Elon Musk 'Close to Tears' in Interview, Says He's Running Businesses 'With Great Difficulty' as Tesla Sees Worst Stock Drop in Years

1. Damage the brand by association.
2. ???

after he dies we should send his corpse to Mars and crucify it as a warning

shot into the fucking sun

That's a lot of delta-v to waste on a billionaire.

Why wait until he is dead?

He would like that idea too much.

Throw his remains in the middle of the ocean or just flush his ashes down the nearest toilet. Let every molecule that contributed to wannabe spaceman’s existence be forever bound to this planet he liked to fuck with.

That takes a lot of resources that he isn't worth. Just dump him in a ditch.

Oh no! Fantasy business failing just like those fired engineers with safety concerns said it would!

Too bad the rare resources are already wasted!

Let me... finish writing out... this reality check for... 0 fucks.

Liquidate that shit into individual gardening grants and public train money.

Men will literally do anything instead of going to therapy

Still too big, but I appreciate the visual.

The dumbest part is, he absolutely could have gotten involved in politics and still been fine. Zuckerberg and Bezos have both publicly supported fascism and not seen nearly as much backlash. All Musk had to avoid was making two brazen Nazi salutes on national television and then becoming the face of the most moronic, questionably legal, regularly reversed (by both the courts and DOGE itself) funding cuts in the history of our nation.

But billionaires are actually narcissistic and lucky, not smart and hardworking, so here we are. The richest man in the world, probably high most of the time, crying on TV. If someone had written a novel with this plot 20 years ago I would've dismissed it as too stupid.

Well I wouldn't mind if he felt nothing at all

He can't. He's all in for fascism. There's no going back to the shadows for him, he'll always be known as a Nazi oligarch. He said he would be going to jail if Trump didn't win. We know he's got ties with Putin so he might be being blackmailed into being the bad guy [not that he was good before, but at least he l wasn't toppling democracies before].

That poor, poor man .... give him more paper money to wipe his tears

Stupid shit like this does more damage to conservative shitheads than any amount of "intellectual dismantling" of their ideology. This is their level of petty attacks on appearances, this is all they really know.

The left needs to get a lot stupider and a lot more superficial a lot faster if we hope to beat them.

And afraid. They should be full of fear, pain, and loneliness when they go into the dark.

Each of his children is a side quest to him.

Mars.

Damn, did they up the size of his sympathy violin again?!?

Holy shit, that little thing is playing a cello !

Nah, he’s definitely running them. Straight into the ground.

People with inherited wealth are treated like they are smart, capable, and credible when billionaire nepo babies are really the worst at everything except sucking and dying.

because virtue and ability are not what get you elevated in society.

we live with a kind of socially affected dualism, and there are three things that elevate you in society: validating the fantasy world, having money, and doing violence against reality on behalf of the fantasy.

some degree of the fantasy(/ies) is unavoidable; it's necessary for communication and collaboration at scale, maybe even complex thoughts. we build out waaaaaay extra to enable and justify horrible things, alienate the fantasy ever farther from reality to justify toxic power structures and appease the crowds with ever wilder delusion, ever less justifiable as scientists engineers and some public intellectuals create new models that edge ever closer to how reality works.

musk is the ultimate beneficiary of all this nonsense. he lives in a parasitic fantasy world, one that leeches upon all of our minds. some more than others, because the distribution of resources are determined by the logic of that fantasy, rather than any reasoning based in, or at least nearby to, material reality.

He hired people to do the work for him.

How the fuck does he not know why Tesla is in the state that its in??

Has he tried saying nothing? That would probably work.

Yah everyone is reading way too much into this man, he's just a mentally unwell incel who figured out how to get money from people. His emotional state is probably a mess but it doesn't mean he's about to cave in. He has more money than God and he isn't going to crash out so easily.

Hot tip: it's a LOT easier to secure huge amounts of funding than you think, it certainly doesn't take intelligence, just good connections and a complete lack of self-awareness, I know from unfortunate experience that you can secure millions in financing simply by sounding sure of yourself and talking in ways that are too convoluted for everyone to understand... I have literally seen million-dollar checks handed over because everyone in the room didn't want to feel stupid.

Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.

It is. Which is why I doubt its true.

crocodile tears, of a Felon.

...and once you're done, do feel free to literally eviscerate the evil fucker.

I’d bet F’elons life on it.

More like making his own predictions come true. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-upcoming-recession-actually-good-thing

The earlier Tesla's weren't so shitty. Not more than your average Kia/Hyundai EV anyhow in terms of being a car. The self-driving shit is another story.

Cybertruck has been a dumpster fire since inception though.

Yeah, if Elon could drop the politics, hand off X, and go back to just being a major investor in tech companies that actually have some pretty cool ideas, that's be great.

I think the damage is done even if he were to backtrack. People will just assume he's backtracking because of money and that's it. Not because of his actual ideals

He needs to retire back to SAfrica.

Does he have a mansion? I thought he avoided assets so he wouldn’t have anything to pay taxes on since he’s a selfish piece of shit.

I've been calling him the 'knob job nazi' after hearing about his fucked up wang

America has been a brand for the last century or so. A trademark, a copyright.

Nationalists are some of the dimmest people in the world. That said, we really need to take back our flag and our mottos and our dim, stupid, tribal traditions and markers, because most of the world is dim and primitive and despite hating it, we have to play the tribe game to survive. We can work on dissolving borders and all those lofty ideals quietly in the background, but we HAVE to not just squash fascism, we also have to manage the nation full of hateful idiots afterwards, and to do that, we have to appease their need to feel special and good because of where they were born.

There is a fine line you can walk to manage and maintain all of this while making real social progress, but we're nowhere NEAR that line. We keep falling for the same tricks so we don't unify into anything resembling a coalition for real progress.

I googled BJ.

It was nice, but uninformative.

Workout and become BJ.

If I had five cents for every time I've seen a comment talk about 'weird AI' and I've read it as 'Weird Al', I would have ten cents.

There are multiple "reputable" news sites that reported the same using similar headline:

• https://futurism.com/elon-musk-trying-not-cry-tesla
• https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/teslas-1200-billion-loss-as-takedown-gathers-speed/news-story/3ff40f11990aaf181146cc7ef3837271
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/elon-musk-close-to-tears-in-interview-about-tesla-struggles/ar-AA1AGiFn

Eyeballs grabbing, and probative headlines are not exclusive to "weird AI sounding blog site[s]".

P.S. I have nothing to do with the site.

Haw Haw ^16

Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to the post, but I'm lazy so I'm not changing it.