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[–] 18 points 22 hours ago

He’s the DJ Khaled of technology. Ubiquitous, yet lacking any real talent in the field except for being a hype man.

N.B. This is an opinion, not necessarily a fact.

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  • [–] 17 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

    Musk is the Lyle Lanley of technology

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    Musk has charisma for idiots.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not even close to a comparison. Thomas actually invented stuff. Muskrat just pays people to slave away for him.

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  • [–] 5 points 21 hours ago

    Man, that guy is the Redgren Grumbholdt of pretending he knows what's going on.

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago*

    Or maybe Carlos Kaiser
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)

    No talent con artist who convinced all sorts of supposedly smart people to give him money over decades of not doing anything but hyping himself up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Cool. Never heard about T.Midgely though...

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  • [–] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    During his career as a chemist he invented both leaded gas and the early CFCs that caused the ozone crisis. There is an argument made amongst online people (not historians or experts) that Thomas Midgely is the individual person who has caused the most harm to humanity as a whole. Not Ghengis Khan, whos armies killed so many people its visible in the fossil record or any of the modern dictators you call people to win arguments online. Its the guy who poisioned generations and directly caused two dips in global life expectancy in the same decades by simply doing his job. The some of the risks of his creations were known at the time, people have known about lead poisioning since before liking Big-J was legal, yet warnings were ignored, his inventions were still patented and sold to the masses (harming billions).

    The irony is that Midgley was killed by his self-invented medical hoist (he caught polio and was partially paralized). fElon has never actually made anything, he has been part of the owner class his whole life, so I dont think OPs analogy applies.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago

    He’s more like the biggest fucking waste of human trash in existence

    All together now, as we bow our heads and pray to saint Luigi…

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    He's like the Space Harrier II of trillionaires...

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