• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That was my first reaction to this.

      How can someone be simultaneously so powerful and so immature? What batshit insane circumstances have given this manchild so much influence?

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        1 year ago

        What batshit insane circumstances have given this manchild so much influence?

        patriarchal white supremacist capitalism

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        1 year ago

        It’s all an act, why are people still paying attention to him?

        Leave x

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        11 months ago

        Well he inherited a lot of money, invested in the people who who were technically very competent and driven, then when he got hype he was able to attract more people like that, he made two investments that were popular among the leftwing during the Obama years so lots of government cash, and then established people just assume the stock prices of his companies could only go up.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s thousands less since he fired all l those twitter employees. And he wants Teslas to both be built by robots and to drive themselves. So at least he’ll be increasingly less responsible for jobs that are subject to harassment and racism as time goes by.