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kiddub
Never forget that Elon Musk is at heart, a Silicon Valley bro.
GGCrono
Billionaires are not your friends. They never have been and they never will be.
mattsall
But his money!
matthewacker
It's hard becoming a billionaire if you have empathy. Meaning ceos are OK with a few hundred thousand people dying if they can keep going
fowlersleftfoot
Oh no, the Imgur bro’s king has proven that he actually only gives a fuck about his bank balance, after all. Shocker.
CrossBetween
What ol Musky fails to realize here is that ol Musty was a po-li-ti-ci-an.
Pulsar1975
Elon Musk is another greedy billionaire. Fuck him and all his kind. They want people to die to produce their products to get even richer.
NonBinaricAllBarbaric
He does good things, but it feels like he does them only to be seen and thanked. He’s desperate to be a hero and lashes out when denied that
GenStrike
So... he's a classic narcissist.
NonBinaricAllBarbaric
Ohhh yeah
Tesseract09
Dudes going all Howard Hughes
GenStrike
Billionaires - no matter who - have little to nothing in common with everyday folk.
Neotic357
Lots of everyday folk on the streets saying the same thing though...
JhericFury
Yeah, cause Musk sucks. We've only been trying to tell a lot of you for a few years now.
TANSTAAFL42
Elon "I made a weed joke for my goth gf and got sued by the SCC" Musk? But he's a genius engineer and entrepreneur! How could Elon "I'm mad
TANSTAAFL42
nobody liked my shitty submarine and cannot fathom anything not revolving around me so I'll try to ruin someone's life" Musk not be a great
TANSTAAFL42
guy????????
JhericFury
Well, he did "smoke" that spliff once. I'm informed that's the only reason people hate him. /s
thatssooopineapples
Elon Musk: America's dumbest smart person
4charactersorlonger
Self owned.
neloc6518888
Kids, don't idol-worship. Admire them when they do good. Call them out when they go batshit.
PabloEmilioEscobar
But if one day my profits are at stake... choose profits
SherMattLockSmith
People keep saying this is about profits, but Tesla is doing fucking great right now....
steerAwwPrincess
Musk has always been a wanker. The fanboys may just be waking up.
TheAncientMysticSocietyofNoHomers
Oof
Jaron58
You were supposed to fight the establishment elonakin not join them!
GenStrike
With the amount of capital he has? He IS the establishment.
Nuttsy
He was always the establishment. He just managed to sell his Che shirt for a while.
VastMajorityRule
Money (on his scale) will do that
watchingstars
I wasn't expecting either of the quotes to be true.
AwesomeName
Why is the GOP steering America into a Civil War?
floofnmeeps
It's AAALLLLL of them.... We really truly need to erase the board and start over
SentientSpork
As much as I agree that we would be best off replacing everyone both major parties are not equally bad, that line just breeds disengagement
Porecomesis
Because the GOP is full of assholes who want power at all costs. They don't want it for any ideological reason; they just want power.
Jazzcabage
Because politicians are*
Jagerbeast
Can you imagine the rights we would lose!?!? Goodbye "democracy"
tReasonoustRump
Because they get paid off by big corporations. America isn’t really a Democracy after Citizens United passed
Skawomplious
Fact. The idea that it's just "the Republicans" at fault here is asinine. Our two parties play good cop-bad cop, but they're both implicit.
Attaroo
Because they know they are going to lose at democracy and want to change the rules of the game.
pills92
What's your proof of that claim
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
What he really means is, “die for me peasants”
ilikefoodmorethanpeople
So, have you ever seen someone die of hunger? Because an extra 100+mil people will die of hunger b/с of lockdowns
InternetPeasantry
No, we won't!
Parsonius
Dude, this was yesterday... extra ouch
TheDevilHerself
It's the fact that it was yesterday (while a pandemic is at its peak in America) that there's an ouch. Where's the other ouch?
Parsonius
The fact that at first he didn't want to close his factories. Then succumbed and committed to making ventilators. I thought he had learned.
mardukkur
Which he never made.
nowwhowhat
He didn't succumb to shit, that rat-faced dipshit hasn't made a single ventilator.
CakeTerrorizer
Elon Musk has always been an asshole of the highest order. Unionize Tesla!
Spiderbubble
I'm not sure how well Tesla cars would run without ions.
Nuttsy
Well, they won't combust as violently...
KingBuumi
Nice one!
TuggSpeedmann
Lol right now is the worst time to push for unions
newsguycraigevans
The greatest trick the GOP ever pulled was convincing American workers to hate Unions. Support America! Don't vote Republican.
TuggSpeedmann
I’m not telling you unions are bad, I’m saying it’s the worst possible time to create one
nowwhowhat
This is the BEST time to organize.
TuggSpeedmann
Based on what?! You can’t negotiate from a position of power if you have a huge line of people waiting to replace you!
nowwhowhat
A huge line of untrained people that wont allow the plant to reopen right when it's allowed to.
TuggSpeedmann
We’ll we’re shut down right now, I’d invest is training people for reopening than deal with union talk. But that’s just me being pragmatic
GenStrike
"RiGhT nOw Is ThE wOrSt TiMe FoR dEmOcRaCy"
TuggSpeedmann
Your welcome to try but results may vary
Blackfinity
I don't know about that. The collapse of the GDP in this consumption economy shows that economic power comes from the 99%, not the 1%.
removekarling
This is literally the BEST POSSIBLE TIME. The fact that you think otherwise is a testament to the power of propaganda.
TuggSpeedmann
A company can look for new hires especially those who are desperate to work. And the pot is growing.
FiveShiftOne
Most people still HAVE their jobs, and will be returning to them at roughly the same time.
TuggSpeedmann
You start talking about unionizing right now, companies are gonna dump you for the current unemployed joe looking to go back to work now
mycleverusernameisthis
He misspelled, “MY CARS ARE NOT SELLING!”
Fallacious217
"Are not being produced to sell." I think you mean to say.
AnAccountToPostThis
Tesla is actually weathering the covid crash far better than most car makers. Thisn is about elons bonus. He has the reach a market cap
ScottaHemi
actually apparently tesla made money... somehow.
Oddnnhairy
SherMattLockSmith
Tesla is actually turning a surprising amount of profit right now....
Iamknotasmartman
You would imagine he would have learned how to spell that by now ???
SkitzNDaMix
They've made over 16 million during this pandemic.....sooo....
majesticorgi
tornadosandwich
That may be more because gas is as low as $.75 a gallon right now (€.18 per liter)
LetMeSeeMyKids
They don't need cars where he's going
Tesseract09
They sell what they make, but if they're not making, they can't deliver
SecondAccountforDoingOtherShit
This. I have a friend in manufacturing. Tesla cancelled a ton of component orders around when this all started. Musk wants his ppl working.
SleepIsNotMyFriend
Even if they make them.. who would buy right now?
Gayforbae
If youre talking about oil prices being low, theyre still the most technologically advanced, highest rated, and safest car on the market now
SleepIsNotMyFriend
I meant more like cars in general. They're not cheap, times are hard and uncertain.. the demand for cars is just not that high at the moment
Hatchitt
Cash is easily king in a contraction like this, apartments and car leases are found for 2/3rds of normal. Less if you buy. Those that had->
NoNameNoGameNoFame
The people buying Tesla’s are those who can easily work from home (and some have been doing so for years anyway)
ChainmailleAddict
He's saying anything he can to pump the stock price because Tesla is desperately low on cash. To be fair they beat Q1 2020 expectations.
ZachariasWolfe
Soooo you're saying he wants to all more stocks? Otherwise I see no relation between trying to raise stock prices and bring low on cash
SherMattLockSmith
They have 8.1 billion in cash reserves as of today, desperately low on cash you say?
packardcaribien
Q1 2020 isn't the big problem. The legacy automakers posted losses, but not especially huge ones. Q2 is gonna be terrible for all automakers
ImgursLibertarian
Some supporting information on his opinion in case anyone was curious:
WaveMotionGum
de facto house arrest, it's like house arrest except you can literally go outside whenever you want including crossing state lines.
AnAccountToPostThis
Which is perfectly reasonable. Dont shut down society to protect the small at risk population. Tell those at risk to stay home.
ImgursLibertarian
There should be heavy restrictions around nursing homes and healthcare workers. Available local ordinances and state laws for the...
ImgursLibertarian
active protection immunocompromised could be written. But this blanket shutdown makes sense in the short term. This is no longer short.
MarioBoon
"tell those at risk to stay home". Everybody then...
AnAccountToPostThis
No. If that's how that worked the world would shut down for flu every year. There's a very small minority actually at risk.
Maddex
But this is far more easily spread than the flu and the healthcare system has no effective method of dealing with it yet
NoNameNoGameNoFame
I implore you to look at TSLA’s stock price today, and their Q1 earnings for 2020
LouisSlungpue
Q2 and Q3 numbers will be the real test. At my company we had our most profitable Q1 in our history. But all the damage was/is done in Q2.
LouisSlungpue
We're medical device manufacturer btw
idontlikepickingusername
Yeah, he's about to get a huge bonus from Tesla
KnowGoYesStopWin
And he deserves every penny.
easytigger
Don't choke on that boot, there.
TheRealJoeHasenguy
Was going to comment the same, well done
Chereazi
Dude is slowly turning into a cliche comic villain, give it a few years and his satellites have lasers.
Merovean
Right, meantime you’ll still be doing nothing at all, along with the rest, pointing fingers, and feeling really good about all you’ve done.
BlancheTuttle
That's part of Project Insight, right?
SailorVSays
He's always had that mad scientist villain thing going on. It was only a matter of time.
Corvidaelian
That's more Bezos. He's lex in the flesh. Musk wants to be Tony Stark, but this is alllll Justin Hammer
MeFirstThanYou
What do you mean by "turning". This has always been the case.
osglith
He is our generation’s Howard Hughes. In a few years he’ll be keeping bottles of his urine on the shelves of his private space station.
Sm9yCg
Fun fact: them satellites have lasers.
MadSprite
Don't forget he's a business man in the US. He's has an open path to become a villain.
dolphindreamsandsatan
What makes you think they don't already?
HodgeNPodge
VinzClorthoInSunglasses
You mean Avon Hertz?
NomDeImguerre
MindAx13
He's already got some evil looking giant drill, flamethrowers, and some weird cyberpunk car, I'd say he's already prepared for the role
TsunamiJohn
I wouldn't even be mad, earth needs a good supervillian to unite against. What better space race than against SpaceX?
ImgursLibertarian
Some supporting information on his opinion in case anyone was curious:
Fortherea
I’m thinking Hugo Drax!
Z3r0fux0r
I recall people saying that was going to be the outcome after how he was treated at first
spunkybanana
He's already in the MCU. Tony Stark greets him in Ironman 2 before the race.
captainpizza
...slowly?
salikarn
I mean, if I had his money, I would probably have laser satellites.
RailRabbit
Skarks with fricken laserbeams
ElbowDeepInAMoose
Beat. Me. To. It.
jikanwalker
Sharks playing ska firing death rays? Son of a bitch, I’m in.
rcanart91
Fucking satellites scared the shit out of my poor mother as they flew over the small-ass town in Iowa where she lives.
Nandabun
You could see them with no tools?
rcanart91
Yeah! She called freakin out because she saw a straight dotted line walkin along the dark sky. They light up when the sun hits their panels.
rcanart91
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink. These are the satellites that make that straight dotted line.
Nandabun
Neat. I don't see any lines though. :O
TheoryofStringyStuff
How do you know they already do not?
ClassicRand0
He'll start making it known in a few years..
Nuttsy
Because you can't fit a laser worth a damn on the ones he has.
DatPudding
I'm not 100% convinced he didnt send one of his enemies to mars on that car
MrMattster
That's why they put Starman in the car.
Chereazi
You got a point there
SkyrimForTheDragons
Get down!!
NomDeImguerre
Is it a laser point?
Pandamoniyum
MacDaddySmitt
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KartFnocker
he's had head-scratching (to be charitable) ideas about the virus for a while now
DrDownunder
#1
removekarling
Look at how Tesla is handling virus cases, and remember that Elon gets a huge bonus if Tesla stock value reaches a certain point (1)
removekarling
at the end of the quarter. He's trying to get that bonus, that's what his shit about the virus is all about.
TheUpsidedownestPersonAlive
I agree, Trusting China on anything should be considered a "head-scratching idea".
Nathanyel
Shit I almost instinctively reported your comment. Elon Musk context and a Twitter screenshot containing a pic...
Snarknado
But did you Google that fucking watch and thank him later?
jimmyhowlett
According to the WHO, they confirmed 22,541 new cases and 1,322 new deaths on April 29th. Almost 0.
LumpWithaLeafHat
Ppl need to learn that being smart at one thing does not mean smart at all things. Ben Carson is a brain surgeon. He's also a dingdong.
Raighto
This.
flarflarf
elon musk the the poster child for "i was successful at one thing, therefore i will be successful at all things"
CriticalDog
And tbh, he comes up with ideas, then hires people to actually make them work. Many folks don't get that. He would just be a kook if he 1/
CriticalDog
2/ didn't have a giant pile of money to start with from the dot com era. He got lucky there, and has hired smart people. That's about it.
LocalZoophile
Hiring smart people and getting things together is hard. But that's what he's good at. That in particular.
NawaKam
It's what happens when a scientist applies their skills to another discipline without taking the time to understand the backlog of research.
IBuiltAFreakingArk
Fuck
nowwhowhat
It turns out the man who is the physical manifestation of the Dunning-Krueger doesn't actually know all that much about most things!
GondwanaCraton
Trump takes Dunning-Krueger to a whole new level.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Probably because he also wants to do business in China.
sciencebasedlifeform
It's all the weed
MoodyMoose
In fairness, April end tonight. Wait and see. Lol
3Davideo
And he's pushing the hydroxychlorquinine or whatever, too. Guy should stick to engineering, not medicine.
GondwanaCraton
People who actually need hydroxychlorquinine are having issues getting it because of idiots like Trump and Musk claiming without evidence
GondwanaCraton
that it is a covid-19 cure.
SomeAngelDude
weren't tests done, and they couldn't find out what at point of infection giving it would help, but also found it causes heart problem death
UnsolicitedRichardPicture
He’s not even an engineer. He’s a guy with a lot of money who underpays the engineers working for him.
TheBigPoo
Yeah, more of an " idea guy"
TsunamiJohn
"Based on current trends" assuming 1) China isn't lying, 2) USA is exactly like China, and 3) Viruses follow statistics
Sm9yCg
Well, all three are true, so why wouldn't it?
DamnedAustin
Well, it's the end of April, I guess we have no new cas....oh what the fuck, America!?
SideEffectsOfJuice
Elon just forgot to add something, he meant "no new casesn't"
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
That's what happens when you stop testing and start testing
GondwanaCraton
Seriously, what the fuck!?!?!?!?
thejohe
Jesus, and I thought he was a genius, turns out he was just another schmuck
Colopty
He's mostly a rich dude who hires geniuses to work on things that are admittedly pretty cool.
flarflarf
he's very good at a few things, but he's fallen into the trap that makes him think that he is therefore good at all things.
Oliv1
They all are schmucks.
SpotlightStealer
Most of the geniuses I've met are pretty dumb tbh
xizar
That user icon for him is grossly asinine considering the source.
HQDefault
A major plot element is stopping a global pandemic. How ironic can the man be.
MadAtreides
So it was in neverwinter nights, which I started on switch yesterday
xizar
You mean the one made by scientists and weaponized by the guy who wants to control the world?
GeneralWho
MrRandom314159
It's a decent game.And it's kinda easy to get over the graphics once you're an hour in.I always did a full sneak through.... then went back.
MrRandom314159
One that was carefully designed so you... you really COULD choose how you wanted to play.... unless you chose environment resistance.
xizar
The first time I saw this meme (years ago), I had *just* finished reinstalling it. Good gfx update mods for it now, too.
KartFnocker
he definitely knows how to play to his base of fanboys, that's for sure
pumper
One of the best games ever. A relevant meme clip https://youtu.be/-ySTeVlfX8M
gunnexx
Yeah except he's less JC and more Bob Page
xizar
Your comment makes me sad; Deus Ex was one of the best gaming experiences I had, and the writing (big and small) was most of the reason. 1/
xizar
While a literal power fantasy, it also lets one feel like the reason the world sucks both has, and does not have, a face that can be fought.
KartFnocker
One of the best games of all time. Makes me wonder which character Elon feels connected to, though (and which he really is)
xizar
Musk is flailing against a mythical oppressive force (illuminati/templar) while trying to be bob page. He's not.
spitfires2000
Musk will claim Mustafa said it, not him and Mustafa didn't mean it like that and if he did it was sarcastic.
gsholbert
Idk man, musk is a pretty chill dude ftmp. I'd more likely expect "o shit u rite"
removekarling
lol no
grahaCheeseWrecker
Or Musk will accuse him of being a paedophile.
Timetosleep123
Kemal Ataturk is a revered hero to the Turks, best not piss them off Musky.
DigiT00l
Is he though? My experience with Turks is limited, but the one I did know said he wasn't well liked
Freewalker
You can usually find a pic/portrait of him in almost every turkish home and gov bldngs, schools, hospitals, restaurants, offices. False info
scottEkarate
Naramumu
Straight out of trump playbook
ImgursLibertarian
Some supporting information on his opinion in case anyone was curious:
Josefbugman1543
Ahh the narcissists prayer.
ChainmailleAddict
Ehhhh... he seems to stick to his guns here. He's a reckless asshole but narcissist is a stretch.
DigiT00l
I mean, that guy was a dictator
Invyggle
So?
otiumCatulli
Secularist though!
Leithoa
Dictator tho
DigiT00l
By many he is considered just as bad as Erdogan, only against Muslims instead of supposedly in favour of them
Freewalker
Ataturk is considered by 90% of turks to be their savior. Erdo is trying to replace him. He was not a dict and literally gave birth to /1
Freewalker
Democratic turkey, a republic. Not lately but... Read about his reforms on his wiki if youd like more info.
HamburgerWelper
The shutdown closed his Fremont factory and hit auto sales. He’s just another rich guy that wants you to die for the economy.
NataSpin
Well he is in big trouble, he is in a giant bubble with Tesla right now. From the beginning the corp is held up by investors not profits 1
NataSpin
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/070116/tesla-losing-money-each-time-it-sells-car-tsla.asp 2
NataSpin
I have mixed feelings about him, like many other talented people, a loner a cynical. Lots of people hated working with him 3
HamburgerWelper
He plays it fast and loose with people’s livelihoods. He sways their direction with tweets like another cult leader boss Imgur hates.
UncleVenoM
Anyone who bought the Iron Man act is a damn fool. He stands on the shoulders of real scientists so he can reach higher profits.
Schmong
yep, I actually believed his "for the good of humanity" shit for a while. But profits come first
kittybuttwiggle
tbf, can't progress if you go broke
HamburgerWelper
Tesla has operated in the red it’s entire existence, dragged along by his hype train antics. This is all for his investors, not progress.
kittybuttwiggle
I don't get your point. Whether it's sales or investment, they both make you not broke and both are harder to get when you're closed.
HamburgerWelper
My point is this is about car sales, not the good of humanity. Calling safety measure meant to keep people like his workers safe fascism 1
LooseyGooseyBrett
At some point lock downs need to end and people need to rely on social distancing and PPE.
KyleZombie
That point is definitely not today.
HamburgerWelper
You do see the word “NOW” at the end of the tweet right?
jimmyriba
...and contact tracing, testing, and isolation.
delecti
Yeah, but that "some point" needs to be after we're far past the peak, and testing is ramped up way further than it currently.
PieAndPunch
The US will always be capable of recovering from economic depression. But millions of deaths? No
SherMattLockSmith
Hospitals can't even get proper PPE right now, what makes you think all Americans can get it?
LooseyGooseyBrett
Hi 6 weeks ago
SherMattLockSmith
They are still having issues CURRENTLY, even the VA ordered 5 million articles of PPE and had the feds confiscate it.....
NoWonderImStillAwake
There's that false dichotomy of thinking the only two options are lock down and save lives, or open the economy instantly and don't. It's
NoWonderImStillAwake
such a more complex issue. You are not factoring in lives lost in a bad economy and we're facing the one of the worst economic crashes in
NoWonderImStillAwake
100 years. Bad economies lead to loss of life from suicide, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, deaths of despair, etc.
Tyco2
Yes but much slower than a virus does.
NoWonderImStillAwake
Is it about speed or total loss of life? What if making the deliberate economic decisions we have made kill 2 or 3 times as many people?
idontknowmaybeno
Who gives a fuck what Elon Musk has to say
eatmyassevilspirit
Ahmen.
WhatsYourCovidStory
Me. I dont get this post. But me. Fking love this guy. He’s the steve jobs of space rn. Sexy af! GO ELON GO! I LOVE YO ASS!
Icantthinkofaname2
I hope you just forgot the /s
WhatsYourCovidStory
Nahhhh and i think thats stupid af too
DonkJehm
It was naive but I guess I hoped he could be a real life Tony Stark. He seemed like a good guy.
Mezzii
I admire him on some things but the guy is generally a dick.
creamyt
This is what happens when people get idolized. They turn shitty because no one checks their opinions, or if they do, they have their ...
creamyt
... teeming fanbases to bolster them up. Happens to everyone in those situations. Unfortunate side of human nature.
DamnedAustin
About a million little Right-wing idiots on this site who think he's a messiah.
idontknowmaybeno
Who gives a fuck what a million little right-wing idiots have to say
PissedMahPants
Unfortunately those snowflakes’ votes count as much as your or mine and they vote in every single election
AddictiveTendancies
Their votes probably count more bc of the archaic electoral college.
NomDePlumeOriginal
I mean I thought he was pretty cool. Until now.
Gayforbae
Right wing? Do you have head trauma?
DamnedAustin
No. He appeals to young Libertarians. Libertarians in the U.S. are very right-wing, whether or not they admit it.
Gayforbae
I my experience, most libertarians dont care abt the environment. They want absolute liberty to do whatever the fuck they want, incl pollute
DamnedAustin
Yeah. There's a misguided belief that, if the government would ease regulations, individuals and corporations would step up and take (1)
Askingforafriend37
Shit dude, in the US, even most left wing voters are pretty right wing compared to the rest of the world.
AleekaHawke
Right wing? Elon is left sided big time. He believes in science and research.
sh3nhu
I am looking at evidence that proves otherwise
EmanNiemThcin
You're describing a Technocrat. "Science and Research" are neither 'left-wing' nor are they 'not right-wing'.
DukeDardar
A real left sided person would allow his workers to unionize, but what do I know
AceO235
yeah elon is what they call a "moderate" in DC. They only swing one way or the other when it benefits them.
Traja01
He’s a libertarian idol, so if you wanna classify them as right wing it fits.
Nuttsy
He's really, really not. He's a typical union-busting jackass with a techy toy store, a shoddy environmental sticker, and a hero complex.
Beleg7
Eh, I think Elon is one of those people who messes with the typical left/right divide. He's very appealing to libertarians.
ImgursLibertarian
He's no John McAfee. /s
Beleg7
And libertarians who support the right wing but don't like to think of themselves that way are a pretty significantly large group.
ImgursLibertarian
Hopefully enough to put the GOP out of business.
HistoricHindsight
Wow.....never thought I would see Imgur turn on Elon Musk
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Frankly that's the one main reason I like imgur community - talk (bull)shit, get hit. Doesn't matter who you are.
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ImHereToExplainTheJoke
For such a smart person, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say. "Reopen with care and appropriate protection" NO SHIT, ELON! I get that-
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
it's hard to see what's going on in the world from your ivory tower, but in the real world, PPE, CoViD testing and all the stuff needed to-
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
open safely is not there. We can't even get consistent supplies of clorox wipes and hand sanitizer.
tesseract4d2
We're not turning on Elon, elon's turning values we appreciated in him. He's being a hypocrite.
ACSwineburne
You mean again? Everyone hated him 2 years ago, then their dumbasses forgot this and just said "ooh he like Iron man".
DevonGronka
I mean, it's been obvious he has some issues for a while now. His whole calling a rescue team manager a pedophile because he didn't think1/2
DevonGronka
Musk's contraption would be the safest way to get the kids free was a pretty low point.
coolkidwestern
They’ve done it before, but if you always agree with someone then something isn’t right
VitaminJay
Elon said something stupid, and is getting dragged for it. All in accordance with internet law.
iBoulderDash
You kidding? I've seen the site flip-flop back and forth on him more frequently than a metronome on speed.
ProbablyDrunkAgain
They're a fickle bunch.
TheActualDonKnotts
Not all of us were fans to begin with.
SnoopyDancing
never thought Elon would be such a billionaire
SolidRadical
We need to get rid of this mentality. It's following/doing what's right and for science, we're not doing it because of a person/personality.
nothingpt
His las opinions are garbage. He should spend less time dining with el chapo wife and such
thalass
I used to be a fan, and I still like the tech, but he's become more and more batshit over the years.
SarcasticComment
He's proven to be a larger and larger twat, submarine-gate was the tipping point for a lot of imgur. Now it's all down hill.
thedarkcanuck
The hive mind moves quickly
JHRD1880
It's not a new thing. Remember when he called that English diver a pedophile because he said Musk's submarine wouldn't work?
VodkaReindeer
You just need enough haters to get to the FP. Fanboys don't bother downvoting even if they disagree.
FockChinly
i remember when NDT was the big imgur celeb that would do no wrong. then bill nye. now i only respect scientists whos names i dont recognize
FockChinly
not to say elon is a scientist. hes an entrepreneur that often employs them.
forgetthisnoise
He's a total douche.
gaidinbdj
Pretty much anybody stupid enough to join the pro-virus movement is gonna get a PR smackdown.
thejohe
Part of me hopes this is fake, like alot of the posts go against any form of simple logic, zero new cases in China...? End of April glory
thejohe
for the US? I've been saying this since mid March we'll be lucky if things ease out by end of summer, even fall is hopefull
SecondSince
He's always done stupid shit every now and then. Nothing new.
parrotPositivityDog
This is how Science works
algavinn
Unfortunately he has some seedy bad shit popping up. He's a proponent of the Cheeto Lord, it seems, and some other bad shit.
MomofukuJones
Elon has been garbage for quite some time now. See the Thai cave incident
Patches3000
Yeah, I’ve been an unapologetic fanboy but I’m real not down with this.
vorpalblade82
When he's good he's very very good but when he doesn't get his way he's a dick. For reference see "that rescue divers a paedo".
Nuggzs
To be fair, there are some of us here who some see him as some Messiah
Sandobyone
Then you dont fully understand where you are
Undercovermango
Eh, f**k em. He's garbage anyway.
JeffGriffin
Well he does keep trying to sell us stuff on here.
Tinkrr
Imgur follows a narrative, if it contradicts their established narrative they turn on it. It's not about science or facts, it's narrative D:
UnitedGalactic
iamthisguy247
Either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
page80
I admire what he does generally, but the green eyed monster only sees the $600M payday slipping away at this point.
jm151
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." his big payday kind of puts paid to the idee he's just in/1
jm151
this to "save the world."
ilikefoodmorethanpeople
Hate me if you want, but between a bunch of anonymous people and real life Tony Stark, I might not side with imgur
TheSmoothSayer
Ol’ Musky appears to be having a meltdown/going insane at the moment for some reason
sverebom
With the next rocket launch they will love him again and celebrate him as the Messiah of the space age
PTNLemay
I love Elon, but sometimes he does make dumb decisions. It's ok to call him out in those cases.
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
I really thought him calling a rescuer a pedophile would have done it. Surprisingly a lot of people still said he was a good guy.
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
To be fair the rescuer started the twitter chatting shit fest.
Imalwaysready
Joining Trump's economic advisory panel, even as many others refused or quit after various policies. Dude's never been the angel many think.
clucja1
He actually had a good excuse. He claims to be a moderate and if he can help keep policies from going to the extreme it is worth it. Not
clucja1
Sure if he actually ever was able to steer it to the moderate side though
HIValadeen
Not sure he even tried tbh
NomDeImguerre
Apparently, in South Africa that's like calling someone a Motherfucker.
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
No, he said it multiple times and accused him of having a child bride.
ZLKdrummer
What? Source?
TheAncientMysticSocietyofNoHomers
Lmao #goodguyelon
NomDeImguerre
That's literally his court deposition, though.
NomDeImguerre
I'd post a source, but the link's too long. Anyhow, based upon that deposition, the court found him not liable.
980tihelp
Ironic bc in Fremont CA all the other factories are working as usual but Tesla chose not to
Tesseract09
Calling someone out for saying something stupid is not turning on.
TheRealArclight
never thought he would have this opinion...
AustralopithecusBoisei
I love his projects, however his stance on Covid-19 contradict what experts worldwide are saying... it's not a cult...
heylookitsgrains
Funny we idolize people without knowing them, and so quickly demonize them when they fuck up. People are just people, and people are morons.
HIVpatientZero
Nah elon has always been the worst, weird dorks just don't want to admit it
GingeraffeTW
I don't know if it's "turning" but calling people out for being unreasonable is imgur's favorite pastime.
TheUneasyBoosh
right. everyone should just stay in doors for 6 months till this whole thing blows over thats a perfect middle ground right?
SarcasticComment
It's almost as if making an overpriced roofing torch doesn't exempt you from bad behavior.
Imalwaysready
Should be everyone's. When someone is being unreasonable, they deserve to be called out.
LtKifKroker
and hypocrites. Imgur loves to call out hypocritical statements
NotTinyPancakes
Calling people out is imgurs favorite pastime reasonable or no.
texasfoodman
Wrong. 1) Woofers 2) Food 3) RHM 4) what you said
MudkippikduM
Well we definitely need more of that. Evil thriving, good guys doing nothing, and all that. Ofc baseless slander is just as bad.
justsome
I dunno, I like a good yo mama joke
TeflonTrout
Your Momma's so fat, I can see what's behind her due to gravitational lensing
MudkippikduM
Tru dat
BahamutBBob
Not just imgur. Most of the internet.
NotTinyPancakes
Hell we will call out our own if we have issues with something they've said
Thatawesomeview
Imgur is very unreasonable also
bobbynixon
Especially trying to make everyone stay home and lose their jobs. Especially when the numbers scientifically don't back it up.
HeroThatWasNeeded
Yeah, we call each other out frequently too.
oneballrory
RachniKiller
I hope its Jake his so cute
Zahnradfee
I do not like Elon Musk. He's just another billionaire. Don't get all this fanboying.
DevonGronka
Because he's eclectic and charismatic instead of your typical workaholic who acts like they hate life and hoards money to make up for it.1/2
DevonGronka
That's what I'm getting, at least- he's the "cool" rich asshole instead of the boring one.
Zahnradfee
Could be, yes. In a society where rich people are still mostly admired instead of despised, being "cool" can probably do the trick.
iamawaffleiron
Except he is your typical workaholic that works his employees to the bone. Go look up stories about working for musk.
DevonGronka
Oh, I'm not saying he isn't like that. Just that the public perception of him is more mad scientist than business tycoon, you know?
Imalwaysready
I've expected people slowly turning on him ever since he joined Trump's business advisory panel. He's more t to the right than most think.
halcyon742
the guy is basically Kanye West at this point
Corvidaelian
The billionaire class are really letting their whole ass hang out on the covid thing, they want the peons WORKING
mickison
elon does some cool shit with SpaceX and Tesla. But he also frequently over promises and is arrogant enough to believe he can solve every
mickison
single problem that comes up. Think the whole Thailand cave rescue debacle. His Hyperloop tunnel demo which was a Tesla in a tunnel. I’m
Gayforbae
I mean, at least he trys. Thats more than you can say flr mozt peopke
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
Certainly more than can be said for your autocorrect.
Gayforbae
That is true.
Tesseract09
The boring company stuff wasn't Hyperloop. The only Hyperloop stuff his companies do is the annual competition.
Tesseract09
The objective of the Boring company has just been to build cheaper tunnels faster.
mickison
not saying he doesn’t “push the envelope” but he shit be called out when he’s full of shit.
Galdrack
Thing is he pushes against public transport options that would be much better against Global Warming than electric cars are.
Nuttsy
As a curiosity, would you prefer to go by, "Sanctimonious idiot!" or "Subway Stalinist."
DDRoll6nDash
And I would never think I would... But that is too much. His other tweets are as surprising as this one sadly.
HootSloot
Doubling down on calling that diver a pedophile again and again didn't do it for you?
BadamWarlock
I wouldn't call them "surprising", Elon is a genius but he's always been a socially inept dipfuck with little tether to reality.
Galdrack
He isn't a "genius" he's a extremely wealthy dude who likes nerdy shit that's it.
Nuttsy
"Likes."
Galdrack
Haha yea. I do think he likes some of it given how he's investing in what is rather cool tech and he does seem there for it at the time.
PaintedSlate
He's a lot of things, and genius is *definitely* one of them.
Dagordae
How do? What has he actually designed or innovated himself? It hardly takes a genius to pay people to invent stuff.
KarateCanine
How is he a genius? Did he design and build the self landing rockets? Did he alone create PayPal? Did he design all aspects of Tesla? 1/
TheDevilHerself
Whoa, what?
design1design
In March he said that based on "current trends" we would have 0 new cases by the end of April. Well, we're at the end of April and...
DevonGronka
He called a rescue diver a pedophile because the guy didn't want to use his contraption he had just invented in a very dangerous operation
DDRoll6nDash
Yeah it's not the only tweet in which he says the quarantine is useless. I don't really understand his POV, maybe he loves stats too much.
thecheesedip
I agree w your assessment. He loves stats, trusts numbers. Probably saw some bad data projections that made his brain go a little haywire.
KartFnocker
the one where he thought trends pointed to zero new cases in the US by the end of April (aka now) was bad too
Phischstaebchen
Rich people probably get the cure?
ExplodingRobotColon
Iirc, hes close to his payday but tesla has been forced to close since mid-March & is hurting chance to get it (I think $750M)
IAintGivingMyNameToAMachine
His POV: Billionaires can look after themselves with or without quarantine. All they're seeing right now are their business losing money.
DDRoll6nDash
I never thought Musk was that close to his money that much (remember the australian batteries' bet), but I understand your idea.
LasciviousHedgehog
Eh, he's been seen as a self-aggrandizing narcissist and snake oil salesman for a while. He is this gens Steve Jobs. At least Jobs delivered
ACSwineburne
What fucking idiot thinks Jobs somehow did anything, let alone more than Musk? I don't like Elon Musk, but that's fucking retarded.
tesseract4d2
At least tesla and SpaceX actually develop stuff. Apple hasn't actually developed a new technology since the eighties.
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
And even that was wozniak...
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
Jobs delivered?.. Umm I'd love to see when he personally delivered. Outside of marketing.
HootSloot
Jobs big achievement was marketing existing technology better, both are shitty but I think Musk has done a lot more.
OliverClothesoff70
I'm no Steve Jobs fan, but I'm old enough to remember just how shitty cellphones were before the 1st iPhone took off. Credit where it's due.
paulus1978
There speaks a man who never held the Nokia 9100i. HTC were very close behind Apple, this was always the direction phones were going to take
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OliverClothesoff70
It took both of them to make it happen. Without Woz, Jobs would have been a used car salesman. Without Jobs, Woz would have been that (1)
tenaciousjeebs
Dude, he co-founded PayPal, founded Tesla and built one of the highest-rated cars by consumer reports ever, and founded space x to
CheetoDustedMalcontent
He didn't found TSLA. You can watch the first TSLA test drive and guess who isn't in the car
tenaciousjeebs
Legally he’s a founder. Technically he was a series A investor and was the fourth employee of the company.
tenaciousjeebs
Successfully contract with NASA and deliver payloads to the ISS. He may be a weird narcissist, but a snake oil salesman he is not .
LasciviousHedgehog
So you are saying he will have landed people on mars by 2024 as he claims? Or was that a lie to garner PR & investors to fund LEO launches?
tenaciousjeebs
That was an aspirational goal in 2017 - the same purpose as Kennedy’s Moon speech, although it may not be realized over the same time frame
samwyze
Dude sold dirt he bored out of a tunnel as building material to poor people.
tenaciousjeebs
That’s not snake oil, that’s capitalism. I’m not saying he’s a good person, I’m saying he’s a successful entrepreneur (albeit not entirely
Userlivewire
But it was building material.
tenaciousjeebs
Also, isn’t the main critique that he *didn’t* deliver? As in, he stole tech and sold overpriced products focusing on form over function?
tenaciousjeebs
^critique of Steve Jobs
shannaconda
There are plenty of other rocket companies that contract with nasa, and spacex receives the least contracts among them due to being risky.
tenaciousjeebs
That’s a pretty high bar to compare things relatively
RedIronCrown
By "plenty" do you mean "two"?
Techpriest93
Incorrect