He then called the DOGE work necessary but said that “working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done.”

“I think starting probably next month in May, my time allocation to those will drop significantly,” he said.

He added that he expected to keep working for the government one or two days a week for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s presidency to “make sure that the waste and fraud that we stopped does not come roaring back.” DOGE has not yet proved the fraud it alleges.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    1343 months ago

    Quoting myself:

    Musk has literally zero redeeming qualities. He might be the worst person alive in every possible aspect. He’s despicable from a moral standpoint, hideous to look at, an awful public speaker, tediously unfunny, not personable in the slightest, dumb as a brick and obnoxiously whiny. I am not exaggerating, he might be The Worst Guy Ever. It is incredible just how much he sucks.

    This useless Apartheid Andy steps into a government position and immediately sets the collapse of the American empire into overdrive. His sheer oafishness causes a 71% drop in perhaps the most overvalued company of all time. And when push comes just within vague proximity of shove, he immediately quits.

    I know there is no such thing as meritocracy but Musk is so awful at everything he does, so horrendously incompetent, there are so many ghouls with rich parents who are just as sociopathic but way smarter and more persistent than him, how did this absolute fucking idiot become the richest man in the world?

    Donald Trump is funny. Peter Thiel doesn’t embarrass himself on stage every week. Asmongold knows how to play Path of Exile. Adolf Hitler was a good public speaker. Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t crumble at the slightest bit of pushback. JD Vance can laugh at a joke about himself. Elon Musk fails at all of these aspects while sucking just as hard in every other way.

    And then, somehow this unbelievable loser is a sex pest who pressures women to have his kids but doesn’t even get laid in the process. Oh, you got this attractive 25-year-old right-wing grifter chick pregnant… but you didn’t have sex with her? If he was paying these hot women to let him knock them up the natural way he’d still be a gross creep, but my primitive male brain would be able to relate on some level. But no, he’s paying them exclusively so he can mail them his fucking sperm and become a deadbeat dad to another abandoned child.

    Why is he like this? What the fuck is wrong with this man? All the other tech oligarchs have some level of competence, how is Musk so horrendously awful, pathetic, weak, obnoxious, useless and despicable in every conceivable way? How is this wannabe-hitlerian boer the richest man in the world?

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      503 months ago

      At one point he was just the typical tech oligarch failson who was sort of just quietly awful behind the scenes while collecting accolades for other people’s work and getting fluffed up by credulous tech “journalists”. He managed to grift some successful contracts using that publicity and his PR team leveraged it into more and more bullshit hype for businesses he owned and he just failed upwards over and over.

      Even after he had a midlife crisis and started just doing lots of drugs and showing his whole ass on twitter all day every day he still had all that inertia and machinery of hype and graft behind him to feed him more and more wealth and power despite anything he actually did. He had to actively piss off enough people that that system started clogging and breaking down to even suffer the most mild of consequences. Hopefully it keeps going and everything he had and has falls apart so he can’t just go back to a quietly parasitic existence like most other tech oligarchs.

      • vegeta1 [he/him]
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        293 months ago

        This should forever be held against them. This and all those other altruistic enlightenment I seen libs on ERA argue why the effective altruism is the bomb and then they turned into ghoulish tech oligarchs of the dark enlightenment variety. They said it with chest now look at em i-cant

        • Lamprey [he/him]
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          303 months ago

          I remember arguing till like red in the face how much musk sucks to a couple of my lib friends in like 2019. I bring it up now and they have no idea what I’m talking about

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
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            333 months ago

            This is their response every time they get called out for having been on the wrong side of history.

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            For me it was some dudes saying “well hes a billionaire and you’re not. You saying you know more about x than him?” Lol guess I should take Steve jobs cancer treatment advice. Hes a billionaire after all

    • Cimbazarov [none/use name]
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      483 months ago

      It’s the system. Only capitalism can make someone like my-hero the richest man in the world. I don’t believe a true meritocracy can exist, but I believe we live in the opposite of one.

      He has constantly made false promises for the last 15 years and yet people (with money) still trust him

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        173 months ago

        To add on to this, the punishments for impropriety do not scale with wealth. What is devastating for regular folks is nothing to the rich. Like parking tickets in Manhattan, when “punishments” become the cost of doing business then there is no real barrier to this behavior once you cross the threshold.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      203 months ago

      It’s amazing how successful the grift has been. Robotaxis? Sure, it’s Elon. Autonomous humanoid robots? Elon’s a visionary, he’ll get 'em done. Massive amounts of money get flung his way on the flimsiest of claims. Apparently believing that capitalism is an efficient system for allocating productive resources to meeting the public’s needs primes you for many other chimeras.

    • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]
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      Asmongold knows how to play Path of Exile.

      great post but lol no he doesn’t. <3

      And then, somehow this unbelievable loser is a sex pest who pressures women to have his kids but doesn’t even get laid in the process.

      isn’t that because his penile implant fucking exploded and destroyed his penis?

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      173 months ago

      If he hadn’t been born into a rich family no one would have heard about him outside of whatever town he lived in.

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      Amazing post. Don’t forget how he clings to stale memes that haven’t been funny (if they ever were) for over a decade. You don’t see Trump posting Pepe like it’s 2016 anymore yet Musk is convinced doge is the height of humor and the letter x is still as epic as it was when he was 10 years old

    • underisk [none/use name]
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      93 months ago

      The wealthy and powerful do not achieve that status through any special trait that makes them superior. They are just as boring and fucked up as everyone else but they have to seem better or the illusion of meritocracy falls apart and people start to wonder why these people have been elevated above them. So they shaped society so that being aggressively mediocre or even downright incompetent is no hindrance to maintaining your family’s dynastic hold in wealth and power.

      As a side effect the various compensatory mechanisms they constructed to paper over their numerous flaws all worked together to elevate the worlds worst piece of barely sentient shit to the peak of wealth and power.

  • Skye [she/her, they/them]
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    843 months ago

    Yup, Elon Musk being more involved with Tesla ought to fix the unpopularity and reputation for terrible products caused by Elon Musk being involved with Tesla

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    633 months ago

    First off, obligatory never worked a day in his life and never will.

    Second, this is like when you’re a kid and some other kid comes over on a play date, eats all the good snacks, breaks your favorite toy, then leaves without saying thank you.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      23 months ago

      First off, obligatory never worked a day in his life and never will.

      You’d think he’d be better at video games, but apparently that’s too much work for him too.

  • @kittin@hexbear.net
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    503 months ago

    working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done.

    Just like self driving

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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    433 months ago

    There’s something utterly maddening that the most powerful people are all petty manchildren.

    The reality is that I’m an impotent loser who can’t even touch these assholes, and they can do whatever they want and dodge karma every time.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      303 months ago

      They aren’t dodging karma though, they may be dodging personal karma, but their projects will never actually succeed in the way they want them to or claim them to, and ultimately they are running the American project they claim to love straight into the ground. Their legacies will ultimately be ash in their mouths.

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
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    423 months ago

    Tesla will fail even harder if Elon starts actually managing them. Can’t wait to laugh at upcoming CyberSUVs and Cybercars.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      123 months ago

      Depends. Just being out of the spotlight will probably help to rehabilitate his image enough that sales go up.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble [none/use name]
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        83 months ago

        Musk can’t stand not being in the spotlight. He might step more out of politics, but he’s still gonna be doing the same obnoxious shit he’s been doing the last ~10 years.

        • jecxjo
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          13 months ago

          And don’t forget, their sales numbers are down world wide so much of his bad press is just about him being a Nazi and what not. That doesn’t go away when he leaves DC.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      43 months ago

      I’m just surprised Trump hasn’t given a statement on this yet. I’ve never heard of him letting someone just leave on their own terms, not when he gets to yell “You’re fired!” at someone.

      • jecxjo
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        13 months ago

        When your boss takes a vacation it’s not in your best interest to yell obscene remarks as he drives away.

          • jecxjo
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            13 months ago

            yeah i think Trump is afraid of Musk. So far he has not said anything negative about Musk, hasn’t said he was fired. Trump just keeps bending over.

            • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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              13 months ago

              Why on earth would he be afraid of Musk though? And him not saying anything negative could also be explained by him thinking so little of Musk that he hasn’t even noticed what he’s doing.

              • jecxjo
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                13 months ago

                because Musk was the financial force behind Trump winning. The fact Musk could completely take over all of the ad space on TV and social media and still be the world’s richest man is something Trump knows. If Musk wanted to primary a ton of Republicans he could.

                • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  13 months ago

                  I think you might have your dates mixed up a little bit. Musk attached himself to Trump because he saw that Trump was popular and influential, and wanted some of that for himself. He hitched his wagon to a winning horse so to speak. Trump was already doing well. I wouldn’t describe him as the primary force behind Trump winning at all. Trump largely won due to a flaccid and incompetent campaign by the dems. And Musk could’ve spent billions backing any republican he wanted, but that wouldn’t mean that they would win. When it came to internal polls of the republican party, Trump wasn’t just ahead, he always had a supermajority, and this was before Elon got involved as well.

  • @altphoto@lemmy.today
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    83 months ago

    You have to assume that nothing that guy says is true. Tesla is done if they don’t change leadership.