• Ricky Rigatoni
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      All I can think when I see this picture is how good that fit would have looked if it just wasn’t elon wearing it.

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    The more chilling thing to me being that he is causing, wants, and/or expects this as someone “in power”, for wont of a better term. Is this a desire (definitely) or coming to terms with things already set in motion? I hope it’s just a shitpost, but who knows at this point?

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      It’s a nazi eugenics dream to wipe the country off of undesirables and initiate your plan of gender affirming individuals as they pop out of tubes. A good reminder thwt a journalist interviewed a billionaire who was showcasing their mega bunker in case everything goes to shit. What bothered the billionaire was how is he able to control his security when the natural order is upside down?

      Journalist suggested empathy, to understand and care about your security detail. Billionaire disregarded that and suggested to himself shock collars would be more ideal than empathy.

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    Hahaha you’ll be the first taco Tuesday Musk.

  • @[email protected]
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    So he’s admitting to ruining everything and being a sexist piece of shit at the same time? Well done for being masterfully evil asshole. Satan high fives you for some style points on this one Elon.

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    "I am setting this country up for anarchy with governance by warlords. "

    I wouldn’t even pick Elon in a fight with Meal Team 6.

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    He’s since deleted the post, but in a followup comment he mentioned the irony of talking about becoming a warlord using a picture of Max, a noted warlord killer.

    As typical for all right-wingers, Musk is utterly incapable of critically examining art.

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      He really thinks that cyberpunk is cool and does not understand any of the philosophy or ideology behind it.

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        Cyberpunk IS cool as long as I get to experience it as a little mental retreat, a neon colored view of the what-if from the comfort of my chair in my paid off house in a country with universal healthcare and strong worker rights.

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    I fucking love Robert Evans. BTB has consumed dozens of hours of my time.

    Sidenote, of course this chode doesn’t acknowledge that he and his peers are unbelievably culpable in the downfall of society and probably the planet.

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      Of course they do, why do you think Peter Thiel has NZ citizenship?

      Why do you think musk dabbles in Neuralink?

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      We’ve seen Mad Max, but what about Reasonable Max, Supply-Side Max or even Opportunistic Max? Or, in this particular case, Grimes-please-call-me Max? That’s a whole different story.

  • @[email protected]
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    Lmao. In a post apocalyptic setting, Elon Musk is a trophy.

    He’d be paraded around on a leash.

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    Who is this guy to have known several warlords? My guess is he’s either a glowie or a journalist.

    Edit: Survey says journalist! Thank you to everyone who answered.

    To this guy’s point, yeah, it’s hilarious that Elon fancies himself a survivor.

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      Robert Evans is a bisexual Texas guy who decided he was going to report on war, so talked his way onto a military plane with other reporters as a stringer when Beirut was a place for barracks bombing. An experienced combat photographer took him under his wing and kept him alive. Evans has walked on concrete smelling the crushed dead from the collapsed structures. I know all this from memory (correct me if I messed anything up) because I researched his background a bit, because his “It Could Happen Here” podcast - about how a US civil war would go down - is very articulate and savvy, and I was curious how he gained that insight.

      The only thing more articulate and savvy could possibly be the products and services that support his program. If you lurk on Lemmy, Robert, glad you’re here. Always wished I could hear a conversation between you and Robert Baer for a few hours… partially because I would expect only the best alcohol and other substances to be served in that room.

    • @[email protected]
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      This guy is Robert Evans, world famous podcaster of Behind The Bastards fame.

      honestly he is awesome

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        Also just started listening to a podcast he has called The Women’s War. Seems very good

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          I listened to that right as trump pulled support for Rojava. Depressing af at the time but also hopeful.

          Do behind the police next.

          Behind the bastards is the regular twice weekly. I also love Margret killjoys Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

          Then all the Coolzone media podcasts. They’re all very good.

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        Yeah, so not only is he a journalist, he’s effectively a specialist on warlords and the far right.

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      He might just live in or near a very particular region of Africa or perhaps the middle eastern mountains.

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      Evans is the kind of guy to book his own ticket to a war zone and hope he gets paid for his reporting afterward. I have no idea if he’s ever done that, but he has that vibe. As others said, I think he’s a “journalist”, in a positive way.

      edit: he did a whole series about Syria, way way before recent developments. “The Women’s War”. and Jake Hanrahan. I remember they paid a driver who kept giving them terrible cigarettes.

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      Behind the Bastards is great! It’s like The Dollop but for the worst people in history.

      Coolzone media is all fantastic.

      For current events there’s It Could Happen Here and Executive Disorder (sub series of ICHH, weekly analysis of Trump admin)

      He did a lot of coverage of the protests back in 2020 in Portland.

      He’s also an amazing author: After The Revolution (fictional sci-fi American civil war, free to listen audiobook on the link) and his older A Brief History Of Vice (he talks about historic drug use and personally tries out all the weird ways people did drugs, very funny)

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        Coolzone media is all fantastic.

        It’s good, but I don’t like that it’s a brand under iHeartRadio, which changed their name from the more infamous Clear Channel Communications.

        If there’s a bastard in radio, it’s definitely Clear Channel.

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          They did address this recently. They’re not particularly happy with it either but their previous company got bought. iHeart doesn’t seem like it has much interest in meddling with CZM’s work in any case. They bring in enough ad revenue.

          If you’re truly bothered and want leftist political pods with no corporate platforms then there’s always the channel zero network. They have a lot of fun stuff!

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    Musk’s power only comes from his wealth. That wealth is in a currency that is tied directly to the world’s trust in the US government. That trust is being very quickly diminished. If things get ‘Mad Max’ bad all of his wealth will be absolutely worthless.

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      The vast majority of his wealth is stock market speculation, not even US currency.

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        Toyota is a car company that makes solid cars with an anonymous CEO. It has a P/E ratio of about 7.5 and a market cap of about $230 billion.

        Tesla is a car company that makes a few solid cars, and one absolutely ridiculous vehicle that is the laughing stock of trucks. It has a CEO that most of the world has an intensely negative opinion of, and that negative opinion is highest among the people wealthy enough to consider buying a Tesla. It has a P/E ratio of approximately 175 and a market cap of $918 billion.

        If Tesla’s P/E ratio fell to something more realistic, let’s be extremely generous and say 7, it would be worth only $37 billion, about 4% of the current value. Realistically, it should be significantly below that. When people are regularly spraypainting swastikas on your vehicles, your P/E ratio should be lower than other automobile manufacturers because it’s a sign that your future growth prospects may be slightly impaired by the unwillingness of people to buy your vehicles.

        When Tesla’s value does collapse (and I’m convinced it’s a “when” not an “if”) it will crater Musk’s net worth, because at least half of it is due to his Tesla stock.

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          I fucking hate stock market bullshit it’s just made up of people’s feels. Not even grounded in reality in the slightest.

          Maybe when people collectively realize this ridiculous smoke trick of run away capitalism as our means of social organization is just that, smoke, we may have a chance.

          But I guess in the meantime I wish I would have bought Bitcoin years ago even though it’s being treated as a security when it’s backed by thin air. It’s wild how concentrated the actual amount of Bitcoin is though. It’s like an oligarch’s wet dream.

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          Supposedly the self driving capabilities is the reason for the high valuation, but he has lied about having it ‘by the end of the year’ for about a decade now. So maybe they will catch on around 2030 if the economy doesn’t completely collapse in the next few years.

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            Nobody who knows anything about self-driving would give Tesla any credit for that.

            The fact that Tesla’s slight improvement to lane-assist is labelled as “full self-driving” by Tesla has really damaged the reputation of the industry. GM is way ahead of them because of the knowledge they have in-house thanks to Cruise. And Cruise gave up because they were so far behind Waymo.

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              Cruze also parked on a pedestrian, but I think Waymo is only working because google has the money to blow on human monitors working remotely.

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                Cruze is a different thing. Cruise did have a very public incident where a pedestrian was hit and dragged. But, they had driven more than 1 million miles without that happening.

                And while these vehicles do have human monitors, they’re mostly that: monitors. The cars are mostly driving themselves.

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    Yeah. Being part of a corrupt kakistocracy, in a highly visible role, but not smart or tough enough to survive outside out your cushy trust fund corruption environment, is honestly one of the absolute worst places to be. You’d be better off as “prison inmate” or “homeless person.” Literally anything else.

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    Like, we all joke. But Musk’s a carnival barker at heart. He’d fit right in alongside the Colonel Qaddafi and General Butt Naked crowd. The Northern Alliance was overflowing with ego-bloated horn dogs. The Columbian cartels are rife with tin pot business goons.

    You could change Noriega or Pahlavi or Bong Bong Marcos out with Elon Musk and nobody would notice a difference. Hell, there’s a reason a guy like Milei is bro-ing out Elon every chance he gets. They’re the same kind of guy.

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      You underestimate the atrophy having no financial needs or stress concerning any real aspect of survival can create. If we go back to caveman times, no one that has never experienced a blister on their feet is going to be surviving very long.