Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest
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Unfortunately, I don't think he's making that connection. There's a certain kind of person who thinks bad things always happen *to* them, rather than considering whether they did something that had negative consequences. I think he really believes that he's being unfairly attacked.
Absolutely he is simply not able to take responsibility for his actions. He's the richest man on earth, but to hear him tell it he's constantly being persecuted. People with a victim mentality can't see how their own actions effect them.
But, also he's clearly getting worse and worse.
I struggle with the booze so I can really relate to being a bit of a weird guy and then just isolating yourself with your addiction and negativity and backsliding.
I reckon anyone that isolated would be a complete nut
Yea, except when most of us spiral into substance abuse, even at our worst we don't start throwing Nazi salutes and defunding children's cancer research.
in all honesty .. I probably would have continued to like him if he just kept his mouth shut .. I probably would have even bought a Tesla at some point
It’s all rooted in massive amounts of insecurity. If he’d have never meddled in the lives of the innocent he might be an easy person to feel sorry for. Or maybe not. What the fuck do I know?
I think a lot of people live with an underlying anxiety that people would hate us if they knew what we were like inside (at least, I do). For most of us, the fear is disproportionate and we're able to find at least a few people we can be ourselves with.
Posting fed his need for attention but also trapped him in a loop that accelerated his derangement and exposed his ignorance and naivete. It's crazy to have a diagram of your descent into madness
Elon uses employees and a Grok "Tweetbot" to do most of his posts. The Grok Tweetbot is the one who keeps making the most idiotic posts with responses to (for example) "You don't pay any taxes a$$hole" with things like "Taxes are very important".
It makes me think about A. Schwarzenegger talking about his dad/broken men after the war drinking away their guilt.. emo pain from what they saw or did. Elon etc have to hear about the real world effects of their bs in real time. It looks to me these days like he's about to cry. Hope it kills him.
elon got addicted to the endorphins from shitposting which motivated him to buy the entire app... now look at him, the king shitposter who sucks at shitposting
It’s also very reassuring to see this from, like, a “I thought I was posting too much but it’s nothing compared to the numbers this fucken weirdo puts up” kind of a pov
He is bleeding money, he is bleeding popularity, he's already blood out all of his integrity. Hopefully soon he will be a carcass, and we can move on from this god awful mess.
I might have missed the first interaction between them but yeah, there's a point on the graph where the dots start clearly getting more dense, and that point is Grimes
I was, admittedly, a bit of an Elon fanboy before that. I even got into a weird convo with my boss where I was defending him shooting a car into space as cool (he thought Elon was a dumbass). The "p*do-guy" thing retroactively tainted all the seemingly cool stuff he did before.
People on this thread, strangely, implying Musk has Grok tweeting for him. Ha! We know his style. Oh how you all wish he could outsource his shame, oh how he wishes he could do so himself. No such luck cringebuckets, own it
In the beginning, Elon’s tweets were spaced by 24 hours. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 hours . We could be seeing a tweet every eight minutes, until they are coming every four. We should witness a double tweet within seven days.
He’s gone exponential. When time between tweets descends to the Plank Time and his sleep hits zero we will see a single dense red bar heralding the arrival of the Singularity.
Not to mention that -- during the periods when he did seem to be sleeping more -- how the patterns are wildly all over the place. No wonder his brain is broken.
It really is pathetic how the richest man in the world just wants to be seen as funny and cool by the worst kind of chronically online losers. Branson sucks, but at least he does cool stuff. Meanwhile, Musk lied about playing video games for clout.
to be fair he wanted to be seen as funny and cool by everyone but the more he shoved himself in people's faces, the faster they figured out he's neither funny nor cool
He wants the approval of terminally online people online, but he wants the approval of other rich alpha assholes in meat space. He Just goes where the power is. He is not extroverted whatsoever in real life the way Trump sincerely seems to like being in a crowd. Probably the autism.
What’s really extra pathetic is that I am exactly the kind of autistic online loser that Elon Musk wants to appeal to, but when he met me in real life, he acted like I was literally a piece of shit stuck on his shoe or something.
someone once pointed out he could infinitely afford writers or even coaching to be seen as funny to normal people, but he doesn't seem to think he needs that :Ia
your grandpa's social security number, though, he definitely needs that
Does he? He is a tech bro and they think training on stolen work is fine and art is something anyone can do; only the special geniuses like himself can techbro
I imagine he ignores them a lot of the time, but he definitely has a PR guys, and they would have hired a few hacks to draft cool and upworthy memes for him to post. I wont be able to find it but there was an essay of someone breaking an NDA to talk about interviewing for such a job.
It's funny that he straight up does not sleep. He probably gets like 4-6 hours a day max and he's 50 years old. His body will fall apart in like two years
He’s def insane, but how does he post so much in any given day and do all the other things he’s supposedly doing? Like, is he not using Grok to post/repost/react to posts for him? Not that I think he’s really “doing” anything else, he hires ppl, but you see him at the WH selling cars, etc. so ??
He's not doing those things, he has people doing those things and constantly feeding him reports and he's saying yes or no or whatever. He's sitting in a chair somewhere, playing games, posting, having anxiety attacks, etc.
The most "work" I can tell that he does are a) showing up at an event (product rollout, interview, rocket explosion), or b) the hours-long staff calls he does, and even then it seems he's just repeating info that he was given
I'd bet hard money that some underling attempted to advise him "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt" and he rebuffed it in confidence in his own intelligence.
Makes you wonder about every other billionaire whether they post their thoughts or not. It doesn't take intelligence to be rich. It takes luck and a psychotic personality.
I don’t think bezos was that smart - I think he had the capital to sustain unfavorable temporary losses so that he can/could undersell everyone else by wide margins. It’s an old trick that many have used - it’s just on a MUCH wider scale. But I also agree that musk is an absolute clown 🤡
Yeah, this is why I have said Musk will spend all his remaining years trying to regain the almost universal admiration he had at one point and he’ll never fucking get it back and it’s going to ruin him.
It depends, but code length is no indication of the difficulty or the value of the code. I've been stuck for weeks trying to come up with ways to get code to run faster or more efficiently. More often than not when I finally get the flash of inspiration I need, the change isn't very long.
I didn’t know anything about him until Hyperloop. So my first exposure to him was a display of utter idiocy, with the media lapping it up. And when he started obsessively tweeting, it was clear he was a malignant narcissist.
For me, it was that stupid “plan” to rescue the Thai kids trapped in a cave with a non existent submarine, then when nobody wanted to do that, he called the guy who coordinated the rescue a pedophile
Same. I remember hearing c. 2013 that he gave away several battery patents. I assumed he was some tech renegade who wanted to save humanity. Then he falsely claimed he helped save those Thai boys in a cave and called that guy a pedo. It’s been downhill from there.
This is very true of people I knew that met him in real life as far back as the 00s and also my own experience meeting him at burning man which is not exactly real life. We all hated him long ass time ago.
He was popular when he was in Iron Man 2, Tony Stark said "hey Elon" and he didn't even got to answer.
I guess he was cool like "anyone that RDK Jr says he hangs out with is presumptively cool". But RDK was paid to say that line, which was written by a dork screenwritter ordered by a dumb producer.
Wait am I having a Mandela effect thing? I remember the scene as Elon nagging him to look at some kind of car design he had, and Tony just brushes him off like he's another groupie.
He could have fucked off to a beach to enjoy his obscene wealth and everyone would have assumed he was a genius, but he got addicted to posting, despite being the worst at it in human history, and completely obliterated the idea that wealth is an indication of intellect
I have a plan that would work for Elon, fix the economy and repair the government. Instead of Elon spending billions of dollars on twitter so we think he is cool...he just gives the money directly to us and then we tell him how cool 😎 that is. Then we use that money for goods, services and other.
All he had to do was shut up and occasionally post a smart-sounding tweet about EV's and mars. He had a mystique, now that mystique is ruined and we see him for the loser he truly is.
Billionaires can't help themselves. He has an ego like a Luxxu Chandelier: impressively large, not worth what made it, and so fragile a stiff wind could shatter it.
I remember thinking that until the Thailand cave incident, and then all his bullshit tweets had me go “… ew. Nope, I’m out.” If only that were all it took nowadays.
He's the guy of above-average intelligence who plays the genius but just can't shut the fuck up and winds up convincing everyone that he's actually dumber than he is. The Special K doesn't help.
Can't underestimate the role of sycophantic tech access journalists like Kara Swisher in enabling this psycho. He's been spouting obvious lies for over a decade, and they all ran cover for him.
Incredible shout. Dude could have done NOTHING and been written in the history books as the modern version of Carnegie. Instead people (correctly?) think he’s a worse version of Murdock.
The man fucked up the whole thing--the Trump administration, DOGE, his own fucking wealth--within a matter of months. He blew it harder than anyone has before. I'm almost in awe.
It's crazy how he used to be an icon. I think the beginning of the end was the Thailand cave incident in 2018 right? I can't remember if he said or did anything as scummy before that in a public forum
He could have been that enigmatic (to people outside of silicon valley and tech) man with the bizarre accent and the reputation of brilliance until he died of old age.
But he wanted to be beloved and doted upon by all -- while thinking that "Charisma" was maybe one of those pokemon critters.
Billionaires keeping quiet was a win for them for so long but they didnt notice.
They could continue to make money quietly without having their shit-tier opinions revealed and their lack of expertise in their own areas of business exposed to public ridicule.
He's a dumbass pretending to be a genius. I honestly think he thought his popularity would go up and he would be the coolest person on the planet doing edgy things like holding up a chainsaw and doing a nazi salute. Real life is not Twitter you fuckass Elf.
He is pathetic. He lied about playing video games... he paid other people to play them for him and took credit for other people's work. Because he wanted some sweaty nerds to think he was cool... he's a thin-skinned bitch.
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I struggle with the booze so I can really relate to being a bit of a weird guy and then just isolating yourself with your addiction and negativity and backsliding.
I reckon anyone that isolated would be a complete nut
In Elon's case, no, he really does just suck.
How pathetic
...it CAN'T BE THIS SIMPLE CAN IT????
So now he's down to just marks and rubes
your grandpa's social security number, though, he definitely needs that
this is from a 2023 scientific paper, we are getting a better idea how sleeps and dreams works
but also we have no clue in the “confidence” sense
Too bad he didn't end up gambling to feed the money on his back; he have been poor and irrelevant long before now.
Red Dots of an Unraveling Mind:
The Time of Psychopathic Leadership in America (©️2057) by
Dr. Ket A. Meandikdrip
Like, Buffet is legit good at investing responsibly
Bezos, say what you will, saw the potential in internet sales and played the long game to build up Amazon into a powerhouse
Elon just bought his way into things and knows how to pump stock
I love this observation!
People kind of liked him until they got to know him!
And then he started tweeting.
Oh, well. 🤷🏼♀️
But the PoE2 thing was so goddamn blatant I was shocked.
Like dude, at least watch a fucking video on how to play if you're going to claim to be top 10.
Coders of all creeds, roll for psychic damage when you finish reading this.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt?
I guess he was cool like "anyone that RDK Jr says he hangs out with is presumptively cool". But RDK was paid to say that line, which was written by a dork screenwritter ordered by a dumb producer.
He's breaking the government so that there'll be nobody else to look up to, with regard to science and technology and innovation.
Fucked off to a series of tropical islands and takes IG pictures with his model girlfriend
but instead, he had to do All This
It's nice to see other people catching up, I guess.
We're living in the upside down.
...but he really seems to lack "genuine wholistic intelligence" or any kind of wisdom. On top of that, he is openly opposed to empathy.
Empathy and compassion are the intelligence of the human heart, and we will see their value more and more in days to come.
But he wanted to be beloved and doted upon by all -- while thinking that "Charisma" was maybe one of those pokemon critters.
They could continue to make money quietly without having their shit-tier opinions revealed and their lack of expertise in their own areas of business exposed to public ridicule.