he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”… eeer, no.
Well, as dumb as this was (and it was very, very dumb), I found myself distracted by just how… weird he looked. Not just his face, which reminded me of Lady Cassandra from Dr Who (“Moisturize me, moisturize me!”), but his weird, jerky movements, and just his general vibe. He’s like the personification of the uncanny valley. Eggar-from-MiB “get me sugar water” lookin’ ass. If someone were to come out with a tell-all saying that Musk had been secretly replaced by aliens, I wouldn’t even be terribly surprised at this point.
It’s always fun to play is he weirdly out of touch because he’s a billionaire or is he weirdly out of touch because he’s autistic. I think this might be a bit of both.
Hand gestures don’t come naturally to everybody. Some people learn them just to fit in and some try and evoke the same emotions from them without understanding the emotions or the motions completely because they’re just not physically capable of connecting those brain synapses. Add to that the fact Elon doesn’t hang out with normal people. He only hangs out with engineers and sycophants. So he doesn’t get to naturally see people in their everyday environment. He only sees people acting in videos and then he tries to imitate that and the sycophants and engineers around him applaud him. The dumb shit he says gets retweets so he thinks everyone agrees. Then he goes out into the real world and continues parroting this end stage meming with gestures he learned from Hitler speaches, not realizing the jerky movement was due to low frame rate and high meth rate, and is stun locked when everybody else is trying to figure out what the fuck is happening. And what the fuck is happening is that we are witnessing a man who is so far up his own ass that even basic hand gestures are oddly shitty.
He claims to be autistic. As far as I know, there has never been a formal diagnosis. But he sure does like to use it to excuse the things he says and does.
People are also speculating drug use, and I personally wouldn’t rule that out considering just how stressful his life currently is. Hell, I feel as though his hairline has receded a bunch (again) too.
I think it’s likely that’s it’s a mixture of all three. Drug use (even some completely above-board prescriptions. I know that my ADHD prescription makes me act strangely when I’m low on sleep or over-caffeinated) would dull his ability to mask his other behavioral idiosyncrasies, which could originate with his placement on the spectrum and the fact that he’s surrounded by sycophants. But who fucking knows.
Isn’t it fun playing armchair doctor for Elon Musk! If you’re wrong, who are you hurting, fuck that guy. And if you’re right, it’s fucking hilarious because fuck that guy.
I’m not so self-involved as to think my anonymous comments have any material impact on Elon’s well-being, but if they did I’d be pleased.
Fuck the rich, but especially fuck the fascist ones.
I think it might be tourette’s, my son has the same jerkey movements but without the verbal symptoms.
I think it’s the ketamine
Being a social media ceo turns you into an uncanny valley monster apparently.
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keep it going musk, I want to see that company burned to the ground 🔥
The best thing for the Fediverse has been Musk cannibalizing twitter with ever decision he makes it seems.
Twitter imploding -> People finding Mastodon as an alternative -> People discovering federation as an alternative to walled garden social media
98% of people I see leaving Twitter are headed for BlueSky, not Mastodon
Did someone actually watch the interview? He just looks like an overgrown kid trying to make others in the classroom laugh… That would have been funny if it was not pathetic…
Holy smokes! I just watched it, he doesn’t hardly even look at the interviewer, he’s constantly looking at the audience and trying to get a reaction. I take it back what I said earlier, I was far more mature then him when I was in 8th grade. The interviewer is having a hard time with someone so cocky and stupid.
I could only manage to skip through a bit… any idea roughly when he says the fuck yourself line?
Here around the beginning I think
Wow, that was worse than I expected. I think I have second hand embarrassment from watching it.
It is hilarious to me how this guy thinks he is entitled to have advertisers on his platform. I don’t understand why he thinks he can coerce them back with insults and claiming they will bankrupt his company. Why do they have any responsibility to save your rotten company? Delusional!
Typical conservative victim mentality. It can’t be a result of his actions, no. It’s not his fault the company is crashing and burning. It’s those darn blackmailing advertisers!
In 7th grade, many years ago, my school had an excited young teacher who convinced management to let them teach a Logic class. I can’t even remember if the teacher was male or female, but I use the shit I learned in that class constantly, particularly the fallacies and biases we memorized (and then promptly weaponized against teachers, parents, and pastors).
When billionaires attribute their success entirely to their own virtues, skills, or talents, and blame others or external circumstances for their failings, they are demonstrating a self-serving bias, a specific form of the fundamental attribution error. They fail to acknowledge external factors like market conditions, socio-economic advantages, or the efforts of their teams that may have contributed to their success. Conversely, they externalize blame for failures, ignoring any personal shortcomings or misjudgments.
Sprechen sie Deutsch?
What about the Dutch?
Nein aber ich spreche sehr gut Englisch. Bitte sprich Englisch
Du hast mich gefragt, und ich hab nichts gesagt!
He’s just using abusive partner/parent tricks to manipulate people. I doubt they have any real basis in logic.
oh but they will be judged!
Biznis jenius
You needs to gets urself to school and get some learnings and spellingzl
“That is what everybody on Earth will know,” he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”
Oh no, not at all, dear … everybody on Earth is perfectly aware that it is YOU who is killing the company. Twisting the narrative to feel better within yourself ain’t gonna change the fact. Why would any advertiser worth a damn, want to be associated with Stormfront 2.0?
everybody on Earth will know
hahaha holy shit, he believes. he really believes his own shit. he really views “X” as being of planetary importance. he’s actually living in his daydream, where Mars (by his hand) and Earth are networked (by him) and his “X” has somehow supplanted the Internet and spans between planets. his principal operating perspective is a delusion. wow. like, all the time.
The book Red Rising was suppose to be fiction but fucking hell if people like Musk continue to hold the top of the economic and political power structures, that shit is gonna be reality.
Most people are rooting for that shit ass company toburn to the ground.
So he’s not even trying to control the damage anymore, huh? Just decided he might as well finish flushing the last 20 billion?
Good fucking riddance.
If only it was actually his last $20B
This cunt wearing dogtags…
I hope he needs them.
Edit: they’re Israeli dog tags… Woooow…
So did he steal them off a dead soldier?
Apparently he was given them by the father of a hostage when he visited Israel yesterday.
Just an aside, what a weird moment. Why would you, father of a hostage, give this man anything? And dog tags at that
why would you give this man anything?
Should have given him a lobotomy.
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I made an edit to my comment above yours.
We’ll be gone
Don’t threaten me with a good time…
I hope the boards of Tesla and SpaceX are paying attention. Once Xitter goes down in flames, he’ll be looking for the next project to micromanage into bankruptcy.
Why wouldn’t he have done that first?
Twitters downfall is intentional, if he wanted to micromanage Tesla and SpaceX he would have. This is all a symptom of the fact that he didn’t want to buy Twitter in the first place, he was using it as a coverup for selling stock in Tesla.
Both companies had teams of handlers that followed him around and kept him from messing with important work. Now that he’s addicted to 24/7 media attention, I doubt the handlers will be able to contain him.
I don’t understand why Tesla won’t remove him. He isn’t even the majority stock holder. I highly doubt he adds any value for the company at this point so the only thing I can think of is that there must be some weird clause in their agreements.
I’ve owned a Tesla since 2017 and at this point, I’ve only replaced tires and spent less than $1000 on electricity to go a bit over 50k miles, but I’m ashamed to be driving it every day and it sucks.
Sounds like a win for Tesla and SpaceX employees.
Jewish people are funding causes meant to “annihilate” them
This is what happens when your CEO overdoses on his own farts.
You mean he kissed Netanyahu’s ass for nothing?
Not for nothing. His Nazi fans loved it. And all he seems to care about now is what they think.
Skirting awfully close to a nazi boycott! Luckily the nazis will probably understand it was freeze peach. They know as no other what it means to disavow.
Musk is playing 3d checkers and saves free speech once again.
Lol dude is falling apart
Elon made deals w/ hedge funds to funnel him money as they shorted the stock (not to mention 100x leverage derivatives against Twitter).
Since canceling his PR team, Elon’s entire MO has been to run it into the ground in a manner that seems plausible to the SEC so he doesn’t get out-right sued.
He just isn’t this stupid, whether you want him to be or not.
“Fuck you” to his advertisers seems like a fairly on-brand way to telegraph his true intentions.
There are no twitter stocks, you can’t buy or sell them, and therefore can’t short them, since you need to borrow them to do just that. This could work if Elon had some percent of the company, so other people’s money would enter the equation, but right now it is not possible.
TSLA is his Twitter collateral. Really surprised nobody else sees what I see lol…
He’s the primary owner of the private shares. The shares are not publicly traded. None of what you said makes any sense.
TSLA is his Twitter collateral. Really surprised nobody else sees what I see lol…
I’m a little confused by this comment, Twitter isn’t a publicly traded stock anymore?
Unless you mean he made deals with them before he BOUGHT twitter (for well beyond market value), meaning the hedgies would be taking a loss…?f
edit: that doesn’t preclude the possibility he’s tanking the company so he can declare bankruptcy to get out of his loans, but that doesn’t involve conspiring with hedge funds, it’s just a different kind of financial fraud
Your edit has been my pet theory for some time. That and he gets to ruin a platform that leftists have used to organize around the world.
That just tells me that he doesnt understand how leftists work. We change platforms on the reg.
Yea, I mean I think it’s probably his best play. But I don’t really grant him to be so principled as to have originally bought twitter for that purpose: I think he’s a dumbass who got called on a shitpost, and now he has to weasel his way out.
Doesn’t mean he’s not also a reactionary cunt, but I personally think that plays second fiddle to this situation.
Making deals with hedge funds to ruin a brand they have shorted seems illegal.
Is there any legislation that prohibits this in the United States?
Do you have evidence of him committing insider trading?
Well he’s spent the last decade committing market manipulation, not that far of a jump.
So “no, there is none.” Would have sufficed.
Yeah I find I hard to believe that this man that has constantly done illegal shit to maniuplate the stock market would go as far as to illegally manipulate the stock market.
Always a great sign if posts asking for evidence are getting downvoted.
Because its kind of pointless to the point t of sealioning.
Like take for example when the leader of Wagner group died in a plane crash and it was pretty obvious putin had him killed. Would asking a random lemmy user to provide proof of that claim add anything to thr discussion?
In this case and the Wagner example, if the point isn’t obvious it’s reasonable to ask for some kind of proof to get a better understanding of the point. But I do agree that there’s no reason to ask for proof in this case, because the conspiracy theory is already so nonsensical that any proof would just compound the nonsense.
People simply need to stop putting him on a pedestal and accept that he isn’t some genius businessman whose inner machinations are an enigma. He made a stupid deal and bought a company he doesn’t know how to run so he’s running it into the ground, that’s it. No grand conspiracy required. You need a grand conspiracy only if you can’t accept that Musk is just an ordinary man whose biggest contribution to his success is having wealthy parents.
Lol, I’m no fan of Elon either.
The question doesn’t make sense in context because that’s not what my comment was implying. It’s down-voted for being silly, not pedantic.
You clearly imply insider trading going on. The fact that it might not be (I’m not sure if the law) musk being guilty of insider trading, but just commiting fraud so others could do so, is being pedantic and silly.
TSLA is his Twitter collateral. Really surprised nobody else sees what I see lol…
He only bought Twitter because he was forced to or admit he was trying to manipulate the stock again.
He bought a much higher stake, used Twitter to telegraph a higher price than it was worth. Then he didn’t use his own money when he was finally forced to purchase Twitter at the higher price he tweeted. The money he used to purchase Twitter came from countries who have stated they didn’t want Twitter to be around because it hurt their public perception when they were caught doing shady things.
His Twitter gift started the same way the SEC sued him for market manipulation for his Tesla manipulation years before. Publishing his $420 price point then selling stock when the price goes beyond his tweeted price point.
He was never savy enough to use shorting like the Hedge funds do, but his reach among the idiot masses to cause jumps in price to artificially male a bigger profit.
He’s not the one trading the stock(s) in the above scenario.
So you’re just talking out of your ass?
TSLA is his Twitter collateral. Really surprised nobody else sees what I see lol…
