Was he lying back then and is truthful now, or did the pandemic just break him?
He got rid of his PR team at some point, his trans daughter disowned him, and Grimes left him and started going out with Chelsea Manning. I think he got broken. Add wanting to be cool on top of that and you’ve got a recipe for a billionaire “pick me”
Genuinely, this was back when he still had PR people managing his reputation.
Iirc, he got rid of them sometime around the submarine incident.
if Trump loses the election, expect musk to suddenly attempt to reconcile with his trans daughter and embrace indigenous cultures or whatever the hell he thinks liberals like
This was also around the time when the public perception about Musk was different. Reddit thought of him as a “real-life Tony Stark”, who put a car in space and is a little eccentric. That perception about him peaked on August 2018 when he appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Around 2020 he started to go deeper into QAnon-esque rabbit-hole, turning into the despised far-right wacko he is today. Of course he has been always an opportunistic hack.
He genuinely did not ever appear (publicly) to be a shit bag narcissist, though. I say this as someone who kept an eye on musk from around 2000, and invested early (as well as exiting early due to his narcissism). In every interview he just came across as neurodivergent, but never as though he didn’t care about the planet, the environment, or the climate crisis. He was one of the only wealthy people promoting electric cars 20 years ago, well before it was considered profitable. He was also the only wealthy person advocating for risk mitigation as a species (a mars colony).
Regardless of recent events, I’m not dumb enough to believe he was simply acting flawlessly for well over a decade. If he were always the narcissist he is today, the cracks would have been apparent long ago. Instead I came to the conclusion — like many people before me — that absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Narcissists are not born; they are created. It’s no different to Bezos. In this interview from 27 years ago he’s just a regular nerd; not the corporate “let them piss in jars” sociopath he is today. The evidence is clear. Extreme wealth and power create narcissism. Billionaires should not exist.
100/100 and then tweets like this lol.
Whatever’s trendy at the time, I guess, fuck whatever that is.
According to his trans daughter, he was treating her like shit long before this, so he’s always been an asshole.
Yeah it looks like anyone close to him (including his business partners) says he was an asshole.
It looks like he had a great PR firm until then, which he stopped using, because he thought he can do better on his own.
Started to believe the bullshit himself basically… a spectacular fall from public grace.
More like he realized there were a lot more fascists running around than previously suspected and he could get away with it.
He’s definitely always been an asshole but he only went crazy a few years ago.
He only went crazy publicly a few years ago.
Well, everything else is rumour and hearsay. I’ll stick with what is on the record for my judgement.
if you think he’s the only rich dude to say whatever he needs to get what he wants, i’ve got a bridge to sell ya
what am i supposed to do with a bridge
edit: oh i think i get it now. very clever
It’s a reference to someone “selling” the Brooklyn bridge to someone else for scrap long ago. I think so anyway.
Woosh goes the joke
In all honesty he probably doesn’t believe any of what he publicly says. Trump probably offered him less government scrutiny for his inherently dangerous projects (tesla self driving, SpaceX experimental rockets etc) as well as the billionaire tax breaks and he’s just trying to get him elected for his own personal profit. I’ve never seen a billionaire’s life be affected by a government decision, they all do as they please anyway (unless they’re in China or Russia)
Since at the time, he still had his rather spectacular or team… it’s probably not even him writing that.
He’s always been a troll. He says and does whatever he thinks it takes for people to pay attention to him. I doubt it goes any deeper than that.
This was a few weeks before the mask fell off with the pedo guy tweet.
deleted by creator
