1y ago

A genre of Country Music...

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We have to stop identifying ownership with these billionaires and "their work" because it's not. It's a team of people who got together to accomplish a mission whether they succeeded or failed. How often is their success just a leader getting out of their way, and how often is failure because leadership was overbearing and "used their authority" to make poor decisions over the group.
"We" society only ever focus on these individuals and it's horribly incorrect to do so.
We need to forget the celebrities and identity the groups.
- Absolutely. As someone who manages a small team, my duties are advocating for the people who work for me, listening to the people closest to the problem, mediating disputes between people with different solutions, and ensuring we are all working towards the same overall goals. Most of the success of the team is directly attributed to their work. My biggest contribution is making sure they have what they need to do their job.
  
  So, since you're support staff and economically a cost center and not a producer, they make more than you, right? You advocate for their wages first, right?
- Hey, if these guys do everything they can to make sure their companies' "achievements" are considered all their own doing; let's be fair and attribute all the fault of their failures as well.
  But you're right, billionaires ride on the shoulders of the people that do the actual hard work.
- Anytime management gets involved with our work, it’s because there was a monumental fuck-up or because somebody is doing too much micro-management. In either case, it’s thrice as stressful as a normal project that goes slow as shit because everything has to be run by the big person.

Man he even looks like he’s starting his metamorphosis into trump.
- Fat and old with enough money to keep it all together, but not enough self awareness to keep it together well.
  
  That's like calling him a loser with extra steps
  
  He spent a bunch of dough on that hair. I believe he is likely aware of his appearance. He is pale and overweight because he spends a bunch of time playing video games, being a nazi in his failing social media site, and (based on this picture) eating french fries.
  Maybe at some point his vanity will compel him to get liposuction or just go full orange man with spray tan and wear baggy suits with ties that are too long. I don't see him being like Bezos or Zuck and getting into shape.
  
  Meh, Musk has plenty of shitty qualities that deserve criticism, we don't really need to pick on his appearance.
  
  Becoming The Sad Blob: the Elon musk story
- I hate the photoshopped photos of those "celebrities" in the news.
  I mean splash one of the Elon news on this photo mother fuckers!

He's a successful scammer, for sure, but at the end of the day still a scammer who got fired for incompetence and then got lucky.
- A scammer who is the CEO of 2 of the most valuable companies in the US...
  
  A scammer who used his money he made through scamming to become CEO, and then to scam even more:
  Scams his employees by paying too little or not at all
  Scams his money lenders by breaking their investment
  Scams his customers by asking premium prices for underperforming products
  Scams governments out of funding
  Scams new tech startups by suing them in order to be called a founder
  Scams every person in every country his companies operate in by not paying the taxes he is owed
  
  Are you going to tell us next that cigarette companies didn't scam the public when they knew that their products caused cancer and didn't reveal it because Phillip-Morris was so valuable?
  How about Theranos? At peak it was worth $9 billion. Not a scam, right?
  
  I think you meant "least valuable", because they're garbage.
  I want downvotes too, you know.

He also abuses his X all the time

He is a rimworld character.
- Ohh but which one would he be?
  
  The annoying weakling that shit himself, that I sold for smokeleaf
  
  the guy that sits in my prison for the only reason that i dislike his addictions
  
  I feel like you don't know how Rimworld works

The more time goes on the more he looks like meatcanyon's depiction of him
- I'm looking forward to seeing him look more like aamon's depiction of him
  
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It's cuntry music.
- Pronounced, Cunt- tree

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

He's got the money where he can be lazy and still fix his health. Hire a personal chef and dietician. A personal trainer and a gym. Take a minute and get a stylist.
You're a billionaire for goodness sake. Buy a top hat!
- He's got the money where he can be lazy and still fix his health. Hire a personal chef and dietician. A personal trainer and a gym. Take a minute and get a stylist.
  And yet he still looks the way he does.
  
  Imagine how bad he'd look if he wasn't.
- This must be after all that stuff. Without the billions, he'd look like the stereotypical basement neckbeard.
- You seriously think he has it in him to work hard on himself (or anything for that matter)??
  No shot, instead he would use that money for shit like ozempic, lap band or lipo surgery, etc.
  
  He used Ozempic. He is much thinner now. But I'm sure his health is awful.

That said, he's probably still richer than everyone else here.
- "probably", you mean definitely.
  
  I mean most likely, but I haven't checked my bank balance in a while so can't be 100% certain
- He's still a piece of garbage regardless of his ill-gotten gains.
- And that matters?
  
  Depends on the metrics you're using.
- A lot of people could get rich if they lost their morals.
  Good thing they don't though, or the world would be even more shitty.
- still one of the richest people in the world I think
  
  $50 bucks says, he still never feels like it's enough.

His truck’s a piece of shit too, that’s big important here

I call it "Honkey-Tech Blues"
- I was going with Elon Blues
- That's not actually a country song, but I think maybe someone should blow Elon's nose and then blow his mind. A massive brain aneurism would only benefit the world.

I'd call the genre cowboy bebop, but wouldn't want to insult the show
- The real folk blues
  
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He also looks like a middle-aged woman after her menopause.
- Expand on this
  
  Elon already did the expanding

The rocket was meant to crash, so I don’t think he’s that upset about it.
- I really wish people would stop going on about that. There are plenty of things you can legitimately criticize Musk for. The Starship program is not one of those.
  
  Yea it's really infuriating. I am a huge space fan in general, and when I see people making negative comments about starship blowing up it just frames them as unintelligent or unaware of how effective spacexs engineering processes are.
  Build, fail, repeat. All of those steps are on purpose.

He always looks like he just got out of drag and washed his makeup off.

ahem
gets out a guitar
strums a few notes
My human wife left me,
My space ship left me,
Alone on this planet,
I have no one to man it,
I can't drink beer,
At least the alt-right doesn't fear me,
I'm alone on Earth,
I can't work on my girth,
Why don't people like me,
I'm not a banshee,
I'm an alien,
Definitely not a mammalian (ew),
My family loathes me, I don't know why,
I give them clothes from me,
Maybe because I'm a blowfly,
I wish I could cry,
I want to go back to my home,
Good bye Earth,
Hello Crinda FGAN my home,
Thank you everyone for your support, you can buy my name album "What the Fuck Was I Doing?" to be released on April 20, 2024. Support your local record shops!

I’m sure that the Saudis are compensating him for his losses on Twitter. This was a planned demolition.

Courtesy of ChatGPT: (Verse 1) Well, gather 'round, folks, let me spin you a tale, 'Bout a man named Elon, set to set sail. Started with Tesla, electric dreams in his hand, But life threw a curveball, didn't go as planned.
Married to a queen, but the castle came down, Divorce papers flying all over the town. Custody battle, like a wild, wild west show, But Elon's still standing, ain't ready to go.
(Chorus) He lost his love, his rockets crashed in space, Forty billion dollars, it's a hard-earned case. But Elon keeps on smiling, though the world's gone astray, In the face of chaos, he just shouts, "Hey, hooray!"
(Verse 2) Lost a rocket or two, in the great cosmic sea, But Elon's got Starship, just you wait and see. A flamethrower in hand, and a grin on his face, Says, "Life's just a journey, let's enjoy the race."
Ex-wife took a Tesla, but he's got the Cybertruck, Lost some billions, but he don't give a...buck. In the game of life, he's still rolling the dice, Laughing in the wind, like a cowboy in the night.
(Chorus) He lost his love, his rockets crashed in space, Forty billion dollars, it's a hard-earned case. But Elon keeps on smiling, though the world's gone astray, In the face of chaos, he just shouts, "Hey, hooray!"
(Bridge) Now the world may say, "Elon, what's your deal?" But he's launching rockets, making electric cars real. Mars is calling, and he's reaching for the stars, In the face of setbacks, he's trading scars for memoirs.
(Verse 3) So here's to Elon, in this country song tale, Fighting through storms, like a ship with no sail. Life may be crazy, but he's dancing in the rain, Saying, "I'll build a new rocket, and I'll try it again."
(Chorus) He lost his love, his rockets crashed in space, Forty billion dollars, it's a hard-earned case. But Elon keeps on smiling, though the world's gone astray, In the face of chaos, he just shouts, "Hey, hooray!"
(Outro) So raise a glass, to the man with the plan, In this country ballad, where the dust meets the sand. Elon's still riding, on that electric highway, Laughing at the odds, shouting, "Hey, hooray!"
- Holley sheit
- Did he start with family money that he invested in PayPal then fell upwards to Telsa?
  
  He got most of paypal by default early on as his product (the original X) merged with theirs, and then was kicked out (but retained a lot of stock) after doing a bad job at management.
- Any IA that converts that to a song with music?

Hmm. Hey ChatGPT, write a sci-fi space-themed stereotypical country song.
- Sure, here's a sci-fi space-themed country song:
  "Stars in My Whiskey"
  (Verse 1) Out here on the edge of the galaxy's arm, In my rusted spaceship, away from the farm. I'm missing that old Earth, its green and its blue, But the stars out here sparkle like morning dew.
  (Chorus) I've got stars in my whiskey, and tears in my eye, Drifting through the cosmos, under the infinite sky. Missing my home, where the red rivers flow, Out here in the stars, with nowhere to go.
  (Verse 2) I dance with comets, race with the moon, Sing to the void, out of tune. I dream of cornfields and that sweet country song, But the universe is vast, and the nights are long.
  (Chorus) Stars in my whiskey, a heart full of ache, Wandering the heavens, for my old love's sake. Under the glow of the distant sun's light, I'm a space cowboy, lost in the night.
  (Bridge) Met a Martian girl with eyes like fire, She mended my heart, filled me with desire. But Earth's sweet memories, they call me back, To the old wooden porch, the long dirt track.
  (Chorus) With stars in my whiskey, and dreams in my head, I think of Earth as I float in my bed. The galaxy's wide, but my heart's still there, In the sweet country air, without a care.
  (Outro) So I'll keep drifting, with my space-bound blues, Chasing the horizon, in my rocket shoes. But no matter how far, or where I roam, My country heart still calls for home.
  
  That's exactly the content I expected, but with much better execution.
  
  Follow-up question, what's the space equivalent of a slide guitar? A theremin?
- I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me
  
  FAIL! That's a Sci-Fi space-themed stereotypical folk song.
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He'd be pretty happy about the space ship blowing up though. If it had crashed into the launch pad or something on takeoff, then it would definitely count.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
- Some call me an emerald mine, slaver puuutz
  
  "Someone say that Hitler was right, I'll like your pooost!"
- I’m a joker, i’m a smoker, i’m a midnight toker

Here's a better one:
Title: Cosmic Blues on a Starry Trail
(Verse 1)
Out on the edge of the Milky Way's glow,
Lived a billionaire with a heart turned to stone.
Forty billion stars in his name,
But in the cosmic dust, they just faded away.
(Chorus)
He lost his love, his kids, his dreams,
In the black hole where his heart used to be.
A spaceship crashed, a fortune gone,
Now he's singing this lonesome interstellar song.
(Verse 2)
He built his dreams on Martian sands,
A titan's castle in the stars' expanse.
But what's a kingdom with no queen or heir?
Just a lonely throne in the cold, silent air.
(Chorus)
He lost his love, his kids, his dreams,
In the black hole where his heart used to be.
A spaceship crashed, a fortune gone,
Now he's singing this lonesome interstellar song.
(Bridge)
Under the glow of a distant sun,
He wonders what he's really won.
Forty billion stars don't shine,
Like the love he lost in another time.
(Verse 3)
In the taverns of a spaceport town,
He drinks to memories that swirl around.
A family photo, a fading trace,
Of the life that vanished in space.
(Chorus)
He lost his love, his kids, his dreams,
In the black hole where his heart used to be.
A spaceship crashed, a fortune gone,
Now he's singing this lonesome interstellar song.
(Outro)
So here's to the man with everything,
Whose tears are hidden beneath his wings.
In the silence of space, he's left to roam,
A billionaire wandering far from home.

wow is that really a recent picture of him? I thought he was on Ozempic that miracle starvation drug that gives people 24/7 diarrhea.

I'm quite glad I haven't heard about any of this, besides the money lost to Twitter I guess

He looks like Neil Breen and treats people like Neil's movies. Terrible.
- If only Elon did the same thing as The President of the Bank

Why is it that I have always pictured him looking fitter than this?
- Good PR is why.

Call it Elon-core.

This guy is an asswipe who's lived outside of reality for like 25 years.
That being said, he lost 40b and is still the richest man in the world. At some point money doesn't even matter anymore, that's why Elon is fine burning cash in the Twitter dumpster fire to score political points and feel popular.

Elect an emo, expect him to cut himself

Does he have a dog? We need a dog in there somewhere.
- Well I guess his monkey died, does that count?
- Ah, yes. Wishing death to pets...... Truly a lemmy moment it seems
  
  I mean, I was thinking more along the lines of ran away, but if you must assume the worst of every anonymous Internet user, I suppose I get it.

Sounds like a Finnish song.

Boo hoo dumb cunt Elmo!

Dude hasn’t been married since 2016 and still sees his kids, what are you talking about?
Find real reasons to criticize somebody. Better yet, ignore him and make him go away. These posts are worse than the dick rider posts.
- I also hate people acting like the starship test wasn't a great success. They're building a factory to build rockets and testing the output of this factory in incremental stages. The next one will go further and the one after that might even land. There's always the off-chance it'll just work on the first try, but it's never expected.
  
  Indeed. Apollo I didn't land on the moon. Even after building on 20 Gemini missions. Apollo 11 was the iteration that landed on the moon.
- Yeah, I'm no Elon fan but this post is just dumb
- How often does he see his trans daughter?
  "Can't win 'em all" was what he said when she rejected him.
  I wonder why she might have rejected her father when he's the richest man in the world and has the potential to make you wealthy and comfortable for the rest of your life?
  Maybe he's not the best father and, like so much else about Elon, you've bought into yet more hype.
  
  You’re aware that family members sometimes don’t like each other right? I never said he was father of the year, just that he still sees his kids. He’s got, like, 10.
  How have I bought into Elon hype? Because I’m not circlejerking?

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