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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But remember kids, he's some sort of business and tech genius!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real life inspiration for super genius Cave Johnson from Portal.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Cave Johnson was a compelling and interesting individual.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A bit unfair since real life idiots don't have good writing teams.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sometimes they have good PR teams though. Musk used to have a PR team back when he was rich enough to afford one but not rich enough to not need one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Definitely has managed to invest in some incredibly profitable stuff but he also says and does the absolutely stupidest shit imaginable. It's astounding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Happy cake day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

a lot of that profit is derived from a set of rug pulls that only work because he had the money of the victims to keep pushing his image in the media