Misinforming people is free speech:
And a drug addict.
Ugh, I really wish I hadn’t read that.
I wish I hadn’t seen it.
Two words: Clockwork Orange
Watch out, we got a badass over here.
I’m sure he’ll be posting that video in about two weeks. Anyone gun-savvy want to testify as to what would actually happen to you if you hip-fired a 50 cal while walking?
How much longer before he starts posing shirtless on a horse or showing himself doing bench presses with old judoka buddies?
Firing Line had an interesting interview with Isaacson, talking about Musk and his book. It asked tough questions. Isaacson was straightforward about an abundance of controversy and an inconsistent approach to free speech making advertisers nervous, blaming Musk’s strong contrarian instincts. However, Isaacson also pointed out no country or other company has been able to salvage launched rockets, and that major car companies largely abandoned electric vehicles 15-20 years ago. He implied Musk’s legacy will be complicated, probably more than some posters here might like.
I can tell you one thing you won’t be doing: hitting anywhere productive. I wouldn’t even use the words ‘where you aimed’ as there is nothing like aiming actually going on.
But Elmo is clearly better than this guy who wasn’t cool enough to walk:
I think that Musk’s treatment here is complicated as well. I don’t think anyone is criticizing the success of Tesla or Space X, and you didn’t even mention Starlink which has helped a lot of people.
You can acknowledge those things without appreciating his antisemitism or spreading of misinformation or destroying one of the biggest (if not the biggest) social media platforms a piece at a time. Or any other insane, stupid, and/or evil things he does.
The thing is, you have a finite amount of things that he’s accomplished in the past, and a seemingly infinite number of ways he keeps fucking up and making things bad. What do you think is a better topic of conversation?
The second time they did so, the fools! The first time was around 100 years ago when Baker Electric stopped making electric cars. 
Either no one then was as smart as Elmo, despite Elmo exhibiting every appearance of a totally disconnected psychopathic dumbass, or else technology has changed a lot since then – particularly battery technology and microcomputer control systems. I wonder which was the more relevant factor – the latest technology, or the genius of Elmo? Is it a coincidence that the things that Elmo has taken a direct personal interest in, like full self-driving (FSD) or the management of Twitter, have not only been abject failures but dangerous to humanity? I must admit, though, that it’s true that Elmo’s personal genius has enabled the Tesla to make programmable fart noises.
Huh, I almost seem to recall reviews of Isaacson’s book mentioning Elmo having a penchant for self-mythologizing, casting himself as the sole hero of complex origin stories like that of Tesla’s founding…
Oh wait, that’s right, I did:
It’s up.
Doesn’t look like any form of walking I’ve ever seen.
The “Iamverybadass” subreddit is probably gonna have a field day with this one.
I wonder if he had any weapons, or even handled or shot, any weapons way back when he was, shall we say, not exactly visa-compliant.
“You should post this video. It would be really cool and not pathetic.”
I’d actually feel sorry for Elmo if he wasn’t so catastrophically destructive. He thinks he’s Tony Stark but he’s actually Richie Rich from the early comic books, the one who used to do things like getting expensive sports cars to be driven off a cliff because it was fun to see them crash.
What Elmo very badly needs is a sane Mommy and Daddy connected to reality, with control over their son. And the ability to instill some decent values.
Unfortunately, Elmo’s mom is an enabler, and his dad hates his guts (and vice-versa, and while the elder Musk sounds like an absolutely horrible person I kinda agree with him).
So, he’s the Squire of Gothos?
A couple of tweets highlighting the racism, antisemitism and pedoism of one of Musk’s favorite stans that he often interacts with:
Well, Hitler (or was it Mussolini?) did make the trains run on time. For awhile. So there’s that legacy as a point of comparison with Elmo’s.
I’m partly kidding with that crack and partly not.
I’m also reminded of Howard Hughes. Although HH descended into reclusive madness, not wild publicly demonstrative madness. Which left the good portions of his legacy mostly standing in the public mind but with an asterisk.
If present trends continue unabated, Elmo may well end up melting down so thoroughly that SpaceX and Tesla crash too. At which point the meltdown & corporate wreckage he leaves behind will be the main legacy, with an asterisk for how it had seemed (and really had been) quite promising at the start.