The Cult of Elon Musk | A Billion Dollar Disaster

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Our culture has a tendency to worship KZbinrs, musicians, and even billionaires to an unhealthy extent. But are these people truly the gods we make them out to be? Join me in documenting one of the most talked about guys on the planet right now, Elon Musk.
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00:00 - intro
2:51 - not so humble beginnings
5:34 - silicon valley
9:28 - paypal
12:12 - tesla takeover
15:12 - our lovely sponsor
16:27 - tesla advertisement
19:15 - injuries lawsuits and carbon credits
25:38 - tunnels
29:04 - bird app
35:21 - conclusion
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[@jaubrey]

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[@marcdraco2189]

Too. Late for me to watch, but I'm not getting out of bed until I see this!

[@bitfusionsouthafrica]

FTX coming soon?

[@roseoverdose6451]

i don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but you're pretty good at making videos.

[@zerokidd21]

Meh just seems like a lot of reason to be butt hurt at someone else's success. If you can't separate art from artist you are going to have a hard time in life.

[@ErgonomicChair]

To be clear... if you argue with the CEO of your company publicly, in ANY company, you are getting fired. That one isn't really on Musk.

[@ghosttoast6317]

As a wise man once said: “Elon Musk is a dumb persons idea of what a smart person is”

[@rigelb9025]

Elon Musk is Elon Musk's idea of what a smart person is.

[@Rahenno]

Both of these statements are the same

[@TheThora17]

Lololololol

[@notninja97]

As another wise man once said "Wealthy people are dumb because money has no value."

[@NathanTamaja]

Love in your life, great quote. Thanks! :)

[@tobene]

Small correction: Elon never graduated in physics. He apparently lied about that too

[@Veritas-invenitur]

His cult doesn’t care. How do I know? I’m in it. Haha, all you have to do is buy his companies stock at IPO and your rich within 10 years. Haters going to hate. Haters are too stupid to buy the stock. Oh poor haters, you are actually poor. Why should anyone listen to those who told you not to buy Tesla at IPO? Stupid, poor haters. Just a bunch of bitter losers running on copium.

[@Morning404]

@@Veritas-invenitur you okay Musk simp? Lol

[@Veritas-invenitur]

@@Morning404 sure

[@tobene]

​@@Veritas-invenitur You do understand that you can invest in publicly traded companies without joining a cult right? Sucking Elon off isnt a requirement to buy tesla stock lmao

[@chironjo]

So, he wasn't such a great coder either?

[@arthurdurham]

Elon Musk is the best example of how it doesn't matter who does the thing, it just matters who is the loudest voice in the room.

[@BadThrusher]

No, who has the cultiest following

[@fareseno8055]

Nah not at all, the best example is Andrew Tata

[@amazingdude9042]

then why don't you bark loud you dog and become more rich them him ?

[@keroknight2989]

I feel like this is what America was built upon!

[@SaschaEderer]

No. The problem with Elon is that he's a Monarch Slave. Ma cha for more inf (crypt cuz sahwdonbas).

[@jamalwest7658]

Who knew that the son of a guy who ran a blood diamond mine at the height of apartheid, would treat his own workers like disposable pawns???

[@zer0her058]

And don’t forget that Elon’s dad had a child with his own step daughter. Like he married a woman, divorced her and then got her daughter pregnant…

[@marcdc6809]

I think his cybertruck is a product that comes from this line of thinking, a panic room on wheels... a place where you can have your own little bubble of apartheid.

[@dahliacheung6020]

Blood EMERALD, that's like totally different (is something one of his stans would say if they acknowledged the gemstone mine at all.

[@Floedekage]

​@@dahliacheung6020 there's a reason Elon Stans haven't replied to you yet. They're not gonna acknowledge an emerald mine that daddy Elon doesn't want acknowledged.

[@alliu6562]

Comparing Elon musk to lex luthor is actually kinda insulting because lex luthor actually invented some of the tech he used 😒

[@g2.a6]

Lex invented a lot of things that work. He also stole 40 cakes, that's as much as 4 tens. Lex is pure evil

[@denjidenji9162]

Wasn't Bezos the real Lex Luthor? Never heard Elon compared to Luthor, maybe cause Luthor is actually competent lmao

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Lex worked hard to find the strongest kryptonite that could weaken Superman and make him a punching bag.

[@Salvatorez1980]

Yeah lex is anti alien but he actually helps humanity 😂

[@cjclow052]

Its probably closer to edison tbh

[@wdcain1]

Reading Superman comics as a kid, I was always frustrated that people in Metropolis never figured out what a snake Lex Luthor was despite all the awful things he does. Now I find that tragically believable.

[@biohead66]

Seems like the villains from comics are better written than the heroes. Still no Spiderman but plenty of Lex Luthor, Kingpin types out there.

[@meanberryy]

Yeah it's kind of like with jaws. They get constantly warned about the shark. Yet people keep ignoring it flooking at the beaches. Pre-corono I thought it was a dumb plot.

[@hyperion3145]

@@biohead66 That's because the villains tend to be based off of real people or scenarios whereas the heroes are what we would like to see. Superman, more so than Spiderman, was pretty much the embodiment of what the average person wishes they can do (especially in his early comics).

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Lex Luthor is the embodiment of the "villain with good publicity" trope.

[@photofreak56]

Its gotten to the point that even Lex Luther seems mentally stable in comparison to Musk I mean just with twitter alone...

[@kfr2745]

Elon's brain chips scare me...if his Teslas explode then....

[@ariariari7138]

Suicide squad irl

[@alexluthiger731]

Elon is a temporary tool of God to get the scriptures of the Revelation of John get fullfilled with the speed of light. Thanks be to God to limit the time-window for evil morons dreaming of life on Mars and entertaining other mad phantasies. With all that money we could plant woods of fruit-trees and save the natural environment of planet Earth! 🍷⚡

[@Sierra-208]

Dear god...

[@annwilliams6438]

And the torture of the apes that were used to test the chips can go in the annals of some of the worst treat of animals in testing.

[@chibiktsn3]

Scanners!

[@onEmEmbErstudios]

"Billionaires will save us" Yeah, right

[@samr.england613]

I'm beginning to wonder if both Musk and Zuckerberg are antichrists.

[@brewtalityk]

who says that? That's on par with saying a world government will 'save us'

[@Austin_Soares]

If you replace save with doom than yes.

[@Makrel94]

@@Austin_SoaresThey allready have.. The vast majority of pollution comes from industrial meat farming, industrial fishing and manufacturing. But they somehow manage too lobby that the consomers are too blame. “If you just stop using plastic straws” 💀 What a clown world 🤡

[@mikelaurie3850]

It aint gonna be the beggar either

[@princemishkin1601]

If nothing else, you can credit Elon Musk with the most successful hair transplant of his generation.

[@ghost-user559]

He probably bought shares in that scalp and pretended to be the founder too. To be honest it’s probably someone else’s head. His buddy Peter literally feeds off of the blood of young people. True story.

[@terpsidance.]

I assume his only other competition is Trump...

[@rp1455]

fr that hair transplant is perfect

[@knuckles543]

@@rp1455 gender affirming care

[@Kamidio]

Musk didn't do the transplant though. His doctor did.

[@no1reallycaresabout2]

Blackmailing a company into describing you as the founder is a frighteningly legal way to rewrite history

[@papasweed.dispenseria5977]

Blackmail isn't legal......

[@toufikhb253]

Except a simple Google search will let u know the truth

[@lanceash]

@@toufikhb253 Meaning... what? That Lord Elon is blameless and actually is the exalted messiah genius that people like you have been brainwashed into believing?

[@HandmadeDarcy]

People who are handed their wealth and position have no sense of how much they embarrass themselves when they take a title they haven't earned. Someone whose father I used to work for, recently started calling herself co-founder of her family business... which her grandfather started decades before she was born. 🙄 She treated her work in the company as a lifestyle - most of which she charged to the company - and had zero work ethic, especially compared to her father. If she had been founder, it wouldn't have got off the ground, let alone lasted two generations.

[@papasweed.dispenseria5977]

@@lanceash pretty sure he was talking about blackmail not being a legal practice

[@ralsim5308]

I feel so guilty with myself for praising this narcissistic oligarh for years. My bad.

[@MDNQ-ud1ty]

You should. Of course you were conned by bots and shills and financial terrorism but as long as you learned your lesson and never let someone use trust as a justification.

[@femboygorou]

i mean, it's not really your fault. anybody that has the kind of resources the guy has can keep up a pretty good facade. obviously he found the limits of this, but still, he spent millions of dollars on pr to make people think he's "the real life iron man".

[@hydrohasspoken6227]

You are not the only one. the world is full of low IQs, everywhere.

[@AlexMourning5635]

As someone raised by a narcissist, it's not your fault lol. They're charming af.

[@GTAVictor9128]

I was there too at one point 😔

[@moebunkbedsmoeproblems]

so I have a friend that used to work at a Tesla factory in Germany and Elon Musk came for a tour and brought his kids with him. his kids started playing on a machine that is best described as a giant metal stamping press - one that was infamous for maiming numerous workers - like climbing on and in it. my friend was straight up like 'hey, that machine will kill them instantly, you should tell them to get off it'. Elon looked at his assistant and said straight-faced 'well that's just survival of the fittest, evolution'. I've long been trying to figure out if it was him just thinking it was funny, or just the belief that nothing bad would happen to him, or if it was such an insane disconnect from reality that he actually believed it. either way he didn't say anything to his littles.

[@QuantumSorceress]

God always answers prayers, Elon. Let's play survival of the fittest for your children.

[@radschele1815]

​@@QuantumSorceressno, please don't involve the Chipstead here. I have no problem that Elon tried to survive, but not his children. For being his children.

[@JoeOvercoat]

He has plenty of children to spare. And plenty of women happy to help him make more.

[@dickinbaus-mr7tz]

@@JoeOvercoat ur mom is probably one of them

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

@@radschele1815 One of Elon's oldest daughters is a transwoman who disowned her father after his toxic and bigoted behaviour. I agree - just because you have a bad parent doesn't mean you are a bad person. And minors are innocent.

[@KageNoTenshi]

Self made billionaire 101, step one: be born to a wealthy family

[@zocialix]

Step 2. Exploit Child Labour

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

Step 3. Become a Democrat.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

Step 4. Master the art of Hype

[@riatorex8722]

Step 3 addendum: Turn to Republicans so that your narcissistic behaviour would be defended by literal zealots

[@mr.hirisklorisk]

Step 5. Run your private companies on public funds from government subsidies.

[@asterodon]

As a general rule of thumb I choose not to put faith in people in places of extreme wealth, there's no real way to know how they made all of those millions or billions of dollars

[@Storse]

there's no way to become a billionaire through being a good person

[@bjam89]

@@Storse well there is one way, but that would require extreme inflation so money is worthless

[@asterodon]

@@Storse agreed

[@needmoresnacks]

No single person can ‘earn’ a billion dollars mathematically. You can’t hit that number without mass exploitation.

[@rigelb9025]

@@needmoresnacks Apparently, if Christopher Colombus was still alive today and had been consistently working 7 days a week at 15$/H to this very day, he wouldn't have hit the Billion Dollar mark yet.

[@michael-gk3ib]

He moved to Canada at 17 to avoid being called up for forced military service. He is a coward and liar now and always.

[@ellicel]

So....he's proposing a claustrophobia inducing tunnel where only his cars can fit....Cars whose primary issue is that they often burst into flames fir no reason and the fire can't be easily extinguished? That's the kind of thing nightmares are for, not a legit project.

[@blackholesun3569]

Anyone stupid enough to drive a Tesla into musk's death tunnel perhaps deserves to go out that way.

[@VincentDavidRose]

Elon is the kid in school who happened to get in the group with the smart kids didn’t do much and still got credit for it.

[@smartichoke]

he's the kid who bribed the teacher into pairing him with the smart kids. then once the project was finished he framed them and got them expelled from the school just so he could take all the credit during grading

[@thepubquiz3198]

Is this view based on this video ? If so, I'm not a fan of Elon, or a hater, yet personally I was a bit disappointed in this video, which I was looking forward to from the title. I think this video holds little to no credence, it whizzes through far too quickly without providing enough reliable info or context to a claim or the info that is provided, and offers no alternative viewpoint or counter to the claims being made. When making a documentary, which this video essentially is, I believe you have to reach out to either the person you are making the claims about, to comment, or the next best thing you can get hold of. Even at the very least, considering this is a KZbin video, I believe you should reach out to Musk fan forums for example, inform them in detail of all your claims, and show them your sources, and asked them to provide a member to combat these claims in an interview. If you're being honest and genuinely trying to find the truth of the matter that is the sort of thing you should be doing. Yet this video, to me just comes across more as a spoon feeding for certain people who want to hear certain things about Elon Musk.

[@nocomment3294]

@@thepubquiz3198 your idea of a public discourse make no sense.

[@LeekowalskiWalker]

Haters gonna hate

[@thepubquiz3198]

@@nocomment3294 care to explain why ?

[@angstbringer2992]

So basically if Elon hadn't been born rich, he would just be another redditor

[@mimz1173]

Yup and he would’ve been completely bald at this point lol

[@averyj5446]

@@mimz1173 with zero children

[@markwildt5728]

That's your takeaway? He wasn't born rich. His dad was rich, and he came to America by himself with just over a thousand dollars. Maybe do some actual research instead of watching completely biased, KZbin videos. Or at least watch biased videos from both sides. In fact, you should go watch a pro Elon video right now, and see all the amazing things he's accomplished before forming your obviously bias and preconceived opinion.

[@stevenrobert8567]

He would have been nothing more than a dislikeable Dumbass that one would want to use as a punching bag

[@angstbringer2992]

@@markwildt5728 mate he's not going to give you a Tesla if you try to make him a saint before he's even dead 😩

[@k.m.2625]

Trufax: The Artist Known to Most People as Grimes, Elon's one-time baby mama, was a good friend of mine back in Uni. Back then she used to eat out of dumpsters and dollar stores, lived in a cheap-ass slum apartment full of crackheads, so she could host illegal shows and no one would complain about the noise. We were a bunch of 20-year-old gutter punks drawing zines, exchanging playlists on CD-R, raging against the machine. Years later, I saw that pic of her with this narcissistic liar (i.e. E) at the Met Gala and I thought oh, honey, if yourself at 20 could see yourself now, you'd never stop throwing up. I pray for poor Alpha X2 every day, that kid is going to need a lot of therapy. This video does a great job of highlighting the hard facts about E.'s lies and legal violations in business. But you could also consider more personal things that he doesn't hide, like his megalomaniacal penchant for having a fuckton of babies by many women - a trait you see primarily in cult leaders, who also tend to exhibit dangerous levels of reality-denying narcissistic tendencies.

[@zackzittel7683]

Yeah it’s weird how he likes to procreate with BPD gold diggers.

[@TheMTG666]

I heard that Grimes actually comes from wealthy family and that she owned the apartment where she hosted parties. She just 'role-played' that kind of life.

[@kuchen_]

“… one-time baby mama” Grimes has THREE kids with Elon

[@almightybeanchild]

This is true​@@TheMTG666

[@The_Mosaic]

You sound jealous and bitter that she has a better life then u do

[@spence6195]

Elon Musk calling his father "evil" and "a terrible human being" is very ironic considering that he's WORSE

[@Pehz63]

I personally trust the opinion a man has about his father more than I trust the opinion some random person on the internet has about either of them. You're not clever for pretending to know how terrible either of them are, you're just an asshole giving a pass to child abuse.

[@GudieveNing]

No he isn't. Suggest you look into how Elon treats his kids. And funds colleges.

[@sethikablip8607]

In what way?

[@zackzittel7683]

Idk, the only thing I know about his dad is he knocked up his step daughter that he raised since she was 4yo…. That’s like the most extreme case of near incest grooming that idk if anything can top that evil demon creeper 9,000 behavior

[@Pehz63]

When people close to Elon say stay away from Elon, it's because he's a slave driver at work who is a bit addicted to conflict in his personal relationships. When people close to Errol say stay away from Errol, it's because he's a sadistic, narcissistic, sociopathic, abusive father who doesn't understand what's wrong with knocking up his hot young step daughter. That's my impression from the many interviews, biographies, etc that I've consumed.

[@coleycraft9950]

Say it with me, everyone: there are no ethical billionaires.

[@thejohoe96]

There might be but they're so self-aware that they don't get in the spotlight and make an ass out of themselves.

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@thejohoe96 I disagree. You have to exploit a bunch of people to get to billionaire status. So yeah, not ethical at all.

[@blankii333]

@@thejohoe96 you can be an ethical millionaire for sure, but billionaires can only get where they are by lots of exploitation of underpaying workers, and skimming the profits off the top.

[@julianalipira2991]

I hate to tell you, but what your saying is blatantly wrong and untrue...several athletes, actors and artist are all examples of the opposite.

[@jimreily7538]

Warren Buffett seems alright

[@DarknetDude]

He has a documented history of sketchy business practices, has a cult following of obedient fanboys, is very invested in meme culture in a seemingly very immature and desperate for the approval of others. He is the very definition of just because someone has influence in one area doesn't mean that they are deserving of respect.

[@ellemred]

🙌🏼🙌🏾🙌🏿❤️ well said

[@nadyanathania3847]

imagine staning someone solely for being the meme man. that's clown behavior right there.

[@thc_freebaser]

Dude literally bragged on Twitter (ages before buying it) about organizing an oversea coup in Bolivia saying "We coup where we want" when pressed about it

[@DriscolDevil]

He doesn't even know what a meme is, he thinks it just means funny picture with caption. The guy is fake in every way.

[@nadyanathania3847]

@@XxXMrSisterFisterXxX being born rich doesn't count as an accomplishment

[@linklink3069]

wow, Elon REALLY likes the letter X.

[@bullymaguire2061]

Reptiles do

[@SpokeNyan1390]

@@bullymaguire2061Shapeshifting reptilian is fake. Get off of social media such as twitter, KZbin, Reddit, or whatever you use.

[@MaliciousMoxy]

I mean its what every relationship he ever had ended up calling him.

[@amvideos1041]

He also like ß3x that's why he had multiple children

[@MaliciousMoxy]

@@amvideos1041 heheh βivorse

[@jeden_chalan]

21:09 "How did my father die?" "He was sliced at his workplace by a machine named after X-men character." That's gotta be the dumbest way to go.

[@hotfrenchbread7059]

As an astrophysics student, I hate how prevalent he is whenever I am having conversations about the future of space exploration. He always has to come up and it's always by someone who just has to talk about how great he is and how smart he is for making Space X as if he alone is responsible for all the feats made by the company, not just the name on the business. Beyond sick of hearing about him.

[@chironjo]

He is like the Steven Segal of technology. Knows it all, been there, sensei and senpai of all technology business.

[@b.w.22]

Yeah, especially when Gwynne Shotwell is the real force behind SpaceX and its success.

[@whatyoudo9773]

haters gonna hate

[@leucadendron007]

get used to it buttercup, Elon will be a huge part of future space exploration because of SpaceX, were you this pissed off when people solely credited steve jobs iPhone/iPod? at least Elon is actually make a change.

[@hotfrenchbread7059]

Imagine if you were an animator. You wanted to talk with someone about the animation techniques used in old Disney films. However, the only responses you ever got were talking about how great Walt Disney was, how he was a visionary, how he was a brilliant businessman. Sure he may have achieved much, but I would also like to talk about other things besides him. Also to your point of "were you this mad at Steve Jobs?" No, because I didn't run in those circles and didn't have to hear about him day in and day out, which is exactly my issue. Like I stated before, I have this issue because he works in the same field (roughly) as me yet the man himself is all some people want to talk about and it's getting old. It would also be less annoying if his fans didn't jump blindly at the opportunity to defend him, using the same old arguments time and time again, instead of actually reading what I have written and stopping to think about it for more than 0.2 seconds before writing a knee-jerk reply calling me a hater for having some minor criticisms about the culture surrounding this man.

[@SRowntree]

If nothing else, this whole fiasco is proving once and for all that he really isn't as savvy as the image his public relations team has been putting up

[@HShango]

Exactly

[@Vinlaell]

everyone i talk to all knew this wasnt a money maker move, what he said just like what i said we needed him to do long before he did it is, take it back from people abusing the "town square" to sway elections funny enough right after he started the purchase far left media began saying "he will be able to use it to sway elections" essentially admitting what they've used it for.

[@abeltesfaye_]

It's not even just his PR team, it's like whenever I see him talk to ANYONE, that person essentially kisses his ass. Glad his lack of know-how is being called out and addressed.

[@XxXMrSisterFisterXxX]

@@abeltesfaye_ he's been called out by some fairly large content creators. if you go to any random Elon short though, it's extremely rare to find a negative comment. (not counting my own) people generally praise him as being humble and generous, even though he has never shown these qualities in any real way. he says things like he'll help WFP solve world hunger when they show him a plan for how they'll use the money. then goes silent when they try to do exactly that. this being after he donated $5.7 billion in Tesla stock to an "unnamed" charity that hasn't said a word about it. wonder why...

[@NapalmitoBurrito]

Kinda reminds me of CinemaWins for IronMan2 "ah yes Musk is irl Tony stark, as genius inventor playboy". Dafuq

[@wiskasIO]

The worst part is the fanboys, I lost a friend because he couldn't accept that the tunnel thing was a stupid idea, I yelled at me that I was dumb and that Elon was going to revolutionize transportation, I'm still waiting for an apology lol

[@mustardwhore]

His fanboys are the definition of cringe, the same applies to him too.

[@michaeltucker224]

Elon is the example of kid who was carried in the group on a project and if he did a project by himself he'd fail and barely pass at least that's what I got from. This video

[@catpawwars]

Your interpretation is spot on

[@ganonbarfYT]

based

[@lorenzogarcia4335]

Spot on

[@CarShopping101]

But he takes all the credit even though he's a fraud who rides the coattails of others

[@ryansatoshi7932]

Not an Elon fanboy mind you but ah yes fail and barely pass

[@RomWatt]

Elon Musk is what happens when a bunch of smart people are too scared to tell their boss his ideas are dumb

[@Skylancer727]

More like when that one insane person runs the show and when you tell them to chill out they just immediately fire you for "retaliation". Like how he just openly fired one of his chief programmers just for correcting him. He also had to take down that tweet as he's probably being sued for it. There are some pretty strong laws on openly firing people publicly.

[@Parpeing]

@Charisma Musician you have no idea how to use objectively in a sentence lol Cant say im surprised

[@Skylancer727]

@Charisma Musician Tesla's value has been dropping by like 4.5 billion every day since he announced his plan to buy Twitter. Yeah you can take statistics to back anything my friend. Clearly you didn't get the point of the video. You should never idolize anyone, period. You have no idea who they are behind the window they leave open to you. Even still Elon has openly admitted to lying to people about products in the past like how the Solar City announcement said all the houses around him already used solar tiles, when in reality they had yet to be developed. Even if you buy the tiles now like 5 years later, they'll tell you they're still a beta product and not the production model. Also do you remember the roadster 2020? I remember seeing tons of youtubers putting their affiliate code out just to get one, and like 5 years later the company hasn't even acknowledged it since even though thousands of people were supposed to get a free one as Tesla wrote in their own affiliate system. Where is it? We occasionally see a employees making a Cybertruck by hand in the back, but I haven't seen anything about the roadster even leaks in years.

[@RageOfBeef]

@Charisma Musician none of that is due to his ideas tho, he stole the ideas of engineers he paid and the original CEOs and fired them and put his name on the patents, the only things he's actually come up with is the hyper loop and all the shit storm that is his attempts to run Twitter and both are pipe dreams that are falling apart because he's an idiot with a ton of money who thinks hes a genius when he's never grown out of a 10 year olds mental capacity his entire run as CEO of all these companies is literally "wah wah if you call out my bad behavior I fire you" which is why racism and sexism is rampant on his factory floors quite literally HR isnt expected by policy to give a damn beyond speaking his name negatively, he's literally just a stupid tech dictator whose long on the way to a massive wrongful termination suit, dude HR literally has been called out numerous times for pouncing on anyone who complains about the racism and sexism rather than pouncing on getting rid of the people making the workplace hostile in the first place, not to mention paying like shit, he's literally just trained you like a monkey to suck his dick because if you don't oh no he's gonna throw a baby man tantrum and try to get you way out of his way

[@umairashraf5167]

@Charisma Musician go back to riding ya boy musk then

[@mpazinambao2938]

A lot of billionaires seem to have daddy issues.

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

Remember when *Twitter* had verified, accurate, up-to-date, minute-by-minute information & news? We took that for granted, very much so.

[@hectornieves537]

Still has that just not as biased and government run.

[@ayneeldesu2221]

That literally never happened,Twitter went from being one of the worst social medias to the objectively THE worse

[@CatnamedMittens]

Actually, it never did

[@jimralston4789]

@@hectornieves537 It's a shell of it's former self because hardly anyone uses it anymore. Now it's in a death spiral until/unless Musk sells it.

[@hectornieves537]

​@jimralston4789 Millions of people use it so that's a terrible take. It's been a shell for libtards since it's beginnings so not surprised there and he makes ad revenue off of it so yeah. Don't know where you got it's in some death spiral when he cut major expenses and can keep the company so doesn't look like he's selling it but I know leftists want that horrendously bad.

[@Quantum_Cowboy]

I can’t imagine working years on creating something I’m passionate about only to be not only kicked out but also have all my credit and work stolen

[@dantewhirlpool2227]

“Heisenberg” origin story

[@maklame3318]

Apple, M$. mcdonalds, oreo and so many more. Same stories

[@CemEke_CIO]

well then dont bring foreign investors into your project…

[@Sun-Tzu-]

I know exactly how that feels. I was lead developer on a simulator for a maritime education company. The company got mismanaged and they ran out of money and I got laid off and replaced as project lead by my delusional boss and replaced as head programmer by 3 students that worked part time. Needless to say the project has completely tanked, but it's still shit to have your name removed from the IP you singlehandedly created.

[@blocksource4192]

@@maklame3318 Steve Jobs was atleast a founder at Apple... Ray Kroc at least made apple the brand it was. They all put some sort of effort. Elon Musk's effort was pumping money and then just telling his engineers to make his lavish ideas (Remove the steering wheel on tesla's due to autopilot back in 2019), and then it ends up that they just kept it in because they knew he was a dumbass.

[@_letstartariot]

‘But but Musk’s family were kinda nice to their emerald slaves’- something I literally heard once.

[@faisalkamal4319]

I don't think they were necessary slaves but musk family aren't the sort of people to be nice to people

[@devon7359]

@@faisalkamal4319 no not slaves, they get paid if you’ve ever seen The Run Down with The Rock and Sean William Scott, id assume it was something like that town in the movie you give me emeralds that you mine, i pay you scraps

[@KidChu404]

@@devon7359 do you genuinely know that or are you just assuming

[@devon7359]

@@KidChu404 did you miss “i’d assume” or? unless you’re asking if i know the musks personally or worked the mines, in which case..no we are all operating under assumptions here, are we not, as i’ve not heard anything confirmed about slaves either.. unless, again, you’re talking about slavery in the modern sense..like prisoners…who are paid crumbs compared to the money they create through their labor..which would just circle back to my initial comment.

[@Panbaneesha]

@@devon7359 Well, we do know he's a racist and treats people like shit, so I'd guess the assumption is not that big here. ;)

[@junyahval6620]

I still don't get how people can't see through this so called genius.

[@sebastiengosselin4889]

I guess he is really hard working.

[@taylor6528]

i mean, part of it is years of propaganda - we've spent our whole lives being told that we live in a meritocracy (largely a lie), ergo the guy who has the most money must be the most smartest. that, and the trappings of authority are a powerful illusion. it's just basically a bigger version of him building a fake casing for his computer to make it look bigger, but for pr lmao.

[@Jus-dt4wz]

He spends millions on bots and publications that tote how great he is. Even went as far as buying Twitter to control what is said about him. If you control the media, you control public perception.

[@annavictrix]

Elon is the first man without a personality to have a Cult of Personality.

[@papalegba6796]

massive Computational Propaganda campaigns can do that. Musk has been running one for decades.

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

It's all astroturfing, he's friends with Peter Theil who worked for the Pentagon on Project Lifelog, becoming FBs first investor a year after Lifelog was shut down. Thiels company Palantir works with Cambridge analytica and does data mining. Elongs other friend Texas Senator and Epstein Associate Bill Richardson is on the board of Genie Oil, along with Rupert Murdoch, Donald Rumsfeld, Larry Summers, James Woolsey and Jakob Rot Child Nothing to see here folks

[@shaokahn9487]

😂😂

[@the_pinkerton]

Yup

[@cristianproust]

😂😂Elon is the first time to monetize his haters and turns them into obsessed fans in disguise. He trolls them and trolls them mercilessly, and they still are expectant of anything he does, while he remains unaffected. It is delicious to see the uy winning over and over, while these channels don't stop and provide funniest content imaginable. Is fun because it is harmless, like a child fighting with this father 😂😂. They will teach his life in schools someday, that is going to be hilarious😂😂

[@weik-2936]

don't forget, tumblr mocked the whole blue checkmark thing by offering its users the ability to buy blue checkmarks just to have them, and it worked

[@ReinKayomi]

We also got Dbrand, they literally sell a checkmark sticker that you can literally use to verify anything lol

[@vaishnavisingh9244]

tumblr is the better platform fr fr

[@kennethhwang3425]

@@vaishnavisingh9244 Agreed. Tumblr, in a profound way, was and still is the nebula from which the bulk of memetic and thematic internet content and discourses emerge.

[@pinklemonade8320]

@@kennethhwang3425 4chan would like a word

[@DrDipsh1t]

@@pinklemonade8320 facts. Those of us who remember the "good ol days" of 4chan knew of memes before it became a mainstream thing. That's where we got "duck rolling" which turned into "rick rolling". I bet hardly anyone knows the origin of the rick roll, and here I am as one of the victims to the OG post and doing my own duck rolling.

[@chrisnichols9014]

Why would anyone ever idolize some rich person? These people are not your friends, and they don't care about you, either. Billionaires aren't messiahs that are going to fix this world's problems, so I don't know why they have cults. It's all very strange to me.

[@Cr0misc]

People who worship them are what's commonly known as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". They think if they suck up to these rich people long and hard enough, then some of those rich people's luck and fortune will rub off on them as well and then they'll be able to join the super special elite rich people club.

[@Depsty]

Because just like Elon did, they tell the working class “I was just like you once” and people fall in love with the idea that they could be next. We all know that’s not true but that’s why billionaires are praised as cult leaders today. Whereas 100 years ago the working class HATED the rich, rightfully so

[@drebin178]

Its the image they(the rich,the famous ect.) project into the world because they want to be praised and worshipped. Its sick.

[@BEASTNYC]

now I'm 100% convinced he is a bad person, father, husband, human etc. I used to think he was a good man!

[@sehrishbalouch7068]

His Fanbase definitely comes off as a cult because you can’t even criticize him without them trying to jump down your throat and asking you what company you’ve started.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

That and the Andrew Tater Tot fanbase are the embodiment of the R/Iamverysmart.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

@Sehrish Balouch: Believe me , a lot of people stomped all over me, when I said some of these things awhile back. He was their sacred cow...and I was the one that kicked him. Nice to feel vindicated. Scary that I was right...

[@whatyoudo9773]

correct if someone asks you a question then they are from a cult

[@cuckoophendula8211]

Yeah, I tend to say that the line between Stanning and cult-like mentality is more like a gradient.

[@rolfjohansen5376]

you can’t even criticize him without them trying to jump down your throat ? - This is actually what this video is doing

[@alicethemad1613]

The only thing Elon has ever actually accomplished is the Herculean task of somehow making Twitter WORSE than it already was.

[@itzkiblo]

In what way? I think its been more entertaining than ever and its not like its been doing great to begin with not to mention more ppl have signed up and hes been taking care of the bots so now you mostly get trolls and its entertaining af compared to before.

[@Brittneywakeupp]

Stop watching CNN and being a cheerleader for bias and censorship

[@ThiccBuddha]

@@itzkiblo worse as a business, much better as entertainment. It's losing so much money

[@alliu6562]

It’s so bad that even tumblr staff is making fun of it and we all know tumblr is literally just a giant money black hole for any company that buys it lmao

[@ElectrostatiCrow]

The memes that have been created from twitters train wreck are pretty good though.

[@olyguy2000]

There's only one reason why anyone becomes so obscenely rich - they're not taxed enough.

[@jirou6228]

rich people could evade tax you know...

[@TheLobsterLarry]

​@@jirou6228that's what they're getting at

[@pop5678eye]

We hold these truths to be self-evident: billionaires didn't become rich by spending their own money. They became rich by spending/risking _other_ people's money and then reaping the wealth others created for them.

[@greycoloris7665]

Inalienably right.

[@OppositeOfNinja]

JK became a billionaire by creating a world people wanted to read about and see on screen... though she gave so much away she's only a millionaire now. She wasn't risking/spending other people's money. Generally your point holds up as true, of course, but there are exceptions :)

[@Jay_in_Japan]

Eww, a communist 🤮 go home tankie

[@spacekitt.n]

yep. privatizing the gains and socializing the losses

[@b-vQEVXideVFSCfCoFWw]

Also risking other people's lives

[@DimaRakesah]

This is why I've never understood why people talk about Elon as "self made". He so clearly was raised in ultra wealth and had access to resources that 99.9% of people do not have. He went from very wealthy to obscenely wealthy.

[@i10i60]

That's because Elon falsely advertised himself as self-made to get a better image and following. It was all very intentional

[@VOLUMEnightclub]

I don’t understand why people praise athletes when they were clearly had better athletic genetics

[@katromore1421]

@@VOLUMEnightclub the difference is that athletes are competing against other athletes who also have "better athletic genetics" while elon was already richer than most of the population just from existing and could buy out the competition entirely

[@VOLUMEnightclub]

@@katromore1421 he’s only recently become “rich” (relative term)…when Tesla started ford got 6b Nissan got 1.5b while Tesla had like 500m yet it took over a decade for ford to make a car…Bezos was worth 100b when musk was less than 10b yet spaceX has cornered the space market while other companies bigger and industry longer…Musk has tonnes of faults I just find it interesting ppl can’t be objective about the guy…he can be both a genius and un-likeable a**hole at the same time.

[@VOLUMEnightclub]

@Krešimir Pavlović wym gnu purchased? Its Linux… open source?

[@technomad9071]

Sells cars hates traffic 😂

[@joeschmoe3665]

Only difference between Elon and regular business men is Elon behaves like a teenager

[@annahart69]

Yyyyyup👍🏼

[@Sirrizz]

The weirdest people are the ones who watch Elon make some of the most baffling business decisions you've ever witnessed and then they play it off like "omg Elon is such a god tier troll genius". I saw a reply to him the other day from what looked like someone in their early teens and they were asking Elon to go out for lunch with them so they could bask in his brilliance and learn from him.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

I thought Elon Musk is always a meme on the Internet because people never take him seriously like he's supposed to be a joke, but when it comes to his cult fanbase who boasts about being rich and call every street urchins "lazy", I didn't realized how dead serious these people are. Praising the man with a million/billion dollars when they are no price themselves.

[@blankii333]

For sure. Uh, I mean, no! Elon was a genius troll by firing a bunch of people at Twitter saying that they weren't needed, and then having to hire so many of them back after butchering the code (killing 2FA, etc. etc.)

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@@blankii333 _"I buy Twitter to destroy Twitter."_ *~ Elongate Musket*

[@Sirrizz]

@@blankii333 it was just an epic own musket style

[@aff77141]

"Just blew 2 mil that could have easily sheltered every homeless person in America for the lulz!! Worship me."

[@resurrectthenight]

The fact that all of this has been public record all along and people still stan Grimes' ex and believe he is some sort of savior is just mind blowing to me.

[@concept5631]

How is Grimes doing anyway?

[@concept5631]

Imagine the shit he does -off screen- privately.

[@CarShopping101]

"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now realize that half of the people in the world are more stupid than that." -George Carlin

[@resurrectthenight]

@@concept5631 oh she's finishing details of her new album. Really exciting stuff

[@concept5631]

@@resurrectthenight Good to hear. Hope she's doing well

[@rosariocatlin4845]

Tesla is the OceanGate of car companies

[@shroomer8294]

I was gonna disagree but considering Teslas have a random chance to spontaneously combust I’d say that’s about right.

[@SourEggz]

Never trust someone who never acknowledges others who’ve contributed to their success. 35:22

[@camdenritter7652]

"Yet he makes more money than you'll ever see" they use this as if that makes him void of criticism lmao

[@maimtubeTV]

it's crazy that they view wealth as a universal sign of goodness despite so many modern and historical examples of the opposite being true. like what's difficult to understand about how prone to corruption the process of accumulating wealth is?

[@woosh_police4018]

it’s always crazy to me when I see someone flex someone’s else money

[@sandmans5980]

@@woosh_police4018 bro, I'm crying 🤣

[@gunterthekaiser6190]

I mean so does a banker and they sure aren't all icons of morality. Such a stupid argument.

[@fetchstixRHD]

@@gunterthekaiser6190: Yea, whenever someone uses the money someone's made as an argument itself, I like responding with "so did [insert horrible person here]". Of course, some, instead of retracting that point or clarifying, decide to go the route of assuming that's stating that they're as bad as each other, rather than the actual point in that wealth isn't valid in itself...

[@Gracer_the_cat]

Elon Musk is the type of guy to donate 1$ to a streamer and ask them to say his name and get pissed when they don't

[@foxyloxyBABE]

Omg that is so accurate 😂😂

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

Untrue, Elon would never willingly give money to another person.

[@countrygirl4422]

@@destroyerofturtles5024 How much money do you give to people?

[@SergyMilitaryRankings]

@@countrygirl4422 more than Elon

[@Obs23456]

@@SergyMilitaryRankings clearly not his own give away is more than your entire net worth

[@cborkowski]

The gilded futurism of Elon Musk is the pinnacle of late-stage unrestrained capitalism. He wealth is built on privilege, government sweetheart deals and pure exploration.

[@thirdlegstalliano]

Exploitation

[@NadiaCBorba]

Ok. Your channel just got recommended by YT and I'm so thankfull for it. Those badass intros, man! wow About this video on Musk, I cannot imagine how you could make it without mentioning Thunderf00t haha (he is one of the biggest critics on Elon and other impossible products around, but speaks more on the science side of things) And I love how, even with all you talked about, still there's a lot that people are not aware of like the fake solar rooftiles that he lied blatantly and the fact that he tried to not buy twitter, but was forced to buy by law. I'm not criticizing your work, though, because I imagine that in order to really talk about EVERYTHING about this guy, this video would be 3 hours long.

[@RayanMADAO]

I hate when people are idolized as much as elon is, especially when they idolize him for superficial reasons.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Idolizing people is never good.

[@Rodoet001]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 No, the way people act and defend Musk is far beyond respect. I'm sure there are plenty who do, though I would heavily question why due to all the horrible things he's done and has proven to gladly do, collateral damage be damned, but that's not the ones you see charge to his defense or blindly throwing themselves on any and all criticism as if it was a live grenade.

[@edin00056]

😔😔😔

[@riatorex8722]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 I do admire his ruthlessness in business. The man legit got no chill when it comes to destroying his own competitors. But then you got the millions of others who genuinely consider him as some sort of a genius Messiah that could do no wrong, and that he's going to save us all with his quirky "inventions", when truth be told, he's no different than all the other soulless billionaires

[@theshermantanker7043]

Is it idolisation or respect? Because even though I don't really care much about him I do respect how he's gotten this far. He's a smart bloke, no matter what people may think about him, that I can't deny

[@ninesalive]

"Workers sliced by machines named after X-Men characters" is the definition of Elon Musk

[@mangepanges]

I mean at least its more fun than being sliced by a machine called something boring.. give cred where cred is due my man

[@ViridianFlow]

​@@mangepangesNah, the boring company machines are more likely to crush than slice, but I'm sure those have equally stupid names.

[@willw3736]

Musk is a Hero. Period. One day you might understand this....if the woke mind virus hasn't gotten you

[@Arguewithyourmom]

Twitter has never been worse as a platform. Nothing but verified bots, crypto scammers, and advertisements for Ali express trash.

[@BeGioBijoux]

I discovered your channel through the algorithm, but I subscribed after watching your piece on the abusive KZbinr mom. I watched it a few days ago and I’m still shaken by the validation. I went through similar situations with my parents, and at the time I really did feel like it was wrong, but never before I had someone put into words the feelings I had so long ago. this is really meaningful to me. Thank you.

[@seasfancams643]

the eli lily thing is still making me laugh whenever i see it. because i'm the diabetic in someone's life, i was getting it sent to me by people for days while a group chat of diabetics im in were laughing their asses off. truly bringing everyone together

[@zeekthegeek4538]

Diabetic in someone's life? Why not just say you're diabetic? Lol

[@300IQPrower]

@@zeekthegeek4538 do you not have basic reading comprehension? As in, because they were for some people “the diabetic friend”, lots if people thought to send them that tweet because they knew it was relevant to them.

[@Super_Broly]

@@300IQPrower of*

[@edelleaa]

​@@300IQPrower their comment doesn't suggest in anyway that they don't have "basic reading comprehension" mr 300 iq. the original comment still could've been phrased like "because i'm a diabetic i was getting this meme sent to me" and have the same meaning. the way it's written just seems like an overcomplicated way to say they are diabetic that's all.

[@g2.a6]

That one is funny but the official Chiquita(idk how its spelled) responding and saying they havent overthrown a goverment since 1954 is even funnier

[@samuelsolomon7330]

My favorite Elon moment was when he did a presentation about Tesla robots, but he didn't have a prototype or any other visuals to show what it was going to look like, so he just dressed up a guy in spandex and then made him dance on stage. Investors proceeded to give him more funding, because the world is unjust.

[@yippy7951]

It paid off

[@kevinstephenson3531]

@@yippy7951 it did not. The robot they showed could not stand up under its own power and was less impressive then stuff Boston Dynamics was doing nearly a decade ago.

[@yippy7951]

@@kevinstephenson3531 Boston Dynamics is not comparable to Tesla's robot, the robots in the videos where they dance and do backflips are are executing pre programed instructions and do not utilize AI nor machine vision. Regardless it still paid off monetarily for Tesla. Now we'll see if this ends up being a real product, although I won't be surprised if it doesn't.

[@kevinstephenson3531]

@@yippy7951 except they do have ones that use ai? Their movements are a lot less impressive than their normal counterparts but they’re still more impressive than Musk’s.

[@yippy7951]

@@kevinstephenson3531 I was only talking about the humanoid robots. I assume you're referring to the autonomous surveillance dog robot, which I don't think is really comparable. There is a lot less complexity required for the AI of a robotic dog compared to a humanoid robot. Also the purposes are different, the tesla bot is aiming to be general purpose, doing a variety of different tasks which require advanced AI with machine learning, whereas the robot dog is designed for only one task. I think the robot dog is more akin to a robotic vacuum cleaner or those factory robots at amazon, they are designed for specific purposes in contrast to the tesla bot that needs to be flexible enough for retail.

[@AidGum]

Elon is probably the most terminally online billionaire I’ve ever seen.

[@duttreacts4780]

Exactly why does no one ever talk about this

[@nathansuss]

Sounds like projection

[@mountainjews]

@@nathansusssounds like your gagging on elons nuts

[@user-qx3we1mk5m]

@@mountainjews hes not just gagging hes loving it

[@Kennie0124]

So... The rise and collapse of X, this fall?

[@bloodyneptune]

The funniest part of the whole Twitter disaster is that the $8 fee was apparently decided on through a public conversation with Stephen King. That's just... _so_ bizarre

[@sydposting]

He's an addict to social reaction, if any other celeb had reacted to the verification fee - notably *with any mention of money,* Elon would have jumped on it. If Beyonce had said she'd only pay a dollar a month to be verified, you'd best bet he would set the price that low.

[@denjidenji9162]

Even better, he was *begging* Stephen King to stay on the site, because King pointed out how stupid the idea was lmao

[@FiryaFYI]

Like most of this video, thats false... Not everything that shows on a tweat, is the first time its been thought about.

[@chrissre7935]

Because beffore he wanted 16 bucks XD

[@whatevezzz]

@@FiryaFYI oh no we have an elon simp here

[@samuelg1172]

I can’t imagine hearing everything Elon’s done in this video and still be a fan of him bcuz he’s “quirky” and is knowledgeable on memes… it’s insane what we’re willing to overlook just bcuz someone can make us laugh

[@lonearachnid6591]

Control media, control the people.

[@EmeraldMara85]

Elon Musk has never made me laughed until he bought Twitter and sink it down with his arrogance. Some things not mentioned in the video are tax evasions or that Musk pays EPA fines every year as he keeps dumping cancerous chemicals into drinkable water. The EPA fines are typically 100,000+USD which is like pennies to Elon Musk.

[@sillyd0g]

he's also like. not that knowledgeable on good memes.. the only memes he knows are the lame garbage you see in right wing spaces

[@user-hh5pj5jv8p]

@@EmeraldMara85 “sink it down” you guys naive or just trapped in your own echo chamber. Site’s working normally; you’re braindead if you think mass layoffs, which happen in every single company specially after a management change, will shut down the site. You have no clue what you’re talking about.

[@paulgibbon5991]

I blame Ayn Rand.

[@angloedu5499]

That chimp from the Nueralink project went insane and was put to sleep.

[@Jus-dt4wz]

Because the battery in the chip began leaking battery acid into its brain.

[@SpokeNyan1390]

@@Jus-dt4wzDamn Elon Musk is like Thomas Edison. They both kill animals. But Elon Musk is much worse than even Thomas.

[@CatnamedMittens]

I would too if I was involved with that nonsense

[@Jus-dt4wz]

This just in the first malfunction in human with neuralink has occurred.

[@angloedu5499]

Not funny.

[@mus46]

9:23 certainly aged well

[@benallmon5613]

Also remember, Elon took massive amounts of government subsidies. Part of the reason his businesses were able to survive. And even with those subsidies, he tries his hardest to run the companies into the ground.

[@Veritas-invenitur]

He makes early shareholders money. A lot of money. Nothing more needs to be said. The guy is a king.

[@summersys]

@@Veritas-invenitur no he’s not. He’s fucking insane

[@lolkthnxbai]

Why I cringed when I saw a talk where he compared the government to companies and how anyone who is against big tech companies should be against government and regulations too

[@aggerleejones200]

now go look how much the multi-billion dollar and profitable oil and gas industry receives each year.

[@odst2247]

That’s good…I mean, the government is paying you? That means they like why you’re doing. Out of all the comments, this one is the least relevant. Subsidies help projects and innovation--gas and agriculture are also heavily subsidized. So obviously a space company will be subsidized, I mean, we literally have no infrastructure in space.

[@JohnnyFiction]

A+ video. People are finally waking up to this lying, cheating, egotistical, clout obsessed manbaby and you nailed it in this video

[@Supraboyes]

common sense skeptic...

[@ilovedogs2642]

"people are finally waking up" well no plenty of people already knew about Elon, if anything this twitter purchase has made him more popular with a demographic. Delusional not to see it

[@markwildt5728]

Ha! It couldn't be more the opposite! 🤣 Y'all are just butthurt because the first African American billionaire who's absolutely crushing it right now is HhhuuuWHITE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adrianc6534]

intelligent people have always been aware of this. it is no surprise that there is a huge overlap between trump voters and musk dick riders. their lack of intellect makes them easy to manipulate.

[@lanceash]

Yeah, but plenty of man-child hero-worshippers still lick his boots.

[@nightwingalelle2849]

your editing is absolutely killer, man !!

[@arthurdurham]

These days almost any company that requires you full time in office for a job that doesn't need to be full time in office to get done is purely to keep tabs and micro manage you.

[@DillonMaynard]

The image of Elon Musk is kinda like what happened with "nerd culture". People used to get bullied for being smart, now it's cool. These same people now see Elon as a symbol of what they could be and they simp for him, even though he's nothing like them.

[@dalek14mc]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 No, you’re definitely simping. You’re going around this comment section framing anyone who criticizes your leader as people “having their feelings hurt,” rather than having genuine criticism.

[@DillonMaynard]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 Did you even watch the video?

[@Rodoet001]

@@DillonMaynard He just said "being right wing in today’s time is the morally righteous thing to do and exist as", of course he didn't watch the video. You think anyone so deep in the ideoligy game that they think their nebulous political view is "morally correct" would ever dare to entertain that the world isn't black and white? He thinks Elon made Twitter profitable, while it violently bleeds money. But hey! More traffic than ever, am I right? Bet that will keep the lights on and employees payed...

[@dalek14mc]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 “See how that works?” Actually, I don’t. Because you suck at making false equivalencies. I’m saying that you and your ilk are a cult, because you guys exhibit cult-like behavior. I’m simply pointing out the obvious.

[@DillonMaynard]

@@peepeepoopoo2749 I dont believe that because if you did, you wouldn't be in here saying he's a "net positive" or claiming he's done anything good for twitter.

[@19cp1]

few years ago, when I was still in college, I remember researching space x and elon and realized he was a really good conman. I even studied energy trends for an elective and realized lithium wasn't the amazing replacement to fuel that he made it out to be. The grip he had on engineers like myself was crazy. I don't know how he still has a cult like following despite his circus acts

[@spyral00]

A big part of it was the Iron Man movie. It really propelled him to cult status.

[@47teco]

I'm a Forestry Engineer and can tell you that his vehicules make more damage to the environment than combustion engines do. That's because the process of getting lithium requiers deep mining. And mining does irreversible damage, it destroys the soil and makes it unsuable for at least hundreds of years if not thousands, depending on the damage. with combustion engines we can atleast plant more trees in order to capture greenhouse gases, but with only teslas there would be no soil to plant trees on. I think first we have to implented better and sustainable ways to get lithium and for the time being make more hybrid cars

[@19cp1]

@@47teco agreed

[@shawklan27]

He really appeases the anti wole crowd for some reason

[@JohnDoe-vr9bj]

@@shawklan27 Elon is basically the Trump for kids and dumb money.

[@beathinks]

Elon Musk is the modern day Thomas Edison. Swoops in after the work is done and takes all the credit and recognition 😑

[@jasonmichael3234]

Especially when it comes to stealing Teslas work

[@SK-do3um]

Lol Tesla is only the beginning , when you start competing with the likes of NASA and taking credit for inventing reusable rockects and colonizing Mars as if NASA are not exploring the universe let alone have rovers on Mars is where people should have just used common sense and not take this guy serious

[@fgoindarkg]

No, Edison was a real businessman, not a fraud like Musk.

[@lindseystein9676]

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about how musk did not pay for Twitter by himself. He has extensive foreign funding.

[@SK-do3um]

No its more like more like the American government over-valuating Tesla to to absurd numbers to boost their economy...We are told Tesla is the number 1 car company in the world valued at 500 billion dollars...by the way Mercedes,Toyota and Volkswagen all combined are valued at 300billion dollars, for a company founded only in 2003 that's just ridiculous and impossible honestly

[@MrJamiez]

Yeh, he owes the banks 1.2 billion per year for bank loans he used to buy Twitter.

[@yggdrasilsaltar]

the whole elon twitter takeover thing has been such a rollercoaster to see in real time, its crazy how fast someone could turn a juggernaut like twitter to a complete joke in about a months time

[@chadraygun5268]

Twitter has always been a joke

[@ahsokatanogaming7401]

twitter has been a joke for a long time, it was never a juguarnaught, it was found before the take over that around 3/4th of the active users where bots, they where failing before this and where not even earning money they where already going down the drain, It just took a man who basically bought it and a person who even these people before this where saying that he was a good person and that you should buy a tesla becuase it would save the world. He was never a hero we needed he was a hero who was basically a person who was weird.

[@HShango]

Twitter is no juggernaut 🤣

[@umarkamali2249]

@@chadraygun5268 but it was still able to function despite that, surprisingly.

[@Time_Is_Left]

@@HShango Whatever it was, the world’s richest man wanted it

[@EyeLean5280]

A rich kid brought up in apartheid South Africa treating black employees like shit? WHAT A SHOCKER!

[@joseradio9202]

Based

[@alexluthiger731]

The firstborn in artificial intelligence - disconnected to conscientiousness and moral. A typical hell's angel. 🍷🎃

[@kingofthend]

I get musks dad. He has good reasons to hate his child.

[@josethebioform7519]

If Elon bankrupts Twitter can we petition him to buy Facebook and Google as well

[@BluePhoenix_]

Without google we lose KZbin though.

[@josethebioform7519]

@@BluePhoenix_ something else.would come along.

[@Citrusautomaton]

@@josethebioform7519 As shady Google might be, they’ve done ground-breaking work in AI and robotics that, if lost, could potentially set us back MONTHS (which in the field of AI is equivalent to decades).

[@josethebioform7519]

@@Citrusautomaton I doubt it'd be lost if Elon tanked them. The research and assets would be sold off.

[@GeneSv]

It's sad, a lot time I mention that I'm an engineer people suggest I start working at Tesla. Your video perfectly demonstrates why I keep saying I don't want to, better than I could ever explain.

[@calebmcintosh1991]

I've got a rocket scientist friend who gets that about SpaceX all the damn time. Even though she's the head of the minotaur rocket program in her location. SpaceX would be a step down for her, but because of Elon's publicity machine, people associate it with the most cutting edge advanced top tier space shit.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Show them this video then

[@NotSoMax]

When Tesla first started taking off, unfortunately I was kinda a fan, I didn’t really look into him at the time, I was an uncritical kid who did robotics and was excited about “a tech guy” being a celebrity. But the more I learned about him, how inflated his accomplishments were, how awful he was, I just lost all respect for him and now look back on my sort lived fan phase with colossal embarrassment.

[@Skylancer727]

I didn't notice much wrong about them till they started hyping the hyperloop. Literally the dumbest idea for transport. I remember reading about it in a book of fastest vehicles when I was in 2nd grade with it evenly there openly saying how it was basically a pipe dream (pun intended). Though I didn't learn about it till a channel I subscribed to a while before Thunderf00t covered it. I had subscribed to him long before that as he debunks scam products on kickstarter and things like Solar Roads or plastic roads greenwashing.

[@ggundercover3681]

this. I never dived into him. I was like cool about Tesla, oh cool he likes memes. seems decent enough. never cared about him more than that. then later learn more about him and realized oh, he's not only cringe (which is fine if you're a good person) but just shady and has no real genius behind him.

[@annebruecks7381]

@@Skylancer727 Thunderf00t is Amazing.

[@souleater4242564kodd]

Doesn't help when he was more known for electric automobiles and the interview on his abusive father was passed around more than anything else

[@wildwomanofthewoods]

We all start that way, there is no shame in that. It's when we see obvious signs of narcissism and megalomania and still swallow the koolaid that the problems begin.

[@the_pinkerton]

Dude, you've got to make a sequel

[@LordZontar]

While I was somewhat impressed or at least interested in Musk when he launched Space-X, it was when he started talking up Starship and its predecessor versions and his grandiose scheme to colonise Mars by 2050 that I started getting sceptical. I'm an old NASA brat from the 1960s so I've followed spaceflight development ever since Apollo. Looking at the schematic drawings for Starship I really began to wonder just how the hell that thing was conceivably going to fulfill the mission plan Musk was flogging and really started getting dubious about the whole Mars project. A hundred people along with all their supplies for a nine-month interplanetary flight and sufficient fuel to decelerate into orbit, land, launch and return to Earth all crammed into that sardine tin? Then he starts laying out this impossible launch schedule for a whole fleet of these things supposedly going to start last year? He hadn't even made a suborbital proving flight but he was going to have Starships headed to Mars by 2022?!? That was when I decided this Mars scheme of his was bullshit. No way even an exploratory base was going to be ready by 2050 much less a colony settlement for a million people by then. It was laughable. Then I started hearing about his whole history of bullshit after that. Proud to say I was never in the Cult of Elon the Great, especially as it was obvious from the jump that the man was no engineer or scientist and didn't know what he was babbling about when he kept talking about Mars colonies and flying fleets of these spaceships on a weekly schedule when he's barely built a handful of prototypes, just about all of which crashed or exploded.

[@robotizedcyborg7788]

Jesus, you mind ranting more about Nasa's Engineering for me? Last time I checked, there was this one company 3D-Printing their spaceships and on track to supposedly "outdo" Nasa.

[@LordZontar]

@@robotizedcyborg7788 You mean the spaceships that can't get even to suborbital flight like Starship which also destroys its own launch pad trying to lift off? Yeah, go ahead and rant about Elon the Great the Sooper-Geeneus Engineer to me, cultist. I can do with the laugh.

[@robotizedcyborg7788]

@@LordZontar Oh my god I didn't even know my comment was taken in such a way XD. I'm sorry if I came off as an Elon cultist, though I really did think he was the cream of the crop until he took over Twitter and the Age of Monetized Verification Checks began, then I just hated him.

[@LordZontar]

@@robotizedcyborg7788 Sarcasm is sometimes hard to properly interpret on the internet.

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@robotizedcyborg7788 i suggest you try to add a sarcasm indicator people so stupid they would’ve been dead just a few decades ago due to incompetence now have a overinflated ego and voice due to the internet its hard to know what is sarcasm when their are genuine people who believe it

[@ZorotheGallade]

People would always justify his failings as "Well he's a genius! Surely this is just a minor setback, we're just too dumb to see the bigger picture like HE can". It took years and years to finally realize that no, he was just burning money solely because he could afford to.

[@steamedhamlet]

Anybody who saw that tesla in space bullshit already knew what was up

[@dianapennepacker6854]

He got Tesla off the ground and Space X. Both notoriously hard industries to make work. Even Bezos is having issues with Lucid. I can't stand him yet the haters are just as bad as the cult. Me? IDGAF outside the fact I will be watching. I hope all these space companies succeed, and Elon helped kick in electric cars probably much sooner than they would have been otherwise.

[@MDNQ-ud1ty]

Anyone that went through CS and engineering in college knows this guy is a m0r0n. He knows a few basic things but he's no where close to a genius and I bet he would struggle to take the derivative of a linear function.

[@KingHalbatorix]

@@steamedhamlet Ah yes, what he should have done instead is launch a giant block of concrete! oh, did you not know that? did you perhaps not know anything at all about the space industry? are you a good little NPC? The tesla in space was a payload for the first flight of Falcon Heavy, and the first flight of essentially every rocket in history doesn't get a real payload because of the uncertainty of success. And no sweetie, you can't just launch an empty rocket, because that doesn't weigh the same as a rocket with a full payload, OBVIOUSLY. Every other test rocket launch in history with a mass simulator (that's what dummy payloads are called) has literally just used a cube of concrete. The only reason they used a tesla instead was for brand recognition and publicity, but it wasn't some sort of ego trip on account of the options were "cool car ad in space" or "cinderblock lul."

[@every_username_is_taken]

It's our only way of coping with the fact that the people with the power to end the world are about as smart as a 4chan shitposter. It's horrifying. We have real life superhero villains and they can do whatever tf they want.

[@markmarsh27]

He showed up at Twitter carrying a BATHROOM sink as a joke on the cliche, "Everything But The Kitchen Sink," trying to imply that HE ALONE has all the tools needed and MORE. Then he quickly made a toilet out of Twitter. Am I the only one who sees the joke in this?

[@irvinrod8782]

i thought the sink thing was a "let that sink in" pun

[@BluePhoenix_]

He, on his own, reduced Twitter worth by 2/3s, and that's actually quite impressive.

[@CatnamedMittens]

Stop acting like Twitter was ever good. That's the one criticism of him I can't abide. It's revisionism.

[@nyxxie-pooh]

So excited to see what you have to say about this clusterfuck of a human being

[@SRowntree]

In fairness, it shouldn't have been surprising that the inheritor of an apartheid emerald fortune turned out to be an eploitative egotist

[@NostyFripples]

Wernher von braun wrote a sci-fi novel called project mars where a man named elon leads a colony on mars. 😉 Truman

[@kikiwasactuallyhere]

damn, ima write the word: Clusterfuck, in my notes to use.

[@christinaa7469]

@@SRowntree I need this to be the summary on the back of his biography

[@randomilluminatimember33]

human being is a S T R E T C H

[@MattJDave]

9:23 Well this aged like fine wine.

[@quakeknight9680]

Actual solution to traffic is making less car-centric streets due to induced demand.

[@nicoler9966]

Isn’t there a lawsuit against him stating he didn’t actually graduated with a physics degree and never got into a PhD? It stated he only have a BA in economics.

[@pabrodi]

I was about to write this. It's a shame it wasn't included in the video.

[@nickl5658]

The fact he proposed the century old vac-train idea and rebranded it (Hyperloop), shows he doesn't know a thing about physics or engineering.

[@adamgreenspan4988]

He never even started a PhD at Stanford. “Dropped out after 2 days” is another lie.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

That would make sense to me. Economics has always looked to me like the special interest subject of narcissists and sociopaths everywhere .....

[@whatyoudo9773]

No doubt! I have zero proof the gas in my tank was made by people with degrees from college either! What a crock of shit the car runs fine, how can that be?

[@irisworrall8253]

will never forget the time a classmate of mine said that elon is an "immigrant from south africa, the system definitely did not support him" when i mentioned that musk is privileged

[@onerva.]

...I have no words

[@jimreily7538]

Perhaps they thought he was black

[@roxycauldwell544]

Lmao wealthy people come to the states to take advantage of our out of control capitalism the same way Americans are starting to flee to other countries for better working rights and a healthier life balance

[@littleloner1159]

Lmfaoo I mean they're right, the system did not support him But he didn't need any support... Because he's the epitome of privileged white guy

[@nomusic-nolife1886]

Well, the system might not have supported him (don't know about that, he's always been a white male, which unfortunately can still be seen as a privilege in itself), but weird that that classmate of yours didn't realize, that that's not even necessary, if daddy can support you and give you tons of money, you can use to get even wealthier... Just shows how good Elon was (is?) at making himself seem more relatable (or as I like to call it, at being manipulative) by even making up a rags to riches story... Guess that's why that emerald mine suddenly disappeared from his life (or his headcanon)

[@Srt3D01-db-01]

How to become a millionare: have a millionare dad

[@1mnoddity811]

The real question everyone is afraid to ask... how long of a lifespan does twitter have left? A year?

[@joecoolioness6399]

Imagine making $44,000,000,000 disappear? How does one survive that?

[@lepreking]

I work in an automotive parts factory in assembly. The sheer negligence regarding the safety measures pissed me off. It didn't look like the factory had walkways seperate from forklift drivers either

[@spikem5950]

Most factories and warehouses I've been to don't have separate walkways for the two.

[@DinoCism]

Yup. "My father has serious issues." So do you bud lol.

[@lepreking]

@@spikem5950 Must be a company thing, all the factories in the company I work for have seperate walkways

[@lepreking]

@@DinoCism What?

[@spikem5950]

@@lepreking All the ones I've been to have been from different companies. I think it's only standard for huge companies who see a lot of liability cases for not having it.

[@mysticfellow9843]

The sad thing is that even if you showed this video to his cult followers, they would most likely not even watch 10 seconds or refuse to change their minds even if they watched the whole thing.

[@citizenblue]

I watched, and remain unconvinced. This is a hit piece

[@mysticfellow9843]

@@citizenblue It's opinionated, but it's also backed with sufficient evidence to support most, if not all his claims. The sooner you realize how bad and out-of-touch these billionaire turd muffins are, the better your life will become.

[@BharatkaEkBeta]

@@citizenblue No one cares, go back to worshiping your huckster savior Elon.

[@SuperColdLemonade]

The video is just a incoherent mess, how would anyone be convinced by this ?

[@mhawang8204]

The word CULT fits nicely 😢

[@ariariari7138]

It is wild still seeing Elon stans in the comments. I really thought the entire Twitter debacle would wake up even the most out of touch simps out there but I guess people will always believe what they want

[@blackholesun3569]

Delusion doesn't care for facts.

[@Chompchompyerded]

I wonder how much overlap there is (if any) between the cult of Elon Musk, and the cult of Donald Trump.

[@katielady873]

Small correction: Elon Musk was never enrolled at Standford and never actually invited to be a graduate candidate. The woman who Elon stated had extended him the invitation has since stated that it never happened.

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

Every time, when Elon opens his mouth a lie comes out. He never tells the truth.

[@Art-is-craft]

Musk is an Ivy League graduate in physics and economics. And decided not to do a phd which the world was better for. Imagine Musk working in some education job rather than setting up Spacex or Tesla.

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

@@Art-is-craft he's not. he has no physics degree. he lied about it.

[@Art-is-craft]

@@HeavyMetalGamingHD So you are saying Musk never graduated. Do you have proof of that.

[@AgonizingDemise]

@@Art-is-craft I don't care much about this topic, but for the sake of sensibility: do you yourself have proof that he did?

[@Jason-zi8be]

the window on the cyber truck breaking is like when you have to present a project you havent even started yet and you're just standing there

[@gunterthekaiser6190]

You bring a half made thing and it crumbles as soon as the teacher sneeze on it.

[@FULANODETAL]

well normal windows just explote...,that was a normal window of 2 glass than ANY AUDI got

[@AlexPerez-tt9ru]

@@FULANODETAL that incident made me realize that he was full of it. He was not there when it was made he just told his people to make it happen. The utter shock on his face shows it all

[@FULANODETAL]

@@AlexPerez-tt9ru rear windows in normal cars just explote..cybertruck do like a frontal glass dont explote.. do a web

[@BenjaminTJames]

The title says it all. Great video, as always, J! So in depth and informative!

[@harmoniousrex]

This channel is a monument to the fact that our society is the opposite of a meritocracy. Genuine public good, here.