Elon Musk

here is my elon musk compliment sandwich

AGREED TO MEET WITH SBF ONLY "So long as I don't have to have a laborious blockchain debate"

... fash, abuses employees, liar, seeks to destroy transit, boring/never funny ...

LIKES POLYTOPIA

lol

I know it’s kind of a very tangential take, but it’s always kind of bothered me that Telsa the man become kind of the go-to groovy spiritual science guy for people rebelling against the Einstein’s Raspberry dorm room posters of earlier generations.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, December 23, 2022 11:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah apparently the google founders are nikola tesla adherents too its common in those circles, i think they like the tragedy of it, they identify with him, theyre unrecognized unremunerated geniuses, even tho now theyre totally recognized and remunerated they still feel the world doesnt appreciate exactly how brilliant they are, all these guys needless to say are in actuality total edisons

lol https://t.co/pr9u1vFQxi pic.twitter.com/AAAPmgVCAG

— Atrios (@Atrios) December 23, 2022

tbf every one of these dim bulbs is working on their own DEATH BEAM

one thing i *would* try to do if i were part of tesla's board is stop elon from poaching its engineers to go work at twitter, because that's absurd

#OneCompany

i frankly don't understand hero worship.

yeah its odd

carnegies organs tho

So fucking depressing to see actual human beings stanning for a billionaire and they’re not even being paid to do it. In the 19th century were there stans and super fans of Andrew Carnegie or James J Hill?

― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, December 22, 2022 12:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

was thinking about this and the answer is yes absolutely, how to win friends and influence people is one of the best selling books of all time, carnegie was if anything more popular than musk

lol just realized dale carnegie is totally unrelated person, apologies, carry on

anyway people probably liked andrew carnegie, people are sickos

one of dale's descendants lives a couple of doors down the street from me.

has he won you as a friend and influenced you

she's ok

wz gnna say ("carnegie (/ˈkɑːrnɪɡi/;[1] spelled carnagey until c. 1922") but lol turns out dale confirms and affirms the argt after all: "by 1916, dale conducted a sold out lecture at carnegie hall, which influenced his decision in 1919 to change the spelling of his last name in honor of the steel magnate, andrew carnegie, and easier for others to remember.[15]"

it's a good book despite the name, the lesson is basically if you want something from someone be nice to them instead of being mean... there now you don't need to read the book

How to win friends and influence people: practice, man, practice

nice

Charles Manson swore by the book

How does it stack up next to Emotional Intelligence?

It's a good book but the Dale Carnegie speaking to you is totally a stan for the tycoons, partly because he's trying to convince you that with these techniques you will become a better salesman (true) and eventually a tycoon (false).

a good salesman always tells you you're made of the right stuff to be a tycoon

https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif

worship of millionaire "geniuses" is all over the 20th century - Edison, Ford, Henry Kaiser, Hugo Stinnes, obviously Steve Jobs, Bill Gates in a different way, and so on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-N8-FuVYog

Elon arches his eyebrow, strokes his chin, composes the Tweet: “Chess. Nothing more than a children’s game 🤣🤣🤣” as his Tesla sails off a cliff making fart noises.

Muskboys: true genius, taking out a second mortgage

incredible pic.twitter.com/5Uv6JZR0Yt

— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) December 24, 2022

i had to know what the joke was. i figured it was the hilarious prosecute/fauci pronouns one. but let's see your knee survive THIS:

"If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!"

he was right to fire him

3.7m views 17.3k likes pic.twitter.com/PZu8RJTDAy

— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 24, 2022

just keep on unplugging stuff

i love how the "move fast and break stuff" philosophy extends to irl trying to break stuff. he is a failure until something new has broken. and then when it breaks, i'm pretty sure elon isn't the one who has to fix it. he knows a guy

graphql

— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) December 24, 2022

lmao

Lol

not sure how much further he can take the mask off

kek

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2022

Be a real shame if more white nationalists bought cars that lock you inside while you burn to death.

The guy’s just immolating himself (again, like a Tesla owner).

Is that specifically a Nazi thing now? I just remember it as a WoW thing

Online “lol”-esque expression with a mostly harmless origin that, like Pepe, was sucked into the alt-right asshole and toxically shat out.

Iirc

it's definitely not specifically a Nazi thing

the gonzo milo trumpoids use it the way they use "based" -- "that's so kek"

If there's no surrounding context, I would read someone saying 'kek' as them being Very Online and aware of channer-type memes. Tbh I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were being ironic.

However, given the vast amounts of context we have at our disposal, Elon Musk saying 'kek' is p obviously saying "hello alt-right I love you please love me back everyone else hates me and I am desperately trying to be with it by using a decades-old edgelord phrase".

Yeah I was going to say even his racist memes are out of date (NB I don’t know the up to date racist memes)

The SPLC has a pretty exhaustive (tho, granted, 5 years old) breakdown of kek: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic

It's pretty alt-righty and I think emily's otm in Musk's intent.

Obviously this is part of a much bigger conversation but it’s a big problem that anyone who gets ostracized from other online communities for being too bigoted can always find a place amongst the alt right. Like I don’t think these are the communities people are seeking out but they get driven there because everyone else is telling them to shut the fuck up

They should go to church or something instead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fk8pqCKXEAkGh9Z?format=jpg&name=medium