I keep telling that Musk is the McAfee of 2020's, but nobody listens...
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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I used to joke that McAfee left every conversation by yelling, "MCAFEE RULES!" and jumping out the nearest window.
At least, I think it was a joke...
This is brilliant!
Come on, you can't just mention him and not link his crazy-ass video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
I think more like 2019 because the worst is yet to vome
The creepy thing is that people still listen to him and trust him with their money. Sell your Tesla stock. Sell your Tesla cars. Sell, sell, sell!
I don't necessarily want to say without evidence that this is what happens when people sell their souls to the devil, because I can neither prove that human beings have a soul to begin with nor as to whether or not there actually exists a "devil" in any sort of tangible cosmogenic sense, but one of three things has to be going on at this point.
One, Elon has always been crazy to some extent and in this instance that craziness was enough to net him an enormous amount of success and followers, but now the world is getting to see what happens when a crazy person is given a huge amount of success.
Two, there is some shady stuff going on in the background between Elon and his private funders, and this craziness is happening because it has to happen in order to satisfy the people who hold the purse strings.
Three, Elon has sold his soul to the devil and this is what happens when the devil collects his due.
Of course it could be some combination of these three things but most likely it's a combination of one and two.
This is what happens when you surround yourself with Yes people and get rid of or filter out anyone who says no.
Endless confirmation bias drives people crazy, and is the root of the "absolute power circuits corrupts absolutely."
Three, Elon has sold his soul to the devil and this is what happens when the devil collects his due.
He has metaphorically done this already. He clearly has abandoned any sense of morality or ethics for personal gain. This is true regardless of how he got here. He is just evil now.
I don't think people are giving enough credit to the timing of all this, which while I'm not obsessed enough about Musk to nail down accurately, seems to have started with his divorce.
It's like his whole personality just fractured.
In that case, then Grimes must have been like a psychological sponge soaking up enough of the crud that Elon could keep it together in public, and now that he doesn't have that we're getting 100% pure unadulterated Elon.
I think that there's a lot of successful people like that, who use their family as dumping grounds for their toxic emotional baggage. After all, everyone has emotional baggage. No one is pure and perfect. We all deserve some criticism.
Some of us will grow from it the way the wind strengthens the trees, especially when we are well watered and cared for.
People who follow in the path of Satan actually do good things. Like fight for LGBT+ and abortion rights. Satan is the one that told everyone they should exercise their free will, think for themselves, have bodily autonomy, support LGBT+, etc.
Elon sold his soul to the prosperity gospel, if anything. He thinks he can do no wrong and no matter what happens he will roll in increasingly large piles of money. I would even go so far to say that he is entitled to it no matter what poor decisions he makes.
This is just Kanye/Trump 2.0. Dude has been spoiled for so long, never being told no, surrounded by yes men, told he's a genius, literally worshipped by some people... Even if he's not mentally ill that's enough to fuck up your brain.
I mean... this isn't even new. Look at his x.com days. X.com was incompetent while cofinity already had payments working between palm pilots. In 1998! X.com got bought out as a competitor, and somehow Elon was given enough control to completely fuck things up before he was fired. The only thing he's been good at is getting weird nerds (hard to even call them nerds, cause nerds are supposed to be smart) to jizz their pants whenever he says anything remotely technical sounding that doesn't even make much sense. Experts have been calling him out forever and everyone stuck their head in the sand. For DECADES! And women have said he's a nasty creep for a long time too.
It's the same shit y'all just didn't see it.
It's because he's a really good salesman. That's pretty much it. He knows how to pitch an idea that sounds amazing and convince people that it will work. The only problem is that unless you have a solid track record of your ideas/pitches actually working, the veil begins to fall and people begin to see you for the con man that you are.
What a good summary.
He needs to get back on his meds.