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Anyone that thinks Musk approaches anything for short-term results doesn't understand Musk.

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• sneurlax 2mo ago
  anything nonhuman*
• CamperBob2 2mo ago
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  • Rover222 2mo ago
    it's so weird and kinda disturbing how many people really believe that was a Nazi salute. It's so easy shape public opinion with media and algorithms. Same thing happening with "datacenters will destory the world because of their water use" BS
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      • chuckadams 2mo ago
        I personally think he really is a fascist, but I still don't think he was deliberately throwing out a Nazi salute. Just naive about waving to a crowd in front of a camera, which is very on-brand for him.
        • dofm 2mo ago
          He's naïve about many things but I don't believe any of these people are ignorant of fascist imagery or its trollish power, even if only in some bullshit recycled bad-sci-fi trope sense. He may be more ignorant than he portrays but he is a malignant narcissist — guys like him don't even think fascism is a bad idea.
        • CamperBob2 2mo ago
          See the .gifs I posted below. There is no way to spin that as naivete.
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          • chuckadams 2mo ago
            Yikes. I initially saw a different photo that looked a lot more like it could have been waving, but yeah, that's just blatant.
            • CamperBob2 2mo ago
              You saw the photo the media intended for you to see. It's called "sanewashing."
              • Rover222 2mo ago
                Nah, you all a retardwashing in your social media bubbles
    • Larrikin 2mo ago
      It was a Nazi salute.
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        • CamperBob2 2mo ago
          It was a Nazi salute. You can't spin this, so stop trying. https://i.imgur.com/MF2aEM3.gif[/ https://i.imgur.com/MF2aEM3.gif[/ https://preview.redd.it/1jwoo9q7goee1.gif?width=410&format=mp4&s=620a737c123737133555d555a75cded528d72e63 https://preview.redd.it/1jwoo9q7goee1.gif?width=410&format=m...
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  • s1artibartfast 2mo ago
    Under this analysis, what was the short term motive? How does that pay off?
    • CamperBob2 2mo ago
      Ingratiating himself with Trump, I imagine. It certainly paid off in the short term, since he was given a golden ticket to sack the government. A lot of tech execs successfully brown-nosed Trump, which (unfortunately) is understandable to some extent given what was at stake with his tariffs and other assorted threats. But Musk is the only one who evidently enjoyed it.
• klaff 2mo ago
  I don't think Musk understands Musk.
• mjhay 2mo ago
  It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse
• dofm 2mo ago
  Someone who really understood long term results wouldn’t keep repeatedly promoting absurdly short timescales for major developments. He has a malignant narcissist’s distorted grasp of time: any future he promises is always nearer than is plausible, but the past is never finalised.