Every time, I hear about how Musky wants to be liked. I think of Jeb Bush and “Please clap”.
I was one of those pro Elon before he said something about the cave divers were pedos. I’m like whoa. That’s a stupid thing to say. Ever since then it was downhill.
He wasn’t unlikable, but did also benefit from the Reddit and online hive mindset. It was impossible to criticize him since he was “on a noble mission to expand science/tech, eco friendly transport and rockets”.
I was also one of the people that thought he was interesting. Once you look back you see that there were small clues like people talking about him getting kicked out of PayPal for what seems like incompetence and what not. His PR team really did a great job of keeping him clean for a while there.
The quick 360 on policies does show that he is like any other CEO or executive, someone that will lie in your face to sell you something and line his pockets.
Edit: on retrospective he is like many career politicians, just more unhinged since he has a lot of nepo money to fall back into.
He was even a guest on SNL which is normally reserved for progressive people. I guess he had most of us fooled.
“Mr musk”
In some places using formality like that is intentionally very disrespectful. Though it often can be used similarly for high respect. Thus leading to people like me who would call Angela Davis “Dr Davis” out of respect, but also would call Elon “Mr Musk” but I’d use a more customer service style voice for him.
I’m Canadian so I’m not sure how it comes across to other cultures but from my perspective it’s a bit too polite. Mr cockroach sounds a bit more like it.
Yeah I suspect it comes from customer service. It’s very much a “sir you’re making a scene” vibe rather than a “yes sir” vibe. It’s more respectful here to assume someone can handle being treated as an equal without being an asshole about it.
He was a piece of shit a long long time ago. Born from a lineage of pieces of shit. Just no one really cared when he was fucking up his own companies.
I will never be such a big fuck up that I have to beg the president of the United States to endorse my product and company as a PR move.
Fuck Elon
