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Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He's more like

How I've always seen him

I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.

Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn't help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.

He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.

It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.

He never was not a villain.

He's not that competent, in either incarnation.

I remember in the very early days not getting the full 'hype' of "MUSK IS SO SMART", but I enjoyed him as a "This is what happens when some ordinary dweeb becomes incredibly wealthy - he wants to throw money at space and technology. That's neat."

His PR guys must've done a good job at keeping the worst of his tendencies behind closed doors - or at least further than most casual observers would look. Around the time of the 'pedo guy' incident it began to unravel for me. Curious that a social media addiction undid all the work of his PR team.

Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the "pedo guy" slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you've been paying attention he's been outing himself for a long time.

Musk was already a notoriously lying grifter 10 year ago.

It's only naive fanboys who were too immature be able to set aside the natural human tendency to look up to famous people and/or did not had the life experience to recognize and be suspicious of salesman bollocks (whether decorated with techie terms or otherwise) when they heard it that didn't suspect the guy was something else than what the adoring fans thought.

It's not by chance that Musk's fanboys were mainly young adult and teen techies.

False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat

Never fell for this BS. Fuck elmo and fuck ironman too. No platform for fascism.

Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.

more like

I hate to break it to the people 10 years ago, but Musk has always been a horrible person

Back then he had a PR team. He probably fired them because he started buying their lies.

I'm man enough to admit that I thought he was the closest thing we had to Tony Stark even though I knew at the time he wasn't really that close to Tony Stark, and now I know just how wrong I was. Damn.

Thanos, really? I'd say more like Hancock. Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later.

No on is looking at elon like that,and no one ever did

These days he looks more like this:

He has always been...

Was more or less aware of who he was until the cave incident where all his worse tendencies came to light with enough reach to get to me.

Then some research later, I was aware of tech bros and their ilk.

He has been a scumbag since forever.
From the Thai 'pedophile' incident to wanting to keep his factories open in peak Covid times under Biden.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
Hypocrites

ITT: people saying they always knew

What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed

Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.

BLUE MAGA MODS DELETE THIS FOR RULE 2!!!

LOL

I always saw Musk as a dumbass who didn't know what he was doing.

Actual Elon.

Nah, at least Thanos thought he was doing the right thing. His goals were ultimately noble but psychotic.

Elon doesn't care about doing the right thing, he only cares about money and his ego.

I thought it was cool that he was making space ships and EVs. I like space. I like EVs. Guess I was naïve.