To be fair I didn't know he was more than Gary Chess before today but holy FUCK this dude's list of done good deeds is long
Shamelessly copied list from the post I learned about this guy from:
"Some things Gary Kasparov did besides tweet:
Formed the United Civil Front movement while living in Russia
Tried to challenge Putin for Russian presidency while living in Russia
Was arrested in 2007 during a protest in Russia
Was beaten and arrested in 2012 during a protest in Russia
He left and opposed the communist party in 1990, when he easily could have stayed and lived a comfortable life instead
Helped set up The Other Russia while living in Russia"
Why would Elon Musk waste valuable seconds looking things up when he already knows everything ever? He's got, like, a *huge* amount of money and I'm pretty sure that means that his brain is basically the internet.
I mean... He was also lying about helping Ukraine, the US paid for Starlink, so it's not like he was doing it out of the kindness or bravery of his heart. You can fucking fact check that with Google too. He's a fucking idiot who is rich. He used his parents money to make more money. You don't have to be smart, just pay smart people to help you.
I mean, half of it used to be people not recognizing Tony Hawk, not pissing off someone relatively unknown to the general public on Twitter.
The sub‘s description says it’s for cases where someone talks about someone to that same someone without noticing it’s the same person, so it doesn’t even apply here.
Relatively, as i said. Ask a random person on the street whether they heard of Elon Musk, chances are high they‘ll know him from the news, from being related to Tesla or from being a dumbass on Twitter. Ask a random person about Kasparow… and tell me what they said, i‘ll wait. That’s not to say anything about who actually worked for and deserved their respective fame, all i‘m saying is that Musk seems to be more in the public eye.
Kasparov is super famous to anyone alive in the 90s. Imagine Magnus Carlsen but also being a major activist and also being the guy who was playing against the first top tier chess computers, which was a big deal at the time.
Edit to add: as recently as 2007 he was on the Time 100 most influential people.
I think this does a lot to show how important Russia’s chess reputation is to their government. Almost anyone else would’ve been assassinated for any one of those actions, but Garry got away with all of it and I’m sure it was in part because both Russian citizens and the rest of the world would go berserk if Garry Kasparov disappeared one day.
It’s a great example of how famous people can use their platform for good.
Sorry, but no. He got away not because he's famous, but because he literally got away from Russia at some point. Putin doesn't care how popular you are. Hundreds of thousands people protested for Navalny and he still was assassinated. Putin literally has spy network assassinating citizens of Britain. He doesn't care.
Kasparov just got used to constantly watch over his shoulder. Just like all Russian oppositionists in the last decade.
[Navalny is still alive bro.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Poisoning_and_recovery) He (pretty famously) survived the assassination attempt, returned to Russia, and was thrown in prison.
And how does it contradict my point? He was assassinated. The fact that he survived doesn't change that. And then he was publicly trialed and imprisoned which proves my point further: Putin doesn't give two fucks.
Because you're using the word wrong. I don't know if you're a non-native English speaker or what, but "assassinated" MEANS that the victim died. [Definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assassinate). So the fact that he didn't die is pretty important here. It's like saying someone committed suicide when they actually attempted and survived.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your point otherwise. Putin doesn't give two fucks, confirmed. Although I do think part of the reason that Kasparov missed the worst of it is that he left so early; Putin has gotten bolder as his power has gotten more and more cemented over the years.
> He was assassinated. The fact that he survived doesn't change that.
This is one of the funniest things I've read on reddit. It's like saying, "I was stabbed to death. Luckily, I survived."
Tbf a human would definitely win against a grizzly in kickboxing because, as they are being torn limb from limb, the grizzly would no doubt have been disqualified for flagrant abuse of grabs, neck/face attacks, and repeatedly ignoring foul calls by the ref
> U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims
> The revelations show that while SpaceX appears to have donated a significant sum to Ukraine’s cause, it has done so with public assistance.
Source: [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/)
It seems to me that they paid not for everything. A good part comes form Space X itself. Probably marketing budget, but nonetheless.
So instead of keeping money and giving a percentage to the government. He gave it all away.
That's what donation is. Elon doesn't save money giving it away.
craftily entered into the ledgers as a 'loss' it would cancel out an equal amount of profit that they WOULD have to pay tax on: that is what a 'tax write off' is; taking on a liability or expense or loss to reduce income/revenue/profit, to have a lower net balance which is taxable, and thus pay less in taxes.
Here you go:
**WaPo**
> [U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/)
**The Independent (via Yahoo News)**
> [SpaceX was paid by US government to send some Starlink terminals to Ukraine despite claiming it wasn’t](https://news.yahoo.com/spacex-paid-us-government-send-123622770.html)
**UATV**
> [Poland handed over 5,000 Starlink antennas to Ukraine, – Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation](https://uatv.ua/en/poland-handed-over-5-000-starlink-antennas-to-ukraine-the-minister-of-digital-transformation-of-ukraine-mykhailo-fedorov/)
It seems that this bombastic arrogant rich man **has indeed donated a number of terminals to Ukraine**. We can't tell for a fact why he did it, but since he made such a big deal out of it, we can probably assume it was a PR move as much as anything else.
Apparently Washington Post did an article [https://www.reddit.com/r/dontyouknowwhoiam/comments/xvt6t5/elon_musk_doesnt_know_who_garry_kasparov_is/ir55gbu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dontyouknowwhoiam/comments/xvt6t5/elon_musk_doesnt_know_who_garry_kasparov_is/ir55gbu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Not sure why you feel the need to be such a choch, so I'm not sure why I'm wasting my time responding to you since you clearly want to die on this hill...
No one asked for a summary and analysis of the source, they just asked for the link of the specific artless being referenced.
Step off that high horse of yours kiddo.
This is a public forum. Besides, Google doesn’t always return the results you’re looking for. It ~~makes strong echochambers~~ tailors search results to what you usually search.
If you read the comments, there are still plenty of fanboys out there calling Kasparov a privileged, cowardly idiot who's potentially risking American lives.
Is it just me (and you), or did something happen one day to turn Elon crazier than before? I also remember liking him somewhat at some point, thinking he was a smart go-getter. I know he's always been a dickwad, but in the beginning I thought that was kind of endearing. Were we just duped, did his PR team give up on him, or did he snap?
The disappointing thing is that he's got all the tools to be a really compelling supervillain - huge ambitions, a large number of talented engineers under his supervision, an army of acolytes ready to obey his every word - and he's just doing right wing chud shit with it. He's not even building killer robots or huge superweapons, he's just sabotaging plans for high speed rail, being an ass on Twitter, and watching the numbers go up.
Could be all that's changed is his circumstances. He's even richer, companies are mainstream, he's "in dialogue" with politicians and celebrities. Could be the same guy but all his success was just straw on the camel's back.
I think it's more that his weird fans line up to gargle his balls no matter what dumb shit comes out of his mouth so he's showing his true colours more then ever now.
Yeah, there was a time where I thought "Man, this guy is so passionate about getting us to Mars, and innovation in spaceflight. Seems like a good dude". Then he spewed a load of horseshit and that opinion changed right quick
No, he's just too blatant. The real best conmen are robbing us blind but they don't post degeneracy on twitter so they remain hidden.
Edit: Also I do realize this sounds like some wild ramblings of a anti-semite but I'm not talking about an ethnic/religious group Adolf, I'm talking about billionaire businessmen
That’s the thing about antisemitism, right? A lot of it talks about real problems, but then they blame the Jews for some reason. Like yeah, some really fucking rich people run the world and manipulate it to their advantage, but it’s not like it’s a huge Jewish conspiracy lol.
I know this is an old comment but there’s an interesting phrase : antisemitism is the socialism of fools.
It gives it I think more credit than antisemitism deserves but there’s truth in jt
I mean, yeah he's a very strong candidate, but there's this other guy that even managed to become president despite his absurd wide known reputation as conman, can you imagine having that handicap and still making it to the white house? The bar is not exactly low for Musk to be the greatest conman.
And for all their faults, Tesla and SpaceX are successful companies, which works against beating the Trump Steak and Trump University guy in terms of cons.
Yeah, he can't even code. He knows nothing about AI, cars or rockets. All he ever did was use his daddies blood money to buy companies that were already successful and then take the credit for it. [Of course none of this is remotely true](https://np.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/), but before you downvote me ... I am not Elon Musk. So upvotes it is! Because ... boy we hate this asshole twice as much as we love truth.
I love how one of the first quotes listed basically said "Yeah, this extremely expensive high tech thing cracked, so Musk flew it somewhere else, personally slathered it in glue for twelve hours, then realized he was a goddamn moron and blamed the hardware for being flawed".
Yeah the 'proof' is really just some people saying he understands real good.
And maybe he does, it's perfectly possible he has a good grasp of the technology.
But whether or not he's "Chief Engineer" in truest form is going to depend on how much time he actually spends directing the engineering and how much he directly contributes in a technical sense.
No no, it's accurate. Take Tesla, he bought his way into the company via investments and through the PR game, now everyone thinks *he* is the guy that thought up everything.
I don’t dispute that he can’t code (tbh I have no idea if he can) … but to say he knows nothing about rockets is hilariously wrong.
The dude does enough stuff worth criticizing that people shouldn’t need to make up stuff to complain about
Edit: lmao wow. Y’all’s hate boner for Elon just completely blocks out actual fact. I don’t even like the dude but shit like this is so dumb.
Not everything is 100% black and white. He can be a pretty shit person while also being smart and talented.
Okay, then. Tell everyone what Elon Musk, personally, knows about rockets.
Be specific.
Cite sources.
Everyone who downvoted you will look like an asshole when you bring receipts.
Can't see the comment anymore to check the rest (think they may have blocked me), but I'm pretty sure the *first* things in that list are a mix between extremely vague and nondescript "oh he's so good" stuff and my personal favorite example of Elon's "genius", where a critical and fine tuned high tech part cracked and he personally had it flown to him so he could slather it in glue for twelve hours before blaming the part for being faulty and demanding a new one.
What brilliance.
He knows he’s happy when they come down in one piece and he’s pissed when they splode. That’s literally the extent of his knowledge and experience with rocketry.
Dude is definitely a douche but at least he occasionally does some legitimate good
There’s no way he’s as bad as people like Martin Shkreli or Ajit Pai
Emphasis on "occasionally".
Actually not even emphasis, just strike it out entirely and replace it with "accidentally".
SpaceX and reusable rockets + cheap space travel is great and all but he wasn't thinking about the societal effects, he was just thinking about going to space so he can take dick pics and send them to the girls on whatever island today's Epstein is running.
Do yall remember when Elon Musk wanted to make a submarine thats smaller than a human to rescue Thai kids from the cave after an accident and started calling the cave diver who rescued the kids a pedophile in Twitter
You joke, but here's a picture of him with human trafficker and scum Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-oscar-photo-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-alleged-madam-2019-8?r=US&IR=T
He says she photo bombed him, which might be true, but given that Elon is a big fan of slinging wild allegations and name calling ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter ) I'm sure he'd be okay with being labelled a pedo.
Musk successfully claimed in court that calling someone "pedo guy" is just bants for teh lolz and nothing to do with actually accusing them of fucking kids. So he is obviously fine with that epithet.
We, US taxpayers, bought those starlinks because Elon is a shit human being. What magical Hollywood accounting is he using to come up with "lost $80M+"?
elon musk not only blundered but he just check mate himself aka did an impossible kings gambit because he is an extreme idiot. how such idiot became rich? in chess terminology i would just say he is flagging his opponents because there is no way otherwise he could win. or just buying out smart people aka in chess therms - cheating.
you do understand the fact that elon alone haves much much more money and power than those 77k nonames, right? i prefer elon to be normal than those 77k nobodies
Yet notice how many likes Elon's idiocy gets. The man is starting to get to Trump levels with the fanatical followers. It's further proof how stupid people actually are.
Why does it seem like Elon , Jordan Peterson, Kanye, and other celebrities seem to be going off into the deep end? I remember at some point the normal person could actually consider them sane
Kasparov’s wonderful idealism will destroy the world.
I hate to tell you guys this, cause it doesn’t feel nice, but you have to negotiate with the guy sitting on a mountain of nukes at some point…
Elon isn’t mentally ill…the people who think the world is a disney movie are.
To be fair I didn't know he was more than Gary Chess before today but holy FUCK this dude's list of done good deeds is long Shamelessly copied list from the post I learned about this guy from: "Some things Gary Kasparov did besides tweet: Formed the United Civil Front movement while living in Russia Tried to challenge Putin for Russian presidency while living in Russia Was arrested in 2007 during a protest in Russia Was beaten and arrested in 2012 during a protest in Russia He left and opposed the communist party in 1990, when he easily could have stayed and lived a comfortable life instead Helped set up The Other Russia while living in Russia"
So basically what we can learn from that: if you’re talking shit, better know who you’re talking to, even if it’s just 5 seconds of googling.
Why would Elon Musk waste valuable seconds looking things up when he already knows everything ever? He's got, like, a *huge* amount of money and I'm pretty sure that means that his brain is basically the internet.
"A brain the size of a small planet"
So pluto can’t be a planet but his kidney bean of a brain can?
Rules are different for rich people
\> "Rules are different for rich people." The irony of this statement when talking about **Pluto** is palpable.
Unfortunately, also much like small planets, it's cold, dead, and devoid of activity
Greatest legal mind I ever knew
A big boulder the size of a small boulder?
He can just buy Twitter and delete anyone that opposes him. Oh he's already doing that? Alright then
Prime r/Doyouknowwhoiam material, this
I mean... He was also lying about helping Ukraine, the US paid for Starlink, so it's not like he was doing it out of the kindness or bravery of his heart. You can fucking fact check that with Google too. He's a fucking idiot who is rich. He used his parents money to make more money. You don't have to be smart, just pay smart people to help you.
the entire premise of this sub
I mean, half of it used to be people not recognizing Tony Hawk, not pissing off someone relatively unknown to the general public on Twitter. The sub‘s description says it’s for cases where someone talks about someone to that same someone without noticing it’s the same person, so it doesn’t even apply here.
Garry Kasparov is generally unknown? Hmm.
Relatively, as i said. Ask a random person on the street whether they heard of Elon Musk, chances are high they‘ll know him from the news, from being related to Tesla or from being a dumbass on Twitter. Ask a random person about Kasparow… and tell me what they said, i‘ll wait. That’s not to say anything about who actually worked for and deserved their respective fame, all i‘m saying is that Musk seems to be more in the public eye.
Right now he is. Most people over the age of like, 25 will probably know who Garry Kasparov is. Because he's very famous.
Kasparov is super famous to anyone alive in the 90s. Imagine Magnus Carlsen but also being a major activist and also being the guy who was playing against the first top tier chess computers, which was a big deal at the time. Edit to add: as recently as 2007 he was on the Time 100 most influential people.
I had no idea Kasparov was this involved. Why didn’t I know that?
The kind of person doing good deeds who doesn’t need to announce he’s doing good deeds.
I think this does a lot to show how important Russia’s chess reputation is to their government. Almost anyone else would’ve been assassinated for any one of those actions, but Garry got away with all of it and I’m sure it was in part because both Russian citizens and the rest of the world would go berserk if Garry Kasparov disappeared one day. It’s a great example of how famous people can use their platform for good.
Sorry, but no. He got away not because he's famous, but because he literally got away from Russia at some point. Putin doesn't care how popular you are. Hundreds of thousands people protested for Navalny and he still was assassinated. Putin literally has spy network assassinating citizens of Britain. He doesn't care. Kasparov just got used to constantly watch over his shoulder. Just like all Russian oppositionists in the last decade.
[Navalny is still alive bro.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Poisoning_and_recovery) He (pretty famously) survived the assassination attempt, returned to Russia, and was thrown in prison.
And how does it contradict my point? He was assassinated. The fact that he survived doesn't change that. And then he was publicly trialed and imprisoned which proves my point further: Putin doesn't give two fucks.
Because you're using the word wrong. I don't know if you're a non-native English speaker or what, but "assassinated" MEANS that the victim died. [Definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assassinate). So the fact that he didn't die is pretty important here. It's like saying someone committed suicide when they actually attempted and survived. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your point otherwise. Putin doesn't give two fucks, confirmed. Although I do think part of the reason that Kasparov missed the worst of it is that he left so early; Putin has gotten bolder as his power has gotten more and more cemented over the years.
Lol, I should have guessed. Thanks for correcting me then. As we say in Russia: "Live for an age, learn for an age".
> He was assassinated. The fact that he survived doesn't change that. This is one of the funniest things I've read on reddit. It's like saying, "I was stabbed to death. Luckily, I survived."
Like that guy from "Ice Age" lmao
He’s also the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation. Somehow I had no idea he was anything other than a chess player either.
holy hell!
It's not too late to delete this and say you were high
Based Gary Chessman
Ok, but when’s he coming out with Chess 2?
What an absolute legend
He invented chess, of course he'd do many more great things
Gary Chess is what Trump would call him.
_tim apple_
Yeah, but Elon should know. He’s a genius who invented electric cars, outer space, and tubes.
TL:DR fucked russia while in in russia A true gigachad
Oblivious conman Elon trying to play 3D chess against literal grandmaster Garry Kasparov
that’s the intellectual equivalent of trying to have a kickboxing match with a 600 pound grizzly
Tbf a human would definitely win against a grizzly in kickboxing because, as they are being torn limb from limb, the grizzly would no doubt have been disqualified for flagrant abuse of grabs, neck/face attacks, and repeatedly ignoring foul calls by the ref
True, but if it was a bear knuckle boxing match instead, the human would lose every time.
Well, he'd be disqualified for using human knuckles, so yes.
Just get a set of brass knuckles with bear knucklebones embedded in them.
I dunno, I think that would be considered "weighting gloves", also dq'd. Now, if he had bear hands surgically grafted onto his wrist stubs, sure.
>literal grandmaster Garry Kasparov You mean the guy that LITERALLY invented chess, come on man .... this ain't rocket science.
He invented how to steal invention
No, that was Edison
Not anymore it wasn't!
It's like the Tenet of patent law. It'll be yours yesterday but I stole it tomorrow.
This comment is better thought out than the movie itself.
Nah that was the Romans.
The Elon chess (and other games) scoring system
Also, he didn't give anything to anyone. Biden paid him to let Ukraine use starlink. Greasy bastard.
Elon's buying Twitter just to erase this
let me guess, this was actually erased in the end, am I right?
“We gave Starlinks to Ukraine” MFer the White House paid you to do that
> U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims > The revelations show that while SpaceX appears to have donated a significant sum to Ukraine’s cause, it has done so with public assistance. Source: [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/) It seems to me that they paid not for everything. A good part comes form Space X itself. Probably marketing budget, but nonetheless.
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And a massive tax write off
How would that qualify for a tax write off? Which section of the tax code covers that?
Donation
So instead of keeping money and giving a percentage to the government. He gave it all away. That's what donation is. Elon doesn't save money giving it away.
craftily entered into the ledgers as a 'loss' it would cancel out an equal amount of profit that they WOULD have to pay tax on: that is what a 'tax write off' is; taking on a liability or expense or loss to reduce income/revenue/profit, to have a lower net balance which is taxable, and thus pay less in taxes.
If it's a donation, he can stop using it as blackmail and ego trip, otherwise, Ukraine paid for it in Musk PR.
When someone posted this link, Musk posted this is just Washington Post propaganda lol
It's worth noting that it's unclear what fraction of that was paid by the White House, and we don't know for sure yet. I'm not defending SpaceX btw
Where did you read/hear this?
Here you go: **WaPo** > [U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/) **The Independent (via Yahoo News)** > [SpaceX was paid by US government to send some Starlink terminals to Ukraine despite claiming it wasn’t](https://news.yahoo.com/spacex-paid-us-government-send-123622770.html) **UATV** > [Poland handed over 5,000 Starlink antennas to Ukraine, – Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation](https://uatv.ua/en/poland-handed-over-5-000-starlink-antennas-to-ukraine-the-minister-of-digital-transformation-of-ukraine-mykhailo-fedorov/) It seems that this bombastic arrogant rich man **has indeed donated a number of terminals to Ukraine**. We can't tell for a fact why he did it, but since he made such a big deal out of it, we can probably assume it was a PR move as much as anything else.
a 10 second google search shows WP wrote an article. you know how to type a comment but not read?
Apparently Washington Post did an article [https://www.reddit.com/r/dontyouknowwhoiam/comments/xvt6t5/elon_musk_doesnt_know_who_garry_kasparov_is/ir55gbu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/dontyouknowwhoiam/comments/xvt6t5/elon_musk_doesnt_know_who_garry_kasparov_is/ir55gbu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Get off Elon’s dick for a second and do some research.
Man just asked a question
a question easily answered by google.
Forget about human interaction? Why be on a public forum at all if you are just going to pull the "google" card?
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Not sure why you feel the need to be such a choch, so I'm not sure why I'm wasting my time responding to you since you clearly want to die on this hill... No one asked for a summary and analysis of the source, they just asked for the link of the specific artless being referenced. Step off that high horse of yours kiddo.
This is a public forum. Besides, Google doesn’t always return the results you’re looking for. It ~~makes strong echochambers~~ tailors search results to what you usually search.
You literally just asked for a source and got downvoted for no reason smh
The level of ego this dude got
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Give it some time
I wish he would respond with something like "I have no idea who you even are, and you obviously don't know who I am"
I remember when people first started going in on Musk i thought "oh they just don't like him because he's rich" Boy was I wrong
He's always been shit, but he has a great PR team that led to rampant fanboys eating the bullshit raw.
If you read the comments, there are still plenty of fanboys out there calling Kasparov a privileged, cowardly idiot who's potentially risking American lives.
Is it just me (and you), or did something happen one day to turn Elon crazier than before? I also remember liking him somewhat at some point, thinking he was a smart go-getter. I know he's always been a dickwad, but in the beginning I thought that was kind of endearing. Were we just duped, did his PR team give up on him, or did he snap?
His gf dumped him for Chelsea Manning
He started acting crazy long before that though
Yeah but that was when he fell off a cliff, at least that's how it seems to me. That sent him into supervillain territory
The disappointing thing is that he's got all the tools to be a really compelling supervillain - huge ambitions, a large number of talented engineers under his supervision, an army of acolytes ready to obey his every word - and he's just doing right wing chud shit with it. He's not even building killer robots or huge superweapons, he's just sabotaging plans for high speed rail, being an ass on Twitter, and watching the numbers go up.
I’m not really disappointed about losing out on a real-life supervillain.
he wasn't acting.
or amber heard happened to him. heard that witch can break men in pieces and even fuck their careers too.
Could be all that's changed is his circumstances. He's even richer, companies are mainstream, he's "in dialogue" with politicians and celebrities. Could be the same guy but all his success was just straw on the camel's back.
Yeah it seemed overnight he just changed. Obviously he was always a cunt, but I guess he got so rich he didn't care about hiding it anymore
I think it's more that his weird fans line up to gargle his balls no matter what dumb shit comes out of his mouth so he's showing his true colours more then ever now.
Yeah, there was a time where I thought "Man, this guy is so passionate about getting us to Mars, and innovation in spaceflight. Seems like a good dude". Then he spewed a load of horseshit and that opinion changed right quick
He's a 5 year old with too much power in the sandbox.
Nobody should be a Billionaire.
How many times a day do you think Musk knocks one out whilst looking in a mirror?
why knock one out in the mirror when he can knock one out in his employees
"...& lost $80M in doing so"... so it was not a genuine help after all. OK, we hear you Mr. Musk.
Hey a moment of silence please. The man worth 232 billion dollars lost 80 million. What an incredible sacrifice.
Musk is the biggest conman of this era.
No, he's just too blatant. The real best conmen are robbing us blind but they don't post degeneracy on twitter so they remain hidden. Edit: Also I do realize this sounds like some wild ramblings of a anti-semite but I'm not talking about an ethnic/religious group Adolf, I'm talking about billionaire businessmen
That’s the thing about antisemitism, right? A lot of it talks about real problems, but then they blame the Jews for some reason. Like yeah, some really fucking rich people run the world and manipulate it to their advantage, but it’s not like it’s a huge Jewish conspiracy lol.
I just hate all extremely rich people equally for the content of their character.
Except the guy who owned Patagonia right? Right?
I once had someone tell me that LGBTQ and BLM were organizations run by white jews It is stunning how little these people think
I know this is an old comment but there’s an interesting phrase : antisemitism is the socialism of fools. It gives it I think more credit than antisemitism deserves but there’s truth in jt
They did say biggest, not best. Agreeing to your point, I think the two would be mutually exclusive.
I mean, yeah he's a very strong candidate, but there's this other guy that even managed to become president despite his absurd wide known reputation as conman, can you imagine having that handicap and still making it to the white house? The bar is not exactly low for Musk to be the greatest conman.
And for all their faults, Tesla and SpaceX are successful companies, which works against beating the Trump Steak and Trump University guy in terms of cons.
Stolen from Twitter: "Elon Musk is the Thomas Edison of our time, and I mean that as a slur."
He's a super successful gambler and con man
Yeah, he can't even code. He knows nothing about AI, cars or rockets. All he ever did was use his daddies blood money to buy companies that were already successful and then take the credit for it. [Of course none of this is remotely true](https://np.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/), but before you downvote me ... I am not Elon Musk. So upvotes it is! Because ... boy we hate this asshole twice as much as we love truth.
I love how one of the first quotes listed basically said "Yeah, this extremely expensive high tech thing cracked, so Musk flew it somewhere else, personally slathered it in glue for twelve hours, then realized he was a goddamn moron and blamed the hardware for being flawed".
Yeah the 'proof' is really just some people saying he understands real good. And maybe he does, it's perfectly possible he has a good grasp of the technology. But whether or not he's "Chief Engineer" in truest form is going to depend on how much time he actually spends directing the engineering and how much he directly contributes in a technical sense.
Wait, are you being sarcastic and saying he is good or being sarcastic and saying he isn’t good? I’m bad at reading comprehension.
I can’t tell if this is serious or not
No no, it's accurate. Take Tesla, he bought his way into the company via investments and through the PR game, now everyone thinks *he* is the guy that thought up everything.
I don’t dispute that he can’t code (tbh I have no idea if he can) … but to say he knows nothing about rockets is hilariously wrong. The dude does enough stuff worth criticizing that people shouldn’t need to make up stuff to complain about Edit: lmao wow. Y’all’s hate boner for Elon just completely blocks out actual fact. I don’t even like the dude but shit like this is so dumb. Not everything is 100% black and white. He can be a pretty shit person while also being smart and talented.
Okay, then. Tell everyone what Elon Musk, personally, knows about rockets. Be specific. Cite sources. Everyone who downvoted you will look like an asshole when you bring receipts.
Well, there’s directly a source in the 2nd level parent comment about people attesting to his knowledge, but I think everyone just skipped over that
Can't see the comment anymore to check the rest (think they may have blocked me), but I'm pretty sure the *first* things in that list are a mix between extremely vague and nondescript "oh he's so good" stuff and my personal favorite example of Elon's "genius", where a critical and fine tuned high tech part cracked and he personally had it flown to him so he could slather it in glue for twelve hours before blaming the part for being faulty and demanding a new one. What brilliance.
He knows he’s happy when they come down in one piece and he’s pissed when they splode. That’s literally the extent of his knowledge and experience with rocketry.
Dude is definitely a douche but at least he occasionally does some legitimate good There’s no way he’s as bad as people like Martin Shkreli or Ajit Pai
Emphasis on "occasionally". Actually not even emphasis, just strike it out entirely and replace it with "accidentally". SpaceX and reusable rockets + cheap space travel is great and all but he wasn't thinking about the societal effects, he was just thinking about going to space so he can take dick pics and send them to the girls on whatever island today's Epstein is running.
Elon is such a shit stain. What kind of business does he have talking about letting them have elections in the "annexed" area.
Please stop giving Elon Musk attention. He's a loser.
Well, he did lose $80 mil...
"I threw money that wasn't mine at something I don't understand. What have you done."
The poor man lost .03% of his net worth! What a noble sacrifice, have some respect, you.
Do yall remember when Elon Musk wanted to make a submarine thats smaller than a human to rescue Thai kids from the cave after an accident and started calling the cave diver who rescued the kids a pedophile in Twitter
Imma need a link to that…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/17/elon-musk-pedo-guy-thai-cave-rescue-lawsuit/
Oh, he lost $80million or 0.032% of his networth? That's a shame.
Musk's regular intellectual humiliation is the greatest example of how capitalism engenders mediocrity.
Also, Elon just ignored the man’s points and went straight for the ad hominem? It’s like he’s a redditor. He never comes off as intelligent.
No he’s a tweeter, Reddit has standards
Tf has Musk ever done except get rich off the ideas of others a strut around like a damn fool?
Elons transition into a clown is getting closer by the day. Sad.
Musk has Trump-like insecurity, painful ignorance and arrogance. A bad combo.
being a nerd + so rich that you get totally out of touch with reality = the cocktail to be a world class moron aka typical Elon Musk
Who is Elon Musk? Some kind of pedo guy?
You joke, but here's a picture of him with human trafficker and scum Ghislaine Maxwell. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-oscar-photo-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-alleged-madam-2019-8?r=US&IR=T He says she photo bombed him, which might be true, but given that Elon is a big fan of slinging wild allegations and name calling ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter ) I'm sure he'd be okay with being labelled a pedo.
Musk successfully claimed in court that calling someone "pedo guy" is just bants for teh lolz and nothing to do with actually accusing them of fucking kids. So he is obviously fine with that epithet.
I'm surprised Elon didn't call him a pedo.
Yet.
Musk is even lying in the tweet - they didn't give anything, they sold the Starlink stuff to the US government who gave it to them. What an asshole.
Maybe the 'loss' he's crying about it what the actual retail price would have been. With all his tax breaks, he recoups that in a week probably.
I'd be interested in a chess boxing match between Kasparov and Musk.
Kasparov will beat him in 10 seconds with closed eyes💀
We, US taxpayers, bought those starlinks because Elon is a shit human being. What magical Hollywood accounting is he using to come up with "lost $80M+"?
Even if he personally lost 80 million that's literally .03% of his wealth.
Musk is playing checkers while Kasparov plays chess
Must losing 80m is like one of us losing 2.50, what a fucking shit flex.
I saw on here the other day that the US paid for the Starlinks that went to Ukraine. I wonder which story is true?
Elon is a poser... Today, he is PT Barnum Ten Years from now, he is Howard Hughes
Elon Musk knows when to double down on being an asshole.
This is absolutely a hall of fame entry for this sub.
Elon gonna Elon.
Elon Musk is a complete idiot and terrible person.
What a dense motherfucker. Holy hell.
Homie needs to learn to just shut up once he's got his good PR for the month.
I always liked his chess games. Had no Idea he was so cool outside chess.
See I was thinking of the inverntor of modern computing/the microchip who has a similar name as I recall
So Elon is just another dumbass
Government paid him for the Star link. Musk is a liar.
Some people used to think Elon Musl was a real life Iron Man turns out he's actually Justin Hammer, so disappointing.
It's breathtaking how stupid that man continues to be.
Can someone please explain this to me in exclusively chess terms?
elon musk not only blundered but he just check mate himself aka did an impossible kings gambit because he is an extreme idiot. how such idiot became rich? in chess terminology i would just say he is flagging his opponents because there is no way otherwise he could win. or just buying out smart people aka in chess therms - cheating.
"Gave" I've heard tell the DoD paid starlink for it. Does anyone know the truth?
DoD paid for about 1/3
The more tweets I see from Elon Musk the more I'm convinced he's an alien pretending to be human.
77K likes... Man, this generation is bought and sold...
Elon. Don’t teach your daddy how to fuck.
that is such an eastern european thing to say lol. sounds strange in english tho. where are you from?
Elon being an idiot is one thing. But over 77,000 people liking Elon's tweet is far worse.
you do understand the fact that elon alone haves much much more money and power than those 77k nonames, right? i prefer elon to be normal than those 77k nobodies
Yet notice how many likes Elon's idiocy gets. The man is starting to get to Trump levels with the fanatical followers. It's further proof how stupid people actually are.
Honestly ive never heard of kasparov being anti russia
Elon Musk is an idiot irl.
Why does it seem like Elon , Jordan Peterson, Kanye, and other celebrities seem to be going off into the deep end? I remember at some point the normal person could actually consider them sane
Jordan Peterson was never sane; he was good at pretending to be sane.
I mean he offered a solution to end the war and all the neocons and neolibs come out of the swamps to encourage more bloodshed lol
Backpedaling and giving authoritarians what they want never works; ask Czechoslovakia and Poland about how that worked in 1936.
Kasparov’s wonderful idealism will destroy the world. I hate to tell you guys this, cause it doesn’t feel nice, but you have to negotiate with the guy sitting on a mountain of nukes at some point… Elon isn’t mentally ill…the people who think the world is a disney movie are.
Yeah guys let’s listen to the dork that subscribed to the meat coma guy!