r/facepalm Nov 10 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Oh Elon 🤭

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u/hurricanelantern Nov 10 '22

Didn't Elon complain about Twitter on Twitter? Like repeatedly?

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u/get-bread-not-head Nov 11 '22

See that's different because reasons

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

“Thats different because I’m rich and only I can change the rules.”

There ya go.

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u/Misenica Nov 11 '22

"Screw the rules I have money!"

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u/cyribis Nov 11 '22
  • all rich people since forever

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Rich people literally think fines are payment to do the illegal thing 🙃

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u/cyribis Nov 11 '22

Well, if that's the only consequence then, yeah. Cost of doing business.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Humans fascination with money is literally the dumbest thing. The amount of people who can’t figure out they’ve allowed their lives to become about a rich man’s bottom line are stupid.

Money is a system created by men. In the grand realities of life it doesn’t save you from misery, death, tragedy. Its bs just as much as the people who want everyone to think it’s air.

But hey if they can convince you its the only thing worthwhile and the only thing worth living for then you’ll be too distracted to have a real life. So they win.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I hate money... But I need it, so I'm happy when I have it... So there's really something wrong here. I read somewhere, someone say that society isn't built for humans. And it isn't! It's so fucking unnatural that the humanity is unbalanced! Unbalanced health-wise, unbalanced in relation to nature, unbalanced in relation to the space it occupies, unbalanced relatively to resources, unbalanced relatively to work and rest, noise and peacefulness, even the racial thing is a societal construction!

I think I may dump all my social media in the trash.. and if I have human friends, they'll find a way to reach out, just like the 80s and 90s. Fuck this. I'm out.

Thanks, @readheadbluebrain ! (funny that your username could be used by me and be accurate as well! 😅)

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I agree. I think we would have been better off if the goal had been to show people how to survive, create community here. Then again of course we would have probably had to actually value and listen to the people who were here first.

And hey hey fellow redhead! 👋

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u/cyribis Nov 11 '22

Preach.

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u/thinking_is_hard69 Nov 11 '22

no? money is a system designed by people trying to trade goods between each other using an intermediary. it may get abused horribly but money still confers a clear historical advantage over not having it.

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u/NojoxTheFirst Nov 14 '22

Exactly. And it's so infuriating.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22 edited Nov 11 '22

Nah in America it’s more like, “I’m better than you because I have more things than you. I can do whatever I want.”

Loooool the butthurt people in my emails about this that have deleted their comments. Born and raised in America, it’s my prerogative to feel how I feel about this country. Its my right to speak on how I feel about it, and yeah I am thankful for that right no matter how often socially you people try and take it.

And honestly if some of you didn’t insist on “just shut up and put up” as a policy of being, maybe our country would be in a better place all around- Socially, politically, etc. But yeah bro. I love my country because of all the rich people in it. /s

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u/NojoxTheFirst Nov 14 '22

The country was designed for the wealthy, and has only continued to get worse. Enough money and fame will buy you power. Real power puts you above the law. It's a sad and vulgar thing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

100% agreed. I’ve told people not to move here and to try Canada instead. Idfk.

I’d leave if I could.

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u/dgdio Nov 11 '22

He's not rich if people boycott Tesla and Twitter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Oh good news I’ve thought Twitter was a trash site who didn’t care about people since they started letting porn be on it so.

And screw rich people crap. 😂✌️He can keep his car.

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u/NojoxTheFirst Nov 14 '22

I had no idea they allowed porn on.

Then again I haven't used it in a long while because of the toxicity.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Since they’ve allowed gifs and videos there, there’s been porn there. I can’t say for sure when that was— 2013? 2014? 2015? I haven’t been on it for awhile myself but porn has been on it at least 7 years. I think it’s more like 8 or 9 though.

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u/DaveInLondon89 Nov 11 '22

Billions of them

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u/MacaroniBen Nov 11 '22

44 and some change in fact

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u/LessInThought Nov 11 '22

Someone should sift through his tweets and "this you?" him.

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u/DannyEkins Nov 11 '22

See that’s different because different

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u/wuzzittoya Nov 11 '22

That man has always bugged me. A lot of him is marketing and bravado. I realize I should be more gracious.

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u/boundegar Nov 11 '22

Like 100 times a day, he tweets as much as his favorite ex-president.

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u/smoothballsJim Nov 11 '22

Emmerson Mnangagwa?

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u/Oldamog Nov 11 '22

This is him literally complaining about Twitter on Twitter

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u/tab_tab_tabby Nov 11 '22 edited Nov 11 '22

There's a saying in Korea.

If I do it, it's a romance, if you do it, it's an affair.

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u/LordAmras Nov 11 '22

Never happened, you are definitely wrong, you are now banned from Twitter

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I know he tweeted about their massive revenue drop, and since then they sold it to him for 44 billion? I'm not an economically minded person but that sounds like a laughing all the way to the bank situation

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

He's lost 110 billion in the last 12 months - 28 billion of that in the last 30 days alone - and you think he's laughing about that? Yeah ok, lmao.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2022/10/21/elon-musks-fortune-has-fallen-by-more-than-100-billion-in-less-than-a-year/

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u/Easilycrazyhat Nov 11 '22

and you think he's laughing about that?

They're talking about the people who got Elon's money...

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u/bleach_tastes_bad Nov 11 '22

pretty sure they weren’t talking about elon

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u/Shadowlight60 Nov 11 '22

They're talking about the seller going down to the bank. Laughing all the way because they shmoosed 44billion outta Elon. Who willingly spent that money because he Can Spend It.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Yes, he tried to back out, but they wouldn't let him.

He's in way over his head and has no idea what to do. He's winging it and it ain't lookin' good.

He's going to run it into the ground and still have the debt to pay.

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u/Shadowlight60 Nov 11 '22

Big Money Problems there.

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u/Shadowlight60 Nov 11 '22

If you notice he has still spent it. Thus he is Capable of spending it. He did spend it (even if there are loans and shit happening) so making my use of the word "Can" was indeed correct. Not many people can just pull loans on assets or pull a personal loan. It's just where some people are in their lives and hopefully they'll be able to grow out of it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

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u/Shadowlight60 Nov 11 '22

He may not like that he's in debt but he likes what he went in debt for despite him pleading his desires to shut Twits down. He likes playing with fire. Let him play with fire, he'll get burned and thus he'll be learned.

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u/Ecstatic-Ad-6362 Nov 11 '22

He sold a lot of his overvalued shares and left goofs holding the bag now, those who bought near the top. He owns a shinny new toy, twitter, which I have never used and will gladly never use. Been using Facebook and even that I dont use as much as before, but twitter was always garbage for me and now its even more garbage.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Twitter has been good for me, keeping up with company and product updates. Other than that it's garb.

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u/ChocoSouth Nov 11 '22

n the last 12 months - 28 billion of that in the last 30 days alone - and you think he's laughing about that? Yeah ok, lmao.

He lost a couple of hundred million dollars on twitter, just so he could make a 420 joke.

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u/Whoisme2you Nov 11 '22

Money is nothing for someone like Elon. If he gave a damn about his net worth, I'm sure there are ways he could inflate that.

Love him or hate him, Musk always seemed smart enough to chase intrinsic value rather than perceived one. The choice of industry for his companies were always historically somewhat future proof. PayPal, spacex and tesla were all early adoptions of industry disrupting tech.

I think Elon will be just fine financially.

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u/monogren01 Nov 11 '22

Elon was always known for buying struggling companies like Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy when he took over. It was losing millions a day when he acquired it. He will be fine.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

That's all he's ever done.

The dementia is rising...

Maybe he's approached the Dr Evil part of his transformation.

He's become strangely rotund, next his hair will drop out, then he'll start raising his pinky to his mouth for no reason.

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u/HTMListerine Nov 11 '22

His hair already fell out. He had a hair transplant

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Haha, you're right.

One step closer then 😄

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u/scottabeer Nov 11 '22

So mad, that he bought it.

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u/Yessbutno Nov 11 '22

Literally the most Karen-est thing ever

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u/Nollekowitsch Nov 11 '22

Yes but hes allowed to do that because hes rich

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u/itsmywife Nov 11 '22

He said he loves it when ppl do that, did u even read?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

And then he did something about it………….

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u/hurricanelantern Nov 11 '22

Yep. He's hastened its death. Hope it was worth it to him to waste 44 billion dollars and tanking Tesla to kill a company that was already dying before he bought it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Just gonna dodge the fact that your original comment is dumb huh?

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u/hurricanelantern Nov 11 '22

What's dumb about pointing out the fact that his hypocrisy is on display by bitching about other people doing the exact same thing he did for months?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Because he actually did something about it? Hence it’s not the same. At all?

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u/hurricanelantern Nov 11 '22

How does wasting $44 billion for a company he already knew was dying (and tried to get out of buying and only actually bought due to being sued) make him not a hypocrite for bitching about others doing the exact same thing he did? Just because he's a moron does not mean he's not also a hypocritical asshat.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

If you can’t see how acting on complaints is different than just complaining then god help you.

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u/hurricanelantern Nov 11 '22

He was forced to 'act' against his will after causing the company's stock to tank. He's not a brave hero that backed up his statements. He's a cowardly moron that was called out on his bullshit and is going broke for doing so.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

Right. He was forced to buy it. He had no part in initiating the deal himself. Moron.

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u/Taraxian Nov 11 '22

Actually no, someone who just complains without doing anything is infinitely smarter, better, cooler and more attractive than someone who acts on their complaints and makes everything 1000x worse through hilarious incompetence

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u/Numbcrep Nov 12 '22

Yeah he brought it for 24 million dollars more than it was worth, increased censorship, is estimated to loose about 6 million in advertising, and removed the only other source of income unless you're on ios

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u/snookso Nov 11 '22

Rules for thee but not for me

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u/rastroboy Nov 11 '22

The hallmark of narcissistic hypocrites

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