• Basic Glitch@lemm.ee
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    I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again bc this just seems so obvious.

    I really think Peter Theil intentionally fucked him over again and made Musk a scapegoat. Not saying that to get people to feel bad for Elon, just pointing it out bc if true, it’s such a weird cruel intentions like mind game he’s been playing for years, but now he’s raised the stakes to involve so much power and corruption on a world stage.

    Idk if it’s just bc Theil really hates him or if it’s just bc he’s really a sociopath like Elon says. It would be odd for him to have it in so much for one person if it was just a sociopath thing though. Like it seems more like a personal vendetta.

    When Theil and Musk worked together at PayPal, Thiel took advantage of Musk leaving for his honeymoon for two weeks, and then while he was away, called a board meeting to vote Musk out. Apparently it really changed the way Musk thought about a work life balance, and he never really was the same afterwards.

    Flashforward to 2025. For months, starting on January 20th, Musk was constantly being presented by the press as this untouchable god like figure that couldn’t be removed from Trump’s office.

    Looking back now though, it seems like they maybe just got Elon to handle all the dirty work, attach his face and name to some truly despicable shit, made him the most hated man in the country, then gradually everything shifted. The press made him look like an annoying nuisance who was disrespected by all the “adults in the White House,” and got everyone to start questioning if his mental health was spiraling,

    Once the Senate confirmed Theil’s protege as Trump’s science advisor in charge of handling all technology and AI policy it was like somebody told Musk his services were no longer necessary. Kinda like they no longer needed Elon to leave his fingerprints on everything.

    Meanwhile Thiel has been successfully lurking in the shadows making some very successful deals.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    Hold on, here’s a report that my wife is looking for a better CEO! No, nope, I’m sorry, its absolute false. We are a happy couple. Couple means two. She was definitely not looking for a new CEO.

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    I hate that Nikola Tesla is associated with the Musk brand. He was a way better man than Musk (and Edison).

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      That is what Edison and Elmo do, they take the work of others and pretend it was then all along.

      Musk has no engineering knowledge whatsoever, yet claims to be the best engineer in the world based off what actual engineers at Tesla and SpaceX do

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    Why does Murdoch give a shit? They’re doing all the shit he wants anyway, is he mad they started misinterpreting his Aussie accent for a South African one?

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      Rupert stepped down in 2023, the next generation is so liberal that Rupert is trying to changed his trust/will to give it all to the one furtherest of n the right. Lachlan who is currently running shit.

      Lachlan still doesn’t like trump though:

      Although it has been assumed that Lachlan is more conservative than his siblings, it was reported that he did not support Trump’s presidency, and kept toilet paper printed with his face in his house during the 2016 campaign. However, he has backed his father’s moves in business, including defending Tucker Carlson when he was on the rise.[4]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch#Political_views

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    It’s an act.

    Elon spent the entire Superbowl hanging out in Rupert’s suite. These assholes planned all this shit.

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      Don’t disagree with you but I’m not sure what the goal here is if they’re both in on it

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        I personally think everyone is just self serving and advancing their own goals.

        Trump in office means more revenue for Murdoch owned publications.

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      And he’s done with Elon. Elon got used like the tool he is by Thiel, Murdoch and Trump. Musk scapegoat can now be sacrificed however they see fit

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        Yeah, they all use each other. They only see other people as something to consume and Elon was the one who everyone else pinned the blame on. Of the US suffers a systemic failure the blame is immediately directed at Elon or Trump. Both are fall guys for the billionaires using them.

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      I don’t disagree that this was planned, but I am not so sure Elon was ever really completely in on it the whole time, even if he thought he was.

      He’s a narcissist, so it seems unlikely he’d be ok with his mental health being questioned and looking like such a failure in the public spotlight.

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    Robyn Denholm: Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company. This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.

    “Exciting growth” as in aggressive malignant cancer of democracy and civic decency?