What I hear: he didn’t before because Putin had the dirt on him. Now that it’s out…
Epstein was pretty obviously mossad but both russia and israel seem to both use the blackmail materials. Interesting how that woks from such a “staunch US ally” as israel is portrayed to be. How are they sharing this stuff?
Side note, I suggest a change to english writing standards whereby loathsome words like “putin” or “israel” become exceptions to capitalization rules and are always lower case. “US” is an exception only because it breaks the writing flow and reads as ‘us’.
So he could have done it all along but he didn’t do it as countless Ukrainian civilians were being targeted and killed.
His image can’t be saved.
There is a percentage of any population that just repeats shit they heard their role models say, like it’s the gospel. Image repair is going to involve starting “cool projects,” getting good interviews with popular influencers, and coaching a swarm of people to ignorantly support him for the “sake of humanity” or some shit. This is a weird faucet of human society, but look at how well it works…
a weird faucet of human society
You mean one of those annoying ones with one dial for hot and one for cold that are never in a useful temperature range for longer than a second?
It’s like you want to see what’s at the bottom of a well, but someone turns on a spigot of water to cause ripples. You can’t tell whether what’s down there is more round or square, now. Later they add food coloring, and you can’t really recall by this point if the object was originally red or orange… Soon they toss in some disco balls, and now you’ve gotten distracted by the shiny sparkles everywhere. Eventually, the well fills and the disco balls float to the top. Everyone around you is remarking at how beautiful the well looks, and you’re the only one left wondering what the fuck just happened.
Then if you bring up how something was at the bottom, those people will attack you for being ignorant of the wells beauty, and all humanity gains from that well. They’ll tell you, you should be more grateful.
You’re right, that’s NOTHING like any of the faucets I have! 😁
At this point, yeah but there’s also a third knob that just pours blood straight out the faucet.
That one’s really handy for vampires with social anxiety, though 🤷
Yeahp.
Yet another feather in the cap of unspeakably craven, deranged, objectively evil things he has done.
I guess uh, expect him to use his latest baby from his latest baby mama as a human shield for photo ops more often.
I’ve supported Nazis both in Russia and the USA but now I want a better image so that people start buying my cars again so I van become a trillionaire. All forgiven?
Fuck. Off. And. Die.
wtf is going on with these people and their “image repair”?
you’ve shown who you are. deal with the consequences.
you don’t deserve power.
This is not image repair. Musk shared starling in exchange for Russia’s silence. But the files are out so Russia didn’t do their end of the deal, so musk removes his end of the deal.
you don’t deserve power.
Not even the kind that recharges devices!
The world would be many times better off if he was forced to live a 100% analog life.
this idea feels utopian
A tiger doesn’t change its stripes. Neither does a nazi.
Musk’s basic code was always there. He just knew how to put lipstick on a pig to trick the masses into compliance.
Ever since that submarine idea of his got shitted on. Ever since then. That was a real odd episode, and right about then is when my eyebrows went up and I started thinking that this fucker was projecting.
He’s always been like this, in the past he’s just had handlers that managed his image. I think around 2015 he fired his secretary mommy that had been controlling his worst behaviors for over a decade.
Every time see this turd’s name, I think of the Star Trek Discovery episode where he was quoted as one of the most brilliants earthian scientist/engineer or something. This show was soooo shitty, so blind and so in-your-face. So* lib*. Thank the gods for Strange New World.
Next Gen, DS9 and Voyager are still the best, though.
The part that stings the most about Elon to me is the failed potential or his missed opportunity to have been a great man and a true benefit to humanity. Larry Ellison has always, ALWAYS, been a cartoonishly evil fucker. So, when he does evil shit you aren’t shocked. Elon was, on the surface, trying to do things to help humanity progress. Instead, he shit on all of it and threw fuel to the fire that will burn the USA to the ground.
Yeah, no. He never could have been because there never was potential. I keep hearing this and talks about how smart he is and why would he use that for evil.
No.
The guy is a fucking idiot.
He has a certain charisma, and he is a great scammer, that’s for sure, and he got lucky like hell multiple times, but please stop pretending that this guy who got fired from his own company for incompetence has any abilities or redeeming qualities. He doesn’t. In. A different universe, he simply would have failed at step one and nobody would have known his name.
He is a dumb but lucky lying scam artist, nothing more. Any qualities that people think he has, are just other things he made up and claimed. He claims he’s the world best engineer yet literally every idea that comes from him directly is just too stoopid to even say out loud.
The earlier Tesla’s aren’t his (no he did not found Tesla, that too is a lie) but the cyber truck is his idea and design and that should show the absolute insanity in his head.
I never said he wasn’t an idiot. I know from personal experience he is cringe and an idiot. My comment relates to the path he had chosen, where he was focusing his energies and , more importantly, the investment dollars he was getting, and how he veered off that path.
i’ve read that he was always a fuck knob, he just used to have better PR.
He almost got himself and Peter Thiel killed by crashing a $1m car while trying to show off for Thiel. He got kicked out of PayPal for nearly bankrupting the company and insisting that they switch all their servers from Unix to windows for no fucking reason.
So yeah, he’s always been like this.
It feels unfair that in our timeline Bush somehow won against Al Gore and Musk didn’t take out himself and Thiel before they could bring substantial damage to our societies.
Are we somehow just living in like the worst possible timeline after 2000?
So Musk could really have been a hero in the end. 🤔
What a shame!
And he wanted to rebrand it to… you guessed it… X.
He had the x.com domain name purchased back then, too. A loser for the entirety of his life.
Ah, what could have been…
Yeah, it was funny how he was in pre-twitter days considered to be a tech industry prodigy who was going guide humanity to a better tomorrow. Then he bought Twitter and started broadcasting what’s running in his head to in extend that entire world knows he’s a right wing fuck knob.
I think that’s what they mean by “on the surface”. If he had just kept the cringe quiet and stayed out of politics, he could have pushed the envelope on electric cars, rockets, robots, etc. and a majority of people would have been happy to see him do it. He had two things going for him: enormous wealth and a desire for cool tech.
He could have had as many stupidly named babies as he wanted, seethed about trans people and have time to actually get good at video games, all from the luxury of his many homes and jets. All he had to do was let his PayPal money get to work in his chosen tech industries and keep his personality out of it.
The world might have progressed a little, even. His companies would be better off. Many of us would have bought Teslas. The Cybertruck would never have happened. Twitter would… well, Twitter would still suck but it would be someone else’s fault.
This is exactly what I meant.
I dealt with Elon during the PayPal days. He was a cringey fucker back then too, and we essentially laughed him and his stupid idea out of the building. So, I knew the type of guy he was back before 2015.
Ultimately, Forest Gump’s momma said it best. Stupid is as stupid does. If Elon’s actions pushed forth positive change, it wouldn’t matter how big of a cringey fuck he was.
I’m glad he exposed himself for who he truly is.
Yea, I think its for the best.
I think he has always been an asshole, but at least he was working on things that actually helped humans, like popularizing electric vehicles and lowering the cost of getting to space. Nowadays he mostly just brainwashes Grok into spreading propaganda.
He was never working on things that helped humans. He was a cheerleader for wild greed. Full stop.
Elon Musk has never been anything more than an investor with a good PR team. He doesn’t have a brain to develop anything on his own.
I don’t think the person you responded to doesn’t realize this.
The part that stings the most about Elon to me is the failed potential or his missed opportunity to have been a great man and a true benefit to humanity.
This opening sentence feels like they may not know.
Only if you assume that commenter thinks people change their entire moral character on a whim.
You should pick a better hill to die on.
Speak for yourself dude. I’m just pointing out you made a weird assumption.
If you can explain how my assumption is weird you are free to.
Elon was what? you need to learn a lot about narcissism and love bombing and the various forms of it…
save your empathy for people who need it - and thanks to billionaires, a LOT of people would be happy to receive empathy.
False narrative. His children can tell you he’s been a shitlord for a long while now. He was a nepo baby from a family that got rich off exploiting human beings, and he did nothing to distance himself (not his image, himself) from that legacy. He hired people to do the work for him then took credit for it like he’s a genius.
Elon can eat shit.
Well, he got his mention in Star Trek as one of the great people to will have advanced humanity, so I guess after having that had crossed off his list he could just do something different next.
Let’s just gloss over his cameo in the MCU too.
Wait what? Where? When? Which episode?
How do you wanna be remembered in history? Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane? Or as a failed fungus expert? A selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others.
Well, that aged like shit
It was said by Lorca, a character from the evil Mirror Universe. So although it wasn’t intended at the time, the case could be made that we was accidentally outing himself as being from that universe since where else would Musk be remembered positively?
Currently doing a DIS rewatch. Not a big fan but not on the hate train either. But man, my intestines cramped from the cringe when that scene popped up.
I choose to believe that that is not a list of three similar things, but a list of different ways to be remembered.
Do you want to be remembered as dilettante competing in a crowded field who managed to have the right combination of skill and luck?
Do you want to be remembered as the one collosal idiot with a cult of personality, who claimed to work for humanity but only ever dipped us into a kessler syndrome and helped set the conditions for the Bell Riots?
Do you want to be remwmbered as the inventor of a revolutionary technology in desperate times that single-handedly averted the doomed fate of humanity?
He got no options in repairing his image with me. Elmo can go fuck himself.
Idk, shooting himself on live television would redeem him slightly in my eyes. Slightly…
Honestly, if he does a suicide bomber style cleanup of the White House, I might grant him a smidge of respect.
Oh my god imagine if he pulled a Budd Dwyer on live TV!
DIE
and he never even got the Pedo-island invite
Theres something a tiny bit pity inducing about that. Or its just a new level of pathetic.
They didn’t want him creeping out the other pedos.
Nazi pedo this guy is
Lol, fucking loser wasn’t even good enough to play with other rich pedos. He’s just a pedo wannabe
Did it occur to anyone that Russia was blackmailing Elon over this and now that it’s out he can finally do what’s right regarding Starlink Access?
Bold of you to assume Elon needs a reason to be a bastard
More like they premised to force Trump to keep it secret for starlink access and their elderly asset fumbled than in his demented rage. Now the deal is off.
Probably not, because he’s never shown much inclination to do what is right without significant, external, pressure.
That doesn’t mean they weren’t blackmailing him, just that cutting their access is more likely an attempt to be seen to be doing the right thing, rather than doing it becausevit’s right. Basically the direction of the external pressure has changed, and now this is the most advantageous approach for him.
Thiel is blackmailing him for sure.
Thiel may be worse than even elon.
Thiel is far worse, he’s smart, elon is a moron, and mentally challenged, there is something wrong with him.
Sure, potentially, that’s an interesting theory but what difference does it make? That doesn’t change his guilt or responsibility. Even if that were the case, being willing to own your mistakes publicly is a perfect antidote to blackmail.
Elon chose instead to try to weaponize the very Epstein files that apparently implicate him, against other people (who are granted also guilty and vile reprehensible individuals, so he gets a pass for that) while trying to convince everyone that he was completely innocent, and, assuming your theory is true, felt protecting his own reputation from the blackmail threat was more important than contributing to the death of over a million people to try to avoid the blackmail. Zero accountability and lies and murder, and we’re supposed to forgive Elon even a little and direct more of the blame to evil Russia instead? I don’t think so. There’s plenty of guilt and responsibility to go around, we don’t need to ration it. Elon is evil, Russia is evil, neither of them have done anything to deserve any sympathy from me. I don’t care what was going on behind the closed doors of those dirty, dirty people, the things they were doing to each other and why are irrelevant factors to me, all I care about is what they were collectively doing to other, innocent people, and that is what I will judge them for.
Oh I don’t disagree. Hope my post wasn’t interpreted as defending this asshat.
