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  • So there are multiple factors with his rise, which I’ll try to list as coherently as possible but my autistic logic doesn’t want to accept the irrationallity of a lot of it so if it seems scattered that’s why.

    So an easy point to start is that I think he was way more functional in the late 90s and early 2000s, looking at what little there is of him he seems a bit more rounded with less random incoherentcy. He seems less impulsive and generally more deliberate, not to say he was great since he still has rich dipshits failson energy but he wasn’t the mess he is today.

    Secondly I think he has a specific nact for getting money from rich folks, I suspect he learned what made rich folks interested in investing in things growing up. This social intelligence made him great at getting his foot in combine that with him being a decent hype man and ya have an easy way to get money. Theres a story of him shoving a standard computer into a big fancy box then showing it to investors which is rather clever and a good bit of showmanship.

    Then theres some incredible luck first PayPal buys his company and he gets a shit tonne of share, then he gets paid to fuck off because he was a liability to PayPal. Then he invests into Tesla really fucking early on and gets a controlling share, then electric cars pop off and oh look Tesla is right fucking there. He got really lucky with the previous points only amplifying his luck.

    To summarize musk had the perfect mix of luck, charisma, and just enough intelligence to capitalize on it. But here’s the thing the Elon Musk of today ain’t the one of 2001 hell it ain’t even the one of 2012, he has fried his brain on his own ego and ketamine. Also the very traits that made him successful are the very traits now making folks wish for his death or have outright disappeared.

    His showmanship lead him to outright lying to the public which folks remembered. His charisma failed because he forgot how to read a room. His luck may have given him power but now folks may actually kill him. His worst traits like his thrill seeking have taken him from ripping a super car in half to ripping a government in half.

    Musk of 2001 was lucky and vaguely intelligent, Musk of 2025 is just lucky and who knows how long that’ll last





  • I know there’s a lot of pushback of the founding fathers due to the general pushback against American exceptionalism but let’s not lump up folks who were generally positive for society with active leaches.

    Also adultery is the least of both their crimes, it just happens that as a politician, legal theorist, and scientist there’s a lot that Benjamin Franklin did that helps give some positives to him. He was a shit person in many ways, but he was still decently intelligent. Trump is just shit with no respectable qualities and nothing to offer mankind except misery.




  • Well that and the fact that some of us define better in such ways that others think may be worse. For example there was a trend some years back where Instagram models were damaging Joshua trees, I am of the complete and unshakable opinion that their blood shouldve water a new Joshua tree and their corpse reduced to mulch for said tree. I aint got nothing against whoring oneself out after all money is money but hurting the Joshua trees is a worthy of death.


  • I didnt notice it till your comment but Musks spiral of stupidity lines up with him losing positive social influence. Motherfucker has nothing to fill the void so he is instead chasing higher and higher positions to try to scratch that itch, it matches up pretty well when you use his early publicity stunts as the start, the purchase of Twitter as a midpoint, and now as the current high and your probably right he cant get too much more influence meaning he is probably not far from trying to shoot someone. Lets hope he goes for Trump as a target cause at least then nobody of worth will get hurt.