• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    So here’s the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, all which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That’s several punchlines worth of “You know you’re a redneck when” material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)

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      I love that his supposed IQ is 165 yet I have never seen him say or do anything remotely intelligent. I’m sure he paid someone to take the test for him just like he paid someone to play his video games for him. The only thing Elon is good at is spending money. Especially American tax payer’s money.

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      Rednecks were originally the coal miners in Virginia who fought the oligarchs in the battle of Blair Mountain. They wore red neckerchiefs to identify themselves. As with most leftist icons, decades of psyops have perverted the term.

      All that to say, it is insulting to rednecks to compare Elon to them.

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        Completely agree. To be clear, I very much respect Rednecks. I do not respect Elon. He is a genuinely worse person than the most exagerated and derogatory punchlines of those jokes.

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        It was co-opted into including class struggle by the union movements but it was originally a (derogatory) word for poor farmers and labourers.

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        Of course he did. But he’s insisting, quite publically, that he didn’t. That it was only HIM that played said game for 10 hours a day.

        Which means he’s an even bigger idiot than if he just told the truth. This guy WANTS you to believe he’s a loser that plays games as long as the people he pays. Believe him. I’m just taking his word he does. Instead of pointing out how stupid he is for lying about it.

        Because in reality he’s even more of a loser. Someone who needs to pretend to play video games with their money, rather than simply gaining the skill to do so themself.

        And the fact he’s made this lie public, means he wants all of his investors to believe he’s the video game boy as well.

        There’s literally no possible way for this behaviour to be stupider than it is. Because not admitting to this lie makes his actions stupid whether it’s a lie or not.

        He either plays games 10 hours a day, or desperately wants you to believe he does. Both of these are stupid. And make him seems like a poor CEO to invest in.

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        Here’s the basic Google search 100% proving this is fact because his tweets are public and easily countable:

        https://www.statswithsasa.com/2024/09/18/elon-musk-definitely-tweets-too-much/

        it took fewer than 50 days for Elon Musk to post ~3,200 tweets

        Elon is averaging 67.8 tweets/day, and there have been weekdays (read: workdays) where he has tweeted over 150 times in one day.

        Yes, that’s right. Using my method, I estimate that Elon spends ~2.7 hours per day on Twitter… there have been workdays where Elon Musk has spent over 5 hours on Twitter in a single day.

        I even rounded that number down to make it easier to swallow. You want to say you’re choking on doubt, when you clearly just forgot how to swallow truth.

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    This is not about Elon Musk or Tesla. The Chinese government has heavily subsidized EVs and related industries. They have to. Their dependence on oil is their greatest strategic weakness.

    The US has backed off EV subsidies and continues to subsidize oil. See US actions in Venezuela.

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        That is a fair point. China in particular is extraordinarily vulnerable due to how easy it is to cut off oil imports. China’s oil imports have to pass through the Strait of Malacca, a narrow corridor that is easily blocked.

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    Who would have guessed the moron with no real education, knowledge or experience in any profession, whose companies barely make it despite all the unfair advantages you can think of, is clueless just like he has been every day for the last 54 years of his life.

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      He was born in a spiral. He tried to rename PayPal “x” then tried to name several children “x” until he finally found a place that would allow it.

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      Those were the days, when Musk still had a “will they, won’t they” relationship with being a total piece of shit. Then it turns out they were together all along.

      I feel like this should be the plot for some Chuck Tingle erotica.

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    Byd already sells vehicles in the United States. California has a byd bus plant. The govt doesn’t hate byd they just don’t want average consumers to have any

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    TBF BYD is being sold all around the world and tesla is mostly american and maybe sells a bit in europe

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    “I haven’t seen that car but I saw your dad so I will put my bets on them”. I hope this company makes ads using this video, lots of it.

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    “Have you seen their car?”

    I’ve never sat in a tesla that didnt have an annoying plastic creak. Either when going over the road, or if you dare rest your arm on the door.