• @Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world
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    1702 years ago

    It astounds and amazes me that there was a time Elon could have feasibly been considered a smart, level-headed entrepreneur. The whole submarine thing with the trapped kids really was the beginning of his unraveling. I for one thank Elon Musk for proving once and for all to even the most shameless corpo-apologists that having a ton of money doesn’t magically make you smart or cool. The dude’s an idiot, and I love watching him self-destruct.

    • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      862 years ago

      At one point they even had him cameo in iron man, and had him name dropped on star trek as a pioneer of human discovery. People used to jerk off to this dude’s PR image like he was a real life Tony Stark.

      • phillaholic
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        252 years ago

        If he stayed off Twitter he’d have a pretty impressive CV. Mainstream electric cars, actually usable Satellite Internet, Major Solar Panels etc. Even weird shit like Hyperloop would just be random neat things.

      • Uranium3006
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        182 years ago

        He’s mentioned in star trek discovery as if he took us to mars. Those lines aged so poorly

        • @100@lemm.ee
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          112 years ago

          Putting aside that that whole show is pretty rough and I’ve mentally decanonized it, the guy who said it is technically a mega space nazi from the space nazi dimension so I choose to believe he just thought that Musk being an aspiring space nazi was as cool in our universe as it was in his.

        • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          2 years ago

          I prefer to pretend that they’re talking about another person named Musk, one of his many kids perhaps…

          • El Barto
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            62 years ago

            Or the story is happening in the other better timeline.