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Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a "utopian socialist." He lies about being a "free speech absolutist." He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2

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Ousted Tesla cofounder sounds off on Elon Musk, Tesla, EVs

While Elon Musk is sometimes referred to as the founder of Tesla, Martin Eberhard cofounded Tesla in 2003 with his friend Marc Tarpenning.
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I am baffled when I hear some people praising Musk, and say that he is changing the world for the better. It goes to show how "personalized" content works on those fb and the like ad-platforms, where people probably swim in their own bubble.
John Mierau
Big Tech isn't capitalism, in case you missed the forest for the trees (courtesy Doctorow at @doctorow

"feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). (Anyone) must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there's no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you."
@Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Fifi Lamoura
Musk lies and, more importantly, like many narcissistic sociopaths, he uses people's prosocial urges and unrealistic dreams as a tool to manipulate and exploit people. His whole pretense that he's in the business of saving the environment and planet is nothing more that kind of manipulation and distraction from the fact that he's basically a liar and a thief (he's not just stealing money via lying and sucking tax money out of the government, like all his other libertarian cronies who subsist on taxpayer money the government gives them, he's also stealing lives and the future).

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fluids_guru
@fifilamoura Elon Musk and Lance Armstrong are cut from the same cloth.
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Except Lance Armstrong doesn't have very much power, despite failing upwards, so we can pretty safely ignore him. @pluralistic
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fluids_guru
@fifilamoura at the time, Lance wielded a huge amount of power. He bent the global cycling industry to his will and used his immense corporate backing to destroy the careers of whistleblowers and silence his critics with brutal intimidation.

Both Lance and Elon hid behind self-created ethical shields - “if you criticise me, you’re criticising cancer survivors” and “I’m saving us from global warming.”
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Thomas Fricke (he/him)
@SheDrivesMobility

We have to look into the business models!
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kierkegaank
I think he lies 80% of the time. The remaining 20% is him thinking he’s telling a truth but he’s too fucking stupid to know he isn’t

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Voron
Most people who have 🤔 umm… worked had the experience of managers who lie, or purposefully deceive by omission. Lying is considered a required and rewarded skill in business management.
Lizzie she/her
He's also mentally ill and untreated. No telling what he'll do.
Oliver Schafeld
I found some quotes by Eberhardt positively reassuring.

…"Unlike so many Silicon Valley companies, the auto industry is not a winner-take-all industry," he said. "There's different kinds of cars for different market segments."

…"I think it's a mistake to think of a car as a software platform — you know, like an iPhone or something. It's not the same," he said.

…"I think the technology is way too immature to be laying on the road," he said, referring to Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta software.
fantazeur
well it seems that he made everyone believed in the shares of twitter will go up buying it,
then release the code and to me it seems like he shorted on twitter(buying it ) then bet on threads 5 minutes to help him build what ever he'll need for X
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency
Okay, but why is it so unrealistic? You made Elon Musk look so much better than he does in real life.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
Actually, Elon Musk lies as soon he's not breathing through his nose.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀
it’s obvious he’s either in the employee of X-ist backed Space Bankers or he’s one of the Nova Mob.
He likes to CosPlay that he is in The Culture’s Special Circumstances division of Contact…but if that were the case he’d have been shaken down for his drug glands and wouldn’t have to suck down all that Ketamine in is Float Tank.
I’m getting a sense he’s about to cross the wrong person or Zaibatsu
skelric
Perhaps he should be renamed as "X"?

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Horror Author Reed Alexander
A billionaire lying to get more of everyone's money? say it aint so.
PewPewMiau
very nice article 👍
Peter Principle
Silicon Valley's version of Donny Trump.
Jordi (Sharpen Your Spikes!!!)
"Utopian socialist"

Lol. That's a funny way of spelling "oligarch".
John Johnson
good stuff. I see why a mutual friend is a fan of your reporting.
Ramesh #NotGoingBack
A friend privately responded: "[Eberhard should] blame himself for not having covered [the points that led to defamation suit] in his agreements when Musk signed up initially. America is a land of opportunists."

1. This is pure victim-blaming — In my friend's view, even if Eberhard was a victim, it was the victim’s own fault, not the fraudster’s.

2. The last bit about opportunists is a #corrupt #distortion of opportunity.

#America — Land of #Opportunity ≠ Land of #Opportunists
#america #corrupt #distortion #opportunity #opportunists
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