Smerconish lavishes praise on Elon Musk; Twitter Take-Over; his own audience clowns him again

[Taylor]

What are you talking about? Trump was mentioned in the OP...

Did I say "you" or "they"?

 

[Common Sense 1]

Corporate hack, Michael Smerconish, tried to paint an illusion for his audience that Elon Musk is brilliant, Tony Stark-esque moderate who'd usher in a new glorious age of Twitter. His own audience wasn't buying it.



And proof that Elon Musk is a right-wing lunatic is that he calls people who disagree with him pedophiles. He's disgusting.



Also, Elon Musk is a subpar coder and never invented a single thing worth a dime. He's just another con artist who cracked the code on exploiting capitalism through self-promotion. Just like Donald Trump and that Theranos girl.

Musk dared to go against the cancel cult so now they will try their best to destroy him. Will they beat him up? Yes but in the end Musk will win. The left is petrified that Twitter could be fair to both to both sides.
If Musk takes Twitter, Trump and conservatives would get a fair shake.
Watch for all the get Musk threads.
You know the typical ones when the left goes after you!

 

[Fishking]

He was literally ousted from Paypal by Peter Thiel's team (the guy who actually made Paypal a success) for being grossly toxic and incompetent, and only scored the windfall that made the rest of his fortune possible because of his existing stake in the company from daddy's blood emerald money. This has largely established the guy's MO going forward: throw tons of money at people far more technically capable and competent than you and hope they make you rich, then generally try and take all of the credit. Let's not forget this is the guy whose spaghetti code he spent days and nights working on had to be thrown out and replaced wholesale by the work of actually competent coders because it was unsalvageably bad... something he threw an absolute bitch fit over because he's a childish narcissist.

The dude undeniably excels at raising money and being a shameless hype man (he may even be one of history's all time greats in this regard), but that's about where his talents begin and end.

Lol....Musk's businesses are wildly successful, which includes getting us back into space and growing the electric vehicle market. Your response? Paypal. A very basic online pay company. That's funny.

 

[Callen]

I don't think any of us really understand Musk. He is a very complicated man. I don't know what changes he will make or how significant they will be in impacting the business called Twitter but I think the changes may not be as profound as some think. He definitely talks about prompting open discussion of differing opinions but I very much doubt he will be irresponsible enough to let it become the wild west.

I also think some on the right are overthinking, or maybe underthinking, the actions of the Board. I think it has much less to do with their worry about allowing "conservatives to speak" and much more to do with ensuring that they act in the best financial interests of the shareholders and employees.

 

[Dans La Lune]

Musk is right-wing? List his political positions.

Pro-pedo accusations, small government libertarian (while having been bankrolled by the government), pro-corporation. Little or no regulations. He basically runs a sweat shop. He ran to Texas because he was getting scrutiny over his companies from environmental and work conditions. His companies are RIFE with racism. He engages in pump and dump schemes to enrich himself.

Yeah...he's just a maroon...that somehow lucked into building businesses that are advancing technology, which includes getting us into space again, which our bloated government with NASA was struggling to do. Hell, NASA wasn't even building our own rocket engines and had to buy them from Russia.

He builds carnival rides to space for billionaires.

 

[Dans La Lune]

I don't think any of us really understand Musk. He is a very complicated man.

Many humans are complicated. What makes Musk different? He has terrible ideas, so he's not a genius. See his hyperloop. How was this project ever green lit?

 

[Dans La Lune]

 

[Fishking]

Pro-pedo accusations, small government libertarian (while having been bankrolled by the government), pro-corporation. Little or no regulations. He basically runs a sweat shop. He ran to Texas because he was getting scrutiny over his companies from environmental and work conditions. His companies are RIFE with racism. He engages in pump and dump schemes to enrich himself.

1. Pro-pedo accusations = true
2. Libertarian =/= right wing.
3. The left is currently the biggest pro-corporation group out there.
4. Expound on where you are getting your "little to no regulation" claim.
5. Sweat shops? Huh?
6. Texas isn't a sweat shop or anything else. It gets businesses because of lower taxes. Many companies have left California to Texas. That's a business decision and not left/right.
7. Really? Support your claim.
8. That's also not a left/right thing, even if I accept your claim. The worst person around for this type of thing is the leftist hero George Soros. Find out why he'll never step foot in the UK again.

He builds carnival rides to space for billionaires.

See...it's statements like this that really tips your hand in how utterly bunk your position is.

SpaceX launches 40 satellites into orbit, lands rocket at sea

It was the seventh flight for this Falcon 9 first stage.

www.space.com

Rocket Lab will try to catch falling booster with helicopter today: Watch live

Liftoff is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT).

www.space.com

 

[Dans La Lune]

1. Pro-pedo accusations = true
2. Libertarian =/= right wing.

He's not a left-wing libertarian.

3. The left is currently the biggest pro-corporation group out there.

Corporate Dems are right-wing.

4. Expound on where you are getting your "little to no regulation" claim.

Elon Musk’s War on Regulators

The Tesla and SpaceX chief has become one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs by reinventing industries from electric cars to rockets. Along the way, he’s also rewritten the rules of engagement with U.S. regulators.

www.wsj.com

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says U.S. government should avoid regulating crypto

Tesla chief Elon Musk on Tuesday said the government should steer clear of trying to regulate the crypto market.

www.cnbc.com

Elon Musk warned against excessive regulations, offered leadership tips, and bemoaned a lack of new candy bars in a recent interview. Here are the 12 best quotes

The Tesla and SpaceX boss also highlighted the dangers of memes, the outlook for AI, and the need for tunnels under cities.

markets.businessinsider.com

5. Sweat shops? Huh?

You heard me correctly.

A Modern Day Sweatshop: The Tesla Factory Secrets Elon Musk Doesn't Want You To Know

Fearing punishment, employees would bleed on the line instead of going to bandage themselves up.

perfectunion.us

Tesla employees fear unsafe conditions at factory, call it ‘modern-day sweatshop’

SF Weekly today published an exposé about poor work conditions at Tesla’s plant. The echoes reports received by Electrek.

electrek.co

Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: 'Everything feels like the future but us'

Exclusive: CEO Elon Musk defends workplace, saying ‘[we are not] just greedy capitalists who skimp on safety’ – and declares his $50bn company overvalued

www.theguardian.com

6. Texas isn't a sweat shop or anything else. It gets businesses because of lower taxes. Many companies have left California to Texas. That's a business decision and not left/right.

He ran there because of regulators. The right-wing allow him to do anything, because he's an oligarch.

7. Really? Support your claim.

California sues Tesla for alleged discrimination, racial slurs at plant

California regulators allege the company has been discriminating against Black employees who have been likened to monkeys and slaves at the San Francisco Bay Area factory where most of its vehicles are made.

www.pbs.org

 

[Callen]

Many humans are complicated. What makes Musk different? He has terrible ideas, so he's not a genius. See his hyperloop. How was this project ever green lit?

Complicated doesn't make him different just not one who can't defined by a few words.His ideas may seem terrible to some but they are definitely a tad risky and he goes for it. I have no particular opinions of Musk one way or the other, except to say I think he can be very flaky and I think he good be a sorta modern version of Howard Hughes.

 

[Dans La Lune]

Complicated doesn't make him different just not one who can't defined by a few words.His ideas may seem terrible to some but they are definitely a tad risky and he goes for it. I have no particular opinions of Musk one way or the other, except to say I think he can be very flaky and I think he good be a sorta modern version of Howard Hughes.

I don't see much that separates Elon Musk from Trump. Seems like you kinda fell for his shtick, if I'm being honest.

 

[Callen]

I don't see much that separates Elon Musk from Trump. Seems like you kinda fell for his shtick, if I'm being honest.

As I say...I have no opinion one way or the other about Musk. I certainly haven't fallen for his shtick, whatever that is. He has simply not been on my radar much. The bit I have seen of him he strikes me as an odd eccentric with a ton of money that he uses for toys that interest him.

 

[Dans La Lune]

As I say...I have no opinion one way or the other about Musk. I certainly haven't fallen for his shtick, whatever that is. He has simply not been on my radar much. The bit I have seen of him he strikes me as an odd eccentric with a ton of money that he uses for toys that interest him.

'Musk is so mysterious. He has a one in a million brain. Can we really understand such a man?'

That shtick.

 

[Felis Leo]

Elon Musk accumulated a lot of wealth by suckering people like you into believing he's Tony Stark. I already conceded that he cracked the code that allowed him to exploit capitalism, which is to a large extent a system that rewards con artists.

He made electric vehicles desirable to mainstream Americans across the political spectrum. And unlike the Elizabeth Holmes, his products actually worked.

 

[Callen]

'Musk is so mysterious. He has a one in a million brain. Can we really understand such a man?'

That shtick.

How could I fall for a shtick I have never heard? Who said that? When did they say it? I truly have had very limited exposure to Musk outside of the news he makes re Tesla and of course his space initiatives. The few times I have seen him interviewed he seems to be a tad whacky but I also recognize he has been incredibly successful and I do think he has an interesting entrepreneurial streak. Politically, I have no idea where he stands....he seems to have a foot in both camps. I think he is a very complicated person.... and my thoughts are not that complicated.

 

[Surrealistik]

Lol....Musk's businesses are wildly successful, which includes getting us back into space and growing the electric vehicle market. Your response? Paypal. A very basic online pay company. That's funny.

The point is that the windfall that allowed him to throw money at Tesla and Space X came from venture capital that was his father's ill gotten blood emerald money and from a company whose success he had less than nothing to do with and; that he was booted from for toxicity and incompetence:



Meanwhile, he had exactly nothing to do with the technology developed by Tesla and Space X save for the money from Paypal he didn't earn, the cash he begged investors for, and generous government handouts.

 

[Fishking]

He's not a left-wing libertarian.

Libertarian is neither right or left wing on the political scale.

Corporate Dems are right-wing.

So are progressives.

Elon Musk’s War on Regulators

The Tesla and SpaceX chief has become one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs by reinventing industries from electric cars to rockets. Along the way, he’s also rewritten the rules of engagement with U.S. regulators.

www.wsj.com

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says U.S. government should avoid regulating crypto

Tesla chief Elon Musk on Tuesday said the government should steer clear of trying to regulate the crypto market.

www.cnbc.com

Elon Musk warned against excessive regulations, offered leadership tips, and bemoaned a lack of new candy bars in a recent interview. Here are the 12 best quotes

The Tesla and SpaceX boss also highlighted the dangers of memes, the outlook for AI, and the need for tunnels under cities.

markets.businessinsider.com

None of that means no regulations, except for perhaps crypto.

You heard me correctly.

A Modern Day Sweatshop: The Tesla Factory Secrets Elon Musk Doesn't Want You To Know

Fearing punishment, employees would bleed on the line instead of going to bandage themselves up.

perfectunion.us

Tesla employees fear unsafe conditions at factory, call it ‘modern-day sweatshop’

SF Weekly today published an exposé about poor work conditions at Tesla’s plant. The echoes reports received by Electrek.

electrek.co

Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: 'Everything feels like the future but us'

Exclusive: CEO Elon Musk defends workplace, saying ‘[we are not] just greedy capitalists who skimp on safety’ – and declares his $50bn company overvalued

www.theguardian.com

Lol....sweat shops in California? No. You know who runs sweat shops, woke-ass Nike and Apple with all their manufacturing done in China.

He ran there because of regulators. The right-wing allow him to do anything, because he's an oligarch.

There are regulations in Texas, just more reasonable ones. Your comment is silly, and you don't actually have a problem with oligarchs, so long as they agree with you. Did you freak out when Bezos bought the WaPo or the Sulzberger family running the NYT?

California sues Tesla for alleged discrimination, racial slurs at plant

California regulators allege the company has been discriminating against Black employees who have been likened to monkeys and slaves at the San Francisco Bay Area factory where most of its vehicles are made.

www.pbs.org

An alleged claim at a factory in San Fransisco no less. Yeah...seems like you're grasping at a lot of straws here, hoping something sticks.

 

[bomberfox]

Accomplishement is relative.

He's a modern pharaoh. Rich, because people before him were rich, and held up as a god by those who didn't win the geopolitical lottery, and cant simply snap their fingers into wealth. Understandable, but foolish.

The older I get, the more I conclude a stable family life is probably the biggest accomplishment any human can have. Musk falls very, very low on those rankings.

I guess every "great" man has a shitty family life, but Musk isnt solving quantum theory in his spare time.

Then again he is a beneficiary of the apartheid regime.

 

[Fishking]

The point is that the windfall that allowed him to throw money at Tesla and Space X came from venture capital that was his father's ill gotten blood emerald money and from a company whose success he had less than nothing to do with and; that he was booted from for toxicity and incompetence:



Meanwhile, he had exactly nothing to do with the technology developed by Tesla and Space X save for the money from Paypal he didn't earn, the cash he begged investors for, and generous government handouts.

Your point is ****ing dumb because none of that created these wildly successful companies that are pushing the boundaries in many tech areas and has resulted in him being the richest man in the world.

 

[bomberfox]

I dont necessarily hate Musk, he did some things right even though some of his ideas were pure poppycock from even an engineering standpoint. Those getting all bent out of shape when people criticize musk just need to shut the **** up, Musk wont come to your house and give you a smooch for defending him.

 

[Surrealistik]

Your point is ****ing dumb because none of that created these wildly successful companies that are pushing the boundaries in many tech areas and has resulted in him being the richest man in the world.

Of course they did; his unearned blood emerald money from daddy Warbucks became an unearned Paypal windfall which he in turn threw at Tesla and Space X, without which they would haven't been able to develop.

The bottom line is this: Musk had exactly nothing to do with the success of these companies, their R&D or their technology beyond being a money man and a promoter.

 

[j brown's body]

Musk reminds me of Roman Roy.

 

[ChickenTendies]

Libertarian is neither right or left wing on the political scale.

Libertarian socialists are not left wing?

 

[Fishking]

Of course they did; his unearned blood emerald money from daddy Warbucks became an unearned Paypal windfall which he in turn threw at Tesla and Space X, without which they would haven't been able to develop.

The bottom line is this: Musk had exactly nothing to do with the success of these companies, their R&D or their technology beyond being a money man and a promoter.

Lots of people get money from their parents. That's not unique at all. What's unique is what he has created.

 

[Fishking]

Libertarian socialists are not left wing?

Libertarian is not left or right wing.