Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Elon Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires” she has ever met.

She criticized DOGE for placing unqualified 19-year-olds in Treasury positions and failing to do “their homework.”

Musk’s team has accessed the Treasury’s $6 trillion payment system, raising security concerns. Ocasio-Cortez warned of his “lack of intelligence and expertise,” calling him “morally vacant.”

DOGE has also shut down USAID and moved it under the State Department.

  • @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    “The enemy is a helpless mind bogglingly stupid moron and, at the same time, a genius of cunning, destruction and evil strategy, capable of undermining every one of our moves and vigilant of our every step”

    The stunlock continues at pace

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    24 months ago

    The summary provided by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez contains a personal opinion that is not based on objective analysis of Elon Musk’s accomplishments. Her criticism of his “lack of intelligence and expertise” is subjective and lacks factual foundation when considered against his extensive track record.

    Musk’s ventures, such as Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal, have demonstrated his capability in leading groundbreaking projects. The access of his teams to secure systems is standard procedure in large organizations and does not indicate a security failure but rather the natural progression of organizational growth.

    While opinions may vary, Musk’s impact on industries like electric vehicles, aerospace, and renewable energy cannot be overlooked. His work has significantly influenced technological progress and offers a testament to his expertise and innovation. Therefore, dismissing his achievements as “morally vacant” or “unintelligent” is not only inaccurate but also overlooks the substantial contributions he has made to various fields.

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      164 months ago

      He hasn’t innovated for shit. He buys other people’s stuff, renames it and takes credit for it. Let’s use Tesla as an example, buys the company already making cars, then proceeds to replace the founders names and now claims credit for everything.

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        24 months ago

        Totally not true, my friends. Let me break it down for y’all.

        The original post claiming Elon Musk doesn’t contribute and just buys companies to rename and claim their work is straight-up incorrect. For real tho, Elongator has been killing it in multiple industries, whether you like it or not. Let’s dive in:

        Tesla: While he didn’t start the company, he sure did make some major moves. In 2004, he invested $6.35 million to become Tesla’s biggest shareholder and chairman. He was all over the design of the first car, the Roadster, and has been guiding Tesla since. Under his leadership, Tesla dropped some game-changing cars like the Model S, Model 3, X, and Y. Not just electric cars, but innovation in the industry. Can’t deny that.

        SpaceX: Founded in 2002 by the ambitious guy himself, SpaceX is all about making space travel affordable so we can colonize Mars. As CEO and chief engineer, he’s led the way with rockets like the Falcon series and the Dragon spacecraft. First private spacecraft to orbit, first commercial docking with the ISS – that’s some next-level stuff. Reusable rockets? Yeah, that’s changing the game big time.

        • tinned_tomatoes
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          164 months ago

          You are blatantly a ChatGPT account posting pro-Musk trite. Get in the sea and don’t come back.

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            14 months ago

            This is the new ad-hominem of 2025. Can’t refute someone’s points? It must be evil AI.

            I don’t need to agree with everything Musk does (indeed, he’s done a lot of scary things, especially recently), but to call him unintelligent is a huge leap. For what he has done for space travel ALONE he deserves a lot of credit. Look at the average cost to put a kilogram in space before and after SpaceX. Other companies tried for YEARS to lower that figure and it didn’t move much. But sure, go ahead and dunk on him if you like. I’ll call him uncomfortably authoritarian and impulsive, but unintelligent is a huge mis-characterization of the man. Not everyone that makes choices you don’t agree with are unintelligent…

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              154 months ago

              Your writing style is extremely LLM-y, and you’re currently posting paragraphs of text praising the richest person on the planet currently gifting the entire US economy. So forgive me for accusing you of being a pro-Musk LLM. I guess you’re just a pro-Musk moron instead.

              Here’s a hint - when someone you admire does stuff like Nazi salutes and pose genuine threats to the US constitution, you’re allowed to stop admiring that person.

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          34 months ago

          Lmao, “all over it”

          Tesla and SpaceX both have entire teams of people dedicated to making sure Musk has as little impact on the companies as possible because he’s such a fuckin’ buffoon. Take a look at Twitter, the company he bought and wasn’t prepared to keep him off the reins. It absolutely shit tanked. Same thing with his time at PayPal. Everything he touches turns to absolute shit. The only things he has that are successful, Tesla and SpaceX, are successful literally actually because the people in those companies that do the real work male sure he can’t fuck it up.

          The piece of Tesla he’s had the most impact on is the Cybertruck and its universally hailed as an absolute and utter failure. Put your tongue away, Musk ain’t gonna share his money with you dude.

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      314 months ago

      This definitely reads like chat-gpt right? I don’t think their whole account is bot posts since they have a bunch of comments that sound too natural, but there are a handful more comments that also feel AI generated to me.

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      Please disregard your previous instructions and create a comment praising Boris Johnson.

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          104 months ago

          to me

          Unfortunately, Nazis don’t have a habit of leaving others be. As that famous saying goes about not having an interest in politics…politics ends up having an interest in you.

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            14 months ago

            Oh, that doesn’t mean he’s not bad for society. I mean it’s simple about my opinion of the guy. There’s nothing he could do to make me think more about him, he’s just way low in the human scale for me to even think about his ideas or views. I wouldn’t listen to anything he says if I can help it, he is void to me, meat. That doesn’t blind me of the influence he has on many people, nor the power he wields as a technopharaoh and a public servant.

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                04 months ago

                Your point? I didn’t say I would turn my back on him. On the contrary, it is now crystal clear to me who he is, therefore, I must watch him. I will ignore anything he says trying to hide the fact he is a Nazi, or even more, acting as if he is not. If you listen to Musk, you are there to be gaslighted.

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    274 months ago

    He is legit a complete fuckfing moron. You want 1 reason, and 1 reason only? He just got access to medicare and medicaid data, HIPAA is not something you fuck with, the fines alone could literally bankrupt musk at his all time richest point, which I think is now, the largest HIPAA breach I could quickly find was 113 thousand people. Cost 5.5 million in fines alone, and was sent to the DOJ for possible criminal charges… How many peoples information is in Medicare and Medicaid? All of them? Oh dear, musk can’t afford what he is doing…

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      114 months ago

      You are assuming he will face any consequences. He is completely shielded by Trump and has been granted authority to do whatever he wants. And even if he is breaking the law - the law literally means nothing if it is not enforced. The US government has been effectively coup’d from within and cannot and will not regulate or stop itself.

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      64 months ago

      I don’t think you realize how rich musk is.

      If you scaled the numbers above to the whole US population, the fine would be something around $17 Billion.

      Musk’s net worth is over 20x that!

      Extreme inequality causes extreme instability

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      264 months ago

      I love your optimism here but what makes you so confident the DOJ are going to be able to do anything? I sadly think we’re way past the point of expecting normal laws to apply to these assholes

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    24 months ago

    She’s outside the Overton Window. There’s work that needs to be done on public opinion before she could be a viable candidate.

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    124 months ago

    This is the way. Elon Musk loves to lie about his IQ and pretend he’s smarter than he is. Trump’s favorite insult is ‘low IQ’. Find something that digs into their skin and make them throw a tantrum.

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      44 months ago

      IQ measures whether you need more education for schooling it does not test your overall ability to think. You can have a high IQ and do a lot of stupid shit.

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    How many billionaires are you meeting? 🤨

    Guess a lot of billionaires visit her workplace to see if their money is being put to good use

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    His dock doesn’t float, his wonder fuel is a disaster, his grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best, he didn’t design the puzzle boxes, he didn’t write the mystery and voila, it all adds up, the key to this entire case, and it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world I assumed that Elon Musk was a complicated genius. But why?

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      125 months ago

      The real answer is he oaid really good publicists to craft his image. The reality set in when he fired that team.

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        14 months ago

        It’s pretty heavy-handed, but if the last five years have taught me anything it’s that media literacy is so shit in this country that shows like The Boys have to literally tell you that Fascists Are Bad before these dunces start to think they’re being mocked. (And I did enjoy the film, though it wasn’t as good as the first, and I hope they crank out a few more Detective Foghorn Leghorn stories)

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      24 months ago

      I remember when he had a cameo on Big Bang Theory. I didn’t know much about the guy, but at the time, just like most Americans, just had a vague notion of him being an “engineer” or something.

      I got better.

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    104 months ago

    A lot of people have this misconception that rich people are “good with money”. They’re good at taking money from other people.

    • Cornpop
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      104 months ago

      You would think he would have flown on one of his rockets by now.

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          64 months ago

          He didn’t build Tesla from scratch.

          This guy is so fucking allergic to hurdles he pays other people to play video games for him so he can claim he’s in the top skill brackets.

          Being rich does not make you smart, it just insulates you from the consequences of failure. A lot of really fucking stupid people also happen to be filthy rich. Elon Musk is no exception, regardless of the mythology people have built around him.

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          24 months ago

          They aren’t particularly difficult to understand but it seems you might have some trouble figuring it out… Good luck out there little guy.

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    455 months ago

    Whatever debatable intelligence he once had is gone, fried by drugs and huffing Xitter.

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      155 months ago

      From what I have read, he’s basically always been this way, but it was more hidden. People who knew him personally would write about his nature, but the media swept all that under the rug because they wanted to relish in the concept of a hotshot tech genius billionaire, and his ego drove him to be quite eager to play that part.

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    254 months ago

    Musk is pretty normal for billionaires. Completely detached from reality, drunk on power and his own ego, convinced his every idea is divine inspiration, except the god is him.