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Is Musk revealing his true self or in the midst of some life crisis? He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.

thinking4real 4y ago
“He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.” Yeah, he owns the worlds largest auto company, largest rocket company, and just threw down $40 billion to buy the worlds biggest social media company. Dude is in dire straights indeed.
- SkipperCat 4y ago
  Not the largest car company, just the one with the highest price tag. VW prob makes more cars in a month than Tesla makes in a year.
  - caf 4y ago
    Seems to be more like 2 months (VW's monthly rate is about 700,000 and Tesla's yearly rate about 1.2M).
- paulv 4y ago
  > he owns the worlds largest auto company No, he doesn't. That would be Volkswagen.
- scarface74 4y ago
  His auto company is far from the largest. Its stock market value may be the highest (and overvalued). But there is a world of difference.
- SpanishBrowne 4y ago
  Hmm.. - not the world's largest auto company by a long shot. not even in the top 10. - had to borrow billions (at least 13B) from banks to buy twitter (banks that now want out) - twitter not remotely the biggest social media company in the world. again.. likely not even in the top 10. username is surely parody.
- CloudRecondite 4y ago
  Rich people go crazy all the time
jeffbee 4y ago
It's a pretty obvious midlife crisis. Dude's baby mama left him for a trans woman. His own gender-reaffirming hair implants turned out all wrong. Tough time to be Elon.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> in the midst of some life crisis? A significant fraction of our ascendant elite are overworked, overmedicated and alone. Musk is likely the most critical of the afflicted by Kayne syndrome.
duxup 4y ago
> revealing his true self He seems to try very hard to show who he is, some people just won’t take him at is word / actions.
kevinh 4y ago
Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was a kid, he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a fellow student's father's suicide, and Musk's father was not on his son's side. This is not new behavior.
- CloudRecondite 4y ago
  I’m aware of some of it, the frequency now is what’s alarming
- richbell 4y ago
  Elon did everything in his power to ruin the life of a whistle-blower. After they were able to identify the source of the leak, Martin Tripp, someone who had a personal vendetta against Tripp called in a false police report that he was planning a mass shooting. I cannot say who that someone was, but both Tesla and Musk himself were spreading rhetoric that Tripp was a dangerous individual. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
Natsu 4y ago
He got mad at people tracking (or trying to track) current IRL location to enable harassment after someone went after his son.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  Except that that whole thing is bollocks. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
  - richbell 4y ago
    > Sweeney said he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was Dec. 12, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.” https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspends-elon-jet-account-that-tracked-elon-musk-plane-rcna61718 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspe... Last I checked, the police claimed they hadn't received any reports about the incident, either.
    - jacquesm 4y ago
      Color me surprised. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365 https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365
      - akiselev 4y ago
        Hey that's in my home town! I did a quick search and it looks like his girlfriend bought a house in Pasadena in 2018 [1]. So this stalker followed him home to Grimes' home and there's no police report? [1] https://observer.com/2018/06/grimes-buys-house-pasadena-los-angeles-elon-musk/ https://observer.com/2018/06/grimes-buys-house-pasadena-los-...
        kevingadd 4y ago
        Grimes and Elon broke up, as far as I know. So that's probably unrelated?
jmyeet 4y ago
If you are anything like me, you were fooled for a long time because of SpaceX. It's become clearer and clearer however that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. There are all sorts of reports around now that SpaceX management is very effective at building a firewall around Elon to stop him doing a lot of damage. But his politics, narcissism, deception, misrepresentation and incompetence actually aren't new. Lying about his education, his role in Paypal, founding tesla and so on. It goes back decades. Personally I'm not surprised at Elon's temper tantrum and banning people who are mean to him on Twitter. What saddens me however is how many stans and apologists ("dick riders" if you will) Elon still has. Elon does not care about you. You will never be Elon. For the record, this is a general "you", not who I'm replying to specifically.
che_shirecat 4y ago
power corrupts
- niyikiza 4y ago
  And absolute power corrupts absolutely

thinking4real 4y ago

“He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.” Yeah, he owns the worlds largest auto company, largest rocket company, and just threw down $40 billion to buy the worlds biggest social media company. Dude is in dire straights indeed.

SkipperCat 4y ago
Not the largest car company, just the one with the highest price tag. VW prob makes more cars in a month than Tesla makes in a year.
- caf 4y ago
  Seems to be more like 2 months (VW's monthly rate is about 700,000 and Tesla's yearly rate about 1.2M).
paulv 4y ago
> he owns the worlds largest auto company No, he doesn't. That would be Volkswagen.
scarface74 4y ago
His auto company is far from the largest. Its stock market value may be the highest (and overvalued). But there is a world of difference.
SpanishBrowne 4y ago
Hmm.. - not the world's largest auto company by a long shot. not even in the top 10. - had to borrow billions (at least 13B) from banks to buy twitter (banks that now want out) - twitter not remotely the biggest social media company in the world. again.. likely not even in the top 10. username is surely parody.
CloudRecondite 4y ago
Rich people go crazy all the time

jeffbee 4y ago

It's a pretty obvious midlife crisis. Dude's baby mama left him for a trans woman. His own gender-reaffirming hair implants turned out all wrong. Tough time to be Elon.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> in the midst of some life crisis? A significant fraction of our ascendant elite are overworked, overmedicated and alone. Musk is likely the most critical of the afflicted by Kayne syndrome.

duxup 4y ago

> revealing his true self He seems to try very hard to show who he is, some people just won’t take him at is word / actions.

kevinh 4y ago

Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was a kid, he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a fellow student's father's suicide, and Musk's father was not on his son's side. This is not new behavior.

CloudRecondite 4y ago
I’m aware of some of it, the frequency now is what’s alarming
richbell 4y ago
Elon did everything in his power to ruin the life of a whistle-blower. After they were able to identify the source of the leak, Martin Tripp, someone who had a personal vendetta against Tripp called in a false police report that he was planning a mass shooting. I cannot say who that someone was, but both Tesla and Musk himself were spreading rhetoric that Tripp was a dangerous individual. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

Natsu 4y ago

He got mad at people tracking (or trying to track) current IRL location to enable harassment after someone went after his son.

jacquesm 4y ago
Except that that whole thing is bollocks. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
- richbell 4y ago
  > Sweeney said he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was Dec. 12, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.” https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspends-elon-jet-account-that-tracked-elon-musk-plane-rcna61718 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspe... Last I checked, the police claimed they hadn't received any reports about the incident, either.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    Color me surprised. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365 https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365
    - akiselev 4y ago
      Hey that's in my home town! I did a quick search and it looks like his girlfriend bought a house in Pasadena in 2018 [1]. So this stalker followed him home to Grimes' home and there's no police report? [1] https://observer.com/2018/06/grimes-buys-house-pasadena-los-angeles-elon-musk/ https://observer.com/2018/06/grimes-buys-house-pasadena-los-...
      - kevingadd 4y ago
        Grimes and Elon broke up, as far as I know. So that's probably unrelated?

jmyeet 4y ago

If you are anything like me, you were fooled for a long time because of SpaceX. It's become clearer and clearer however that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. There are all sorts of reports around now that SpaceX management is very effective at building a firewall around Elon to stop him doing a lot of damage. But his politics, narcissism, deception, misrepresentation and incompetence actually aren't new. Lying about his education, his role in Paypal, founding tesla and so on. It goes back decades. Personally I'm not surprised at Elon's temper tantrum and banning people who are mean to him on Twitter. What saddens me however is how many stans and apologists ("dick riders" if you will) Elon still has. Elon does not care about you. You will never be Elon. For the record, this is a general "you", not who I'm replying to specifically.

che_shirecat 4y ago

power corrupts

niyikiza 4y ago
And absolute power corrupts absolutely