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    this is sad. he’s a fascist cunt, but no fool. the guy is one of the top richest single human beings in the world, after vladimir putin, and the saudis, he purchased twitter to kill it and he has, he purchased tesla to push electric vehicles into the mainstream and he has, and he purchased space x to take over the privatization of fucking space from nasa, and he has, and lastly for his latest trick, he bought his way into the very topmost descision maker echelon of the united states government with his support for trump in the last election

    he’s a cunt, but he’s no fool. those who don’t recognize a force to be reckoned with, and dismiss him and trump as morons, while they are both actively digging the graves for hundreds of millions of people are experiencing cognitive dissonance on a level i can only attribute to full flight from reality brought on by abject terror or purposeful obtusity

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      There’s this thing called “The Great Man Theory” It’s seriously flawed!

      How many engineers went to school for 6 years or more to learn their trade?
      Thousands of employees multiplied by thousands of hours of study.

      How many people does Tesla or SpaceX employ?

      How many get credit for their ideas? If they invent something new, solve an impossible problem,
      patent a new invention - who gets credit for it? Elon does!

      140,500 employees at Tesla

      13,000 employees at SpaceX

      You got 153,000 employees moving mountains in their daily lives to come
      to work and make Elon money. Every single one of their actions and ideas
      make Elon look smarter than he is and that’s the myth of the genius CEO.

      It’s like people bragging about climbing Mount Everest while they helicopter into
      base camp and hire a bunch of sherpas to carry their gear and oxygen tanks up the mountain.

      The sherpas make it happen. The rich guy takes the credit.

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        once, the great man theory can explain pretty easily, across four distinct disciplines (social media, electric cars, space exploration, government) at the highest levels, if you’re still laughing at this guy and calling him a clown, you should turn your computer on cause that screen you’re looking at is showing you your own reflection. elon musk is evil, incredibly dangerous, and about to hurt hundreds of millions of people in the near future, maybe because he was called a fool instead of what he truly is

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      A cancer cell isn’t smart, a virus isn’t smart, Elon Musk isn’t smart. He’s a sociopath who would stop in front of nothing to amass wealth, power and influence. He’s been undoubtedly thriving in an environment in which we have been conditioned to look up to wealthy individuals as a model for disenfranchised males.

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      I’m pretty sure most of us could do all of those things if we were born into immense wealth, got as lucky as he has been, had no conscience, and were filled with super villain intrusive thoughts all day long like him.