Elon Musk

same here

tbh the pop of ilx is so low now i'm guessing nobody could be fp'd off the site anymore

Serious question, since I've either never been FP'd (seems unlikely) or just don't know how it works — do you get notification of FPs? Or is it just that if there are sufficient #s the mods do something?

the latter

So kind of a Star Chamber system huh. Terrifying.

we have no choice but to abide by our shadowy overlords

i’m not totally sure but i think the late great got
tempbanned over that kerfuffle

no, he didn't

Early days of Ukraine war had quite a few posters get temp banned, it's still possible you just need to work with the zeitgeist.

fwiw tipsy there's a thread where you can ask how many FPs you got and the mods will tell you.

We cannot inform you of the charges against you. Prepare your defense.

elon seems overextended.

fwiw tipsy there's a thread where you can ask how many FPs you got and the mods will tell you.

lol some things it's better not to know.

maybe this one dumb bad guy shouldnt control all this stuff based on his drug and sleep deprived moods idk

I don't know if that New York Magazine piece on Isaacson/his Elon bio was discussed here but it's really jarring and kind of bizarre how almost sycophantic an attitude he takes towards Musk at times, but then he will casually drop things like "yeah, it's a shame he has zero empathy" or "yeah, his pedophile tweets are kind of off-putting" (the latter I guess a reference to when he accused the Thai cave rescue guy of being a pedophile?) He also muses that all geniuses or great dudes (and presumably the one lady he wrote about?) are driven to accomplish great things by their personal demons, with a sort of implication that Elon has the potential to be the most godlike genius ever precisely because he has so many issues and is such a fucked-up guy.

I'm maybe sloppily paraphrasing him here, but it's a weird read altogether!

well they dont give you access if youre not a sniveling lil toad i guess

Ha... the other layer to it is that the New York writer seems to go out of their way to paint Isaacson as being such a great guy, and going into the article having known almost nothing about him I was honestly having trouble figuring out if my overall negative reaction to him (Isaacson) was due to Isaacson as a person, or weariness at the writer's lavish encomium of him, Isaacson's attitude towards Musk, or just my own personal bad weather Sept. 11th Monday spleen.

theres daisy chain of butt sniffing happening

Apparently!

I think his lack of empathy is a deeply unattractive trait. I also think that he would not be who he was in terms of the enterprises if he hadn’t had the deficit of the empathy gene.”

I guess the actual quote is worse than what I made it sound like in my post up there. It's almost like "I for one welcome our new sociopathic billionaire overlords!" Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress ;)

That's the price we pay for . . . whatever Elon has given the world.

*checks notes* shitty cars and letting nazis on twitter

Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress

This seems to be the approved line re: Musk among the Davos class; Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who I think used to be a scientist, said the same thing on a podcast interview this week. Of course, to quote William S. Burroughs (I know, I know), "No job too dirty for a fuckin' scientist."

Thank god for progress (rich guys firing things into space for no reason while everything crumbles)

"Early days of Ukraine war had quite a few posters get temp banned, it's still possible you just need to work with the zeitgeist."

Temp banned twice here, and I'd agree. Pick your moment and go with God.

[Stares into the camera] pic.twitter.com/PZrtNA8FQl

— Zito (@_Zeets) September 13, 2023

thats something

why does it say he was born in "$"

(the original says pretoria)

Progress would be rich guys being fired into the sun.

Elon Musk was born in $crooge McDuckia

I'm still not over "I am the alpha in this relationship"

fuck this twat

.⁦@elonmusk, on ⁦@theallinpod⁩: “I think I understand China well…”

Then proceeds to compare Taiwan to Hawaii: “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China”

He’s repeating CCP talking points with no mention of US interests. pic.twitter.com/93V6lCOuVR

— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) September 13, 2023

Most inarticulate fuck i’ve ever heard

i think i understand china well i say what they want and they let me do business there

he has a special deal other car manufactures in china have to be 50% chinese owned but tesla can just do what they want

it's always shocking to me how childish, stupid, and sloppy he is

it's worth noting that the Communist Party of China has never ruled Taiwan - if anything the island could be considered a liberated post-colony of the old China, but never a part of the People's Republic, fuck off elon

he never knows what the fuck he is talking about

He might want to ask some Hawaiians how they feel about all this.

That famously "integral" part of a country that is mostly on a landmass 2,500 miles away.

I remember hearing this guy speak in like 2017 and could not believe how unprepared and tired he seemed. serious "didn't actually read the book" vibes. his brain is just a rat in a really tight maze unable to see more than a foot ahead

I mean he spent decades surrounding himself with people who were willing to take every idiotic thing that came out of his mouth seriously and reward him with hundreds of millions in government money I genuinely think that kind of shit warps your melon

Elon vs. China hawks is a no-win scenario.

You're Elonin' My Melon Man

Gary Shteyngart's review of the Isaacson book is appropriately savage.

3 sentences before we hit lazy empty mental health slurs, kudos

You mean this?

Throughout the tome, Musk’s confidantes, co-workers, ex-wives and girlfriends present a DSM-5’s worth of psychiatric and other theories for the “demon moods” that darken the lives of his subordinates, and increasingly the rest of us, among them bipolar disorder, OCD, and the form of autism formerly known as Asperger’s. But the idea that any of these conditions are what makes Musk an “asshole” (another frequently used descriptor of him in the book), while also making him successful in his many pursuits, is an insult to all those affected by them who manage to change the world without leaving a trail of wounded people, failing social networks and general despair behind them.

no i'm sorry you're right it's ok to use aclinical mental health slurs about bad people

He’s talking about what people interviewed in the book say about Musk. But ok.

He also says that explaining away Musk’s evil with clinical theories is an insult to people with these conditions.

i would simply avoid echoing this nonsense by focusing on Musk's existence as an avatar of the hegemonic socioeconomic system but

Yeah, you should never talk about what's actually in a book when reviewing it. That's just rude to imaginary internet people whose feelings might be hurt.