Elon Musk Thinks You Are So F**king Stupid - SOME MORE NEWS

Hi. Elon Musk is not very good at things - running companies, managing the government's money, parenting, gaming, etc. And he thinks you're so fucking stupid that you won't even notice.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Nazi Salute
04:05 - Le Epic Gamer
17:04 - Not a bit
17:44 - Musk Isn’t Very Good At Anything
25:01 - Elon Musk, Non-Inventor of Things
31:11 - Elon Musk, Not Qualified For This
42:57 - Nazi Salute
50:34 - He Thinks You’re Even Stupider Than He Is
56:00 - Elon Musk, The Ultimate Gamer

[@juliejunkyardx]

Anyone else remember that time that Elon Musk challenged the WHO to prove $6 billion dollars would solve world hunger and he would give it to them, and then a WFH scientist posted a proposal that would do exactly that, and he outright refused to give the money? And then he sold $6b of Tesla stock and donated it to his own private charity? Because I remember that.

[@MrCameronson]

which would have only been 2% of his then net worth. how anyone doesn't see that Musk only looks out for Musk is insane.

[@bertbaker7067]

I wonder if that's a crime in Vietnam. They know what to do with billionaires.

[@WobblyBits_X]

That was back in 2021 as well, before the bulk of the coverage of his negative impact started, when he was still the media's darling for the most part.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

I don’t remember this, but I do remember him calling a British cave diver p**o guy.

[@ThomasdWell]

It is because he didn't come up with it, or dumber they didn't walk him through it so he could come to the same conclusion and there for take full credit for it. I'm not saying that's how we should treat him, lord knows I'd love to read his ironic obituary some day but it is clear he only does things to make himself look 'cool' not because it would be cool to end world hunger, but because HE 'fixed' world hunger cause he's that kind of genius*. *by hiring people that know what their doing to do the thing(s)

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

im just floored that theres a solid chance elon's elden ring build has done more damage to his reputation than him seig heiling

[@vanzc7920]

Because most people are actually stupid.

[@agentc7020]

Gamergate did a hell do a job sadly

[@mars7304]

I've played Elden Ring for a week and have a better understanding than Elon. The fact that he's too cocky to do some googling before lying on livestreams is insane.

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

​@@mars7304i NEVER player elden ring, only ds1, and i STILL get why his shit sucks. he'd be a rube if he wasnt the richest guy ever

[@sharkbelly1169]

@@NocturnalTyphlosionhe is a rube and the richest man in the world. You can be both. Being rich doesn’t mean you’re good at anything besides acquiring money.

[@zachisebi]

As a German, whose grandpa Adolf was not in the war but certainly in the Hitler youth, the Nazi salute shocked me. But when he thanked them for ensuring the future of CIVILIZATION the hair on the back of my neck stood up. EDIT: holy crap 3.6k likes? thank you.

[@djl12100]

that's the most frustrating part, is they are genuinely playing this shit out by the books, the history books! it's almost a carbon copy of Hitler's rise to power, to the point that if aliens came down and announced this was all some Truman Show type shit, I wouldn't be shocked I would go "yeah I saw this coming." it's so absurdly similar that I think the only feasible way it could be more similar is if they invented a planet affecting time machine to literally go back to Hitler's rise of power

[@nyarparablepsis872]

I'm from Austria, grandpa was in the SA with a burning passion. I got panic goosebumps and had to remind myself to breathe when I saw Edgy Elon talking and, uh, "gesturing".

[@cl8804]

nt jewbani

[@mars7304]

​@@cl8804 wtf does that mean? Explain

[@byrnemeister2008]

@@djl12100so we are in 34? Or 37? If we are in 34 chances are we avoid the worst. Trump can’t live forever. But 37 or 38 and we are in serious trouble. So is Canada.

[@unamejames]

I'm an old gamer now so maybe it's not a thing any more, but somebody calling you "boosted" used to be a huge insult, as in you're playing so terribly that you must have gotten your rank or rating by having somebody boost or help you a lot. Elon is literally boosted, but like... in his whole life.

[@plainText384]

"All profit is theft": Old ❌️ Outdated ❌️ Cringe ❌️ "Capitalists literally get boosted IRL by the workers they exploit": Cool ✅️ New ✅️ Revolutionary ✅️

[@djnorth2020]

Plus it's against the terms of service so he should be banned from the game, I think.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

They probably use a different term now, but it's still cheating and extremely looked down on. Then again, with all the "XP Boosts" that video game companies are actively trying to sell us, it may have lost some of its stigma among the younger gamers that don't remember a time before microtransactions and loot boxes.

[@skyeye61]

Is calling someone boosted not an insult anymore? Have things changed since I stop playing league?

[@djnorth2020]

@skyeye61 I believe it is, but maybe not as much or people just attack back and pretend it doesn't matter. That they're better because they can afford boosting, idk.

[@austin.luther]

Medical scientist here. During the height if the pandemic Elon claimed that testing was obviously ineffective because he had two tests done and one was positive and one was negative so they don't work, right? He had them swab him twice. He was swabbed in both nostrils once, then he decided to conduct his little experiment and had another swab done immediately following the first one. THERE ISN'T ENOUGH LEFT FOR THE SECOND SWAB BECAUSE IT'S ALL ON THE FIRST ONE, ELON. THAT'S WHY WE RECOMMEND 72 HOURS BEFORE A REPEAT TEST TO AVOID THIS EXACT THING. THIS IS BASIC SPECIMEN COLLECTION PROTOCOL.

[@Kite403]

You think Elon has time to wait for another swab to be done accurately? He's busy with cars and rockets and Path of Exile 2! Are you even a scientist? (sarcasm of course. The man is an idiot who bought his way to public relevancy)

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

I'd like to see him repeat that with a blood test. 1 L sample size at a time, please.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t A litre from each nostril? Well, if you say so...

[@theaizere]

@@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t yeah, anything below 1000 ml is unreasonable, the L*ft likes misinformation

[@brushdogart]

PSA - Take a shower or place your face over a bowl of warm water before taking your COVID test. I took one when the weather was very dry and it ended up showing negative (due to not actually getting a proper sample). It was fortunate that I still felt bad after my morning shower and decided to try a second time. But do not use nasal sprays or anything that puts water directly in your nose. That will just wash everything out before you can test it.

[@beasee379]

I am stupid, but Elon Musk of all people doesn't get to make that call

[@johnjson]

elon musk isn't allowed in the stupid club

[@johnjson]

not because he isn't stupid, but because he's a Nazi, and nazism is worse than being stupid.

[@BigBlueMan118]

I considered myself slightly smarter than average but have now realised that a significant number of people can't even get their heads around tariffs or the basics of Nazi symbology/rhetoric so now I am feeling a little more confident... And scared shitless.

[@theflyingspaget]

same vibes as when you're insulting your sibling and then someone tries to get in on the joke so you have to beat their ass

[@biznesslizard]

I disagree I believe Elon is good at making calls I went to school with Elon and he is extremely accurate he was not making an obscene gesture he was catching two flies because he was hungry

[@SuperAsefasef]

Computer scientist here. I worked in college as a tutor helping incoming students with the early compsci classes. A lot of them thought Elon was a genius, and every time I looked them in the eyes and said “you already know more about programming than Elon musk does”.

[@tatata1543]

The Conf call with the Twitter devs just after he took over where they ended up laughing at him and he lost it is hilarious.

[@mattwong5403]

I'm convinced the only projects Elon designed on his own were the Cybertruck and the Robovan (a handheld clothing iron that Elon thinks is a public transit alternative), and we all saw how those turned out

[@miraculux.]

​@@mattwong5403and by designed u mean scribbled on a napkin then ate half the crayon and stuck the other half up his nose

[@cedaremberr]

​@@mattwong5403 nah that's too much credit. He had a hand in the aesthetic design (clearly too much) and some of the features, but I highly doubt he could design a vehicle that functions at all without a team of actual engineers

[@hypomediocrity]

rewrite the stacks! it's so obvious lol

[@sarissena5424]

Path of exile player here, for more context: not only was it immediately clear that Elon had paid someone else to level up that character for him, it was also extremely obvious that that stream was his first time playing the game. To extend Cody's car metaphor, it's like if someone bragged about their cool car and then just wandered around aimlessly hoping that someone would point out a cool car to them.

[@jodinsan]

Because just like his co-president, Melon Husk is a huge narcissist and has a pathological _need_ to appear like the best or smartest one in the room.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Dudes idea of a "cool car" is the freaking Cybertruck! Even as a weirdo who likes unusual cars (Bricklin SV-1, Pontiac Aztec, AMC Gremlin, etc.) that thing is ugly as sin! Also hate the whole "make everything a screen" trend in cars too, which Tesla isn't even the only offender.

[@rmmorang2134]

@@scottthewaterwarrior yea, its ugly as shit. This is coming from a guy who unironically loves the El-Camino. which many call the "mullet of cars".

[@automatedrussianbot]

viewers of this channel IS that stupid indeed

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@ There are people who hate on the El Comino? I've only ever heard people say it was awesome! Though these days few people even seem to remember/know it existed.

[@lcg8220]

I wonder if that kid will ever realise that the time his dad started paying more attention to him and bringing him everywhere coincides with when a CEO got goomba'd in the street and everyone cheered.

[@Kite403]

I fear for that kid's life. Not because I think anything will directly happen to him, but that his "father" is willing to use him as a human shield under the guise of actual attention and love.

[@bobmfthomp]

That kid seemed like he was having the time of his life, like he doesn't get much of Dad's attention. Could be me reading too much into it too.

[@YukonBloamie]

That whole clip was fucking weird. Like the creepy set up in a horror movie. 😐

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Is that the kid who is Grimes’ but he’s keeping from her?

[@piedpiper1172]

Omelettes and eggs 🤷‍♂️ Just cus it’s small doesn’t change it being a member of the billionaire class.

[@quickfrog57]

"He can't even be a nazi without being a dweeb. Which makes sense because nazis are dweebs." Love you Cody, and the Shody

[@Farimira]

To clarify all Nazis are dweebs but not all dweebs are Nazis.

[@RHCole]

​@@FarimiraThank you. Signed, A Dweeb

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

​@@Farimira yeah! #NotAllDweebs!

[@markaveliRising]

👏👏💯

[@One_step_above_is_here]

Remember when Elon Musk started using his son as a human shield after Luigi Mangioni """""Allegedly""""" assassinated that healthcare CEO?

[@hodaka1000]

FREE LUIGI

[@scintillantflea4698]

what happened?

[@fivespot83s24]

Absolutely disgusting. Most selfish man alive.

[@levipressnell5250]

Pre-existing vulnerability to bullets.

[@benpearce4944]

@@levipressnell5250 Fucking Lol

[@DrMatthewPhilippsMD]

33:47 there's a great poster at my college's chemistry department which says "you must gather knowledge for reasons you don't yet understand" and I feel like so many people who criticize basic research don't understand that idea

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

i'd go even further... anyone who _ever_ gratuitously ignore-antly criticises or sh1t-talks basic research does not deserve to be heard on any topic at all - except maybe menu choices at a fast food restaurant... let alone quoted or respected

[@KaritKtana]

That's really great! I'll be sure to use this

[@coriander_sun]

Carl Sagan had a good illustration of this - I believe it was in Demon Haunted World. (I may get some details wrong here, this is from memory). It was basically the idea that, imagine you're in charge of the British empire in a pre-radio world, and you decide you wanted a faster way of communicating across the empire. You tell all your best scientists and engineers that they can have all the money in the world to come up with as fast of a communication method as possible. If you did that, there's no guarantee they would actually come up with the radio. But because some nerd named Maxwell had the freedom to study properties of magnets, he was able to discover things about the electromagnetic spectrum that opened the door to telecommunications as we know it. It's not likely that anyone with the sole goal of "make faster communication" would have thought "I should play around with magnets".

[@bigjared8946]

Remember that time Eric Cartman pretended to be a Special Olympian only to get his ass kicked by real Special Olympians? Elon is Eric Cartman with an Uncle Scrooge amount of money.

[@allisterblossfeld9329]

I would like to see Elon jump into a vault full of gold coins just like in Duck Tales.

[@basharic3162]

In reference to a number of our "favorite" people on the right, I've been saying "Eric Cartman isn't supposed to be a role model." for years.

[@jodinsan]

I'm not even really a fan of South Park, and I'm upset that you would insult Cartman in such a way.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@jodinsanI’m a huge fan of South Park, so I know Eric Cartman is pure evil, and I’m STILL insulted LMAO

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

Fun fact: Cartman is based on Rush Limbaugh

[@scottmorrison3929]

Here me out. Captain America 1: Steve Rogers spends a movie punching Nazis. Iron Man 2: Tony Stark hangs out with Elon Musk. Captain America 3: Steve Rogers spends a movie punching Tony Stark. Coincidence?

[@travisjordan3853]

And now Tony Stark is going to be Doctor Doom in the next Avengers film.

[@madscientist3134]

Real life billionaires are trash but Tony Stark is actually cool

[@grossnapkin]

@@madscientist3134booooo!

[@HerculeDevantrien]

@@madscientist3134 I respectfully disagree, at least for the movie version (not familiar with the comics). Stark spends large chunks of his screentime creating his own villains through incompetence and lack of foresight, or at least supplying them with his technology. Spiderman: Far From Home straight-up reveals that he took all the credit for a holographic technology that he actually stole from one of his engineers, and also that he put in place his own global surveillance network so he could assassinate anyone via murder drones. But hey, at least he wasn't a Nazi.

[@gapsule2326]

​@@HerculeDevantrienplus Ultron nearly destroyed his world and the Whatif version became a multiversal threat. Also he died for no reason since he could've handed off the gauntlet to Thor, Hulk, or Captain Marvel who can light speed travel to get it from him.

[@phaIIicaIIyimpaired]

He's also an excellent example of the old maxim that if you step out of line and you're poor, they'll label you degenerate or insane. If you're rich? You're just eccentric.

[@Viperthesamurai]

When I was young my Mom’s standard to response to anyone asking anything remotely similar to what she wanted in life she’d say, “to be rich enough to be eccentric.”

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@Viperthesamurai Your Mom sounds like she had good Mom-isms.

[@Viperthesamurai]

@ “I’m fine! Fucked up, Irrational, Neurotic, and Emotional!”

[@SirButtz]

When my dad hit his midlife crisis he bought a boat and a motorbike, he didn't start dicking around with western civilisation

[@PeteJones81]

"His biggest talent was bullshitting about things most people didn't have casual knowledge about." That's it exactly!

[@gisellel12357]

It’s like when Terrence Howard claimed he reinvented math. A lot of people said he must have cuz I don’t understand half of what he’s saying.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

⁠@@gisellel12357oh… idk if that’s a great comparison though because Howard explained himself pretty clearly and was actually saying 1x1=2. That’s basic _English_ skills. Anybody who believed him is a complete and utter moron. What does “one times” mean? That shit is way more simple and way more troubling if people don’t get it

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

Yeah... as someone on the autistic spectrum myself, I can confirm that as awareness of autism increased, understanding of autism by the general public decreased. Because as it turns out, if someone has no clue about something, they're more likely to be willing to learn more about it. If they think they know something but are wrong, they are unlikely to change their opinion when contradictory information is given.

[@misspat7555]

Dunning-Krueger for the… destruction of society… 🫠

[@lanskandal1181]

I think you're right and this has happened with trans people too.

[@BarronVonSchnoot]

As a former special ed teacher, that worked exclusively in a classroom supporting autistic students, all these self-diagnosed “autistic” people have completely obliterated the meaning of the word. Most people claiming to be on the spectrum have no idea what that means and are doing a disservice to truly autistic people. Being socially awkward is not synonymous with being on the spectrum. If you don’t have a clinical diagnosis, don’t claim to be autistic.

[@kitkatsci8700]

❤️‍🩹 take care of yourself ❤️‍🩹 ⚠️ warning for talk about outdated ASD diagnosis techniques ⚠️ The thing that gets me every time Autism Spectrum Disorder (ADS) gets brought up in discussions that also involve talking about naz!s... is that nobody brings up how naz!s have always been obsessed with ASD. Prior to 2013 ASD was still divided into separate disorders that would literally rank individuals into tiers that could label people as "low functioning". Naz!s have historically referred to people placed in the highest tier (formally known as Asperger Syndrome) as "the next stage of human evolution" and trafficked individuals in that tier so they could be studied by naz!s (not just German naz!s). And out of all the naz! stuff that got thrown out, the research done on individuals with ASD was upheld in academics. This included common practices like attempting to diagnose young nonverbal children with Autism by pouring water over their face and not stopping unless they successfully "cried", with the logic being that they were testing the child or infant's inability to perform social cues to avoid being harmed... by medical professionals in a medical setting doing medical tests that the autistic individual was intentionally not given any instructions about before starting. I personally know of one individual who was subjugated to this as a child in America around 2009, but I know in my heart and as an academic that this method must have been rigorously trialed in the past and would definitely "work" on some adults with ASD. That shit is straight up naz! style academics.

[@femdogtboy]

​@@BarronVonSchnootSelf-diagnosis isn't the problem. People who self-diagnose do so because they can't access a proper diagnosis, but the autistic community is the only place they ever felt understood, and autism is the only thing that explains everything. It doesn't matter if someone is diagnosed or not, the problem is ableist people who insist they know better about what autism is better than actual autistic people, much like you're doing. And before you assume, I am officially diagnosed. Despite this, I've been accused of faking or self-diagnosing more times than I can count simply because I don't fit into people's ignorant stereotypes. You don't get to decide who is or isn't autistic via the internet.

[@melpomene1492]

Elon Musk: the world’s poorest man. He’s so poor, all he has is money. And he will never have more than that.

[@whowouldntlettheirdogsout]

Damn

[@DubiousDrewski]

That is a fantastic sentiment and perspective. Musk is such a sad man. And now he is in charge of us all, like it or not. We need Luigi now more than ever.

[@justina2225]

Reminds me of the “Poverty of you” scene from fall of the house of usher

[@peachy_lili]

thank you for finally wording this in a snappy and eloquent way, that's very real

[@lilo3506]

"money can't buy you love" is so true

[@Moondymon23]

It is crazy to think he did that salute and the cheering in the crowd didn't even dip. No gasps of shock, no booing, nothing.

[@Silvergrooves42]

You wouldn't be able to hear if it did.

[@deimoskaischylos]

Multiple salutes back that you can see when the audience is cut to, if I recall correctly.

[@BrianStevens-y6h]

Because the only people who attended were also nazi's.

[@someone-gi5lq]

you cut to the audience and you can see a lot of people doing it back, gasping, smiling, pointing, etc.. they're n*zis, of course they cheered

[@solosynapse]

@@deimoskaischylos Because a bunch of the people in that crowd have swastika tattoos.

[@thespacecowboy420]

Why should I raise kids when I'm just going to be poor and stressed out and they will just get the same. Bullshit. No thanks. Make an equitable world first.

[@LPW638]

Guys...he didn't even do the Zip2 thing. Common Sense Skeptic did a really good video on this a couple of years back. While Musk did originally write the code, it was apparently so bad that it had to be re-written from scratch by programmers who actually knew what they were doing.

[@DissertatingMedieval]

This I didn't know. I assumed that was his one and only contribution to tech before just coasting on being part of the Paypal Mafia. Could you post the link here?

[@Fef-Ann]

I was an IT mgr at a non-profit for years. We would get student coders to 'donate' their time to build a site, only to have worthless code that set us back. The next student would not be able to reverse engineer, then start over, then repeat. Happened several times until I finally convinced the director to find money in the budget to PAY for it.

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

oh no. Your saying you think he programmed? He licensed. Licensed two databases and programs. Naveteq for generating maps, and PaloAlto Security for listings. To compeate with the Yellow Pages. And ducktaped those together. Just. I couldnt call that programming. Thats. Autofull... And he was inspired... by reciving a phone call from the yellow pages offering thier online yellow page services. The ones.. that used to be free and part of the phone companies required resonabilities. And used to have directions from Navteq, and MapQuest avalible. Again. For free. To both users.... He very much so was just in the right place at the right time, and Id be willing to wager that one of the Angel investors just had a controlling share in Compaq and wanted thier own money back

[@MDHilgersom]

​@@Fef-Ann As a former IT student, I can confirm. You learn a lot during the studies and students need the practice, but the code is not often usefull. First project, a website, never launched. Other projects never finished or were thrown out. The only thing still working is a TOTP and SSO system for the company I worked for at the time.

[@flootzavut30daychallenge]

Not shocked.

[@alexbaldwin4460]

I legitimately respect that AG1 just keep their sponsorship going no matter how Cody does the ad-read.

[@TheybyBaby-c9m]

No doubt. I'm always wondering if anyone at AG 1 ever sees them. It's actually kind of a good strategy. Everyone knows those drinks don't taste great, so any way to stand out is good. And Cody's ad reads for AG 1 definitely stand out.

[@ccjl9160]

His AG1 reads are the definition of peak. They'd be a fool to drop SMN team

[@jacobgreenberg9411]

I drink ag1 and it really does not taste that bad.

[@m1n3craftPCtut0r1al]

@@jacobgreenberg9411not “that bad” is quite the endorsement! I’m just joshing ya, I’m sure that most people know nutritional supplements aren’t meant to be tasty but effective.

[@crypticmedicine]

​@@jacobgreenberg9411 See, now I wanna try some just for the controversy.... damn you, advertising!!!!

[@matthewv9169]

An arguably illegal immigrant, from a not too long ago aparthied state, becoming the head of a government agency named after a shitty meme from 2008. There's a very funny joke in here somewhere, but im too tired to find it.

[@erik_the_red-t5x]

Probably funnier if you live in Russia..

[@quaderex3420]

Also a miserable, divorced, aging man addicted to ketamine and social media, desperate for validation from anyone

[@YOURNOTSAFEAGAIN]

It's us. We are the joke. The joke is that any of this is actually real and tolerated at all

[@catofthecastle1681]

Doge was a word 500 years ago for an unelected rich autocrat running an Italian city-state as if everyone and everything is his personal property!

[@infostations]

What you mean? That is the meme ... lmfao

[@StuffFilms]

That thing with the kid near the end is unfathomably ominous. Life tends to leave fiction in the dust, can't believe clips like this exist.

[@fluffykitten077]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[@awandererfromys1680]

“You do look glum! What you need is a gramme of Soma.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

We need new quotes.

[@OhDearOhDear69]

Make Orwell Fiction Again!

[@sunphoenix1231]

And Elon is currently sacking the US treasury in the largest data breach ever.

[@a.m.gnovember151]

The QI klaxon is eventually gonna get refunded as every one of us probably ends up reading that book finally haha

[@Bozeman42]

His complaint that 'you can't keep up with the players in Asia if you don't [cheat]'... "I only cheated because I'm not good/dedicated, but I feel entitled to being the best in the world" Just standard cheater thinking.

[@juliegolick]

Even more than that, as the world's richest man, he could legit BUY the best team in the world. Just be their goddamn owner and say "I own the best players in the world." For, like, every single game in the world, if he wanted. Instead, he wants to BE them.

[@Alexander_Stern1]

Just a question: If you don’t really play the game yourself, how are you “keeping up” with the best players? I mean, sure, you RANK highly, but if you played WITH them, you’d still lose. Right? Or am I missing something?

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

That's also the mentality behind people who push AI art and talk about how it makes art 'accessible.' bitch, art was the most accessible thing in the world, literally anybody can do it if they just put in time. But the AI art crowd can't tell the difference between dedication and gatekeeping. If you tell them to practice, they'll see it as the 'woke left' trying to 'gatekeep art'

[@teddypicker8799]

Ironically people would like him more as the dad gamer playing by ear, just having fun

[@Bozeman42]

​@ So, it's not a game where you directly play against other players. The rank he was bragging about was basically "who can level up their character the most / fastest without their character ever dying"

[@queenluz1995]

in Brazil a history professor called Ian Neves said ''The least nazi thing Elon has done was a nazi salute''

[@suchnothing]

Hasan Abi on Twitch said something similar. His reaction was something along the lines of "You don't have to believe it was a nazi salute to believe that he's a nazi. You just have to listen to the words that come out of his mouth. The ideas he supports. Look at the people he hangs out with."

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@suchnothingHasan is the Himbo we need, not the one we deserve!

[@rneumeye]

45:39 Cody, yes PLEASE do an episode about media normalizing, white-washing, pandering to Right wing nut jobs and fascism. It's part of why we are where we are now, and one of the only ways we can get past this nightmare. 🙄😮‍💨😒

[@Steven-z9s6h]

I’ve heard so many people say, “He was doing the my heart goes out for you gesture” like that’s a thing that I’ve ever heard referred to before.

[@nina9565]

As if people just accidentally move their arms like that habitually.

[@stu1037]

First time I heard about "my heart goes out to you" was the same day I first heard it was a "Roman salute".

[@Jcewazhere]

Also wouldn't the palm of the hand be turned up, not down, as if the heart was resting in the hand?

[@vipermad358]

Yeah. I'm a 57 year old American and have LITERALLY NEVER heard that turning phrase, which is VERY COMMON🙄 I'm now told. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stu1037]

@hellothereee1 He doesn't have autism. He's just an awkward dork that uses the results of a forwarded Facebook "test" as his excuse for his tendency to be an sociopathic a--hole.

[@Joe90h]

Elon getting his accounts in video games boosted to beat 'those Asians who play all the time' would be like me getting a piggyback from Usain Bolt to come first in a charity fun run because 'those other people were in better shape and trained harder'. In both cases it's ultimately for no actual gain to myself other than bragging rights, which I immediately give up because I didn't do s***.

[@cl8804]

except normal, i guess

[@1shakezula1]

Exactly. His explanation doesn't actually make him look any better. It's just the same line of cope you hear from every other cheater ("i had to do it everyone else does!").... The man is as pathetic as they come.

[@deanromanado5850]

It would be like getting a crap load of government subsidies to increase your business to beat out all those successful business owners.... oh wait

[@vihmaussivenitaja]

As Middle England Male reported on FB: Elon Musk has officially purchased the career achievements and licensing rights of Argentian footballer, Lionel Messi in an unprecedented deal worth 4.2 billion today. "Becoming the best footballer in the world is something I've always strived for, and today, I can finally say all my hard work has paid off. I've achieved every little boy's dream." Elon will now take his rightful place as the greatest footballer of all time, with 46 club trophies and 8 Ballon d'Ors to his name.

[@MilkieMouse]

When you lay it all out like that, it's kind of the most American thing he's ever done.

[@jordanperry3049]

It feels like actively watching lex luther dismantle your entire government while the justice league sends very strongly worded tweets about it Edit: l’m glad we all agree that elon is somehow worse than a literal comic book villain

[@RHCole]

This is an insult to Lex Luther

[@joeshabado1431]

The avengers are very aroused by all this.

[@Kite403]

Lex would run circles around Elon and leave him in an old time cartoon barrel

[@left4twenty]

"We're going to deport superman, and Krypton is going to pay for it!"

[@Advent3546]

Don't you put Elon Musk's evil on Lex like that man

[@OGFilmReaper]

Cody, don’t go anywhere. The world REALLY REALLY REALLY needs you right now!!!!!

[@KatTallest]

I'm a trans woman and I just want to thank you for providing coverage of things like this in a way that isn't completely depressing. I know you get a lot of comments and interaction. But I hope you see this. I've been tuning in for years, I'm glad to see some of the Cracked team still doing what you do.

[@christopherhammond5142]

@@KatTallest Yeah, they do a really amazing job of making all of this horrible depressing shite that's going on actually pretty easy to listen to and learn from.

[@elijahskywalker611]

Another t woman here. Warmbos my fav

[@marknugent9851]

You and your whole community deserve better. Love from the sane, non-terfy, ones.

[@sdfkjgh]

A ramping up of transphobia is the canary in the coalmine moment for fascism. Niemöller was partially wrong about the Communists being the first to be shipped out.

[@tomorowsnobodys]

Cody and Robert do a good job of keeping us chuckling through the pain. I kinda lost track of the rest of the cracked staff over the years.

[@djc6647]

"Flesh formed Asop fable about the downfall of greed" is absolute fire. Give your writers a raise

[@deewreltih2124]

I follow some of the writers and they’re so smart and clever it’s crazy

[@SuperWoodgod]

I don't care if this is the 56745th Elon video. That guy can't be shat on enough.

[@TheybyBaby-c9m]

Yup. Anything mocking Elon, the cyber truck, or Dr Jorpy Jomp Peterson and I will drop anything else I'm doing.

[@suchnothing]

@@TheybyBaby-c9m Jordan Peterson being clowned on is one of my favorite things to see. I live in Toronto where he's from. The Ontario psychology board threatened to take away his psychology license as a consequence for being a dickhead, unless he agreed to media training. He challenged it in court and lost. Then he appealed it, and the court of appeals threw out his case and refused to elaborate on why. Which is basically, like, "you know what you did". I actually cackled out loud and then sent the news articles to everyone I know. Such a beautiful moment.

[@TheybyBaby-c9m]

@suchnothing , I remember that! He's such a dishonest, whiney little weirdo.

[@justsayjay]

What frustrateds me most is how NOBODY ELSE is making the connection that if elon lied about his gaming skills he probably lied about everything else. Only difference is that real gamers know about games. We need real engineers, neurologists and others in stem fields calling him out too. He has cheated on everything

[@Farimira]

Some do but they don't always get heard. And some are employed by him and might know he's an idiot and either don't care beyond their paycheck or think it's worth putting up with because they believe/hope their work might help disabled people or help end climate change

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@Farimirasomehow I find it absurd that the guy who has never done one thing to help humanity suddenly supposedly wants to chip our brains… to help disabled people. That’s not what he wants with those chips.

[@Farimira]

@@OscarLangleySoryu totally agree - what I mean is typically young professionals often enter the workforce with naive optimism and it's easy to keep telling yourself that maybe one day your work will do real good.

[@CasualFox12495]

You know how Elon looks like the world's sweatiest Goomba from Mario Bros? Wonder what happens to goombas in that game. I really like the green guy. He's great.

[@nunnayorz5836]

I've had a similar idea for a t shirt like this. It would be a NES cartridge, with the green guy chain stomping a few goombas but instead of points the names of corporations. And where the SMB logo would go, it would say The Adjuster in the same font.

[@AndrewH1994]

The bro in green is an expert in earning points by squashing Goombas! But, I heard he’s currently behind bars in one of Bowser’s castles, so I guess the duty falls on us to earn points from these Goombas!

[@Freerider93]

We definitely need Mario's brother on the case 😂

[@astilealavatica1404]

​@@AndrewH1994 Or to continue pressure for his release.

[@ahdog8]

"the green guy" HIS NAME IS LINK

[@heatherroseisrflyer]

He hired a nineteen year old Canadian bicycle mechanic to poke around some of the U.S. government’s most secret guts with a stick.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

And now cause a ton of HIPAA violations with going through all the databases for Medicaid Medicare and the VA

[@blackhat4206]

Are you referring to “bigballs?” Clearly a scholar and a gentleman. /s

[@heatherroseisrflyer]

@ None other.

[@SchoolOf5]

Putting Elon aside, your government has been robbing you. I’d encourage you to investigate.

[@felinefunk]

@heatherroseisrflyer seriously? I guessed it was bad but that is next level. And the GOP is fine with this.

[@bradyost5282]

I am a physicist, I got excited when the tesla company claimed they were going to make roof shingles that would also be solar panels. I watched one youtube video of Musk talking and realized he was an idiot, then moved on with my life. Now, this dumbass has some weird, probably unconstitutional power to stop funding things that matter

[@Faint366]

Something Christopher Hitchens pointed out was that the best way to raise people out of poverty is to give women control over their reproduction so if his main goal is to raise birth rates, then consider what his ideas for women’s rights are. Taking away women’s autonomy and forcing them to give birth would not only directly raise the birth rate, but also Put people into poverty which is one of the things he thinks increases birth rate

[@HavaOwensMMA]

The audible "mmphh" when he did the salute is proof he wanted people to know what he was doing.

[@alexthewrecker4666]

He even bit his lip. Bro was fully locked in when he hit that

[@djl12100]

@@alexthewrecker4666 dare I say practiced

[@byrnemeister2008]

@@djl12100think your right. A very deliberate symbol.

[@peachy_lili]

yeah, when I "send my heart out to people" I also don't wear an expression of smug mischief on my face

[@Yedaboys69]

He shit himself a lil bit.

[@DumbInACan]

I accidentally prepped for this by watching Elon Musk has a Hitler problem or whatever the video was called. Was just thinking about how aggressive it seemed for the time, and now it just seems like it wasn’t aggressive enough lol

[@abeardthickerthanyours6416]

Lol, Cody is a prophet unfortunately. His old ring the alarm videos only become more right over time.

[@VIPandalicious]

​@@abeardthickerthanyours6416He has warned us of the boars for years, yet none listened

[@oz9884]

​@@abeardthickerthanyours6416Not hard to be a prophet when highly public evil people say in advance who they are and what they want to do, then go on to achieve greater power and do those things 😂

[@dena81]

And the fact that was MONTHS before this even happened! It's like when people started going on about Project 2025 I kept thinking 'Ok people are being over the top' now I want to just look them over to see where in the timeline we are right now

[@mars7304]

Maybe yall should stop being cynical to takes you deem as "too much", people love to sensationalize but when it's something SMN displays obvious evidence of, cmon Elon has been a weird n@z1 for at least a decade

[@SamRocher]

Historic episode!

[@AnotherAustin-z7b]

Legend

[@zombiefacesupreme]

29:15 The Twitter programming thing was even worse because he was judging people's code by how many lines of code that they wrote. That means that a large, bloated solution full of bugs would be deemed to be somehow inherently better than a short, elegant solution that worked correctly. It's insane and stupid.

[@mshepard2264]

sometimes if a 50 year old takes tons of speed and ketamine they don’t understand basic things.

[@tianikane3312]

Yeh, the drugs needs to come to the fore as an issue.

[@noshpie]

That little brat is steeling daddies candy and not surprisingly elon finds this most endearing.

[@SageWon-1aussie]

Sometimes, when a 50 year old doesn't understand basic things, they take tons of speed and ketamine.

[@PaperMario64]

“It’s thanks to you that the future of civilization is secured”… yeah, that doesn’t sound notsee-ish at all.

[@biznesslizard]

Elon has secured the future of our species (Homo sapiens) for generations to come and has helped us shed layers of excess drain on our economy he will also be the first to take human eggs to Mars for hatching so that we can thrive elsewhere also he was not doing an obscene gesture he was catching two flies because he was hungry

[@cl8804]

ES IST ZEIT FÜR REICH

[@aetherkid]

I wonder if by "civilization" he means a particular type. Maybe one that's light on melanin? The same one the "falling birthrate" he keeps complaining about? Don't know.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

@@cl8804Is that a reference to the South Park Mel Gibson episode?

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

“Are we the baddies?”

[@SaintTakeshi]

I think the "asshole super genius" trope from all the TV shows in the 2000s paved the way for Elon. We were primed by House and Lie to Me and Sherlock, so we encounter an Elon Musk and go "wow, he's SUCH an asshole, that must mean he's a super genius who can solve crimes"

[@terrybullspellr8319]

Agreed. He does resemble a fictional character in many ways.

[@christopherhammond5142]

@@SaintTakeshi He's probably a surgeon too. I can definitely see him scream-crying it to a room full of people anyway.

[@johnmartinez7440]

Don't forget Sheldon. He also has a video game alt.

[@CuriousKey]

And just like the majority of those characters, while there's media *telling* you they're smart, if you actually pay attention to their actions and what they say, they're quite dumb. In the case of characters like House and Sherlock, its because it's hard to write characters smarter than the writer. Elon doesn't get that excuse.

[@mrfooledyaa5430]

I've been seeing him as a knock-off Lex Luthor for a long time. I've seen this in countless comics lol, the super rich asshole claims to care about humanity and will do ANYTHING to "save us," including killing real heroes. Obviously, comics aren't real, but Temu Lex Luthor certainly does and is about to end our country.

[@SanguineThor]

At this point, the AG1 chug is a ritual to keep the Eldritch God that controls Wormbo in check.

[@Kartissa]

What makes you think that Wormbo *isn't* the Eldritch God itself?

[@Mjvhddguhjficikfdeev]

He _GRUNTED_ when doing it. Like....that's how your heart goes out? With aggressive grunts with iffy vibes? It was a nazi salute.

[@PixelTheMushroom]

The man is just insane

[@Mjvhddguhjficikfdeev]

@PixelTheMushroom Nazi covers that I feel like.

[@robertlee4172]

He's constipated. He needs that grunt to get his message out.

[@Jimera0]

I don't think it was intended as a Nazi salute. It doesn't line up with Trumpism' rhetoric as most of them still label their enemies as Nazi's. They're acting like Nazi's but they strongly deny that fact and insist that, in fact, it's the left that's being Nazi's. Intentionally giving a Nazi salute would undermine their own narrative. No, it's far more likely he was making an impromptu heart-goes-out gesture that he really, really should have thought through more. As for why it doesn't match the previous heart-goes-out gesture? Well, in the clip we see of it, he has the gesture printed on his shirt, which shows that that gesture was very much NOT impromtu, and was likely tied to whatever the event he was at was. The aggressive grunts and iffy vibes are just like, excited Musk stuff. He's still a fascist, but focusing on this faux pa is just giving Trumpers ammunition to back up their narrative that the left is delusional. We've got plenty of other, more compelling ways to show he and Trump are fascist dictator wannabe's, so we shouldn't be focusing on the one that makes us look petty. It's counterproductive.

[@ShauntSerelu]

I'm a disabled person, and gaming is my main hobby. Not to brag, but I'm pretty decent at it, with 3 or 4 games I got the ps4 platinum trophy on. I don't think I'm the best gamer in the world, but having a ton of free time and a very limited budget means I really have to make the absolute most of the games I own (usually by 100% completing them). Elon, CEO of like 20 companies has enough free time to be the literal best gamer in the world??? Hell no. I doubt he ever plays anything himself, especially given that horrendous streaming performance.

[@anzaia2164]

If he ever even played a bit for himself, with any sort of interest for the game, he would know how the game works. He doesn't. Hence, I conclude, he doesnt even like gaming; he just wants to portray himself as a cool gamer dude for his MGTOW followers, and look at a chat praising him.

[@timf7679]

Which is kind of sad really. If this pathetic little man took the time to actually play any of these games enough to get decent at it, he might actually enjoy himself. Realize what an empty, hollow life his decisions has led to. Maybe he doesn't have to try and break out of his awkward little shell and take some pleasure in just doing a thing, instead of trying, (and failing) at being the best. But no, he's chosen to go down in history as an evil little shit that likes doing Nazi stuff, like that salute he definitely did, twice.

[@chriswelter3859]

It's crazy how many people are STILL dickriding him and claiming he's actually playing these games. Anyone who knows how many hours there are in the day and has a grasp of basic addition can determine that Elon has NOT played these games a whole lot. He wouldn't have time. People DON'T understand this. It's frustrating.

[@denislemieux4915]

@@chriswelter3859 This kind of assumes he does any actual "real" work at the companies he owns. There are many stories of whole teams at places like SpaceX dedicated to keep him away from the real work.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

He may be the CEO of 20 companies, yet he still somehow finds the time to tweet literally all day. So I doubt he works that much more than most people.

[@phelllandborn6478]

My abusive grandmother did this to me once. I was a kid, substantially behind in my development as a result of abuse, and thus didn't get it at the time, so it turned into a mess, but it was essentialy the same thing: assert some preposterously obvious untruth, wait for those you rule over to agree with you despite knowing you're wrong, then bask in the feelings of power while enjoying the sadistic pleasure of rubbing the horror of your victims' hopeless reality in their faces. And if they don't cooperate, punish them and repeat until their dumb asses figure out the way things work in your presence. She acted like a creationist all of a sudden after never showing any sign of disagreeing with the theory of evolution. I was a 7th grader who had just learned about the basics of genes and trait transferrence across generations in school and had come home to excitedly tell my family about the facinating things I'd learned. Anyway, I didn't understand it was a power play and the point was for me to demonstrate my submission and it disolved into both of my parents having to helicopter in and divert both I and my grandmother in different directions. He's not trying to avoid seeming like a fake or idiot or liar, he want's to seem like any or all of these but still have people worship and adore him no matter what he does or how badly he fails. Y'know, like emporers who would kill people for disagreeing with them. They think this sort of thing is some kind of proof of their power and authority. It is deeply mentally ill.

[@cedricalexander6474]

Sorry to hear about the abuse, no one deserves to be treated like that.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I’m sorry you went thru that, I am sorry your family couldn’t protect you better somehow, tho I’m glad they intervened. Hope you have your autonomy & are thriving. It’s so challenging, unpacking abuse. I had so many baffling weird marginal odd transactional things in my youth that I wouldn’t really know how to talk or think about, & suddenly I’d realize the explanation for it. There’s so much surreal about abuse. I also think your argument re:Elon is both correct + scary.

[@phelllandborn6478]

@@cedricalexander6474 Thank you. Narcissism is a destroyer, but surviving the abuse of it can make you more difficult to manipulate, for whatever that may be worth. I think, in her mind, she was trying to prepare or train me for a world filled with assholes like Elon Musk, but she was working with the psychological education and competence of a woman raised on the streets during the 1920s and 30s, so... regardless, such behaviors demonstrated by powerless and terrified individuals is a different world from when they are displayed by powerful and terrified individuals. It's chilling.

[@tl00_97]

My condolences for that shitty abusive treatment :/ but you are sooo spot on, he knows he can get away with being a stupid racist asshole. It’s a fun trolling game to him. He knows he can nazi salute then act like “ackshually it’s the Roman salute 🤓” because he knows his dickriders will endlessly defend him and start saluting themselves, for le epic troll. He is unimaginably annoying

[@asmodiusjones9563]

Exactly. I wish more people understood what he’s doing.

[@Zastrutzki]

I'm playing Path of Exile 2 while I watch this. 400 hours in, I'm still not running the US. I'm calling shenannigans.

[@HavaOwensMMA]

He did that salute with all his divorced dad energy he had.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

I mean he is called the most divorced man on the internet right?

[@brethollingsworth5257]

REQUEST - since the main stream media has gone silent on Luigi Mangione, once they learned he has wide spread public support, could you all at Cody's Showdy please keep that sweet sweet Luigi news coming? A discussion on the next EMN would be greatly appreciated. Edit - punctuation

[@InfiniteAnvil]

His next hearing is scheduled for Feb 21

[@Chelseajustwatches]

right now he's awaiting trial so there's nothing really new to talk about, but hooooooobooooyyyeeee once that hearing starts... we'll be seeing that Mr. McPerfectBrows in the news cycle once again

[@adcraziness1501]

I haven't forgotten about Luigi Mangione. Will be interesting to see if it is publicized, or if it is swept under the rug and kept as quiet as possible. Let's let them show their hand.

[@icedfullmoon1573]

😂

[@--enyo--]

Please don't. At the end of the day he's a murderer. A weird murderer who seemed fixated on maid cafes. I get the immense frustration over there with your healthcare system, but instead of glorifying another episode of gun violence and murder in a country that already has too much gun violence (even if overall crime has been going down) instead focus on the systemic problems. You can do that without glorifying murder.

[@Beyond_Gender]

I'm autistic and yeah autistic people can be arseholes, acting like we're can't be is just infantilising.

[@misspat7555]

My father was/is a prime example of this. Being autistic is not an excuse to be mean and greedy. 😒

[@Owesomasaurus]

Sure, but also, you know when you're doing a Nazi salute or not

[@SidShakal]

pretty sure it's one of the diagnostic criteria

[@violetsparkles5453]

​@@SidShakalno but ok

[@josephmosalem]

no noo you dont get it- his hyperfixation is just making america a genocidal facist hellscape (\j obv)

[@asmrfan6543]

This is generally true about most rich people. If it weren't for the naivety of poor people thinking the patriarchy is 'earned', rich people wouldn't exist.

[@NejedNiko]

I have aspergers and I DO NOT HEIL. Thank you for listening.

[@Owesomasaurus]

Many such cases

[@suchnothing]

One of the things I really hate about Elon's "ambiguous hand gesture" is that it has forced thousands of people with autism to feel like they have to publicly state that they, as a person with autism, have never done a nazi salute and would be upset and embarrassed if they did by accident. Because of course they don't, and of course they would, but it seems that some shills expect "autism" to be a viable excuse for evil behaviour.

[@DemonicEngineer]

Same

[@vihmaussivenitaja]

He seems to be the only case in the world who got the "sieg heil" autism instead of the more common trains or dinosaurs varieties. Curious. Or if he claims this was not a special interest thing, but a stimming thing, then it is doubly curious, because that body position is not comfy or stimulating at all. Just try it compared to flapping your hands, lol. (NB! Do it when alone!) /s

[@darthNamechange]

Look up Dr Asbergers and find someone else who did that salute

[@Alexander_Grant]

I've got a degree in both physics and computer science due to my double major in college. His science and engineering is so bad, a first year comp sci or physics student in college could walk circles around him on those topics. I'm so glad the Path of Exile 2 thing came about, because that is what I've known about him for years. No one wants to listen to the guy with the degrees and who has names on papers and has working in observatories before, I'm not rich, and not successful in the same way many people view success. Listening to him talk about SpaceX was so painful, space exploration is probably the thing I have the most interest in, and now anytime I bring it up it's all "Oh, did you see what Elon did?" It drives me insane.

[@Kite403]

Should have gotten your degree in "Kek" studies and hardcore gaming, it sounds like XD. I'm kidding of course, but it is sad that educated people aren't given the proper authority and deference that they should be getting. Sad and dangerous..

[@Alexander_Grant]

@@Kite403 Yeah, I completely agree, it seems like it's been a gradual decline in "believing" scientists and educated since I graduated in 2015. I've seen the changes in my family, as well as other people I've known, from asking me how certain physics works to telling me that academia taught me incorrectly and that astronomy news is incorrect. It's not just one political side either (astrology is the bane of my existence). It's just been constant erosion, from what I remember, since Al Gore and global warming becoming politicized. We all know what happened recently that got politicized as well. It feels like we've been barreling towards the public just not accepting data and scientific observations.

[@Mobius_ll]

Oof. Should be more like "Did you see what Elon bought?"

[@derzauberer8605]

I feel you so much, his wasting of NASA money drives me nuts. Should be more like "Have you seen what Elon blew up?"

[@RobertoBC]

If you have children and all of them love you you are more successful than Elon Musk. I can't consider successful someone who has failed in the most basic, like having real friends or raising kids who love you.

[@cryptik1895]

I'm so glad Cody mentioned the grunt he made when doing his salute. Really put his heart into it.

[@gisellel12357]

Yeah bit his lip. He was feeling it.

[@PaulPendor]

As a professional software engineer of 25 years, I started to realise how dumb Elon was when he took over Twitter and started to hear about the insane things he was doing. It’s clear he had no idea about software engineering, scaling, resilience, redundancy. He had engineers “printing out” their code and brining it for review. It was like a Dilbert-esq code review process.

[@agiar2000]

News horrors aside, thank you and the Showdy team for manually entering subtitles. I often have difficulty making out words, and I think that, because of the need for context, manual subtitles will always be preferable to auto-generated subtitles, even if they were completely accurate at discerning the phonemes, which they are not. By the way, I love that you are still partnering with AG-1. The most uplifting recurring part of so many episodes is watching Cody slurp that green gut-health drink.

[@TylerRein]

Dude the clip with his kid genuinely gave me chills. Wtf is going on in this country?

[@williamcharnley5558]

That kid was giggling like he knew he was spilling secrets.

[@departmentofesoterics8513]

Actual demon child

[@aurelo54]

More generally, young kids of very rich and powerfull people always gave chills. Seeing small humans absolutely stupid with no education and with no developped sense of morality (yet)... exposing their kids like that. Just a joke but really, seing youngling that never heard the word "no" having genuine power over your life is frightening, a sort of Joffrey Baratheon bone chilling effect ^^

[@ikeekieeki]

i am not sure people watched that far, i scrolled a long while to find any comment about it. maybe ppl didn't understand what the showdy is saying that clip means

[@dresdenvisage]

​@@ikeekieeki I was scrolling to find something about it too. It really is chilling, if that is what he said. And it kinda seems like it is. Especially if it was deleted by Tucker. I don't see anything else about it on KZbin.

[@RockerForLife74]

The only serotonin I get is any dunking on Elon please continue

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

Ahh that's the stuff 👌

[@silverblue73]

@@butHomeisNowhere___ StarCraft reference :D

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

@ Hell, it's about tiiiime

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

ADL: frog cartoon bad Also ADL: Nazi salute good Uhhhhh ok…????

[@InTheNameOfThePharoah]

How the hell did I never hear about that “no rules street fighting” thing, dear lord what an embarrassment

[@user-il9ze9py8c]

He sees red, bro. None of your fancy floor karate will be able to stop him. He'll just tank it.

[@sadboig]

CAME FOR THE SHOWDY STAYED FOR THE CODY

[@Robsidians]

Came for the showdy came to Cody

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

😫

[@SageWon-1aussie]

Post-nut clarity.

[@QBG]

The problem is that _enough_ people are exactly as stupid (or stupider) as he needs them to be to get away with being a goddamn real-life cartoon supervillain.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Actually much worse than cartoon villains

[@briancrabtree309]

This is such good advice. I didn't realize it but this is what I started doing a long time ago to get through long school days. "Oh I'm over halfway to lunch. Just one more hour and I've already done 3 of those. After lunch my day is already over halfway done, practically over. So all I gotta do is make it to lunch and the rest is easy, barely anything left." I do the same thing at work, but using it in situations that don't involve being stuck in one spot for several hours is probably something I should have considered sooner 😅

[@CravingBeer]

"Elon Musk isn't a Nazi. The Nazi's made good cars"- Stephen Fry.

[@Sam-lr9oi]

Yeah but Fry is also a stinky transphobe, right as he is about the Volkswagen Beetle and Thing

[@Pasta_watcher]

True

[@tianikane3312]

Oh god, we love Stephen Fry. Good one. Will put that line into our repertoire

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@tianikane3312 He needs to stop hanging out with jk.

[@blackhat4206]

He’s a wanna-be.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

It really sucks that 'increasing profit' is the only measure we have of success or personal value.

[@Monkeyboy1138]

Life is cheap, money has value…that sadly is the very real problem

[@cendrieeR]

That's only true for those who want to believe it.

[@origrammar]

Not gonna lie, this was one of the most cathartic episodes of the Showdy that I’ve watched so far. Just literally calling the not-see out over and over and over again for being a not-see, in very clear terms. Love to see it ❤

[@aurelo54]

The frustration come from the fact that the only fair way to dunk on Musk sound really vile and petty. If you try to be really serious and respectfull : throwing carefull doubts about his claims, about some of his accomplishments, about his intents, his fails promises, you will sound mature and reasonnable while actually being abnormally generous regarding the topic, you'll have to lie. It's rarely done but the fair way to talk about Musk is as a silly moronic and hatefull racist baby bigot, throwing tantrum, with unwarranted god complex, self agrandizing dreams, possibly pathological systematic lying mindset, as a transparent buffoon whose main quality is being too big and too rich to fail, profiting on an economical system rigged to protect parasite like him. It sound really extreme and as a personnal grievance but it's really a fair description of what his public behaviors and decisions are. He's close to Trump in that regard, they are both so extremely unfit and incompetent to wathever they do that it's sound awkward to pointing it out honestly.

[@TNH91]

Jus say nazi when you mean nazi. Don't feed the euphemism treadmill.

[@b.7944]

10:25 "He is the world's richest person, has everything he ever could want, and yet is constantly seeking the things he can't get" How elegant and poetic this is. This is history book material.

[@ToyKeeper]

I want a society where everyone is cared for and the bigots and criminals get therapy, not a society where the bigots and criminals are in charge while everyone else suffers.

[@ScatterBrainedYouBetterFollow]

We need a society with more Luigi’s.

[@alexh2790]

That sounds too reasonable to ever happen.

[@spagooter1807]

Right now we should be covering America in lead so all of the land here is worth nothing imo instead of handing it over to our left who will so obviously betray us.

[@spagooter1807]

I agree with drones if they were to cover our land in lead before handing us over to work for the worst among us being the far left and the idiots they tricked.

[@spagooter1807]

I don’t like much about American society I’m 24 and I find myself hating peoole the more I know them here. Like the drug dealer guy that sabatoges guys at work to get ahead and somehow has a girl he disrespects and that’s okay for him but if I were to get a position of power and do the same I’m the bad guy. Thats the root cause of why we are done with all of you.

[@steelguitar8587]

My favorite part of Elon tweeting about Blade Runner is that he thinks Deckard’s name is Blade Runner

[@belagrolaub8746]

that is hilarious and sad and the same time

[@donovancatlin3367]

Do you think we can convince him one of the main quotes of the movie is "It's Blade Running Time" before Blade Running on all the Replicants?

[@glitchedoom]

"The name's Runner. Blade Runner."

[@dentoncrimescene]

He wants high birth rates because that's what rich people need for unsustainable growth.

[@brawlybard7014]

It's a twofold issue. Yes, they want more labor, but they are also perfectly happy to import that labor. One of the bigger issues is that children "politically castrate," the working class. You're less likely to take to the streets for days, or even weeks on end if there are children waiting for you to feed them at home. A largely child free populace is a populace that can one day say "fuck it, I've got nothing to lose," when it comes to fighting power. Parents can't. They have a responsibility to the little ones.

[@bewing77]

Having actually trained Judo along with a few other things, the idea of "full contact" Judo is hilarious. All strikes and kicks are strictly forbidden in Judo to the point that even if you strike someone by mistake you're automatically disqualified. So what would full contact mean; that you don't hold back when throwing someone? But it's like everything Musk; he desperately tries to appear not only to know a bit about things, but to appear an expert. And sometimes he knows enough of the language to make it sound like he knows what he's talking about to people who are clueless, but every time he talks about or does something you actually know a bit about, it becomes painfully obvious he's clueless. And the thing is, I don't get how he believes he will get away with it. He must know people will immediately spot that he doesn't know the first thing about coding when he posts about it. He must know people will immediately realize he hasn't actually played p2e when watching him bumble about as a total "noob" on a character he supposedly have been playing 20 hours a day for weeks. It goes on and on for everything, it's like he desperately wants to be as accomplished as his wealth suggests he would be in a world that was actually built on meritocracy, but he isn't and this world isn't that world. In this world he's a pretty mediocre guy who has generational wealth and has had some really fortunate things happening to him, along with an ability to spot these advantageous opportunities.

[@mike_gevers]

As a Roman historian, that bit about Roman birth rates had me knock back the glass of rum I had just poured myself. I had intended to sip it

[@Owesomasaurus]

I am not a Roman historian, but I do think its entirely likely some Roman bigwig was just being weird about birth rates because bigwigs are weird about birthrates for no reason throughout history.

[@ookamiblade6318]

I’m a historian, but not of Rome in specific and that still made my brain hurt and a um, actually come out of my mouth, because I’ve at least studied it in passing. Unfortunately for my mental health, WWI, the time between, WWII and Soviet Russia was a large area of my early study because when I said Asia that was as close as my school had. I got to Asia later….but…. The red flags have warning bells and blaring sirens.

[@Borealis109]

Elons only actual contribution to society is creating alcoholics

[@deewreltih2124]

I’m not a historian, but from my understanding it took hundreds of years for Rome to “fall”. It had its ups and downs, but it wasn’t like a few generations of low birth rates that took it down. It was a very long slow degradation of the empire with some peaks of quality leadership until they couldn’t regroup enough after the destruction of Constantinople, but there were probably some locals calling themselves Romans

[@AstralPhnx]

Hearing you refer to Asmongold as "Some gamer dude" has me ROLLING and is absolutely perfect

[@Emanon...]

Why? He is literally as relevant as "some gamer dude"... Nothing Asmongold every does in this life will be as relevant as a job that provides an actual service.

[@sausas8209]

@@Emanon... exactly

[@djnorth2020]

To be fair he's just one gamer dude. There's millions of them and he's not that special. Unless you look at his rotting house.

[@caseykoons]

Should a man who pays Chinese Path of Exile players to lie about his Gamer Cred, be given the top security clearance in the country? Should he have access to my ssn, your tax history, everywhere you've ever lived? My brain is on fire.

[@Freddisred]

There's a nonzero chance he has the launch codes for the nukes.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

@@FreddisredElon is the guy who’s really in charge of the country. Trump is just in a stupor because he gets to sign papers.

[@Deminese2]

@@Freddisred There is a 100% chance he's building a database on anyone registered as a democrat/blue states to weaponize it.

[@gorak9000]

I think you missed the memo - crime is legal now, and security clearances for all

[@Bryzerse]

Thank god wikipedia is fully public domain in part to make it completely impossible to be purchased and controlled - let's just hope he doesn't try anything really dirty to go after them

[@stevel3620]

He’s basically Gilderoy Lockhart. He’s good at generating hype and living off of his fame, but all of his real accomplishments are taking credit for other people’s efforts.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

Which is apparently a very profitable skill.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

He’s as t’phobic as the writer of Lockhart too.

[@CatBarefield]

Lockhart could at least pretend to be charming

[@Caprioly]

I was thinking of comparing him to Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2, but while Jack was an a-hole, (intentional understatement), he was still charismatic and he did sort of pick himself up by the bootstrap.

[@AnotherAustin-z7b]

​@@Caprioly more like Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder

[@davidhill2020]

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller (author of Catch 22), that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have: enough.”

[@MarkSoupial]

The "Fall of Rome" is the perfect metaphor for lying via metaphor because it "fell" for over a thousand years up to and including today and every possible thing happened during that time so any event can be said to have attributed to said fall.

[@knightofficer]

No there was some very specific markers for rome having fell (even in spite of romans having complained it was happening for a millenia). Elon's problem is that hes a prime example for the sort of thing that kills and poisons an empire.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Don’t forget who the "first reich" was supposed to be.

[@elixorvideos]

As Dan Olsen of Folding Ideas has in his KZbin bio: "Fascism is a loser ideology".

[@Rykoshet]

the live playthrough of the jazz daredevil ended with jon benjamin deciding that people only got 23 dollars value of the 25 that we paid to see him, so he gave everyone envelopes with 2 dollars and "sorry" written on them while the rest of the band played Ghostbusters.

[@Kite403]

Props to him. Jon Benjamin is awesome

[@vxicepickxv]

That's kind of funny. He probably did it on purpose.

[@Rykoshet]

@@vxicepickxv definitely planned, absolutely hilarious.

[@felix_forrester]

"Amazing work, Coach McGuirk" The Showdy has entered my illustrious hall of fame of "People Who Remember The Excellence of Home Movies"

[@MC-lm7de]

I don't know if you're familiar with the podcast Knowledge Fight, but they've had a running joke about how Alex Jones and one of his flunkies are McGuirk and Brendan

[@DanielA-sk8oh]

Remember when, 20 years ago, the world would collectively snigger at the fact that North Korean state media reported that Kim Jong-Il would get 11 holes in one in a single round of golf? We’d mock the petty authoritarian self-delusion and fragile ego of that weak man-baby dictator. And the gullibility of anyone who would believe such tripe. Anyway, unrelated to anything. I was just randomly remembering. Elon is the best gamer in the world and Trump is so healthy he’ll live to 200, his doctor insists.

[@blakecey4631]

of course you mean “snicker”

[@gisellel12357]

Oh yeah. He had the doctor publicly say he’s more fit than Obama. Yikes

[@MilkieMouse]

@@gisellel12357 Boy, that doctor. I can't imagine what it's like to have actual dookie where my soul should be.

[@blakecey4631]

“Snicker” is the word you are looking for

[@patrickelliott2169]

I have said it before - Elon Musk is not Tony Stark, he is Justine Hammer.

[@chriscasperson5927]

He's Temu Justin Hammer.

[@illijillijilli]

There's so much to dunk on him about, the fact his mommy helped get him out of the fight with zuck gets lost in the mix.

[@danwoods8195]

cant believe you didnt mention the hyperloop-- never forget that garbage version of a train he wanted

[@whyyaskkwhyy]

No, but see, you get in your car! And then the car gets on a cart that goes really fast! And there could be other cars immediately in front and behind you also going really fast! And you can use YOUR car to Uber while you work, so you might not even be in your car! Fuck i just described an even shittier train again didnt i? Ok, but what if it was a truck?

[@Dragno666]

​​@@whyyaskkwhyyactually the hyperloop was a self contained vacuum tube that would transport passengers and cargo using low pressure and magnets. Think the thing from FUTURAMA. Either way it never even got out of development. The last Vegas tunnel, which is what you're referring to, was a whole other failure. So he tried to reinvent the train twice and failed both times.

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

Elon doesn't like chess, because there's are no luck, no excuses, no way to cheese it and no way for money to help except teachers to actually get good.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

It's actually entirely possible to cheat in online chess, and I'm kind of surprised Elon hasn't. But yeah, the "too smart for chess" thing is like Andrew Tate's "too smart to read books" because his brain needs more stimulation than that. Absolutely embarrassing.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

49:12 "So far, he's been right." So far, he's been far right.

[@hemanth8833]

This is literally the plot of glass onion. A rich genius billionaire who made that money by stealing other's idea and pretending to be good at everything. who in reality is just vainglorious buffon.

[@N1ghtR1der666]

The glass onion movie was partially based on Elon anyway, as stated by the director in a wired interview

[@lucyrukentropft9385]

Asmongold being the reasonable one in this thing truly is the darkest timeline omen

[@TheChilaxicle]

I hate the guy but it's so fucked up that Elon leaked his private DMs No one deserves that

[@Deminese2]

He wasn't reasonable really. Right after that day he went on to defend Elon Musk and suck up to him.

[@lucyrukentropft9385]

Honestly, I stopped paying attention after initial response

[@SJKlapecki]

Elon Musk's only good contribution to society is reintroducing my generation to the song "I've Never Met a Nice South African."

[@RobertCaesar-f5p]

I have but they are always white

[@alexthewrecker4666]

I doubt you get out much ​@@RobertCaesar-f5p

[@biznesslizard]

You are wrong Elon has contributed a lot to our species (Homo sapiens) through his contributions with innovation and his dedication to shareholder value and loyalty I went to school with Elon and I never saw him hurt a fly he did not immediately eat

[@agentc7020]

@@RobertCaesar-f5p Yeah, like Elon! Oh, oh…

[@RobertCaesar-f5p]

@@agentc7020 Elon seems nice to me

[@GinnyFan765]

20:30 I wouldn’t normally do this, but in the context of correcting someone’s information I found it really funny that he mentioned Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, which does take place in Rome, but not Ancient Rome.

[@agiar2000]

"He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets." - Rod Hilton

[@MCDreng]

"His" cars were okay because he wasn't actually involved in them at all. Until the cybertruck. You can really smell the Musk stench on that thing. Same deal with "his" rockets. His companies were just him bankrolling the actually competent people.

[@tinam269]

there's a chinese saying Bù dǒng zhuāng dǒng yǒngyuǎn shì fàntǒng (不懂装懂永远是饭桶) I think it means: if you don't understand and you pretend to understand, you'll forever be a rice bucket.

[@ianianianianian]

love that

[@MaterialMenteNo]

What does "rice bucket" mean in this context?

[@iamjustkiwi]

​@@MaterialMenteNoI don't know either, but I think I'm going to try and use it as an insult now. Gotta keep em guessing

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

What if I pretend to be a rice bucket?

[@allyli1718]

@@MaterialMenteNo “Rice bucket” means that you’re basically a waste of food. Like, the food that was spent feeding you should’ve gone to someone else. Instead of contributing to our society, you just contain rice and do nothing else, like a bucket of rice.

[@Fleato]

ill be honest, im surprised the Elon defenders havent tried to make the defense of " well this is just stupid why does it matter if he lies about being good at games" and instead have to defend it because they know it very much shows on his character how petty he is about lying about being good at things.

[@Kite403]

And the weird thing is...they don't HAVE to do this for him. Musky could hire a top-notch PR firm to spin his idiocy into whatever he wants it to look like...and doesn't. Just doubles down on everything or moves on like it wasn't an actual thing that you're not supposed to do.

[@t.c.thompson2359]

Do you think if we get the girl that laughed at Elon that one time at school to apologize he would leave us alone?

[@irenafarm]

Nope. She laughed because he's a nasty sociopath and always has been.