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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 258 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Maybe his politics are complicated. Did y’all consider that? That a white South African industrialist who dabbles in eugenics, treats employees like shit, and thinks catturd2 is funny might be a complex enigma?

[–] finley@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Whatever could be the politics of the tech billionaire son of a South African apartheid blood-emerald baron?

I wonder

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 months ago

It’s so mysteriass

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And he's the multibillionaire that actually wants to put microchips into people's heads unlike Bill Gates who's checks notes actually trying to cure malaria? (He's probably still not a saint though, every billionaire is part of the problem.)

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bill Gates has strong enough ties to Epstein that his wife divorced him and left their charitable foundation they started together. So idk man, he's not so great either

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/melinda-gates-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-bill-gates-divorce-gayle-king-interview

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what I said. But Musk is literally doing supervillian shit while Gates seems to be at least trying to do some good to outweigh the bad. Still, billionaires are a cancer to a planet. I just find it ironic that Gates has become this demonic figure for something he never did and what Musk is literally trying to do with no one batting an eye.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gates is a demon for fucking over the public education system. It's not eugenics level bad, but definitely a level somewhere in Dante's inferno.

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What did he do to public education?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Lots, like the trend to make micro schools inside larger schools. So instead of hiring more teachers to drive down class sizes, you do the opposite and hire more admins. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-plot-against-public-education-111630/

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you consider that you might not have the deep insight of a guy in a k-hole who spent 44 billion dollars to run a successful social media company into the ground?

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hey that was most likely a deliberate attack against journalism around the world so give him some credit

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/tweet-and-be-killed-c/

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Saudis backing him knowing he'd fuck twitter up was almost definitely deliberate. Musk himself fucking it up was likely just his ego and idiocy and not actually deliberate on his part

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk man, he was pretty pissed about that Jet Tracker. I think he also felt like he could better pump Tesla stock with whatever dregs were left of Twitter

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I get that, but the reason I think its incompetence is because he has a pretty fragile ego and the way he destroyed twitter makes him look INCREDIBLY stupid

[–] 242@lemmy.cafe 17 points 3 months ago

"It's complicated". Nah, not really. An egomaniac, rich asshole took refuge in the right wing safe space because they kiss his ass and call him a genius. But they still won't buy his electric cars.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Send this fucker to Orania along with all his supporters and enablers and burn the goddamn whole town to the ground. The world and South Africans would cheer.