I don’t know how people got so duped into thinking musk is a genius, he’s just a spoiled rich kid that got that way by family money and riding the coat takes of others. Even Peter Thiel refers to him as a fraud that believes his own bullshit.
Did you just describe Musk or Trump?
Yes.
There are many, many more spoiled rich kids not nearly as successful as Musk. Musk certainly is exceptionally good at managing businesses. Let's see how good he is at (directly) influencing a government.
Damn, you mean to tell me the lifelong con-man and his team of other con-men and tech oligarchs didn't actually have their audience's best interests in mind, and were just parroting off whatever the right-wing wanted to hear to harvest their votes?
Well I never saw that coming /s
god i want to photoshop musks head like 100x the size back there and it'd be half way to an homage of those 'creepy Garfield'/cosmic horror Garfield memes. "i no longer require the ketamine Donald." "im sorry Donald, i was so hungry." etc etc
I've seen him somewhere before...
His head looks oddly large in this photo
Trumps going to dump him within six months. If not sooner. Possibly three months at the rate Leons going. Musk seems to be trying a speedrun towards failure.
Historians will debate how many moochies he lasted.
Trump seems to be easily dominated by other strongmen. It’s possible Trump is afraid of Elon Musk and won’t have the confidence to stand up to him, nor the financial means.
Trump loooves being dominated
Who are those guys hanging with President Musk?
Business men doing... Business?
Ah MAGA. The group that’s perpetually (1)3-steps behind in reasoning.
Too charitable.
Maybe if the right wing hadn't spent the last forty years denigrating education and experts then Americans wouldn't worship sports and media stars.
There's a sucker born every minute.
'Great Replacement Theory', huh?
"Who got duped?"
Yes.
Duped implies they were deceived by Trump's intentions. They weren't duped, they knew exactly what they were getting when they voted that douchebag in.
They just thought it wouldn't impact them.
It would be delightfully ironic if Musk's right-wing audience he gained from going absolutely batshit insane turned on him as well, further driving away people from his vanity-feeding platform, leaving him destitute and craving for attention he has to lick off the floor.
Can you imagine? A world where we get to talk about Twitter as a thing of the past?
What a dream..
the number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.
JFC. First of all, I hate the sports analogies when it comes to corporate bullshit-speak. The only thing that is worse is saying "we are like a family". Secondly, at least in sports, even if the owners make far, far more, at least top talent is compensated to some degree.
The problem the moneyed class has is, and it really, really annoys them, is that they have to compensate top talent that actually do something, not just the executives. And man, the idea of disrupting their corporate caste system annoys them no end.
THIS is why they do all kinds of things to try to break engineers' spirit and trying to keep them from getting too uppity. They collude, and have "gentlemen agreements" to not poach talent from one another. They set salary ranges. The collude with government on programs like H1B. They collude with government to offshore jobs to the lowest cost of living/most desperate countries they can...
God fucking forbid that "top talent" get FUCKING PAID like an executive. That would start puncturing the illusion that the wizards in mahogany row are the real creators of wealth.
To bad a good bit of tech engineers see themselves as rugged individuals, who are an eventual executives and are essential to the companies they work for. So they do nothing to help other workers because the they that would be "hurting themselves".
Yeah, unfortunately, at least since the 80s, a lot of goofy narratives about how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were "just like you" (meaning the random Galt's Gulch engineer) and with a little pluck and a lot of coding, they made billions. Rinse and repeat this with lots and lots of new characters heading up new companies...
Um, neither of them made that money as engineers...they might have started out doing some related work, but they quickly turned to exploiting other engineers to make the real money.
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