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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He is literally a man-child at this point

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Always has been.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

No amount of money can make living with Elon worth it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He's just upset zuck didn't pay $42B for his app

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve just remembered “I’m a free speech absolutist, but not when it comes to parodies of me” and “tweeting my publicly available flight logs is sending out assassination coordinates”. What a joke of an individual. Cry more Elmo.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The same as they first in line to get government money and whine when extra cent goes to public needs.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using government subsidies to lobby against welfare...

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (15 children)

No idea why people keep buying cars from this guy. Fuck this moron.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I'm in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It's amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there's a ton of ~~competition~~ cheaters now

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

A conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he's a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn't have a response when I told him Musk doesn't sound like a good businessman.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there's far more and better competition nowadays. And it's really seeming Tesla's are actively dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would not buy cars from a guy who can't even manage a website.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I wonder if this guy is interested in touring the Titanic wreck

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I keep telling you that we need to eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What kind of silverware should we use

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not cheating to hire the workers you unceremoniously fired to save money asshole. It's called capitalism.

Then again, every super wealthy capitalist doesn't actually want capitalism. They want feudalism, where nobody else is allowed to compete with them and if someone makes them angry they can banish them from society without trial.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Usually they don't allow competition, this one is a bit special because it involves two billionaires and it's basically a show-off. The regular case is: they buy any potential competitor in an early stage and let it die. The 5% of the start-up CEOs that don't just take the few hundred millions will face a nasty attack where they steal employees or do some negative marketing or whatever sabotage fits.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Competition is fine” says the guy that was born into wealth and was given a huge leg up in life. Although, I really hope they duke it out in court with Meta just so they burn through piles of money needlessly.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As if there's any secret to Twitter that any person couldn't figure out, we're talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scaling it to Twitter’s size is the difficult part. Although Elon has been doing some excellent work in bringing decades worth of engineering work into decay within the short span of the past 9 months.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.

I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like "See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don't need?"

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Welfare queen, that relies on government subsidies to run his business, accuses other billionaires of cheating in the market. Hilarious

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

What they do is pass laws to make their cheating legal and therefore not cheating, while making actual honest competition illegal, and therefore cheating. The game is easy when it's rigged.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not cheating to have a similar UI. Fuck off Musk.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What part of it is supposed to be cheating?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.

Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Finally, a competition where I’d like to see all parties involved lose as hard as possible

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I'm sure Meta's lawyers are shaking in their boots lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, didn't he buy his way into Tesla and then forced out the previous CEO or something?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't believe I'm rooting for The Zuck. Worse case of "enemy of my enemy" ever.

Though if Twitter does fall Meta should be next. It won't be, but it's nice to imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the context of his tweet?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Elmo is angy that Meta hired the employees he fired (or who quit because Twitter's a fucking dumpster fire) to build a Twitter-like service.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can we not drag elmo's good name through the mud? i understand it is to dunk on elon but elmo is a wonderful character from my childhood and my four year old daughter loves him also. i just don’t think it is fair to elmo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the same when people described those 2 jabronis that fucked up the end of Game of Thrones as D&D. Like come on, fam. D&D is way cooler than those 2.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

What a rube.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Why does he consider it cheating? Now hopefully facebook will fuck it up, as well, so they loose money and user base.

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