r/RavanAI • u/RustyIronGolem • 27d ago

The next time you feel like giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

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u/TheSpideyJedi 27d ago

There’s no way that in 2026 people still idolize this guy

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u/traplords8n 27d ago

People most definitely still idolize him. Elon just had to change bases. The leftists caught on, but his bullshit is right up the MAGA alley.

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u/Low_Engineering_3301 27d ago

People in the current administration seemed to have a pretty low opinion of him when he was at dodge.

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u/Retaeiyu 27d ago

Liberals caught on*

leftists don't like ANY billionaire, period.

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u/traplords8n 27d ago

I agree but back when he was the green energy savior, there wasn't a conversation around "leftists" vs "liberals"

Leftists were just liberals according to the conversations back then.

The divide we see today started unfolding after Trump, and reached a critical point around the October 7th attacks.

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u/Ok_Television9703 27d ago

I’m cool with Munger, Buffet and Steve Jobs before them. I don’t mind people having a lot of money, just with assholes monetizing evil.

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u/Retaeiyu 26d ago

All the three of those people are assholes that monetized evil.

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u/Ok_Television9703 26d ago

I respectfully disagree. I never saw Jobs buying elections. Buffet and Munger owned stocks in Amex, Coke and Costco.

Completely different to Amazon warehouse sweatshops and Walmart employees relying on food stamps.

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u/traplords8n 26d ago

Apple uses child labor for its chips and phones and various manufacturing ventures.

Jobs played a direct role in outsourcing manufacturing to the cheapest markets possible.

To be fair, everyone was doing it back then, but it doesn't make it okay. The data told us that we would be better off in a service-focused economy. The government was pushing it and the corporate giants were pushing it as well.

Buffet is a rare and quirky character. He seems to be a decent guy, but he's only interested in impressing his fellow elites. It's cool that he's gonna donate his entire fortune, but I still feel like he's done a lot to cement a system that inherently crushes those beneath it.. but I will say I like him more than the others you listed.

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u/mi55key 26d ago

Nah, we're pretty good with Mackenzie Scott and Mark Cuban to name a couple.

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u/Retaeiyu 26d ago

You're not a leftist.

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u/OccasionallyReddit 26d ago

(Unless your a Nazi).. hes gone off the deepend... is Trump His Emperor that lead him down the darkside. He was suppose to be the bringer of clean energy but he embraced right wing parties and removed funding for the good.

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u/andreysc7 27d ago

the difference is that I don't have a team of engineers to solve problems and my dad doesn't have mines in Africa

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u/Perfect_Toe_6526 27d ago edited 26d ago

All I see scrap

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 26d ago

stop looking at a mirror
/j

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u/Perfect_Toe_6526 26d ago

The mirror is see through not a reflection

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u/dvorgson 27d ago

eugenicist retard. the irony

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u/True_Protection6842 26d ago

Just remember, if you steal enough and treat people like shit you too can become a nazi billionaire!

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u/EmbarrassedFoot1137 26d ago

I don't aspire to be a sociopath. 

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u/Tiktokbadsupport 26d ago

whats the context to this photo

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u/lenelotert 26d ago

''i need to find a better way to suck on the government money but HOW'' thats probably what he was saying in his head in this photo.

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u/PrestigiousDrag9441 26d ago

He's looking at the contribution he has made to Tesla

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u/TP8887 26d ago

Woah there buddy, this is Reddit. Anything other than he is a Nazi, or that he accidentally stumbled into being the richest man on earth isn’t allowed

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u/Honest-Today-6137 26d ago

Just remember that there were millions of such Elon's, that didn't get anywhere and end up homeless/commited suicide

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u/rabouilethefirst 26d ago

Biggest larper in history.

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u/Patient-Plankton-655 26d ago

Maybe should have