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I love it, competent leadership is...
Showing up. Such a high bar.
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People who have no idea how competence works, and none of their own, tend to assign it sort of randomly or based on strange criteria. He may genuinely believe that Russia has incredibly competent leadership, because of nothing more than they make things simple and everyone else makes things complicated.
Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.
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Until I learned the whole story about Musk's takeover of Tesla, I had no idea how bad and overconfident he was at engineering and business, but once I learned that, a lot of things started to make a lot more sense.
Yeah, my cousin used to work at SpaceX, and it’s sort of an open secret that they need to actively keep Elon away from the engineers. They have entire teams of people dedicated to shoving menial decisions and distractions in front of him, so he doesn’t have time to wander over to the engineers. Like as soon as he steps out of his office door, there are multiple people whose sole job is dedicated to subtlety redirecting him off to other non-critical wings of the building to keep him distracted. Because if he ever talks to the rocket engineers, he’ll try to one-up them by dropping some asinine “we’re going to do it this dumb way instead” decree that requires them to scrap their entire current project and start over from scratch (for the third time this week.)
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Yeah. A guy I know who works at one of the Musk companies told me a much more abbreviated version of the same thing years and years ago. At the time, I along with everyone else thought Musk was a super-genius, so I just assumed the guy didn't want to deal with the emotional pain of having his work critiqued and have to go back and make it better, and thought no more about it.
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Nah, he is Putin's puppet, just like trump. They have him on something too probably. Remember when he tried to assault a massage worker?
Here’s a look at Musk’s contact with Putin and why it matters
A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed to The Associated Press that Musk and Putin have had contact through calls. The person didn’t provide additional details about the frequency of the calls, when they occurred or their content.
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It would make perfect sense. I sort of assumed that something like that was the case, but I haven't been saying anything because I saw no actual indications or any evidence. But it would make perfect sense. Maybe they realized that Trump was too big a dope to be able to really deliver what they want, whereas Musk is the perfect supervillain to have as the new pledge trying to join their club.
That settles it then. My official prediction at this point is:
- Musk keeps fucking everything up, with no one in our sclerotic government doing anything about it, until something goes really wrong. It actually might happen that bird flu or some geopolitical event happens first, and all the Musk-induced fuckery can kind of get overlooked in the chaos, but if no external crisis happens to divert attention I think it is inevitable that Musk will eventually pull the wrong lever and fuck things up badly enough for enough people that the country gets genuinely angry for real.
- Trump blames Musk and throws him under the bus, which is a 100% predictable pattern
- Musk flees to Russia, and keeps doing his shtick there until the end of time
Making predictions about the future is a fool's game, but every step of the process (except where that one first-step caveat is concerned) seems so absolutely inevitable that I feel comfortable tentatively laying it out as a prediction.
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That doesn't tell us anything...
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That doesn’t tell us anything…
I forget to link the article, my bad.
https://apnews.com/article/musk-putin-x-trump-tesla-election-russia-9cecb7cb0f23ccce49336771280ae179
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I think his Twitter showing is where most of us learned how bad he is. Forums over sample tech people and his dumb as a rock takes on tech exposed it all.
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I think not going is competent leadership by Zelenskyy.
“Yeah ok I’ll just walk right in to the lions den then durp durp”
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Oh yeah, there's no way he can legitimize this and he would if he showed up.
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I mean it tracks for him, it's literally all he's ever done
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Good point. You can't make objective judgements of talent when you have a silver spoon shoved so far up your butt everyone lies to you about how you're doing. You just don't have the base of experience.
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