The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

[Colonel_Klinck]

I don't remember ever criticising Bill Gates to this extent, but then he took his billions and started doing good with it, not starting immature culture wars and acting like a massive man child.

Exactly. He is out there helping third world girls get vaccinated for HPV, so the chances of them getting cervical cancer in later life can be drastically lowered. Elon is trying to shape his social media platform to give him more engagement than anyone else.

 

[Tony Edwards]

I don't remember ever criticising Bill Gates to this extent, but then he took his billions and started doing good with it, not starting immature culture wars and acting like a massive man child.

I bet there is a strong connection between those that think Gates is evil and those that think the sun shines out of Musks backside.

 

[StriderX]

The maddest thing is that some of them moan incessantly about microchips being implanted through vaccines... when Musk is quite literally pushing for microchipping people.

 

[Sankari]

Oh dear.

'Tesla recalls more than 362,700 cars over self-driving flaws.'

Tesla says it will address these issues with a FTA update. Something tells me that won't be enough.

 

[Begbie]

Oh dear.

'Tesla recalls more than 362,700 cars over self-driving flaws.'

Tesla says it will address these issues with a FTA update. Something tells me that won't be enough.

What's this got to do with twitter?

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

What's this got to do with twitter?

It probably won't get much publicity there for a start.

 

[unwashed potato!]

What's this got to do with twitter?

this thread was called "the left wing melt down of twitter" but so many examples of right wing melting down more, the mods renamed it, but, I suppose you'd have made a thoughtless post about what's the right wing melting down got to do with a thewad about the left wing melting down.

Now, to please you, which tbh I don't think you real intent was that you wanted to know why it was about twitter, and rather, that the news not be shared at all as its about tesla in a negative way, but here goes.

Tesla = elon
Twitter now = elon

Therefore tesla = Elon = twitter, they are all, unfortunately due to Elon, linked.

But to add to that, Elon is now the ceo of twitter, sleeping at the offices of twitter every night apparently until "twitter is fixed". Which means he has naturally spent less time at tesla as a result of spending more time at Twitter. He also runs other companies.

Now with reduced time at tesla, there's a big fault which damages the brand of tesla. Who's to say who you can blame for that, but usually, it's the top guy, though some in this thread would like to pretend everything great is due to Elon, everything bad is someone else's fault, but any way, Elon may be damaging tesla, his bread and butter, due to his twitter project.

So tesla negative news is relevant to twitter/Elon thread.

I'd write more but that's long enough for me to now flush and go shower

 

[tang0]

I guess it all started when I wasn't born to a millionaire father, and wasn't handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it.

What a stupid argument. So everyone who inherits millions can create a Tesla/Spacex...

99.9% of people that inherit wealth wouldn't even come close to how successful Elon has been

 

[Firestar_3x]

What a stupid argument. So everyone who inherits millions can create a Tesla/Spacex...

99.9% of people that inherit wealth wouldn't even come close to how successful Elon has been

Musk didn't create Tesla.

 

[unwashed potato!]

What a stupid argument. So everyone who inherits millions can create a Tesla/Spacex...

99.9% of people that inherit wealth wouldn't even come close to how successful Elon has been

You didn't realise it was a sarcastic response to a stupid senseless point that the other user was making? That people only criticise Elon because he's rich? It wasn't obvious? Come on, Sankari even quoted the post so you could follow the conversation.

 

[Jono8]

Musk didn't create Tesla.

Musk hasn't "created" much.

 

[dowie]

Musk didn't create Tesla.

He pretty much did though, people try to point out that he didn't incorporate the company as a gotcha as if he's taking credit for some invention but what did they have in the few months before he came on board? The two guys who registered the name aren't even involved anymore, they were pushed out circa 2008/2009. He's the main cofounder, he built the company into what it is today.

Musk hasn't "created" much.

He's "created" plenty though; he brought forward the development of electric cars by several years via Tesla (causing other manufacturers to play catchup), he's created cheap satellites/satellite internet and reusable rockets via SpaceX. He's helped accelerate the development of AI too thanks to cofounding OpenAI, Microsoft is now a big investor/customer and using it to try to boost the use of their Bing search engine and Google seems to be having a mini-crisis as a result and has been pushed to launch it's own LLM product and start worrying about it's dominance in search.

 

[Diddums]

So everyone who inherits millions can create a Tesla/Spacex...

Correct.

Whether they want to or have the ability to is a different matter, but they definitely can.

 

[dowie]

I guess it all started when I wasn't born to a millionaire father, and wasn't handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it.

When was he handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it? His father is still alive AFAIK so no inheritance per se. He may have been one of several investors in a seed round but that's hardly fundamental.

He was an ambitious guy from SA who was basically middle class by USA/Canadian standards.

Correct.

Whether they want to or have the ability to is a different matter, but they definitely can.

It's a bit moot if your requirement is that they merely register companies with those names and make a failed attempt that in most cases doesn't go anywhere. The vast majority of people can't do what he did.

 

[Jono8]

When was he handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it? His father is still alive AFAIK so no inheritance per se. He may have been one of several investors in a seed round but that's hardly fundamental.

He was an ambitious guy from SA who was basically middle class by USA/Canadian standards.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1611861409733967872

Private planes, emerald mines, smuggling contraband/AK-47's.

Sounds very middle class...

 

[dowie]

Private planes, emerald mines, smuggling contraband/AK-47's.

Sounds very middle class...

Yes, it sounds very exciting and hyped up... back in reality his father may have had some investment in some small enterprise but "emeralds" makes it sound like a big deal. Likewise "private plane" when it's a light aircraft, my first maths teacher at secondary school had one of those too.

You've fallen for the hype Jono, it's been debunked:

I Talked to Elon Musk about Journalism and the Blood Emeralds Story

“If people are going to dislike me, I’d prefer they do so for what I’ve actually done.”

savingjournalism.substack.com

What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor

A story about Musk's father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim.

www.snopes.com

More to the point it deflects from the question:

When was he handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it?

 

[Jono8]

Yes, it sounds very exciting and hyped up... back in reality his father may have had some investment in some small enterprise but "emeralds" makes it sound like a big deal. Likewise "private plane" when it's a light aircraft, my first maths teacher at secondary school had one of those too.

You've fallen for the hype Jono, it's been debunked:

I Talked to Elon Musk about Journalism and the Blood Emeralds Story

“If people are going to dislike me, I’d prefer they do so for what I’ve actually done.”

savingjournalism.substack.com

What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor

A story about Musk's father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim.

www.snopes.com

More to the point it deflects from the question:

When was he handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it?

Imagine telling someone they have "fallen for the hype", whilst trying in vain to defend Elon.

Whats this? All lies?

'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth

Errol Musk says teenage Elon Musk once casually walked around with emeralds in his pocket.

www.businessinsider.com

'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth​

 

[StriderX]

Yep middle-class people walk around with emeralds in their pockets all the time, a truly middle-class thing to do.

 

[Firestar_3x]

He pretty much did though, people try to point out that he didn't incorporate the company as a gotcha as if he's taking credit for some invention but what did they have in the few months before he came on board? The two guys who registered the name aren't even involved anymore, they were pushed out circa 2008/2009. He's the main cofounder, he built the company into what it is today.

Without the idea the company would never have existed, Tesla was setup as a car and technology company from the outset, this is exactly what it is today.

 

[dowie]

Imagine telling someone they have "fallen for the hype", whilst trying in vain to defend Elon.

Whats this? All lies?

'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth

Errol Musk says teenage Elon Musk once casually walked around with emeralds in his pocket.

www.businessinsider.com

'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe': Elon Musk's Dad tells BI about the family's insanely casual attitude to wealth​

Yeah sounds totally plausible, you could try reading the previous links.

FYI that guy was bankrupt by the 00s and you're still deflecting from the question: When was he handed a fortune without having to lift a finger for it?

Without the idea the company would never have existed, Tesla was setup as a car and technology company from the outset, this is exactly what it is today.

Without what idea? Build an electric car? That's not novel, Elon had that idea too ergo that's why he teamed up with some likeminded people and backed such a venture.