this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
1296 points (99.2% liked)

Enough Musk Spam

2292 readers
189 users here now

For those that have had enough of the Elon Musk worship online.

No flaming, baiting, etc. This community is intended for those opposed to the influx of Elon Musk-related advertising online. Coming here to defend Musk or his companies will not get you banned, but it likely will result in downvotes. Please use the reporting feature if you see a rule violation.

Opinions from all sides of the political spectrum are welcome here. However, we kindly ask that off-topic political discussion be kept to a minimum, so as to focus on the goal of this sub. This community is minimally moderated, so discussion and the power of upvotes/downvotes are allowed, provided lemmy.world rules are not broken.

Post links to instances of obvious Elon Musk fanboy brigading in default subreddits, lemmy/kbin communities/instances, astroturfing from Tesla/SpaceX/etc., or any articles critical of Musk, his ideas, unrealistic promises and timelines, or the working conditions at his companies.

Tesla-specific discussion can be posted here as well as our sister community /c/RealTesla.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

alt account is Adrian Dittman

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] schteph@lemmy.world 124 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm obviously out of the loop. What happened?

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 135 points 6 days ago (2 children)

https://lemm.ee/post/51079641/17150600

Adrian Dittmann, the one replying to Musk in this tweet, is apparently Musk's alt account.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

Oh God. How pathetic is it that you create and alt to play with yourself. That's like getting mad at your imaginary friend for ghosting you.

[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Don't blue check marks get paid based on their number of views cause of ads and "creator payout" stuff? Is this Musk's side hustle lmao

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Nah the blue check mark is quite random now that musk owns twitter

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

I haven’t heard a single peep of anyone getting paid by twitter since the first few checks went out. I don’t think he’s doing that anymore and it was always completely arbitrary who got paid (by which I mean it was only popular accounts that he liked).

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Oh my fucking god. I only mostly read his tweets and quotes, never really hearing Musk talk much, especially not in a "debate". I didn't realize how incredibly childish, arrogant, and downright moronic he was in an argument. All he does is talk over a well-articulated point before the person could finish it by insulting the other party and laughing dumbly at his own joke as if he had made some sort of zinger. And the very few times he doesn't do that he uses blatant strawman arguments.

This is literally like a child yelling back "Oh yeah?Well, your face is stupid!" How the fuck is this person the richest person on Earth? He wouldn't even be able to keep a fast food employee job.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Elon Musk is proof that being rich does not require competence, intelligence, or hard work. (Hint: it's luck and having rich parents)

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Actually, it also necessitates a minimal ability to play the sidelines, manipulate and trick people and a complete lack of morality to use those abilities. He didn't found Tesla. He stole it from its original founders by placing people who were loyal to him on the board.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Having rich parents is part of the luck. What's better than gambling with your vast fortune? Gambling with someone else's vast fortune.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago

Our society is structured so that the rich fail upwards, and Elon is a huge failure so he floats the best.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Makes sense why he and trump get along.

"No puppet no puppet you're the puppet"

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

He’s rich cuz daddy gave him starter funds and he got lucky investing in paypal (which he tried to name X).

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Money can buy expensive voice modulation software, but it apparently can't buy one's way out of stupidity. Using the same speech patterns, grammar, inflection, and laugh... he really isn't the brightest spark in the tesla coil, is he?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He never had the right to use the name Tesla, especially because Tesla was the underdog in electricity that was burned by the same capitalism he’s championing. He’s hired very smart people and then thinks that by hiring said people he’s on their level, classic capitalist mistake

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why, but I find it very funny that Elon is basically Edison and using Tesla's name and also that there's an underdog electric truck company named Edison motors that's basically making a fully electric semi with an onboard motor specifically because the dude got fucked on a Tesla semi.

I think an Edison-like company appropriating Tesla's name is peak Edison behavior.

I'm pretty sure they where named Tesla before Musk first invested in them.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Using the same speech patterns, grammar, inflection, and laugh... he really isn't the brightest spark in the tesla coil, is he?

To do otherwise would require the awareness that other people have different speech patterns. I'm surprised his narcissism let him think using a different name would influence people.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 7 points 6 days ago

Voice changer software is super cheap too

[–] drmoodmood@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 days ago

Welp, even with voice modulation "Adrian" sounds just like Elon. The speech patterns line up to the point I couldn't much tell he was using voice mod at all.

[–] __nobodynowhere@startrek.website 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Holy shit. Elon or not that guy is embarrassing to listen to.

He adds nothing of value to the conversation and just throws insults to deflect. The most cringe worthy, brain rot insults possible.

This country is fucked.

Just another data point that shows you don't need to be smart to be rich.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I am well acquainted with tricking drug addicts. I’ve been to Phish concerts.

Glorious.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Guy reads like a huge asshole in his own right though.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah, he's citing Trump, talking about symbology and Baphomet armour, presenting half-baked arguments as if he has a video of Elon saying that was him. I mean, it probably was, but this reads like a conspiracy theory

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Trolling someone to the point of emotional dysregulation is kind of a big hint to that end though.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

For anyone who, like me, wasn't going to play the clip at the above link, holy crap go do so. It's incredibly comical.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 26 points 6 days ago

Samesies. Wtf happened? Lol