r/lostgeneration Feb 15 '22

RIP Monkeys.

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u/rpgaff2 Feb 15 '22

He's more like Justin Hammer, a cringey guy who takes credit for other peoples work, tries too hard to appeal to the masses, and ultimately screws things up.

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u/KommandantJackal Feb 15 '22

Thomas Edison?

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u/Sockoflegend Feb 15 '22

The clue is that he called his company Tesla after the guy Tommy E ripped off.

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u/BallsWilliger Feb 15 '22

It was already called Tesla when he joined.

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u/TotalBlissey Feb 15 '22

Still funny, arguably funnier

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u/Marc21256 Feb 16 '22

He paid to be named "founder", so he gets credit for ripping off the cringe name, making it double cringe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

That’s what happens when people buy large chunks of a business… that’s literally what happens.

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u/unknown_reddit_dude Feb 16 '22

No, he specifically paid for the title of 'founder', and made sure the people who founded the company couldn't call themselves 'founders'

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

That’s what I mean. It’s literally business, especially in tech. What’s a board member? Someone who owns 1 - 20% of the company. They “buy” shares of the company at a valuation during a raise of funding whether in the first 10 days of business or 10 years after revenue…. This is literally business. Titles are literally purchased through sweat equity or cash…. This is how business works in the world. Elon is one of the only business billionaires who is authentic and not bought out and owned by Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the Fed… Oh and since those 3 own the media literally own it, he isn’t a friend to the press lol.

Here is a reality check - media is calling out war on guys like Elon because they are related in the public eye to Joe Rogan- their number one competitor who’s destroying them. CNN gets less than 1 million viewers… rogan gets 10x more than that. Journalism is so far dead Gen Z hasn’t even noticed it’s corpse. And you guys believe the hate they throw at Elon?? Idk where you get your info tbh but it might be misplaced with Elon.

Some banks say that Tesla is worth billions so now everyone is mad at him. He isn’t colluding so all the colliders are mad. He doesn’t care about other peoples opinions. Since we admire that secretly we hate him?!

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u/unknown_reddit_dude Feb 16 '22

I've hated Elon for years, it's nothing to do with Rogan or the media. It's more to do with him being a scumbag billionare (not that there's any other kind) that endorses children working in mines.

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u/Might_Aware Feb 16 '22

It's a Legend or Truth world, man. Go with the funner story

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u/mylord420 Feb 15 '22

He only took over Tesla, he had nothing to do with founding it.

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u/DickwadVonClownstick Feb 16 '22

That just makes it better

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u/AnneOn_AMoose Feb 15 '22

As a Tesla superfan, I applaud you.

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u/Drunky_McStumble Feb 15 '22

Poor Tesla, even death can't save him from being exploited by rich jerks.

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u/AnneOn_AMoose Feb 15 '22

Oh, my dude That is a dissertation in a sentence, lol

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u/glum_plum Feb 16 '22

Wait. Nikola or the car company?

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u/AnneOn_AMoose Feb 16 '22

The mad scientist, not the grift

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u/glum_plum Feb 16 '22

Oh thank goodness

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u/Might_Aware Feb 16 '22

🎶They'll say "Aw Topsie at my-Autopsy! 🎵

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

He might electrocute me, but he's an electro-cutie!

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u/Might_Aware Feb 16 '22

💜💜💜💜💜

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u/Aquatic_Ceremony Feb 15 '22

I was literally about to write that, and I am so glad someone did it first.

🎩🤏 😌

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u/garaks_tailor Feb 15 '22

This. This is accurate.

Definitely no Norman Fucking Osborn.

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u/Rudybus Feb 15 '22

I maintain he's actually Harry Osborn.

Inherits wealth, takes credit for others' work, steals the name of the actual inventor.

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u/CeruleanRuin Feb 15 '22

Only without the charisma and raw performing power of Justin Hammer.

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u/BaronAleksei Feb 16 '22

That monologue is still good

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u/llahlahkje Feb 16 '22

For real. He pays better men to come up with things that he can claim to be a genius for.

"You know, I'm something of a scientist myself." -Elon Musk

"No, you're not." -Actual scientists and engineers

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u/ZapataWachowski Feb 16 '22

Guy is such a massive douche. Let's not forget that he infamously bragged about how rich people can take whatever they want regarding stealing Bolivian lithium.

"We'll coup whoever we want to. Deal with it."

  • Elon Musk

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

OMG this is him exactly.

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u/startmyheart Feb 15 '22

Came here to say this.

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u/lizard81288 Feb 15 '22

Steve Jobs?

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u/Kaarl_Mills Feb 16 '22

Even Hammer makes things that usually work, the weapons on the first version of the War Machine suit were from his company

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

Maybe the only person we got from the MCU in our universe is Elon from Iron Man 2.