This is a good reminder that anytime you try to find some kind of 4D chess reason for what Musk does, the reality is much likelier that he is a complete idiot who has no idea how the world works, yet he is powerful and rich and wields near complete loyalty from others so he gets what he wants. - ThreadSky

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social • 71 days ago

This is a good reminder that anytime you try to find some kind of 4D chess reason for what Musk does, the reality is much likelier that he is a complete idiot who has no idea how the world works, yet he is powerful and rich and wields near complete loyalty from others so he gets what he wants.

Reposted from Mike Masnick

In this piece I highlight just one example of one of the main (anonymous!) accounts that Elon is taking instructions from, claiming that Bill Kristol is funded by USAID... based on a total misunderstanding of what a *donor approved fund* is.

There are so many examples like this.

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esghound.com•71 days ago

correct

tooch42.bsky.social•71 days ago

He's the billionaire bro from Knives Out Glass Onion

riwoche.bsky.social•71 days ago

Absolutely positively correct.

benjaminspider.bsky.social•70 days ago

I knew he was an idiot the moment he brought up his submarine idea to save the kids trapped in a cave. Seeing his rocket idea to send people to Mars only cemented that opinion.

franceslarina.bsky.social•71 days ago

Or he may have lived such a life of wealth white cishet male privilege that he simply doesn't care.

maryruthlessness.bsky.social•70 days ago

No, they know what donor approved funding is. Musk is dismantling all systems, destroying any evidence of stealing the country blind. This is a distraction.

cv-danes.com•70 days ago

Also a reminder that when you treat billionaires with kid gloves when they break the law they will come to believe they are above the law.

pi3832.bsky.social•71 days ago

Idiocy wrapped in ignorance and gilded with arrogance.

cutthruthebias.bsky.social•71 days ago

And intoxicants. Not polite to say, but apparently it's a thing with him

stevemnd.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yep! Both Trump & Musk are far, FAR too stupid to be doing any sort of "4D chess" schemes, and are the architects of NOTHING that is going on over there. They are convenient chaos engines; wound up tight and let go to wreck up the place.

No doubt they both THINK they're the one in charge, however.

webrant.bsky.social•71 days ago

nevergonnakneel.bsky.social•70 days ago

The tech bros automatically think they are geniuses because they built a better mousetrap in another industry. It must apply to everything.

gardenofsimple.bsky.social•70 days ago

I wish that was the case. But I'd bet that he has become part of this too.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets?srsltid=AfmBOopoyfHZzCAd24wG9n7nlFprq2iFRrWnDzj7SFYmdF8F0WDfSV4m

gardenofsimple.bsky.social•70 days ago

Vance:

bryymiller.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yeah. He's only pure evil out of stupidiy.

kristileequeen.bsky.social•71 days ago

he’s just effing up America like a dipshit

tink2018.bsky.social•71 days ago

Obviously he has no clue what he is doing. The fact that we allow him to destroy our government because he is rich is repulsive.

buckley19608.bsky.social•71 days ago

respectfully, I disagree. he's learning / learned from Trump how to use loud stupid bullshit he saw on Twitter to cover whatever he's actually doing. there's a decent chance he's actually doing something like this:

https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3likowo7xuk2j

sdodds.bsky.social•71 days ago

Chess is too logical. He's on the spectrum and hypomanic. He's chaotic.

dormantpride.bsky.social•71 days ago

He also doesn't care if what he's saying is true or not. If he can use a lie as ammo he will, and sadly, too many people just go along with the lie because it's a good story or helpful for them. I was just listening to "serious conservatives" discuss how some recent musk lies were savvy politics.

beesaid.bsky.social•70 days ago

This! The whole admin is full of men who have been assumed to be smart their whole lives. Spoiler: they aren't! They are incompetent and defeatable.

teddennison.bsky.social•68 days ago

#HanlonsRazor.

See also #GreysLaw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

grissallia.bsky.social•71 days ago

I don't have a 4D chess opinion of Musk, but I do have an opinion that I feel dovetails neatly into this:

https://bsky.app/profile/grissallia.bsky.social/post/3lctdencwec2d

capitolhunters.bsky.social•71 days ago

It is a huge mistake to think there is not some attempt at 4D chess, to congratulate yourself for finding Musk to be an idiot (yes) and then say ha ha there is no plan. Musk is a front man. Watch he people behind Musk who are inserting their folks in positions of power.
https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lil7lrocuk2w

capitolhunters.bsky.social•71 days ago

Peter Thiel may also be an idiot, and his plan may flop, but it is very, very clear that he has a plan. It is Peter's guy now installed as US Chief Information Officer, able to order an overhaul of the entire federal IT infrastructure, and Peter who is rolling out AI tools to control governments.

nero-wolfe.bsky.social•70 days ago

There is absolutely a plan. The point is to break the government, so Musk’s competence/intelligence is irrelevant. The billionaires want to privatize the functions of government and profit, integrate crypto into the U.S. financial system and profit, build network states and profit, etc. etc.

nero-wolfe.bsky.social•70 days ago

Musk’s job is to be the billionaires’ propagandist. That is his only relevant capability.

teethofwisdom.bsky.social•71 days ago

Occam’s razor is a bitch

poppitypopling.bsky.social•71 days ago

People think Musk is smart because he spent money on things other people made and that's the downfall.

demandside.bsky.social•70 days ago

Musk is clueless, he's cognitively limited to a kind of cowboy corporatism. Cannot conceptualize a system of the whole, just a video game system.

Like Trump. They literally do not understand that firing government workers and creating chaos will tank the economy. I guess they're not alone on that.

samoart.bsky.social•71 days ago

At this point I’m going to see proof of his money. Because he clearly can’t count or read and always lies about money. He doesn’t know the definition of saving. He hangs around with liars who inflate their own value. So … I mean … yeah

theorem1.bsky.social•71 days ago

For the love of all things holy: on what basis do we believe Musk is any sort of ‘genius’?!? Unbridled narcissistic sociopath with the wealth to follow up with his most tortured spastic whims?!? Yes. But neither wealth nor intelligence equate to integrity, patriotism, productivity, nor leadership.

messerman.org•70 days ago

Stupid people don’t know what “smart” actually is.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•71 days ago

The video game cheating episode should have completely put to rest any notions that he's anything besides a total moron

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