Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name
He never was not a villain.
Maybe. But he was seen as a competent person. I remember when SpaceX started testing the “reusable” rockets that landed themselves. He was a lot more “popular” back then
He’s not that competent, in either incarnation.
I’m man enough to admit that I thought he was the closest thing we had to Tony Stark even though I knew at the time he wasn’t really that close to Tony Stark, and now I know just how wrong I was. Damn.
Round Iron Man 2 coming out and his cameo, I kinda felt that way too. Some 2-4 years later that feeling was entirely gone.
Back then he had a PR team. He probably fired them because he started buying their lies.
How I’ve always seen him
Yeah, always a dumbass.
What was your first impression of him that made you see him like that?
Buying his way into Paypal and acting like he invented the thing.
Not the person you replied to, but someone else that has always seen him as a dumbass.
I first became aware of him from a cameo in an Iron Man movie, which was aroun the time all of his ridiculously over the top and unrealistic goals was gaining media traction. His backstory was claiming the work of others, like his brief stint with PayPal. He was an obvious hype man, who believed his own hype. His fucking boast of putting humans on Mars in a short time frame was obviously overconfident bullshitting. Didn’t he end up putting a car in orbit, or some dumb shit instead?
This was all proven accurate with the hyperloop as originally reported having massive obvious issues beyond the science, such as needing land rights. Then as it transitioned into a shitty car tunnel it was more entertaining as it went on. He acted like he founded Tesla and took credit for shit he didn’t do while making sure to insert fart horns and other childish crap like trying to spell out sexy with the model numbers, but failing to get the ‘E’ so went with 3. Plus he insisted on keeping the auto driving camera only, like a dumbass.
He will always do some grand thing next year even though he has made the same promise for a decade. He was always a obvious snake oil salesman whose primary success was getting government welfare to prop up his businesses. His humor has always fallen flat. Naming his kids by itself was a huge sign of how much of a dumbass he is.
car in orbit
He used a Tesla roadster with a mannequin in the driver’s seat as a dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight in 2018.
And isn’t the reason it’s “falcon heavy” because he wanted it to sound like “fuckin heavy”?
The Hyperloop shit, it was never explained to me how a proprietary system that needed sealed tubes under constant reduced preassure could ever be cheaper or safer than normal rail.
Especially since I remember the last time this dumb concept showed it’s face, Swiss Metro was the name then, and it fell on it’s arse then just as the Hyperloop did now.
Yep, its been obvious to those who’ve been paying attention / not fanboy fellating Musk’s cock every day… it’s been obvious for a solid decade that he is a lying, petty, temperamental, narcissistic con artist.
Now he’s just worse.
False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat
Yeah, Thanos has principles and his actions are backed by altruism. Musk is a spineless self-serving parasite with actions backed my ketamine.
We talking movie Thanos, or comic book Thanos?
Movie thanos obv, comic thanos will ruin one particular person’s life just because.
more like
Accurate in so many ways
Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
Exactly, not only moderate but extremely. Dude completely succeeds in his goal, entire universe against him. Elon is on twitter whining on X because his boyfriend kicked him outta the house
Problem was his goal was totally stupid. Kill half of all life and destroy the stones? So it can rebound in a few centuries if not decades?
Thanos just had a hard on for lady death
It was too prevent total collapse of a species. Giving them a chance to change.
and the population would still bounce back. He could have ended scarcity entirely and no one would have tried to stop him.
The comics version of him just wanted to have sex with Death. Its also stupid, but it at lease makes sense. The fact that it is stupid makes it even more realistic.
MCU != comics. That should be WELL established. I know they name-dropped 616 in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but that was more like a poor writing choice in an attempt to be an easter egg.
Adding more resources to remove scarcity is dumb. You’re acting as if you have 1000 units of resources and 1000 people, but then half it to 1000 units of resources and 500 people, well, they’ll just bounce back. But having 2000 units of resources and 1000 people, well, that’ll auto balance, and they won’t grow to match resources. Or even worse, infinite resources, to ensure scarcity is removed. Iron is a resource. Iron is found inside living things, and it’s found in the sun and the core of the planets. Double iron… what happens? The complete genocide of everything. Though it’s true, scarcity would be removed because everything is dead. Pick any resources and if you follow it, I mean really think about it, you’ll find it’s not a “oh just” type of solution. And it ignores the logistics of the whole thing too, he was snapping his fingers once, not putting out a beat, just so he can handle multiple worlds/species/requirements for each. It wasn’t open mic night at the MCU.
His plan, which I want to remind you, is in a movie which none of it needs to make sense… because ya know, magic rocks… If a planet is struggling, due to pollution or overpopulation… now that’s been solved, and they could potentially plan around that for the future. Put policies in place and whatnot. Other planets, well, people are very superstitious. The number of ghost stories on tv or YouTube, or the fact that organized religion exists, proves that. For those folks, seeing “Hey we got up to like X number of people and then god got mad (since 99.99999…% of all living things in the MCU would have no idea what or why half got dusted), we shouldn’t do that again”. And in the MCU, we see various gods do exist, and they don’t give a shit what happens to the mortals (Thor Love and Thunder).
I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.
Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn’t help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.
He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.
It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.
Because that was hamfisted in. Originally, he wanted to kill half the universe to impress Lady Death.
Hm that sounds even dumber to be honest. I guess it’s hard to write a plot that kills half the universe without it sounding idiotic
At least this one didn’t try to sound smart, all while trying to stay “apolitical”.
Yea true
Not that hard. Kill half the universe as a scientific experiment. Leave the other half alive as the control group.
This movie shit was virtuous vs what the giant walking hard-on was in the comics.
he was doing it to prevent the celestials from emerging from planets killing the population. im guessing he probably thought of that already that alreayd, adding more natural resources would accelerate the emergence. also seems the stones is not powerful enough to affect celestials, or primordial beings(death, GOD, angels,etc), otherwise he wouldve just used it to kill them. he is stupid in that having the 6 stones, why dint he conjure about things that can kill celestials.
I thought his threat was going to be that the universe either gets itself under control or he does it again?
Thanos, really? I’d say more like Hancock. Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later.
nah, I like Hancock way more than Musk
They were both definitely authored by someone who doesn’t respect the audience
Hancock’s got a lot of problems but doesn’t strike me as a narcissist. He’s intimately aware of his character flaws and though he runs from them for awhile he eventually tries to fix himself, “turn a new leaf”. Men like musk aren’t capable of that sort of reflection, they simply know that they’re the shit and it’s everyone else who is wrong.
Nah, Hancock took way less drugs
Hancock had superpowers, so no.
He has always been…
They were in the same room in Ironman 2.
They filmed parts of Ironman 2 in a SpaceX factory. Interestingly the factory served as set for Hammer Industries.
Is that the baddie? I only saw the first Ironman movie and that was a million years ago.
Yes, but like the idiot corpo baddie backing some other baddie that does all the work, he doesn’t do much besides that.
Twinsies!
Exactly.
Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He’s more like
If you get into the actual comic books, you’ll find out that Tony Stark is regularly portrayed as a sex pest, a substance abuser, and an outspoken fascist.
But, unlike the real Elon Musk, I don’t believe he’s ever been written as “full of pee”. Incidentally, ketamine abuse does result in bladder ulcers that leak urine into your body until you are quite literally poisoning yourself with your own urine.
Just something to think about.
how fast is this poisoning process because it’s taking some sweet fucking time right now
Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the “pedo guy” slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you’ve been paying attention he’s been outing himself for a long time.
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.
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That’s a shame because people buying into these obvious grifts is a major part of the problem.
Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.
Well now that we know that he’s an idiot, I have to look back at the things that I just took for granted. I didn’t talk to any rocket scientists 10 years ago so I just believed him when he owned a company that was showing results. Hindsight is 20/20
Nah, at least Thanos thought he was doing the right thing. His goals were ultimately noble but psychotic.
Elon doesn’t care about doing the right thing, he only cares about money and his ego.
Wasn’t there a story about him just wanting to score a date with Death in the comics?
Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.
How id prefer to see him
