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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau met with me and toured SpaceX.”

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[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 75 points 1 month ago

I mean, he's not wrong. Hollywood jerked off to him til like 2018, even when he was blatantly evil already the hollywood liberal writer bubble loved their teslas so he was just a quirky genius to them. Buying twitter was the thing that made him a bad guy in their minds, but it was working with Trump 2024 that was the actual nail in the coffin and even after that there were op eds about how he should be welcomed back to the 'good guys' after he had his one week fallout with Trump. Being rich means you get infinite second chances

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

He could of retired from public life as a hero but he got too big for his bazinga britches and inserted himself into the gop machine and fucked around and torpedoed his image lmao

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Many such cases.

Musk specifically fired his PR firm around 2018, the time he made the ”pedo guy” tweet.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

damn turns out those guys were very, very good

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

star trek name dropped him in 2017 too
guy with no actual skills who just bought some companies is a genius visionary apparently lol

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Ok but that was Terran Lorca who said Musk was a visionary.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

musk also had a cameo in iron man 2

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