Submitted 3 weeks ago by Wursi@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
So here’s the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That’s several punlines worth of Jeff Foxworthy “You know you’re a redneck when” material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)
I love that his supposed IQ is 165 yet I have never seen him say or do anything remotely intelligent. I’m sure he paid someone to take the test for him just like he paid someone to play his video games for him. The only thing Elon is good at is spending money. Especially American tax payer’s money.
Rednecks were originally the coal miners in Virginia who fought the oligarchs in the battle of Blair Mountain. They wore red neckerchiefs to identify themselves. As with most leftist icons, decades of psyops have perverted the term.
All that to say, it is insulting to rednecks to compare Elon to them.
I always heard rednecks are the people on the farm that get red necks from the sun.
Completely agree. To be clear, I very much respect Rednecks. I do not respect Elon. He is a genuinely worse person than the most exagerated and derogatory punchlines of those jokes.
It was co-opted into including class struggle by the union movements but it was originally a (derogatory) word for poor farmers and labourers.
He paid other people to play games for him.
Of course he did. But he’s insisting, quite publically, that he didn’t. That it was only HIM that played said game for 10 hours a day.
Which means he’s an even bigger idiot than if he just told the truth. This guy WANTS you to believe he’s a loser that plays games as long as the people he pays. Believe him.
Because in reality he’s even more of a loser. Someone who needs to pretend to play video games with their money, rather than simply gaining the skill to do so themself.
And the fact he’s made this lie public, means he wants all of his investors to believe he’s the video game boy as well.
There’s literally no possible way for this behaviour to be stupider than it is. Because not admitting to this lie makes his actions stupid whether it’s a lie or not.
He either plays games 10 hours a day, or desperately wants you to believe he does. Both of these are stupid. And make him seems like a poor CEO to invest in.
Here’s the basic Google search 100% proving this is fact because his tweets are public and easily countable:
statswithsasa.com/…/elon-musk-definitely-tweets-t…
it took fewer than 50 days for Elon Musk to post ~3,200 tweets
Elon is averaging 67.8 tweets/day, and there have been weekdays (read: workdays) where he has tweeted over 150 times in one day.
Yes, that’s right. Using my method, I estimate that Elon spends ~2.7 hours per day on Twitter… there have been workdays where Elon Musk has spent over 5 hours on Twitter in a single day.
I even rounded that number down to make it easier to swallow.
Hadn’t begun the spiral into ket, it appears. Aw.
Those were the days, when Musk still had a “will they, won’t they” relationship with being a total piece of shit.
He was born in a spiral. He tried to rename PayPal “x” then tried to name several children “x” until he finally found a place that would allow it.
Mulon Esk is a complete idiot.
Yup. He cosplays a smart man. By buying smart ideas and pretending they are his. And then wrecking them. He’s as smart a man as trump is a good business man.
All the Chinese EV OEMs got a huge uplift after Elon was dumb enough to open a factory there…
They stole the ideas we stole!
No one stole anything. Chinese battery tech is a decade ahead of anyone.
This is not about Elon Musk or Tesla. The Chinese government has heavily subsidized EVs and related industries. They have to. Their dependence on oil is their greatest strategic weakness.
The US has backed off EV subsidies and continues to subsidize oil. See US actions in Venezuela.
You’re not wrong but dependence on oil is basically every country’s strategic weakness.
That is a fair point. China in particular is extraordinarily vulnerable due to how easy it is to cut off oil imports. China’s oil imports have to pass through the Strait of Malacca, a narrow corridor that is easily blocked.
Tesla is a zombie company, it’s already dead, and it will never come back. It will be bankrupt in 2 years.
I give it 10. But yes. I agree.
Tesla sales declined in 2024 and 2025. The decline in 2024 was small, but the decline in 2025 was almost 10% YoY.
Byd already sells vehicles in the United States. California has a byd bus plant. The govt doesn’t hate byd they just don’t want average consumers to have any
There’s currently a debate in Canada if we should allow Chinese EVs, honestly everything else is already made in china, and fears of spying? I trust the Americans even less, and they’re definitely spying on us
I’ve heard people debating the feaseability of either removing the camera cluster aboard these cars and remove or disable the wifi module.
Yes, that should be done in order to pass national certification. Having cameras is fine when used in a closed loop, streaming data away from the car though, that’s different.
Crazy that he sounds like a normal human here
Who would have guessed the moron with no real education, knowledge or experience in any profession, whose companies barely make it despite all the unfair advantages you can think of, is clueless just like he has been every day for the last 54 years of his life.
And I honestly believe the salary and working conditions at BYD are better than at Tesla.
You mean compared to 996? Actually yes probably. Compared to forced labor though, I wouldn’t go that far.
Wrong time to be of Uyghur heritage
TBF BYD is being sold all around the world and tesla is mostly american and maybe sells a bit in europe
Selling much less in Europe since the Nazi salute
…and Tesla’s stock price would hit record highs!
Worst part is … he’s still right according to the stock. That’s just madness.
Fuck FElon.
If Tesla cant compete, they will get the competition banned. Its happened before. Chicken tax
“I haven’t seen that car but I saw your dad”
“Have you seen their car?”
I’ve never sat in a tesla that didnt have an annoying plastic creak. Either when going over the road, or if you dare rest your arm on the door.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The average American truly doesn’t know just how much their entire market is already artificially forced to keep out better options simply because they aren’t American or aligned with American gov interests.
The result is we get objectively shittier stuff than the rest of the world. Huawei being banned in the US is a perfect example of this. The gov claims they ban this shit to stop Chinese infiltration, but the reality is its to eliminate competition for American and American aligned billionaires.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
A bit of column a, bit of column b. Ban Huawei, but Cisco is made in China too.
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then blame TP-Link, right?
qqq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huawei is a bad example of a good point. Huawei working on anything related to US infrastructure would be a disaster. Consumer goods maybe not so bad but that whole thing started because of B2B
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A disaster for whom?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s bit of both. I still wouldn’t trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US’ own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t selling your data to the government? Hmmm…
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not just that they don’t know. They’re willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot. I was talking to someone last week about how it’d be better to keep their older perfectly functional tools because the newer ones have been getting enshittified for decades. His only answer was like “well I can just replace them in if they break” which didn’t even address what I was talking about really.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“But it got electrolytes. That’s what plants crave”
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The same media is sent to all people in the west. The US is just some years ahead.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just learned headlight technology in new European cars is insane. Literally selectively blocks out light to incoming cars. So you can see the road at night and not blind people.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
It’s not an European exclusive, I once rented a Mazda CX30 that did that
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
My 2015MY has that as an option. It’s slick. I didn’t know it was available when I bought used but it’s a (€2500) DIY retrofit.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Huawei’s sin was making too good cellphone. I owned one right before US decided to ban Google Android from it. It was awesome phone.
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They keep out other options so that they can support American businesses.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This Huawei???