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    Case study in money not buying happiness. Richest man in the world by a wide margin. CONSTANTLY whining and crying about something.

    If I had even a billion dollars y’all would never catch my ass on social media on in the public eye at all.

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      If I got a billion dollars I would disappear so thoroughly people would think I’m dead.

      Life is short as fuck. But getting all the money you need to live a happy, healthy, long life is as good as it can possibly get on earth. You did it, you won. You can either use it to make people happy or you can just disappear and try to enjoy the brief time you have left.

      I don’t get the motivation, desire and energy to do these massive public campaigns that focus the entire world’s population on you every single day. It doesn’t help anything or anyone and just causes stress. What is the purpose? It has to be some kind of delusion or mania, something gone wrong.

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        He didn’t just get a billion dollars though, its just unrealized gains in stocks, and those stocks represent his influence/control in the company.

        If you helped build a company, and were passionate about it, you’d give that all up? If your vision was to build XYZ and you gave up those shares and you knew XYZ wouldn’t happen anymore, would you give that all up?

        He DID get 300 million dollars from PayPal, and he decided to fund Tesla and build SpaceX and almost lost it all. Was it wrong of him to use all his money to try and build something? (He actually didn’t want to build SpaceX but no one wanted to do the inspiration project sending a plant or something to Mars he wanted to do)

        We need a way to separate the stock value/holdings from company ownership/influence when companies get this big.

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    If I were the richest man on earth, I don’t know what kind of person I would be, but I sure as hell wouldn’t be a whiny little fuck

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    Oh so that nazi salute was leftists & liberals simply hallucinating ? Or what about the fact that you (as in Elon) literally tried to Whitewash Hitler’s crimes ?

    Geee, I wonder why we keep calling you a Nazi.

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    Dude literally posts his stupid thoughts on his own platform. No one is making that shit up and making him type it out. What a dolt.

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      He won’t even apologize for it but instead doubles down. Maybe we should double down on this, too.

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    It’s so unfair that everyone keeps referring to his neo Nazi salute that he gave at a neo Nazi convention.

    Just so unfair to bringing up his neo Nazi salute constantly. Just patiently unfair to mention his neo Nazi salute he gave twice at the neo Nazi convention.

    Just so unfair. Nazi.

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      It’s even worse when you put it in quotes, that way web crawlers and search engines index the entire thing as a connected sentence or cited work, like: “Elon Musk is a nazi who has done nazi salutes repeatedly and shared nazi propaganda.”

      Like, that would be very wrong to keep spreading everywhere, that could really harm someone’s reputation. So bad.

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        Tbf, I don’t think you can do anything worse to his reputation than him literally throwing up two Nazi salutes on live tv. At this point, people’s opinions lie where they lie, although with a shocking amount being very, very disturbingly positive of him…

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          Most of the narratives you see and the people supporting giant pieces of shit like Musk are the work of bots and very careful social engineering to split off our populations most vulnerable and stupid and turning them into propaganda machines to sway more losers. They took the lesson from Nigerian Prince Scams and instead of trying to craft a careful narrative to trap even smart people, they are going right for the stupidest, the most easy to control. Those become their strongest influencers for other stupid people.

          This isn’t very hard to do, but if you talk about it in many liberal circles people roll their eyes and call you a conspiracy theorist. (While they scroll with their iphones that they had to get to keep up with modern tech, updating their social media profiles so they remain liked by their followers.)

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            I don’t disagree with you at all. I think a significant amount of Reddit, Twitter, etc. traffic are wildly inflated by bots that want to push narratives. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s so easy to do now and costs a minimal amount for the return.

            That said, I also know people in real life that dismiss his gesture to him being “autistic” and just “throwing his heart out” even though we have unequivocal video proof of him doing that exact “my heart goes out” gesture in the past that is uh…not a Nazi salute.

            I do wonder where the crossover is though. Like, do the people I know who dismiss Elon’s clear Nazi behaviour do so due to seeing narratives on the internet that back up the idea of “oh no, he’s not a Nazi, it’s fine, he’s just autistic!!1”, or would they have arrived at the same stupid ass conclusion on their own?

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    I’m very curious to see how all this whining plays with his fan boys. Doesn’t seem very based or chad or whatever the fucking incel children are saying these days.

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      They’re really going to be upset when their moms lose their social security and get foreclosed on rendering them basement less

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        Upset, but unwilling to regret their vote admit their part in their moms losing their livelihood or home.

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    aren’t nazis supposed to hate weakness? oh my god whiny fucking weasel, literally just crying and bitching and moaning constantly… disgusting.

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      I take issue with the presence of that bullet. It implies he has the space to have ever done a positive thing.