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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 100 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone should hate Bill Gates, because he's one of the most awful humans on the planet, but he is undeniably way more intelligent than Musk. Gates has left a public legacy of charity and giving and kept his public image of "an actual brain genius" in tact despite how awful of a person he actually is. That's what real intelligence looks like. Meanwhile Musk goes out of his way day after day to demonstrate that he's got nothing coherent in his head whatsoever.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

i really wish more of them were melting down in this slow, simmering style that reveals how pathetic they are to the whole world.

it just being elon gives off a vibe of "bad apple" too much i want to see a bunch of billionaires slowly losing their minds in the most public way possible. really lift the veil

bill gates just has this swarmy "i have done awful things, gotten away with them, and theres nothing you worms can do about it" on his face every second and i hate it

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never ask Bill Gates where he was March 1st, 2013.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know the actual answer to this bit of trivia, but I'm going to randomly guess: doing sex crimes.

How close was I?

[–] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Seems I'm still batting 1.000 when I make that guess about rich people. Funny how that works.

[–] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That video of Bill Gates jumping over a chair lives rent free in my head

[–] VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen that video in at least 7 years, but this comment brought it straight back to my minds eye as vividly as if I had just watched it. How weird

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Bill Gates is buying up farmland so he can LARP as the Supreme Kulak during the upcoming climate crises famines.

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And this is just one tweet from his burner account. All of it is very sus, the man pretends to be a toddler online.

What a fucking weirdo. No wonder he is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Man imagine having all the fucking money in the world and still being pathetic enough to do shit like this. Just retire from public life you damn fucking moron, society allows you to buy off a gigantic plot of land, build your stupid fucking mansion in it and live a life of luxury. Truly the most intelligent specimen in the "capitalist" species. Divorce really shatters some men huh?

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Divorce really shatters some men huh?

Most men are too fragile to handle the truth that they are a bad partner.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as i've matured, i've come to realize that the vast majority of people in burgerland would immediately do [extreme self-harm] if they had to actually reckon with their treatment of other people.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These are the same people who've spent the past sixty years fleeing even the idea of reparations for genocidal colonialism and slavery like they're trying to dodge child support; they'd implode if they ever had to reckon with the rest of the world.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah Melon Husk is of white south african descent right? Lol

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Most if them do implode, just not all of them have the capital to buy their favorite social media platform.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Most men are too fragile to handle the truth that ~~they are a bad partner~~ women aren't property.

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Not divorced, you mentioning this is enough to shatter what little sense of self-worth I have. A CW would be much appreciated...

/s

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He already has all of that but what he really wants is to be funny on the Internet and he has squandered tens of billions of dollars in pursuit of it but he will never ever have it

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Which ironically makes him very funny on the internet

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The worst/funniest part is that he had a huge following of techbros and "my whole identity is being an engineer" people, who hung by his every word, and he wasted it all because he needed to be loved by everyone.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I were a billionaire I'd buy a P-liner, a blimp, a ski lodge and an apartment in a couple of cities I like and you'd never hear from me online. I'd probably still be a billionaire, because that's how wealth works. Or if the money doesn't obliterate my conscience I guess I'd give a bunch of money to zapatistas and do a left-wing Murdoch empire and abolish homelessness or something.
Either way I wouldn't be spending my one divine life posting on ~~twitter~~ ~~x~~ any social media.

Edit: You've got to be a very special kinda fucked up to not immediately check out once you become a billionaire. Think of how many of them there are, and how few of them we hear from or of?
I think Zuckerberg kinda had this realisation when he was amping up to run for president. "Wait I'm already a billionaire, why am I doing this shit? I want to live in a corporate VR hellscape where I am god, I don't give a shit about America! I'm gonna go do my weird waveboard thing, grill my meats and work on a worse version of 2nd life!"
George Lucas is the same. He lives on a ranch where he makes movies no one sees and once in a while he pops in to say shit like "Oh yeah the genre of music the cantina band played was called Jizz by the way."

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

this is most of the 80hrs/week he claims to work.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Calling himself Mr. Tesla. cringe

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

King of SpaceX is much more pathetic

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Lol, so much so that my brain glossed over it.data-laughing

It makes me think about Trump calling Farage “MR. BREXIT” feast-1feast-2

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

chefs-kiss just exquisite divorced posting

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That tweet about laughing/crying emojis is so true. I see those laughably cringy emojis used most often when I rip a shitty take to shreds, and they want to mock me without using actual rhetoric to defend themselves.

"Wow, YoU sounD LIkE A TRIGgEred woKe sjw WitH Blue Hair and prONouns 😂🤣"

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Any time I see that emoji I just think of this

[–] ergifruit@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

the only appropriate place for those is TikTok compilations of cats making funny faces after eating ice cream.

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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol. lmao.

i would feel bad, but Melon isnt worthy of any feeling beyond contempt

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fair but I'm genuinely excited for how a techbro in this neo-gilded age is demonstrating the abject lack of anything which the economy is built upon.

All the talk of innovation and disruption, of how Elon Musk is some genius and not just a privileged trust fund baby marketing to other privileged trust fund babies (like the majority of the art and music world, going by market share), and how it's anything but a massive grift... of course it's horrific and ultimately tragicomic but at the same time we are rapidly approaching a massive emperor-has-no-clothes moment with regards to Elon himself, the industries he represents, and the US economy itself (at least to a certain degree).

Y'know it's like the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos sorta thing or the Enron thing where there were knowledgeable experts sounding the alarm at the time but people ignored it because of the anarchy of the market and slick PR and the gaming of the economic system - on the outside looking in it's quite obvious what's going on and the underlying pathology in the political economy that gives rise to these phenomena but in the moment so many people get duped.

I think that people will look back on Elon Musk as an utter charlatan and a disaster, and hopefully it will provide people with insight into how the US economy actually functions, and to me that's a pretty exciting prospect. So I look on at Elon with excitement over what he might bring with him.

When Elon Musk first started talking about stepping down from Twitter, I had a discussion with a comrade. They said that they hoped Elon would step back from Twitter. I said that I hope he stays on leading Twitter because it risks him destroying his reputation and collapsing his empire and so even back then I saw his gross mismanagement of Twitter as an absolute win.

I'm no accelerationist but if capitalism is doing the accelerationism then I'm only concerned with doing what I can to mitigate the harm it inflicts on the proles; I do not care for curbing the self-destructive excesses of capitalism itself.

[–] gobble_ghoul@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that people will look back on Elon Musk as an utter charlatan and a disaster, and hopefully it will provide people with insight into how the US economy actually functions, and to me that's a pretty exciting prospect.

Actually Star Trek said he’s still beloved berdly-smug

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

We don't talk about Discovery here

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

He is genuinely such a pathetic man

[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Please Elon stop normalizing being so fucking pathetic I beg you

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Critical support to Grimes for allowing us to witness this… comedy.

[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Most divorced man in history

That should be Putin, no? Dude invading a country because he couldn’t get over his wife leaving him. Can Musk even compete with that?

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Here, comrade, you dropped your /s

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

russiagate-tier take

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Very powerful Millhouse's dad energy

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