• @[email protected]
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    He’s 53?

    Damn, for having that much fucking money, he looks a fuck ton older than he could.

    I genuinely thought he was like 62 or something, had yo Google his age and yeah, still 53.

    That’s a lousy 53.

    Dude could afford to be in such good health just by hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot, yet he looks like someone filled a grocery store plastic bag with mac&cheese and gave it to an developmentally challenged 5-year old to make a face out of.

    • fraksken
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      610 months ago

      Lol, you should have seen him before all the cosmic surgery 😅

      • @[email protected]
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        Well, yes and no.

        You’re not wrong, but… I honestly know a lot of drug abusers of that age who seriously look much better than him. So it’s not only drug abuse, it’s also a shit diet and probably zero exercise.

        Sure, being the richest asshole in the world probably is a bit stressful, but I think he’s just a fucking slob, drub abuse or not.

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      hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot,

      This is the part that is such a head-scratcher for me. He clearly cares about his outward appearance thanks to the million-dollar hair transplant and whatever meds he’s on to keep it that way. But the rest? Yeah, I thought daily personal training, custom-built menus, personal chefs, and a personal assistant to keep that circus moving, were just SOP for rich bastards like this. It would seem that impulse and lack of foresight are traits that impact everything.

      Alternatively, maybe what we’re seeing is peak performance for Musk as an organism, and his overall health is actually way worse than we think.

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        Nah, that wouldn’t make him look weak to his supporters, that’s what most leftist don’t get.

        You can’t insult them on your level, you have to insult things they actually care about.

        Hence calling them weird and its effectiveness.

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          610 months ago

          Lol, it’s amazing how much calling them “weird” then ignoring them drives trumpets nuts.

          My go-to steps:

          1. Mention the couch

          2. Wait till freak about it’ll not being true

          3. Tell them they’re being too weird to continue to talk to and ignore them.

          4. Profit

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    A 53 year old man trying to meme like 30 year olds did a decade ago. He isn’t bussin no cap, this is the equivalent of a rage comic, but with him applying for a currently nonexistent financial leadership position in donOLD’s cabinet.

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    Imagine being hyped that your chosen candidate literally lets you buy a government agency to run. Pathetic.

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    Very rich (hah) for a guy who uses government funds to build his explodey space rockets.

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      Not the greatest example, imo.

      SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts with far more cost efficiency than any of its competitors.

      The most glaring example is the Commercial Crew Program. They were given far less money than Boeing, and it looks like they might end up being the sole US provider of commercial crew to the ISS.

      Starship HLS (moon lander starship) is government funded, but core Starship is not, it’s financed with private equity - so the rocket explosions haven’t been on the taxpayers’ dime.

      That all said, Elon doesn’t really run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does - which is probably the smartest business decision Elon has ever made.

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        SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts

        “Better than Boeing” is very low bar, ATM. But SpaceX technology appears to be lagging India - which put a probe into Marsian orbit for $75M a full ten years ago - and Russians - whose Soyuz rocket continues to provide the cheapest LEO lift at $3800/kg.

        SpaceX is in the traditional American contractor model of Late and Overbudget. What’s more they don’t pay their bills on time.

        As an American firm, they’re the best of the worst. Intentionally, they’re experimenting with interesting techniques, but they aren’t outcompeting their global peers.

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              The company is impressive technically, I guess? I don’t know really. Like I wrote before, Shotwell is running it, not Mr ego personified, so maybe the shine hasn’t worn off like it did for Tesla and Twitter for some people?

              I like what they’ve achieved, I think that it will motivate for ULA and Boeing to ‘do better’ and they’ve proved its possible to succeed at a number of rocket technologies that had been previously written off, like cost effective reusability and full flow staged combustion.

              That said, I’m not going to be upset if ULA pulls ahead of them, or if Rocket Lab has a huge win, or if ArianeSpace decides that it’s time to stop sitting on their hands. I’m a fan of space technology, and I don’t particularly care which company advances the cause.

              *Edit: motivate not moticate

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    Everyone in this thread is absolutely fuming over a goofy meme image, and thinks that chastising someone for being silly because they decided they’re too old for it is “what a burn”, lol.

    Wow.

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      There’s a wider context. Trump has declared his intent to have Musk be in charge of “Government Efficiency”.

      This suggests he bought his way into a position and considers it a joke, a pretty dumb one too. Also, another stab at trying to make Dogecoin a thing again is highly likely.

      So mililons of dollars to buy his way into an administration position that he made up and the end result is a dumb meme… It’s just some rich person bullshit.

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    He looks like “Poochie” from The Simpsons.

    I bet Elmo has all kinds of cool ideas for making the government “more efficient.” Like not going after billionaires to pay their share of the tax burden.

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    I cant wait for his midlife crisis to be over.

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        I celebrated the deaths of Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, and that one US General who caused the minor invasion of like 9 countries in South America and Asia for shits and giggles. His name escapes me, now.

        I expect I will celebrate Musk’s death as well, cheers!

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    Nothing says Government Efficiency like making a BRAND NEW DEPARTMENT with MILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars!

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      5910 months ago

      Government Accountability Office: Am I a joke to you?

      These stupid fucks don’t even realize we already have something that does this. It’s just not as in your face since you have to actually read about it.

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        This was my first thought to lol. It’s so shocking to me that people honestly don’t think there’s already some form of government agency or organization that monitors and evaluates fiscal budgetary spending and legitimacy. And then not only that, is actually applauding the creation of a new one headed by some billionaire that just happened to throw the president an ass ton of money like 48 hours ago lol.

        I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore but whatever.

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      Hey, my man, Lonnie, is gonna make the guberment just as awesome as Twitter, which is doing great.