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Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Promoting Tucker Carlson’s Interview With Hitler-Loving ‘Historian’ (www.mediaite.com)
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Nothing in that headline is exaggerated or sensationalized. It's 100% factual.

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[–] 113 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For a supposed genius, I do get the impression this oligarch keeps taking many corrective measures for his own actions.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, very smart people can say very dumb things outside their areas of expertise.

    Also to be fair, Musk isn't one of those people.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    What area of expertise does he have?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I have not seen a single indication of genius by Musk. I see a spoiled trust fund man-child in the right place at the right time and who frequently pays other people to come up for ideas for him. I can literally think of dozens of people I've known over the years who are far more intelligent and would do much more with his starter funds from daddy.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've been in meetings with him when he was still active at SpaceX and before he truly dove off the deep end. I had direct conversations with him telling him his engineers were wrong about something. He was quite intelligent and knew his shit. He was arrogant and a dick, but it was obvious he knew a LOT about the rockets he was building. He wasn't doing the engineering, but he definitely understood the work going on.

    Now, though, the dude is a fucking lunatic. I don't know if he just started taking too many drugs or if the billions of dollars made something break in his mind or what, but he was not like this back then.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, he didn’t. He has no knowledge of rockets outside of Wikipedia. He has no knowledge of engineering outside of some shit science show.

    I have worked with engineers who worked with him at Tesla and they say he is a functional idiot, borderline mentally defective. He will go into meeting and act like he understand magnetism and everyone has to sit there awkwardly listening for an hour about him rambling on like a moronic 6th grader until he leaves.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, you're right, what was I thinking? Your second-hand knowledge is totally more accurate than my firsthand knowledge. I definitely didn't have technical conversations with him about propellant margins due to boil-off during coast. I absolutely wasn't there when he agilely and correctly answered a barrage of technical questions from a 3-star General.

    I'm not saying he is all-knowing and all-powerful. I don't doubt he is so arrogant that he would ramble on about something he doesn't understand... especially magnetism, since I never understood that shit even after years of physics classes during college. But just because he is an idiot about the deep physics behind how electric cars run doesn't mean he is stupid about all things.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am sure I am not the only one who thinks a large amount of his success stems from Peter Thiel wanting to fuck him. And possibly actually fucking him.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    Musk came in as "the money guy" to PayPal before Theil was rich. It's why he was CEO for 6 months, but everyone hated him as a leader so much they fired him.

    They all got really, really rich together, and the Elon risked it all on Tesla and survived via government handouts for a decade.

    Easy to take big risks when you know you can pop back to dads emerald mine for a fill up at any point.

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