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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by rdiddly on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:36AM (#50394645)
You don't think its origin as the brain-fart of a mediocre and megalomanic billionaire has anything to do with it?
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by dilap on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:02PM (#50395028)
You guys are living in a different universe. I can get hating Elon, but mediocre? Really? Completely absurd.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by oortoo on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:39PM (#50395587)
Outside of hoarding wealth, I haven't seen much evidence that Elon is particularly good at anything.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by dilap on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:25PM (#50396224)
What wealth did he hoard? His wealth is all in his ownership of companies he lead to great success.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by kattagarian on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:36PM (#50396390)
He just spend 400 million dollars on the election, half of this in texas alone.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by dilap on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#50396985)
He doesn't seem very politicallly...effective.

But anyway, I don't think it's fair to say he "hoarded" wealth. It's all from ownership in companies he led, or selling stock in said companies. It's not like, I don't know, post-soviet Russian oligarchs or Carlos Slim or something, who you could all reasonably say were hoarding wealth.

Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by sejje on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:21PM (#50399286)
Spending is the opposite of hoarding
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by rdiddly on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:55PM (#50396687)
I mean the things you acknowledge people hating him for probably overlap considerably with the things I'm thinking of when declaring him mediocre. To pick just one: Think of the boring CEOs who work hard to instill and drive an inclusive culture at their companies, and who make sure their people are treated as human beings. You haven't heard of any, because they're not out there trying to be an entertainment personality.