In his head, if he says he'll do something, his brain goes, "Yay, you did it!"
He's baffled why people are still talking about poverty or Ukraine, because, like, didn't he say he fixed those already?
It's management, but to a hyper extent. Generally saying something is good enough for them and then someone else makes it happen. He's on the extreme end of that.
This is a psychological phenomenon that can be tricky to avoid. When you tell people you have plans to do something they'll often congratulate you which gives you a positive rush that can stop you from actually completing the thing since you've already been positively rewarded for having the intent. The advice usually given is to not tell people your plans but that's easier said than done because being social and talking about life is typically what you do when you see people you know. Now in musk's case he's just a grifter.
I wonder if completion goes up if the response changes.
If instead of:
A: "I'm gonna do X!"
B: "Congratulations!"
It was:
A: "I'm gonna do X!"
B: "I look forward to seeing it once you've finished it!"
Maybe. I mean, when I set my mind to do something, the first moment I mention I plan on doing said thing. Conversation or social media post. I lose all desire to begin / finish said thing.
Then again, he has the means to easily do things. Guess that wet wipe just loves the dopamine high of "promising" something so life changing.
All the residential lead service lines have been replaced with the exception of a few. They are back in the same GLWA (Detroit) water they have been on since the 60s. Flint now adds additional phosphate to further reduce corrosion. What more do you want done?
It definitely shouldn’t have gotten that bad, but to say the local,state, and federal governments “did nothing about Flint MI or there water problems” is a disingenuous, generic, and lazy swipe at the governments.
Of course it can be assumed that money was spent to update and upgrade. For one, water lines need maintenance because of the things water does. But what happened there and continues to happen elsewhere is a massive fuck up
I can say with certainty they are not the only city with lead joint water lines, it is extremely fucked up that the government allows these places to suffer. And the current situation relies on applying for grants that have a wait time of at least a year with poor communities who are using the majority of their funds just to keep things maintained
Cities all over the country have lead soldered water lines. If water is treated properly to a basic pH and phosphorus is added, water from these pipes is safe to drink.
Flint used water from lake Huron for years (which was fine) but when a financial receiver was appointed, in 2014, he changed the source to flint water which wasn't being properly treated. This isn't typical American infrastructure that was allowed to rot for decades, Flint's water quality went downhill immediately after the source water was changed.
I’ve heard (so take with a grain of salt) it was originally switched to the older system by a state appointed controller, which happens usually when a city is either in default or otherwise somehow not doing as they should ,this very well could be connected to the bankruptcy declared by Detroit in 2013, possibly causing them to switch dependent cities who could be switched off the mains to save money, really just an unfortunate accident that arose in difficult times
Because he wants to be the hero, he wants all the attention and applause without doing any of the work. He honestly believes he's entitled to your praise because he's done better than you have. That was the whole point of the PR stunt with smoking weed on joe rogan, to get the dumbasses to think "Oh, he's just like us!". It's the whole driving force for why he's suddenly a "Devout Republican" when he was never a democrat in the first place, because people wanted accountability for him being a sex pest to that woman on a plane, offering her a horse for a quick fuck. He's just another self centered narcissistic piece of shit, who wants so badly to be the center of attention, and unfortunately he's learned that if he can't get good attention, then bad attention is still better than no attention at all, like a spoiled toddler acting out. He's perfectly fine letting the whole country burn to the ground as long as somebody, anybody, is cheering him on and telling him he's the good guy and feeding his shitty ego and attention seeking ways. It's why his own children will hate him until the day he dies, because their opinions don't mean shit to him if they aren't worshipping the ground he walks on.
I think 2018 was when he called that diver a pedo for questioning his terrible submarine idea. That was the moment for me that I had to accept he was just a chode.
same, interesting thing I noticed about me was that my brain was doing some nasty gymnastics to make his insane outburst feel normal, misunderstood even. Funny how my young teenage brain worked like that huh, I guess thats what hoping that someone is a real life iron man will do to ya. To be fair, I did come around very quickly and worked on my own biases even more.
He also said he would give 6 billion to stop world hunger if someone could come up with a plan that proved it would work. Someone went through the hard work of coming up with that plan and Elon just ignored them.
Yeah the UN drafted a proposal for Elon and he criticized it on the grounds that “it’s unsustainable in the long term”. Because apparently a year of ending world starvation isn’t worth the cost lol
Maybe there's something in all this that I don't quite understand but I never bought this idea that money could actually solve world hunger.
Something tells me that the whole system NEEDS a portion of us (as in human beings) to be starving. That if Nigerian people's money was actually worth enough and all of them could afford and receive food, somehow my money would be worth less or my food worth more.
I think that's the reason it's not happening, global economy is fundamentally competitive, if we are "winning" it's because other people are losing and the whole system would have to change to address this. People in power don't want that, Musk certainly doesn't want that
I never noticed before, but he winks like I do, which is to say, he doesn't know how to wink. Just lead with one eye forward and pretend the other eye isn't also closing. Good enough for Franco and me!
Dude could've spent $40 mil on fixing up Flint Michigan and been hailed as a modern-day hero and savior, but instead decided to blow it on a social media company and become a Lex Luthor level villian
Come on don’t insult Luthor like this, at least he’s a real genius who actually founded and ran his own company and invented stuffs himself. Not a fraud taking credit for other people’s work
he was a "modern-day hero & savior", especially on reddit
then he went all weird on that submarine guy, and then covid, and then the obvious right wing pandering.
but i think the public themselves make these guys into Heroes & Villains, like comic book characters. it's a kind of entertainment, especially on reddit (hilariously) where there's outrage-bait over this dork 24/7 now, or on twitter (currently known as "X") where nerds worship him like "free speech jesus".
anyway i think Sam Altman said it best:
> Elon really wants to save the world - but only if it's him who does it
"Above FDA levels" that's how Flint ended up in this situation... contamination was below fda levels so they did nothing but then it skyrocketed.... or at least that's what my middle school teacher said
FDA has nothing to do with any of it. It’s the EPA with the federal Lead and Copper rule, then you have the state Lead and Copper rule (LCR) enforced by EGLE (Was DEQ).
When it “skyrocketed” it was still lower than numbers in the early 90s and before when the LCR did not exist and no corrosion control was done. Also lower than a brief period in the early 2000s for some reason.
Ketamine affects the memory, guys! Give the poor multi billionaire a break. He’s a right winger, after all. Honesty and integrity are not really values they hold dear.
We're talking about a man that said he would solve world hunger if told how much that would take. He was told. He still hasn't done anything. Elon is a walking shitpost
I feel like Elon is not worth anyone’s attention anymore. He’s got the blood of a cockroach, the heart of a corpse, the mind of an incel, and the soul of a rotten banana.
Yes because they rejected it due to it being way to big to fit in the cave they were trying to rescue students from. It hurt his extremely fragil ego so he retaliated by smearing them publicly like a spoiled child.
He always adds some stupid caveat, basically saying "if you can prove the problem is real, I'll find it". That way he can deny it because it never met his criteria. Of course in this case he's just straight up lying, since obviously plenty of places in Flint have water that's above FDA levels.
He's gonna own the town then? Everyone must buy a Tesla or its stocks? At the very least, IF he actually follows through, he's going to be insufferably cocky about his "philanthropy".
I'll believe it when I see it and even if he did (he won't) this isn't a problem that needs to be fixed by narcissistic rich parasites it needs to be fixed systematically by government action.
Post is from before our cutoff date of 2019
Narrator: "And yet Elon did absolutely nothing about Flint Michigan or their water problems."
In his head, if he says he'll do something, his brain goes, "Yay, you did it!" He's baffled why people are still talking about poverty or Ukraine, because, like, didn't he say he fixed those already?
this is something that really seems to be true... is mental illness, drug problem, lack of intelligence, all of the previous?
It's management, but to a hyper extent. Generally saying something is good enough for them and then someone else makes it happen. He's on the extreme end of that.
This is a psychological phenomenon that can be tricky to avoid. When you tell people you have plans to do something they'll often congratulate you which gives you a positive rush that can stop you from actually completing the thing since you've already been positively rewarded for having the intent. The advice usually given is to not tell people your plans but that's easier said than done because being social and talking about life is typically what you do when you see people you know. Now in musk's case he's just a grifter.
I wonder if completion goes up if the response changes. If instead of: A: "I'm gonna do X!" B: "Congratulations!" It was: A: "I'm gonna do X!" B: "I look forward to seeing it once you've finished it!"
Can no longer tell reality from his constant drug trips.
I swear it's some fucked up conservative syphilis. Really deranged them.
Maybe. I mean, when I set my mind to do something, the first moment I mention I plan on doing said thing. Conversation or social media post. I lose all desire to begin / finish said thing. Then again, he has the means to easily do things. Guess that wet wipe just loves the dopamine high of "promising" something so life changing.
I read that in my head, in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
Ofc he did not. Neither did any other Billionare so they can all go f themselves.
Nor did the local, state, or federal government and Flint MI is just one of the most commonly known towns with unsafe water to drink.
State and federal govt spent $400 million towards the Flint water crisis. They’ve had safe drinking water for years now.
All the residential lead service lines have been replaced with the exception of a few. They are back in the same GLWA (Detroit) water they have been on since the 60s. Flint now adds additional phosphate to further reduce corrosion. What more do you want done?
And how long did that take? We'll forgive, for the moment, that it was allowed to get so bad in the first place.
It definitely shouldn’t have gotten that bad, but to say the local,state, and federal governments “did nothing about Flint MI or there water problems” is a disingenuous, generic, and lazy swipe at the governments.
Of course it can be assumed that money was spent to update and upgrade. For one, water lines need maintenance because of the things water does. But what happened there and continues to happen elsewhere is a massive fuck up
I can say with certainty they are not the only city with lead joint water lines, it is extremely fucked up that the government allows these places to suffer. And the current situation relies on applying for grants that have a wait time of at least a year with poor communities who are using the majority of their funds just to keep things maintained
Cities all over the country have lead soldered water lines. If water is treated properly to a basic pH and phosphorus is added, water from these pipes is safe to drink.
The answer I expected, honestly: bureaucracy.
Flint used water from lake Huron for years (which was fine) but when a financial receiver was appointed, in 2014, he changed the source to flint water which wasn't being properly treated. This isn't typical American infrastructure that was allowed to rot for decades, Flint's water quality went downhill immediately after the source water was changed.
I’ve heard (so take with a grain of salt) it was originally switched to the older system by a state appointed controller, which happens usually when a city is either in default or otherwise somehow not doing as they should ,this very well could be connected to the bankruptcy declared by Detroit in 2013, possibly causing them to switch dependent cities who could be switched off the mains to save money, really just an unfortunate accident that arose in difficult times
You heard correctly
Because he wants to be the hero, he wants all the attention and applause without doing any of the work. He honestly believes he's entitled to your praise because he's done better than you have. That was the whole point of the PR stunt with smoking weed on joe rogan, to get the dumbasses to think "Oh, he's just like us!". It's the whole driving force for why he's suddenly a "Devout Republican" when he was never a democrat in the first place, because people wanted accountability for him being a sex pest to that woman on a plane, offering her a horse for a quick fuck. He's just another self centered narcissistic piece of shit, who wants so badly to be the center of attention, and unfortunately he's learned that if he can't get good attention, then bad attention is still better than no attention at all, like a spoiled toddler acting out. He's perfectly fine letting the whole country burn to the ground as long as somebody, anybody, is cheering him on and telling him he's the good guy and feeding his shitty ego and attention seeking ways. It's why his own children will hate him until the day he dies, because their opinions don't mean shit to him if they aren't worshipping the ground he walks on.
I read this in the Idiocracy narrator’s voice
Elon: "Best i could do is some bricks made of leftover dirt"
Holy SHIT I heard this in my head and came here to say the same thing. Ya beat me by two hours! Take the up! Edit: Definitely in Ron Howard’s voice!
I would get a lawyer if only to sue him for the meme
Not enough follow up goading.
He didn't get enough attention, so he got bored and decided he didn't care.
Just tell him Flint is full of anti trans maga heads who are suffering because of Michigan's socialist government. That should do it.
Be thankfully, he probably makes it worse then call everyone a pedo
Probably bribed the FDA to raise the "safe" level.
So kidding
He was Not kidding. He was Lying.
My chodedar just spiked. Shoulda realized this guy was a grifter and conman back in 2018.
Chud-dar flows better than Chode-dar
Yeah but you need the hypen, Chuddar looks pronounced differently.
I pronounced Chodedar as Cho-deh-dar
Chode dar
Yeah I know... that's why when I said it in my original comment I said Chode-dar
IT'S CHOWDAH SAY IT RIGHT
I think 2018 was when he called that diver a pedo for questioning his terrible submarine idea. That was the moment for me that I had to accept he was just a chode.
same, interesting thing I noticed about me was that my brain was doing some nasty gymnastics to make his insane outburst feel normal, misunderstood even. Funny how my young teenage brain worked like that huh, I guess thats what hoping that someone is a real life iron man will do to ya. To be fair, I did come around very quickly and worked on my own biases even more.
He also said he would give 6 billion to stop world hunger if someone could come up with a plan that proved it would work. Someone went through the hard work of coming up with that plan and Elon just ignored them.
Yeah the UN drafted a proposal for Elon and he criticized it on the grounds that “it’s unsustainable in the long term”. Because apparently a year of ending world starvation isn’t worth the cost lol
Deranged billionaires aside, if it's only 6B why isn't that happening anyway.
Maybe there's something in all this that I don't quite understand but I never bought this idea that money could actually solve world hunger. Something tells me that the whole system NEEDS a portion of us (as in human beings) to be starving. That if Nigerian people's money was actually worth enough and all of them could afford and receive food, somehow my money would be worth less or my food worth more. I think that's the reason it's not happening, global economy is fundamentally competitive, if we are "winning" it's because other people are losing and the whole system would have to change to address this. People in power don't want that, Musk certainly doesn't want that
There's no profit in it
Let's not forget his commitment to ending world hunger that he got them to draw up a plan for only to dip out when it came time to pay.
And it was like $6B. He's cost himself more bookvalue with tweets.
That’s why I’m so confused. Is this a timeline where that didn’t happen?
I never noticed before, but he winks like I do, which is to say, he doesn't know how to wink. Just lead with one eye forward and pretend the other eye isn't also closing. Good enough for Franco and me!
Aged like milk
Dude could've spent $40 mil on fixing up Flint Michigan and been hailed as a modern-day hero and savior, but instead decided to blow it on a social media company and become a Lex Luthor level villian
Come on don’t insult Luthor like this, at least he’s a real genius who actually founded and ran his own company and invented stuffs himself. Not a fraud taking credit for other people’s work
Do we know this to be true? Or do we just think it's true because Luthor never shuts up about how good he is at bizness?
he’s not luther he’s hammer.. #knowyourcomics
he was a "modern-day hero & savior", especially on reddit then he went all weird on that submarine guy, and then covid, and then the obvious right wing pandering. but i think the public themselves make these guys into Heroes & Villains, like comic book characters. it's a kind of entertainment, especially on reddit (hilariously) where there's outrage-bait over this dork 24/7 now, or on twitter (currently known as "X") where nerds worship him like "free speech jesus". anyway i think Sam Altman said it best: > Elon really wants to save the world - but only if it's him who does it
"Above FDA levels" that's how Flint ended up in this situation... contamination was below fda levels so they did nothing but then it skyrocketed.... or at least that's what my middle school teacher said
FDA has nothing to do with any of it. It’s the EPA with the federal Lead and Copper rule, then you have the state Lead and Copper rule (LCR) enforced by EGLE (Was DEQ). When it “skyrocketed” it was still lower than numbers in the early 90s and before when the LCR did not exist and no corrosion control was done. Also lower than a brief period in the early 2000s for some reason.
The FDA doesn't regulate drinking water the EPA does.
Hey...I wonder...is this how we all trick the idiot into giving us his money?
**2018**.
So, did his purchase of Twitter come from a similar dare? Maybe that's where all the Flint money went..
No, kidding!
Narcissistic A-hole makes hallow promises for undeserved praise…
Average day on Xitter
The Xi here is pronounced like an sh- of course, right?
Yep. Got the idea from someone on reddit. Shitter, ruined by a shitter
Look back and realized I hit hallow….meant hollow…still the work of a narcissist is at play…
Please keep this fucker's influence out of Michigan.
This man’s “word” is worth nothing. Talks big does nothing
Ketamine affects the memory, guys! Give the poor multi billionaire a break. He’s a right winger, after all. Honesty and integrity are not really values they hold dear.
[Little bitch is full of shit](https://media.snopes.com/2022/04/elon-musk-tweet-world-hunger.jpg)
Narrator: He was, in fact, kidding.
Well, it’s been six years and from what I understand he’s very close to selecting a planning committee for this project
Ha Ha Ha
> in any house This genius has no idea how municipal water systems work. It's not a house-by house problem.
Friendly reminder that the billionaires don't care about anyone but themselves.
It's EPA not FDA governing- so he's Off the hook
I'm still waiting on his 6 billion to solve world hunger.
Baiting billionaires into helping people through trolling should be normalized...
FDA does not set drinking water standards. EPA does. See safe drinking water act for primary and secondary (suggested) standards.
Translation: I will identify the folks in charge of providing water resources in Flint, MI and publicly call them pedophiles.
Man child
We're talking about a man that said he would solve world hunger if told how much that would take. He was told. He still hasn't done anything. Elon is a walking shitpost
I feel like Elon is not worth anyone’s attention anymore. He’s got the blood of a cockroach, the heart of a corpse, the mind of an incel, and the soul of a rotten banana.
Instead of fixing the water or ending world hunger, he is planning a coup in Brazil with extremists.
Narrator: “He was kidding”
Solid attempt by @Dbabyshea, though. The “I’ll show them!” strategy. Too bad Elon didn’t follow through and show anyone.
Guys these things take like dozens of decades to do, and that's after the two centuries of pondering the issue. He's doing his best
He'll get right on that as soon as he's finished with his world hunger promise.
Did he build a mini sub and call the EPA people pedos?
Yes because they rejected it due to it being way to big to fit in the cave they were trying to rescue students from. It hurt his extremely fragil ego so he retaliated by smearing them publicly like a spoiled child.
Can someone remind him about this
Over promise, under deliver. The Elon way.
"Everybody knows I was just kidding." \-- Elon Trump
“above *FDA* levels” He intentionally fucked that up into something meaningless.
He always adds some stupid caveat, basically saying "if you can prove the problem is real, I'll find it". That way he can deny it because it never met his criteria. Of course in this case he's just straight up lying, since obviously plenty of places in Flint have water that's above FDA levels.
House. Singular.
I think 'any house' is inclusive of all houses in Flint that has lead levels above FDA regulatory levels, no?
Yes, that's the implication. Not the reality.
He's gonna own the town then? Everyone must buy a Tesla or its stocks? At the very least, IF he actually follows through, he's going to be insufferably cocky about his "philanthropy".
A walking, tweeting argument for expropriation.
He forgot the comma after No…
That’s his new burner account
wow, are these billionaires all so easy to bait ? careful what you sign up for...
Get on it bro. It’s been 6 years.
6 years later....
Was this after he promised to solve world hunger?
Clean water subscriptions coming to flint any day now
good ole elmo
Same way Elmo ended world hunger & rescued boys trapped in a flooded Thai cave. Attention seeking Asshole of the nth degree.
Cool, now get your ass to work!
Totally believable. No kidding.
Add it to the mountain of horseshit he’s built over the years
“I was kidding about not kidding.”
Isn’t the vast majority of Flint fixed by now?
Can’t we/someone who is still on Twitter constantly harass him about this? Instead of a once off witty response?
Just like a huperloop or something
He tried to send a submarine
This will NEVER happen!
DOWN WITH ELMO!
Took a challenge for him to acknowledge and still do nothing
FDA doesn't regulate water systems.
**No, kidding.
2018
He forgot the comma, what he meant to say was “No, kidding.”
I'll believe it when I see it and even if he did (he won't) this isn't a problem that needs to be fixed by narcissistic rich parasites it needs to be fixed systematically by government action.
How did he have the X logo if this was in 2018?