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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Oh my fucking god. I only mostly read his tweets and quotes, never really hearing Musk talk much, especially not in a “debate”. I didn’t realize how incredibly childish, arrogant, and downright moronic he was in an argument. All he does is talk over a well-articulated point before the person could finish it by insulting the other party and laughing dumbly at his own joke as if he had made some sort of zinger. And the very few times he doesn’t do that he uses blatant strawman arguments.

    This is literally like a child yelling back “Oh yeah?Well, your face is stupid!” How the fuck is this person the richest person on Earth? He wouldn’t even be able to keep a fast food employee job.

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      Elon Musk is proof that being rich does not require competence, intelligence, or hard work. (Hint: it’s luck and having rich parents)

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        5 days ago

        Actually, it also necessitates a minimal ability to play the sidelines, manipulate and trick people and a complete lack of morality to use those abilities. He didn’t found Tesla. He stole it from its original founders by placing people who were loyal to him on the board.

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      Our society is structured so that the rich fail upwards, and Elon is a huge failure so he floats the best.

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      He’s rich cuz daddy gave him starter funds and he got lucky investing in paypal (which he tried to name X).