• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      No, he’s always been a lying, dipshit, con artist, weirdly obsessed with the letter X. A weird obsession with having kids. He sued the original creators of Tesla, so he could have the title of founder…

      Only reason anybody knows he even exists is because Dad’s money. Which ironically is the exact same thing for Trump…

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      7 hours ago

      yes. During his “occupy mars” arc, it was great that there was a rich person that was funding things like electric vehicles, batteries and most importantly , infrastructure, who was also talking about climate change as a serious issue and taking steps for a worst case scenario.

      Then he started unraveling, around the time he started calling the rescue diving guy a pedo.

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        7 hours ago

        I dunno, I would argue anyone that hoards at least hundreds of millions of dollars is suffering from some type of mental health disorder.

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          IDK. Back then it seemed like he was cashing out his wealth to achieve that shit, which is expensive, so we didn’t think too hard about it. Like if you owned half of pay pal, and wanted to spend billions on infrastructure, it made sense that you’d you know, wait and save before doing that.

          I can’t believe I typed that sentence out like that. fuck me.

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            5 hours ago

            He wasn’t cashing out anything. It was all a ploy for investors. If you look at the valuation of Tesla it is massively higher than any other car company. The Mars stuff was just a push again more valuation for SpaceX. Despite the fact that other scientists including people at NASA saying that his plan was not going to work, everything he said was just a publicity stunt to push investors so he can make an imaginary number go up.

            Also he was fired from PayPal for incompetence.

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              yes, thank you captain hindsight. It was nice to have someone building fucking infrastructure and making electric cars seem good.