IMHO, probably not; musk seems interested in his own finances, and on pitting people against minorities so that they don’t see him stealing from them.

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      Trump aside, we’re talking about a guy who has spent his life putting the cart before the horse and went from slapping Roadsters together in a garage to having rockets that land themselves. He’s probably genuinely convinced we’ll come up with something to deal with it later, and every time he wows himself he becomes even more sure of it. Plain hubris

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        Lmao

        musk invented 0 things.

        Musk engineered 0 things.

        All musk did was market bullshit that doesn’t work/exist. He’s the perfect fit for the GOP.

        Musk has never tightened a goddamn bolt in his life, and if you handed him a hammer he would likely hold it improperly.

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          So would you agree or disagree that his disdain and haughty arrogance might compel him to believe that global warming is just a thing he believes he himself can fix later?

          Because I’m just trying to say I believe he’s the kind of guy to act like that

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        The thing is, global warming isn’t going to make the whole globe uninhabitable, just large parts of it. And Elon is rich enough that it won’t really affect him. He can move to wherever he wants, and can insulate himself from the displaced refugees. So to himself, it doesn’t really matter whether he believes in it, it probably won’t change his actions.

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          He has gifted kid syndrome. No doubt in my mind he wants any climate crisis fixed and that he wants to be the hero by fixing it and showing the world how exceptional he is. Every time he gets snubbed to help people he loses his mind, and half the time he does, it’s half-assed, but he’s first in line to offer himself for a cause.

          The dude thrives off validation of intelligence and if you don’t allow him to interject himself into your bad day he’ll call you bad names (remember the stranded diver fiasco?)

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        When ever was musk slamming roadsters together in a garage?

        Just like every other business he was involved, he didn’t build the basics, he just bought himself in

        Tesla was existing before him - when they actually slammed together a roadster in a garage - and with PayPal he only got on after they found their footing (and he fucked up with a competing product as far as I remember)

        Without his start capital, he wouldn’t have had anything.

        I give him, that this is more than just luck, but it’s much more him being known and having money, than him being a business genius - and I don’t even want to talk about the technical side, because pretty much everything he said on this front was bullshit (from pure software, to automation and…ok, I can’t really talk about rockets, but it also wasn’t him who did the actual work)

        In my opinion he is just a parasite, like most so called managers - and CEOs are just the queen of them

        Edit: holy fuck, I made quite some typos…

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          I speak in metaphors, please forgive me. It wasn’t a literal garage, but when Tesla was a penny stock in 2010, compared to what Musk is doing now, it was a metaphorical garage. And he was metaphorically slapping them together. Nobody slaps a car together, they use tools, and owners of companies often aren’t involved with production, but I should have been more detailed

          Edit: penny stocks don’t literally cost a penny, I better throw that in there, and that was also used comparatively

          But the basic takeaway:

          Elon has continued to impress himself with his ideas, possibly to the point that he is confident that he could come up with a solution later, which might make the threat feel less severe. That’s what I meant

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            He wasn’t slapping them together even metaphorically. He injected huge amounts of cash that enabled the capable people to do their jobs and which allowed the company to grow. Imagine your job getting a huge donation from someone and then that person went around acting like they were sitting in the cubicle next to yours the whole time and even claimed some of your ideas were theirs.

            That’s it. He is a coinpurse that also happens to shout insane racist things on Twitter. Elon Musk is fucking dough-brained moron and one of the big problems with capitalism is how much having money makes it harder and harder to lose the more you have.

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              Well I’m glad I gave you an opportunity to soapbox. That tangeant added to the discussion

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            Yeah, I get you

            I just didn’t want to give him the credit, that he is the actual genius behind the companies, like he always wants to present himself

            Because every time he talks about something, I at least know something about (like self-driving cars), I know, he is just talking shit and absolutely doesn’t know what the fuck he is talking about.

            So the sentence, that he, like he himself, slaps together cars, was the drop that brought me to that answer.

            Wasn’t really against you, I just don’t want to promote his wanted image of a genius inventor

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              Yeah, he’s flaky as hell, his word means nothing, he bites off more than he can chew, he cannot control his whims, he thinks his knowledge in one field transfers to things he has no business speaking about, his overarching need to seek validation compels him to interject himself into scenarios in which he can attempt to be a hero (and when he doesn’t he throws tantrums), and he’s nonchalant about all of it.

              If you’re looking for someone to be concerned about something he has no answer for but also shrug it off like “I can handle it later” he’s just the clown for that

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                Well, he is just deeply narcissistic and looks for validation, like you say.

                I don’t know, if there will ever be a moment, that he thinks he’s successful enough to earn love.

                But he is also an adult. And even though he has his emotional problems, he is a very shitty parent to his trans child. And just forwarding all the hate, because he can’t handle his feelings isn’t acceptable.
                He still has a shitload of money and just with that enough power to move things.

                Which is dangerous, when he can influence geo politics that much - see StarLink in war or near war scenarios, and just recently the US election.

                I actually would really like to know, why he is feeling so insecure and needs all this validation, and with what success he would say, that’s it, now I’m fine.

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        It’s truly terrifying how much some people just fall Hook Line and Sinker for propaganda.

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          Didn’t know this was a pro-Musk and anti-climate community but he is an arrogant bonehead. Sorry to break it to you. Maybe read about the guy

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            Wow what a clever attempt at misdirection there. Did the Muskrat teach you that when he was telling you about how he built roadsters?

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              Show me where I said a single thing pro Musk aside from “slapping together Roadsters in a garage”. Big brain of yours. Go back to fifth grade and learn what hyperboles, colloquialisms, and metaphors are so you don’t miss peoples points completely and go on some futile little soapbox about some irrelevant red herring. Good luck kid