u/Evening_Act_6395 Aug 14 '26
he's a glorified welfare queen, his companies literally only exist because of a decade of federal subsidies
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u/artosispylon Aug 14 '26
this dude paid someone to play on his path of exile 2 video game account and then streamed it pretending he himself was the one who leveled it up... he then got exposed instantly by people who know the game because he was clearly a complete noob.
how dumb can this guy even get?
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u/No-Criticism-2587 Aug 15 '26
Was embarrassing watching him stream games for a bit, he stopped when he realized how stupid it made him look.
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u/Cyber_Wiz_999 Aug 15 '26
Funniest part about this post is all the Elon fanboys taking his D out their mouths running to the comments to defend him 😂
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u/flyer510 Aug 14 '26
Everyone designs and builds rockets
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u/x11Terminator11x Aug 14 '26
no, just brilliant scientists, mathematicians and engineers build rockets. musk isn't any of those. give the credit to the people who deserve it.
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u/Opening-Emphasis8400 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Really stating the obvious there. Musk is an actual regard.
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u/gorlsituation Aug 15 '26
The theory that he had a neurolink implant that failed is compelling, that or the ketamine
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u/HinDae085 Aug 15 '26
Weirdest too. Wasn't he running around soliciting random women to have his babies to add to his "legion"?
Also, he got thrown out of a babyfur party for being a creep.
That and he looks like a fucking homunculus.
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u/zehamberglar Aug 15 '26
Trump and Elon are just objective proof that there's no link between intelligence/talent and making money, at least not past a certain cap. All that matters is getting as much capital as you can get your grubby little mitts on and then it just goes off like a runaway train no matter how regarded you are.
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u/stonkDonkolous Aug 15 '26
Nobody has ever said the guy is smart. He probably has an iq around 110. He has manipulated his way to where he is with lots of luck.
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u/ShadowFox1987 Aug 15 '26
Can we just all stop and acknowledge how genuinely weird it is that the world's richest man, who runs multiple companies and is 55 years old has the internet habits, politics and social instincts of an 18 year old incel CS freshman
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u/TheDamned1333 Aug 15 '26
But one of the greatest grifters the world has ever known. Shamelessly stealing other people’s ideas and claiming them for his own. He’s the racist leader of a smelly little cult of personality of people who cling to his coattails because they believe his outrageous lies.
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u/Icy-Cow9695 Aug 14 '26
She nailed it. It's funny he convinced everyone he was a genius when he was pitching all his self driving cars and Mars nonsense. All he's ever been is a savvy buisness investor AT TIMES. He's like the modern Edison though where his real "talent" is being able to hire smarter people that make things and gives him ideas and he sells them as his own.
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u/Watching_Watcher4466 Aug 14 '26
AOC looks like a donkey my grandpa owned. Used to hee haw all day long too.
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u/Seraph199 Aug 15 '26
She is a beautiful and very intelligent woman, and you are probably a racist misogynistic piece of shit
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u/Faunt1 Aug 14 '26
AOC’s qualifications are waitress in a bar…. lol
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u/Cyberknight13 Aug 15 '26
Yet she is more intelligent than Musk and the majority of the current US presidential administration.
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u/No-Criticism-2587 Aug 15 '26
Only someone less intelligent than her would have this take. She's very clearly extremely educated. She just doesn't look like someone that you personally would want to be intelligent, so you attack her.
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u/nispe2 Aug 15 '26
I like how people always complain that Congress doesn't reflect everyday Americans and then as soon as a bartender gets elected they insult it.
But don't worry, she's almost been in Congress longer than she was a bartender, so you can switch from calling her a stupid bartender to an elitist career politician sometime next year.
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u/SexRobot2025 Aug 15 '26
That and having been in Congress for 8 years. It's pretty impressive for a 36 year old.
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u/Firm_Willow4068 Aug 15 '26
So a warbly voiced man who eats roadkill and has a brain parasite being in charge of health, despite no medical education, and a fox news anchor that made his way halfway up the military ladder being in charge of the entire military are both a-ok with you, but a college educated woman that comes from a working class background and was actually elected to her position to represent her constituents is where you draw the line.
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u/Last_Understanding_6 Aug 14 '26
Elon Musk is the answer to the question, what would happen if a dumb frat boy got really lucky
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u/Majestic-Insurance64 Aug 14 '26
Him and DJT...it's like complete brainrot and I can't figure out why they can be this rich. Seems like you just have to be a miserable human being.
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u/notyrantsever Aug 14 '26
I don’t know any billionaires. However, the dude seems like a nit wit and a white supremacist.
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u/craigathan Aug 14 '26
Why do people equate great wealth with intelligence? Some of the poorest people I've ever meet are true geniuses and some of the richest people I've meet can barely tie their shoes. The market does not reward intelligence, it rewards ruthlessness and the 2 rarely combine.
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u/Fox2_Fox2 Aug 14 '26
Most miserable son of the bitch billionaire in the world. So much money yet so fking miserable.
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u/karmakarmachameleon7 Aug 14 '26
Elon is what happens when you have a kid with assbergers who is raised by a wealthy family of Nazi sympathizers / apartheidists. I think his potential worldview with his amount of money (power) is far more important and dangerous than his potential IQ. Imo these comments by AOC are weak and will come off as no more than personal insults. Makes me fear the right is going to destroy her if she gets tagged for 2028.
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u/Sad-Excitement9295 Aug 14 '26
After seeing this guy guwaffe so many times, I can't be sure he's even approaching common level intelligence. He certainly lacks much social intelligence.
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u/nonlinear_nyc Aug 14 '26
She's not wrong. He spews science fiction talk to his acolytes, they think it's science but it's fiction.
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u/RegretfulCalamaty Aug 14 '26
He buys things he didn’t create. Tells smart people to create things he wants. Buys political capital to enrich himself by bending or breaking laws. He’s nothing but a rich bully and a parasite. Pathetic.
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u/nonequation Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
I am not listening to "the jews invented dinosaurs to trick Christians" lady
Wrong one mixed up the quote with Candice
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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up Aug 14 '26
I love hearing him talk on podcasts… he takes these long pauses like he’s searching for a way to communicate his brilliance to the audience. Reality is that he’s super dumb and can’t think of how to sound smart.
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u/Illustrious_Juice216 Aug 15 '26
Wealthy <> intelligent. Wealthy <> holy. St. Francis of Assisi called money "donkey dung."
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