Nothing in that headline is exaggerated or sensationalized. It’s 100% factual.

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    For a supposed genius, I do get the impression this oligarch keeps taking many corrective measures for his own actions.

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      To be fair, very smart people can say very dumb things outside their areas of expertise.

      Also to be fair, Musk isn’t one of those people.

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      I have not seen a single indication of genius by Musk. I see a spoiled trust fund man-child in the right place at the right time and who frequently pays other people to come up for ideas for him. I can literally think of dozens of people I’ve known over the years who are far more intelligent and would do much more with his starter funds from daddy.

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        I’ve been in meetings with him when he was still active at SpaceX and before he truly dove off the deep end. I had direct conversations with him telling him his engineers were wrong about something. He was quite intelligent and knew his shit. He was arrogant and a dick, but it was obvious he knew a LOT about the rockets he was building. He wasn’t doing the engineering, but he definitely understood the work going on.

        Now, though, the dude is a fucking lunatic. I don’t know if he just started taking too many drugs or if the billions of dollars made something break in his mind or what, but he was not like this back then.

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        I am sure I am not the only one who thinks a large amount of his success stems from Peter Thiel wanting to fuck him. And possibly actually fucking him.

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        For someone who likes to think of himself as a modern Nikola Tesla, he acts much more like Edison.

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    It’s unknown why exactly Musk chose to delete the tweet but it may have had something to do with the discovery that Cooper has a habit of siding with Adolf Hitler on a number of issues.

    That doesn’t sound plausible, Musk frequently sides with Hitler too, so why should that be a problem?

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    “Elon musk deleted” or “the last standing PR guy for Elon musk persuaded him to delete”?

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      We should probably just wait a few hours, maybe that person is about to get fired for going against musks free speech absolutism and the tweet gets restored

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    Tucker loves Nazis, and Putin, (authoritarianism, same boat) a d Elon wants in on that nonsense??