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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Putin has kompromat on Musk. I guarantee it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about the guy with a Twitter comments history that looks like it came from the child porn section of 8chan being targeted with kompromat. There's literally nothing you could say about Elon that will make him look worse than any five minute clip of him speaking in public.

"Trust me! Putin has a picture of him fucking an IVF sample bag with his mechanical penis while watching clips from Rick and Morty! He's sitting on a stack of Consumer Protection reports that say the Cybertruck project is losing $1M every day and kills 14% of its owner base! If this gets out, he's done for."

No he's fucking not. Such a disclosure would only make him look cooler among his base of support. And his investor bro friends would high five him in private while simply ignoring it during the next quarterly report.

[–] Madison420 1 points 12 hours ago

Sergei lavrov is a weird choice to claim competency.

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 12 hours ago

Putin is gonna die soon. Like dude, I could die tomorrow or maybe in 40 years, but Putin has a leg in the grave. Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. And the when part is soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I didn’t know these “talks” were in Saudi Arabia.

Why the fuck would Zelenskyy go to Saudi Arabia for any reason? It’s a place well-known for murdering visitors that recently signed a military agreement with Russia.

[–] Maggoty 133 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I love it, competent leadership is...

Showing up. Such a high bar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think not going is competent leadership by Zelenskyy.

“Yeah ok I’ll just walk right in to the lions den then durp durp”

[–] Maggoty 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh yeah, there's no way he can legitimize this and he would if he showed up.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (3 children)

People who have no idea how competence works, and none of their own, tend to assign it sort of randomly or based on strange criteria. He may genuinely believe that Russia has incredibly competent leadership, because of nothing more than they make things simple and everyone else makes things complicated.

Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRjVH66vdQ

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.

Yeah, my cousin used to work at SpaceX, and it’s sort of an open secret that they need to actively keep Elon away from the engineers. They have entire teams of people dedicated to shoving menial decisions and distractions in front of him, so he doesn’t have time to wander over to the engineers. Like as soon as he steps out of his office door, there are multiple people whose sole job is dedicated to subtlety redirecting him off to other non-critical wings of the building to keep him distracted. Because if he ever talks to the rocket engineers, he’ll try to one-up them by dropping some asinine “we’re going to do it this dumb way instead” decree that requires them to scrap their entire current project and start over from scratch (for the third time this week.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah. A guy I know who works at one of the Musk companies told me a much more abbreviated version of the same thing years and years ago. At the time, I along with everyone else thought Musk was a super-genius, so I just assumed the guy didn't want to deal with the emotional pain of having his work critiqued and have to go back and make it better, and thought no more about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah, he is Putin's puppet, just like trump. They have him on something too probably. Remember when he tried to assault a massage worker?

Here’s a look at Musk’s contact with Putin and why it matters

A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed to The Associated Press that Musk and Putin have had contact through calls. The person didn’t provide additional details about the frequency of the calls, when they occurred or their content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't tell us anything...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It would make perfect sense. I sort of assumed that something like that was the case, but I haven't been saying anything because I saw no actual indications or any evidence. But it would make perfect sense. Maybe they realized that Trump was too big a dope to be able to really deliver what they want, whereas Musk is the perfect supervillain to have as the new pledge trying to join their club.

That settles it then. My official prediction at this point is:

  • Musk keeps fucking everything up, with no one in our sclerotic government doing anything about it, until something goes really wrong. It actually might happen that bird flu or some geopolitical event happens first, and all the Musk-induced fuckery can kind of get overlooked in the chaos, but if no external crisis happens to divert attention I think it is inevitable that Musk will eventually pull the wrong lever and fuck things up badly enough for enough people that the country gets genuinely angry for real.
  • Trump blames Musk and throws him under the bus, which is a 100% predictable pattern
  • Musk flees to Russia, and keeps doing his shtick there until the end of time

Making predictions about the future is a fool's game, but every step of the process (except where that one first-step caveat is concerned) seems so absolutely inevitable that I feel comfortable tentatively laying it out as a prediction.

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[–] 9point6 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean it tracks for him, it's literally all he's ever done

[–] Maggoty 3 points 2 days ago

Good point. You can't make objective judgements of talent when you have a silver spoon shoved so far up your butt everyone lies to you about how you're doing. You just don't have the base of experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is he praising Russia though? Seems like he's praising trump for arranging the negotiations.

There's so much real shit to talk about I don't understand the obsession with deliberately misinterpreting stuff to make up fake things to get mad at.

The subtext is he's calling Biden incompetent by praising trump's competence. As compared to what, implying trump is incompetent in comparison to Russia? Why would he do that?

[–] BrokenGlepnir 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean that they can land an airplane? Is that what makes them competent?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

He means departing a plane without falling, or having toilet paper on his shoe, or getting his ass beat by an umbrella.

[–] chiliedogg 1 points 1 day ago

He's talking about being a passenger on an airplane.

[–] AeonFelis 3 points 1 day ago

Ushakov: "The main thing to do x.com/MarioNawfal/st...

[–] homesweethomeMrL 28 points 2 days ago

It's almost like he's a screaming drugged out pile of shit with all our fucking money

[–] Hobbes_Dent 19 points 2 days ago

Insane Clown Country.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, the same government that put a price on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan?

[–] ObsidianZed 6 points 2 days ago

I hate that there aren't actual timestamps on these.

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