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@grumpygamer unfortunately Musk has been exactly like this his whole life and a lot of the press over the years has been complicit in building a fake image of who he actually is.

@grumpygamer That's exactly when I realize what type of person he was too. Only got worse since, fuck this nazi loser.

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@grumpygamer That was the first moment for me too. The car going into orbit didn't sit well with me either. We were supposed to think it was cool, but I found it wasteful, crass, irreverent and a bit unhinged.

@grumpygamer funny because we all known he has Epstein ties

@grumpygamer yeah. Before that I thought he'd not be a great hang but an industrialist wedging into an established industry in one arena and large government privatization in another will have sharp elbows.
After that it's been all downhill with anti-union actions, FSD debacle after debacle, transphobia, inserting himself into the Ukraine war by way starlink deactivations, platforming & amplifying Nazis, and on & on

@grumpygamer I’m happy I threw the Isaacson book in the thrash years ago.

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I understood who he was when, shortly after buying twitter, he had to have the purpose of the Comments code explained to him, in the coding he insisted all his employees print out, on paper.

This is like an English teacher needing to know what the period at the end of a sentence is for.

The biggest frauds are the rich ones.

@grumpygamer around the same point for me also, though I can't remember if Hyperloop and anti-public transport mutterings had sent up a few red flags prior. The Thai cave definitely crystallised it - seemed so out of left-field at the time.

@grumpygamer For me it was the flamethrower, but I still thought it might be an American thing to love weapons. But with the cave, it was clear that he was an idiot. I was very surprised that the media continued to treat him as a visionary.

@grumpygamer I did the same in 2020 when he said that normal people lose more due to covid limitations than those who would soon die anyway would lose by dying.

@grumpygamer Congrats for realizing it at the point most people did. Very edgy.

@grumpygamer Dude I 100% think the same!

@grumpygamer This this this.

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@gavinkarlmeier mentioned that terrible anecdote in our German "Help us! We don't know what the heck is going on in the world anymore." twitch stream.

@grumpygamer "He has no redemption arc." like all fascists.

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I hate to disagree but there is exactly one way he could redeem himself.

He just needs to do what the guy who killed Hitler did.

Easy peasy.

@grumpygamer I remember back in 2019 or so, him ranting on Twitter about artists who'd ask to be credited when people share their art.
He somehow thought credit destroys the medium. I'm pretty sure now it's because he wanted people to assume that he made it.
Then he pushed for AI gen art.

Richest man alive denying artists (most of them on unsteady income) from getting contracts again. Absolute maggot.

@grumpygamer And Trump - that was a long time ago, when I learned he travelled around in a personal 737. Back then I had no idea how much the monster would eventually force himself on us all. How his stupid clown face would be everywhere all the time.

@grumpygamer Maybe he can get himself trapped in a cave and nobody comes to save him?

@grumpygamer yep. That was the moment for me as well.

@grumpygamer Same here, that was the moment when I became aware of how horrible he was . Prior to that I had uncritically bought the line he was a tech genius on par with Jobs.

@grumpygamer that was when I realized he wasn't who his PR team tried to make us think he was.

@grumpygamer New Zealand is looking better and better by the day, isn't it?