working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done.
Just like self driving
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Quoting myself:
Musk has literally zero redeeming qualities. He might be the worst person alive in every possible aspect. He's despicable from a moral standpoint, hideous to look at, an awful public speaker, tediously unfunny, not personable in the slightest, dumb as a brick and obnoxiously whiny. I am not exaggerating, he might be The Worst Guy Ever. It is incredible just how much he sucks.
This useless Apartheid Andy steps into a government position and immediately sets the collapse of the American empire into overdrive. His sheer oafishness causes a 71% drop in perhaps the most overvalued company of all time. And when push comes just within vague proximity of shove, he immediately quits.
I know there is no such thing as meritocracy but Musk is so awful at everything he does, so horrendously incompetent, there are so many ghouls with rich parents who are just as sociopathic but way smarter and more persistent than him, how did this absolute fucking idiot become the richest man in the world?
Donald Trump is funny. Peter Thiel doesn't embarrass himself on stage every week. Asmongold knows how to play Path of Exile. Adolf Hitler was a good public speaker. Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't crumble at the slightest bit of pushback. JD Vance can laugh at a joke about himself. Elon Musk fails at all of these aspects while sucking just as hard in every other way.
And then, somehow this unbelievable loser is a sex pest who pressures women to have his kids but doesn't even get laid in the process. Oh, you got this attractive 25-year-old right-wing grifter chick pregnant... but you didn't have sex with her? If he was paying these hot women to let him knock them up the natural way he'd still be a gross creep, but my primitive male brain would be able to relate on some level. But no, he's paying them exclusively so he can mail them his fucking sperm and become a deadbeat dad to another abandoned child.
Why is he like this? What the fuck is wrong with this man? All the other tech oligarchs have some level of competence, how is Musk so horrendously awful, pathetic, weak, obnoxious, useless and despicable in every conceivable way? How is this wannabe-hitlerian boer the richest man in the world?
It's the system. Only capitalism can make someone like 
the richest man in the world. I don't believe a true meritocracy can exist, but I believe we live in the opposite of one.
He has constantly made false promises for the last 15 years and yet people (with money) still trust him
robotaxis just a week away
I don't believe a true meritocracy can exist, but I believe we live in the opposite of one.
this goes hard
It is a meritocracy but the skill that gets rewarded is scamming people
To add on to this, the punishments for impropriety do not scale with wealth. What is devastating for regular folks is nothing to the rich. Like parking tickets in Manhattan, when "punishments" become the cost of doing business then there is no real barrier to this behavior once you cross the threshold.
Asmongold knows how to play Path of Exile.
great post but lol no he doesn't. <3
And then, somehow this unbelievable loser is a sex pest who pressures women to have his kids but doesn't even get laid in the process.
isn't that because his penile implant fucking exploded and destroyed his penis?
Please please tell me this claim has at least a grain of substance
i'd get you some sources but i really really don't want to duckduckgo search "elon musk's destroyed penis"
Amazing post. Don’t forget how he clings to stale memes that haven’t been funny (if they ever were) for over a decade. You don’t see Trump posting Pepe like it’s 2016 anymore yet Musk is convinced doge is the height of humor and the letter x is still as epic as it was when he was 10 years old
At one point he was just the typical tech oligarch failson who was sort of just quietly awful behind the scenes while collecting accolades for other people's work and getting fluffed up by credulous tech "journalists". He managed to grift some successful contracts using that publicity and his PR team leveraged it into more and more bullshit hype for businesses he owned and he just failed upwards over and over.
Even after he had a midlife crisis and started just doing lots of drugs and showing his whole ass on twitter all day every day he still had all that inertia and machinery of hype and graft behind him to feed him more and more wealth and power despite anything he actually did. He had to actively piss off enough people that that system started clogging and breaking down to even suffer the most mild of consequences. Hopefully it keeps going and everything he had and has falls apart so he can't just go back to a quietly parasitic existence like most other tech oligarchs.
Still loling at the fact that libs ever liked this guy.
This should forever be held against them. This and all those other altruistic enlightenment I seen libs on ERA argue why the effective altruism is the bomb and then they turned into ghoulish tech oligarchs of the dark enlightenment variety. They said it with chest now look at em 
I remember arguing till like red in the face how much musk sucks to a couple of my lib friends in like 2019. I bring it up now and they have no idea what I'm talking about
This is their response every time they get called out for having been on the wrong side of history.
For me it was some dudes saying "well hes a billionaire and you're not. You saying you know more about x than him?" Lol guess I should take Steve jobs cancer treatment advice. Hes a billionaire after all
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Proof that we're in a farce
The richest human on Earth currently is the one devoid of ANY positive traits
Distilled loser through and through
If he hadn't been born into a rich family no one would have heard about him outside of whatever town he lived in.
The wealthy and powerful do not achieve that status through any special trait that makes them superior. They are just as boring and fucked up as everyone else but they have to seem better or the illusion of meritocracy falls apart and people start to wonder why these people have been elevated above them. So they shaped society so that being aggressively mediocre or even downright incompetent is no hindrance to maintaining your family’s dynastic hold in wealth and power.
As a side effect the various compensatory mechanisms they constructed to paper over their numerous flaws all worked together to elevate the worlds worst piece of barely sentient shit to the peak of wealth and power.
It's amazing how successful the grift has been. Robotaxis? Sure, it's Elon. Autonomous humanoid robots? Elon's a visionary, he'll get 'em done. Massive amounts of money get flung his way on the flimsiest of claims. Apparently believing that capitalism is an efficient system for allocating productive resources to meeting the public's needs primes you for many other chimeras.
GOOD post comrade 
Tesla will fail even harder if Elon starts actually managing them. Can't wait to laugh at upcoming CyberSUVs and Cybercars.
Depends. Just being out of the spotlight will probably help to rehabilitate his image enough that sales go up.
Musk can't stand not being in the spotlight. He might step more out of politics, but he's still gonna be doing the same obnoxious shit he's been doing the last ~10 years.
And don't forget, their sales numbers are down world wide so much of his bad press is just about him being a Nazi and what not. That doesn't go away when he leaves DC.
There’s something utterly maddening that the most powerful people are all petty manchildren.
The reality is that I’m an impotent loser who can’t even touch these assholes, and they can do whatever they want and dodge karma every time.
They aren't dodging karma though, they may be dodging personal karma, but their projects will never actually succeed in the way they want them to or claim them to, and ultimately they are running the American project they claim to love straight into the ground. Their legacies will ultimately be ash in their mouths.
Becoming such a powerful person in this system requires one to be a petty manchild
trump kicked him out like he said he would.
I'm just surprised Trump hasn't given a statement on this yet. I've never heard of him letting someone just leave on their own terms, not when he gets to yell "You're fired!" at someone.
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Yup, Elon Musk being more involved with Tesla ought to fix the unpopularity and reputation for terrible products caused by Elon Musk being involved with Tesla
He is gonna ramp up labor abuses for a negative net revenue.
Bullying works
First off, obligatory never worked a day in his life and never will.
Second, this is like when you're a kid and some other kid comes over on a play date, eats all the good snacks, breaks your favorite toy, then leaves without saying thank you.
First off, obligatory never worked a day in his life and never will.
You'd think he'd be better at video games, but apparently that's too much work for him too.
"mY TiMe aLlOcAtiOn"
SHUTUPSHUTSHUTUPSHUTUP
Allocate yourself in front of a freight train
He always tries to use big words to sound smart but in the dumbest ways. It still works on his fanboys though
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If only he would take a step back off a bridge
or a pier
I would just like to add every comment in this thread is correct
elongated muskrat has a botched penile implant that exploded his willy
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how long till he drops "fsd just a week away"
He said the autonomous taxis will be ready by June.
wow just a week away
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