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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

The old school MS-DOS gaming groups on Facebook all mocked it on how it looked like it was an early 90s PC racing game car rendered in real life. Plenty of other 90s gamers also made similar claims about how it resembled clunky primitive 3D graphics of the era.

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

The other day I was talking about musk to my GF, Me: “Musk is such a poser, he buys successful gaming accounts and pretends to be a top gamer by claiming those achievements as his own” GF: “Well, yeah, that tracks. Isn’t that what he does with his companies?”.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Sounds like a keeper!

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Musk is a sleazy salesman. That's all he is.

[-] stormeuh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Perfect company for Trump.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

A sleazy salesman who was built up by his dad as some kind of messiah.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things

[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago

Elon musk has a few patents. Nothing revolutionary and some not even related to his current venture. But his companies successes come down to his ability to promise completely unachievable goals.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

This is exactly how Trump built himself up. As early as the 1970s when Trump was just starting to do his own ventures New York newspapers and editorials would jeer at him for being the biggest damn blowhard they ever saw. Someone who would promise the world and deliver nothing.

Yet this attitude worked... he managed to built a brand around himself as the successful businessman who, ironically, had no businesses successes. By the late 80s he was actively mocked by so much media it wasn't funny. Everything from sesame street to the 87 TMNT cartoon to the infamous Back to the Future 2 portrayal. It didn't stop there. It continued into the 90s with the villain in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie being heavily based on Trump, as well as the villain in the 1994 movie Time Cop.

Everyone from playboy to a ton of other magazines. Despite all this he STILL managed to somehow maintain that image, and while it waned, the Apprentice somehow convinced people again that he was a business genius when he was the farthest thing from it.

He was not in isolation, of course. The libertarian movement had been growing and the idea that the US did not need a politician, but a businessman, as a president and that it needs to be run like a business and not a country had been building momentum for decades before his entry into politics.

If that movement didn't exist Trump would still be a failed businessman and probably have been thrown in prison a long time ago.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Last year SpaceX received government subsidies totaling $10 million per day. Without government welfare he is worthless.

[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago

I have a feeling he designed the cyber truck and that's why it sucks so hard

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Yeah iirc, he boasted a bit about that and there's alot of engineers that responded to various comments about design oversights saying most of it was musks design, it was designed how he wanted it the way he wanted it, agianst the advice of engineers. They saw some these problems miles away but that car specifically was musks baby, his personal magnum opus, his personal design.

Probably a reason them being vandalized hirts him even more, not only is he an arrogant petulant child, that really is "his" creation. Treats it more like his kid then any of his children which "died" to wokeness.

[-] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

On an video done by common sense skeptic, he mentions that Teslas business plan was layed out by the original founders up until the launch of cybertruck. Indicating that Musks only major contribution was indeed the Cybertruck. He also has a couple of patents, one for the shape of the charger socket and the other one I can't recall.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

never designed anything

i am convinced that he at least had a lot of say in the design of cybertruck. the sheer amount of design flaws on that thing is just too many to believe it was made by actual engineers without any input from a barely literate troglodyte.

[-] kittenzrulz123 50 points 1 week ago

Well thats not completely true, he personally helped design the Cybersuck

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago
[-] kittenzrulz123 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hear its the fascist thing on wheels :3

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

According to some graffiti, that's true!

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

I remember some article about SpaceX a while ago, where an engineer says that the work day grinds to a halt whenever Musk arrives at the factory because he wants them to work in a very specific way that isn't actually conducive to being a rocket manufacturer, but which he thinks is how rocket manufacturers operate.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

He just happened to get lucky and invest in 3 of the most influential technology companies of the past decade despite basically the entire planet telling him it won't be possible.

He just got lucky 🙄

This is a stupid fucking way to attack Elon. There are better ways to point out he's a drug addicted criminal.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, whn you shot-gun spray your investments, you're bound to get lucky.

What about:

  • Solar roof tiles
  • Dumbass tunel
  • Morons' train in a tube
  • Scam roadster and scam truck
  • X as everything app nonsense

When you're born into financial security, you can try dumb shit, and you're bound to get lucky.

If you're born into financial security and you're a grifter/scammer - you're bound to become a billionaire.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I was unaware successful people were not allowed any failure. I guess we'll just ignore that and his objectively better performance than every other rich person 🤷‍♂️

[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Musk is stupid as fuck and has failed upwards his whole life due to being born rich. He's basically a sentient bank account. If you had any professional experience in the areas Musk talks about you would see how fucking dumb he is.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Your assessment doesn't really work if you look at his success compared to just about anyone. That includes much much richer fucks. I understand he has advantages but objectively he performs far better than his peers. He's also accumulated quite a bit of policy power, again more than his peers.

[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Your assumptions are backwards. Its all probability and he is the luckiest of the rich dipshits. Its why he is so insecure, he hasn't achieved much through merit. A smart person in his position would've fucked off already.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

As "successful" as Elisabeth Holmes. She had "objectively the best performance than every other rich woman!".

Honestly, you kids have your brains fried by these scam-artists. Your measure of "success" is so, so sad and pathetic.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

My guy. He turned 200m into 305B. Definitely not successful. I'm quite brain washed I guess 🤣

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, you are.

You willingly ignore any argument in favour of "BUT VIRTUAL NUMBER BIG".

That's either being brainwashed or pure stupidity.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Name a single more successful investor in the past 40 years.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So the latter, huh.

My man here takes a minute to think and comes up with "BUT... BUT VIRTUAL NUMBER BIG" contra argument... Again.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Guy, you want to ignore really and go on your feelings of truthiness as far as I can tell.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Your fragile "reality" is based on the covers of Forbes, where one day you're "most successful investor" and the next day you're sentenced for 25 years in jail for fraud.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh, we're back at "UNGA BUNGA VIRTUAL NUMBER BIG" shit again. Wow, you're really making those 2 braincels work really hard, and nothing else is coming out, huh...

I mean, it tracks, since your idol is a dumbass nazi oligarch, whose only chance of not being sentenced for fraud was getting into the government.

Done wasting my time here, is like haveing a discussion eith a breezeblock

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I think he's an insufferable cunt who should be luigi'ed. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I'm just willing to be objective on his success both from a political and financial view. You do yourself a disservice characterizing your enemy and buying into the memes.

He is winning. He is beating the shit out of everything you care about. You are being trounced having your rights stolen by a bumbling lucky idiot? 🤦‍♂️

[-] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 28 points 1 week ago

And also lucky to have been born in the right family.

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[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People who defend him claim he's a super genius who invented electric cars and space shuttles straight out of his balls, so it does make sense to call out the fact that he himself didn't create any of these companies and he's not the one doing any of the development, all he has is money, all he does is shout and put his X on other people's things.

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[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

I would argue Gwen Shotwell is to blame for spacex's success. Tom Muller made the engine, which is no mean feat, but Gwen built the company.

[-] alucard@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

Gwynne* Shotwell, but yea, she built the company.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

I also spelt Mueller wrong. I'm not a rocket appliances.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Bringing down a superpower is pretty big. Something to brag about I guess.

[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Can someone provide sources for the information? I'm not doubting it, just that relying solely on information from a meme without references is generally a bad idea

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For PayPal he was actually fired, but still had a lot of shares. Musk was fired when the company he was CEO of (x.com), merged with Confinity. PayPal was a service of Confinity. Musk kept pushing his X concept, whilst the rest of the company wanted to go PayPal. Musk got pushed out over this and some other conflicts. Later PayPal made it big and the shares made Musk a bunch of money.

So for PayPal Musk had zero to do with it's success.

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[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Well with Tesla, that was a lawsuit. He was being sued and due to the outcome, board members became co-founders. Legally Musk is considered a co-founder of Tesla.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

That's because xelon is a nothing, and has always been a nothing. Money does not make you something. All republicans/conservatives are just the uncool kids that will never be cool. They don't understand what "cool" actually is. And when they try to be "cool", it's just cringe, cringe, cringe!!!

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