• krisevol@lemmus.org
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    22 days ago

    He didn’t have a trillion dollars. He has stocks that have a market cap of a trillion.

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    22 days ago

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure the South African heir to a family fortune including an emerald mine needed there to be starving children just to get hard… Till the ketamine made that a thing of the past.

    Its funny to think the guys only talents are existing wealth and super favourable PR. I wonder if he will be the first trillionaire to die of a drug overdose or if he will fall victim to the same country he regularly and repeatedly fucks to “make” his “money”.

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        21 days ago

        Well yeah, but then again no. He sells well to a particular segment. Also it really wasn’t that long ago he was regarded as essentially real life Tony Stark by a wide enough chunk of the world that they could just massage the media to make that the reporting.

        People still buy Teslas, people still use Twitter, and people still use Starlink… I don’t know what to tell you but the super power of buy other peoples shit, file off the serial numbers and pretend you are a genius has worked for him and continues to work for him.

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          21 days ago

          Then again just because their are idiots buying into this doesn’t mean its good PR. Good PR gets both the idiots and the regular folk. You cannot sieg heil and te me that’s skilled PR.

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            21 days ago

            Oh no the shine has worn off for people with the smallest hint of principal. Before I could be bothered learning anything about him, shortly after he acquired Tesla I didn’t have enough incentive to learn anything about him. Ergo my mental picture of him was vaguely aligned with the image he was curating.

            About the same time I heard him speak the first time I realised he was a fuckwit who only managed to get where he was via family money and failing upwards.

            Same as I broadly didn’t mind the first Tesla I saw, these days I wouldn’t buy one under any circumstances. Part of that is all the car people I know pointing out how shit they are, part is how cringe everyone who owns/drives one is, and the rest is a deep-seated desire to not give that fuckwit any more money.

  • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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    22 days ago

    The photo cuts off the name of the bus stop! From the routes it might be up the Tottenham High Road. Possibly Angel? I might look out for it next time I’m up that way!