Elon Musk Shenanigans thread

[Tudo]

29 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Never.

I don't know that these two are miserable. I can see then enjoying their lives.

These two seem pretty miserable but in way too deep. There's no getting through to them at all.

Hard to know what his inner life is like. Seems like he's desperate to be liked by others, but who knows.

@Leo Gura  How are you so sure Musk is so unhappy? I would almost give anything to work with something as cool as rockets (I have hyperfocus on rockets hahaha).

[Lyubov]

1 hour ago, Apparition of Jack said:

@Leo Gura At some point do you think these people will ever realise how fundamentally miserable, broken, sad and lonely people they are?

 

None of them can stand each other. None of them sees any of the others as more than anything but as means to their own ends. Even their own families fucking hate them.

Thiel, Bezos, Musk, Trump, Zuckerberg - they’re all so fucking miserable. As much as it annoys me they have all this power, part of me is glad I’ll never end up like that, living a constant, never-ending web of lies and deceptions, chasing the next high.

It just sounds awful tbh.

I don’t think Zuckerberg is entirely corrupted. Don’t get me wrong there’s many things I think he did were dishonest and he was quite immature when Facebook came out and he has been consistently irresponsible with how he handles his platform but he doesn’t strike me as entirely corrupted, he greatly values knowledgeable and education. Trump is in an entirely different class than the tech oligarchs. 

[Lyubov]

Upon reflection Musk is such a petty fool. Brainwashed himself badly. He could have stayed above all of this and actually did something good but he just couldn’t stand being mocked on the internet and had to go down the pipeline. I would not categorize Zuck or Bezos along with Trump or Musk. Of course the epistemic problems of corruption, capitalism and our collective society still have the shadow of Zuck and Bezos in them, I would consider them to value knowledge and innovation. Musk was somewhat in this camp until he made himself a celebrity through social media and rotted his brain. Trump was never an innovator or particularly smart. He had a large inheritance and grew his wealth through loans and real estate and also burned a ton of his wealth and went bankrupt many times as well. That’s not really comparable to basically creating social media or creating online shopping. 

Edited March 22 by Lyubov

[PurpleTree]

9 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

Upon reflection Musk is such a petty fool. Brainwashed himself badly. He could have stayed above all of this and actually did something good but he just couldn’t stand being mocked on the internet and had to go down the pipeline. I would not categorize Zuck or Bezos along with Trump or Musk. Of course the epistemic problems of corruption, capitalism and our collective society still have the shadow of Zuck and Bezos in them, I would consider them to value knowledge and innovation. Musk was somewhat in this camp until he made himself a celebrity through social media and rotted his brain. Trump was never an innovator or particularly smart. He had a large inheritance and grew his wealth through loans and real estate and also burned a ton of his wealth and went bankrupt many times as well. That’s not really comparable to basically creating social media or creating online shopping. 

I mean Zuck already stole Facebook from those posh twins. He played woke-ish and then turned into Rogan guy brolygarchy jiu jitsu type of guy and kissed Trumps ring. And the way Bezos (one of the richest men) treats his workers? Drivers are forced to pee in bottles because of the stress. When workers wanted to unionize in Quebec, Bezos just left the state. Because he wouldn’t be able to mistreat them the same way.

Edited March 22 by PurpleTree

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Tudo said:

@Leo Gura  How are you so sure Musk is so unhappy? I would almost give anything to work with something as cool as rockets (I have hyperfocus on rockets hahaha).

You can read anecdotes about Musk from people like Kara Swisher. She was his friend before he turned on her and called her evil for daring to criticize his immaturity.

She says he's kinda lonely and miserable in his private life.

Frankly I'm sick of hearing about these Tech Bros. They are all corrupt and shallow as hell. Success and power addicts who understand nothing of what life is really about.

Edited March 23 by Leo Gura

[Yali]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Remember that Trump is a fake billionaire

what makes you think that? @Leo Gura

[Elliott]

This will drop the stock even more

 

 

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[Hardkill]

Fortunately, Musk failed to buy the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race that happened tonight:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

[Puer Aeternus]

1 hour ago, Hardkill said:

Fortunately, Musk failed to buy the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race that happened tonight:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

Yup, and Musk's lackey lost by a 10% margin in a state that went to Trump in the presidential election just a few months ago.

Also a big Democratic swing in a deep red Florida district to replace Matt Gaetz.

Just small indicators, but definitely pointing in a positive direction. People realizing they done fucked up, and Trump will probably only agitate them more.

The conservatives are likely going to get deep fried in the midterms, assuming no tomfoolery goes down. Which is a big assumption. Two years can't go by fast enough.

[integral]

Edited Monday at 03:08 AM by integral

[WikiRando]

Elon shenanigans 

[Scholar]

5 hours ago, WikiRando said:

Elon shenanigans 

I am not sure who is more dispicable in this situation. A woman who literally has a child to blackmail a billionaire into giving her money, or a billionaire whose life goal is to immitate Genghis Khan's procreative strategies.

[Leo Gura]

1 minute ago, Scholar said:

I am not sure who is more dispicable in this situation. A woman who literally has a child to blackmail a billionaire into giving her money, or a billionaire whose life goal is to immitate Genghis Khan's procreative strategies.

If the child is his, it's not blackmail, he has legal alimony obligations to her.

That's why always use a condom.

[Scholar]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

If the child is his, it's not blackmail, he has legal alimony obligations to her.

That's why always use a condom.

It doesn't make her any less morally depraved and dispicable. She knew exactly what type of person Elon Musk was. There is a history to this person that is relevant to this, in that she was basically a staunchly conservative woman who criticized the very behavior she is engaging in.

 

Yes Elon has an obligation to pay for the child, there is no quesiton that he is a despicable human being. But creating a life with a person you know did this over and over again, so that you can enrich yourself, is orders of magnitudes worse than what Elon is doing here.

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Scholar said:

so that you can enrich yourself

Quite the assumption.

You can sleep with someone without ideas of enriching yourself.

Edited Monday at 02:02 PM by Leo Gura

[Scholar]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Quite the assumption.

You can sleep with someone without ideas of enriching yourself.

Again, I would recommend informing yourself on who this person was. If you think that this person is anything but an opportunistic sociopath you are naive.

 

It's naive on the level of saying that maybe Trump is actually good hearted and all of what he is doing is just his attempt of making the world a better place, albeit he is just ignorant.

Edited Monday at 02:05 PM by Scholar

[Letho]

This is why I don't trust the intersubjective reality. You guys are just stacking chips in an imaginary game in which the games already rigged with self-deception, you're all wasting time; build your tribes, build your homes, build your loves and build your sentience. You're all just caught in mirroring intersubjectivity without resolving it towards something more whole, and the fact that there is social communion around this means that you achieve the inverse of personal development, instead you build an alter where you worship everything that you've been trying to get away from only to make that alter the very thing you come to despise, and many of us, don't enjoy this place. Humor is as good as it is enriching for our learning and learning is as good as it is enriching for our love of life, this is the secret to happiness, you'll find no continuity by trying to rebalance yourselves through the mockery of intelligence that only becomes endearing for what enjoys its downfall by your attachment to it. 

This is the biggest flaw of the forum, it does not grow; it stagnates through an exchange of one illusive avatar for another, an illusion that is only meaningful in as much as that meaning meets our creative capacity to turn it into purpose; which all reflective learning achieves. Deny the intersubjectivity, including in demography, such as this one, stoke only the fires in life that engender the humility and happiness that our ancestors took for granted as they never had to foresee the deterioration of community and socialisation through the digital crucifix that turned into Satan because of our own lack of prudence. 

Build your closest relationships, and forget this imaginary one you have with Musk unless it is adding to your own learning. Below is an example of a man that has wasted years of his life being obsessed with Elon Musk's deterioration and for every pseudo-rational 'win' he gets in that delight his reward circuits positively reinforce the absurdity of his what some may even argue is a 'possession'. Placing him not only in greater servitude to a pyramid scheme that he'll look back on with regret but also increasing his social surroundings to include eventually no more than those that devoted their lives to similar digital phantoms they never truly got to discover the treasure of the truth to. Which was by not necessarily even meeting the people they wasted their time laughing at, but by simply taking the lessons they learned and leveraging those architectures in the greater heights of their sentience, the very purpose for their supposed noble endeavour towards science, and certainly for all of us, the purpose for the god gift of our own sentience. Remember to keep laugh on speed dial, but remember to dial a different number after you've decoded the patterns between the numbers and their projections thereto when you're done; progress < sentience > purpose. I know though, I'm just caught between the corridor of two doors though, but the fact is I've learned the lesson, and I am moving on to find another. So before you retreat, contemplate, what can you learn deeper here. Is it human dynamics, advanced empathy, the violations upon the ontology of what it means to be human in a diverse universe? Map it out, meet your ends, and this will not feel like a waste, and you'll learn to translate that merely feeling, into the feeling of a changed being where that meets the redesign of your self-structure.

Thunderfoot USED to be a well respected YouTuber on science, now he's a well respected YouTuber among a community of morons on the bastardization of Musk's reputation, however deserved or not, this is one of the clear signs just how much the intersubjectivity has failed and why, we must return to tribal times in building our communities inwardly outwardly rather than relying on this algorithmic digital economies anymore, including this forum. The downfall of Musk in Thunderfoot's eyes, unfortunately, is just as great as his own. He'll never be able to go back to where he was, truly, and hopefully for his well being, I hope that's to his betterment as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Scholar said:

It doesn't make her any less morally depraved and dispicable. She knew exactly what type of person Elon Musk was. There is a history to this person that is relevant to this, in that she was basically a staunchly conservative woman who criticized the very behavior she is engaging in.

 

Yes Elon has an obligation to pay for the child, there is no quesiton that he is a despicable human being. But creating a life with a person you know did this over and over again, so that you can enrich yourself, is orders of magnitudes worse than what Elon is doing here.

Need to take into consideration the real toll growing and giving birth to a child has on your body also. 

Kids alter your body & mind in a irreversible way. It's a sacrifice.

 

[Frylock]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Quite the assumption.

You can sleep with someone without ideas of enriching yourself.

In most cases, yes. In the case of the most richest man in the world who doesn't have many redeeming qualities outside of his wealth, I would argue no.