Elon Musk <- For the people filtering the name
False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat
Yeah, Thanos has principles and his actions are backed by altruism. Musk is a spineless self-serving parasite with actions backed my ketamine.
We talking movie Thanos, or comic book Thanos?
Movie thanos obv, comic thanos will ruin one particular person’s life just because.
more like
Accurate in so many ways
Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.
Exactly, not only moderate but extremely. Dude completely succeeds in his goal, entire universe against him. Elon is on twitter whining on X because his boyfriend kicked him outta the house
Problem was his goal was totally stupid. Kill half of all life and destroy the stones? So it can rebound in a few centuries if not decades?
Thanos just had a hard on for lady death
It was too prevent total collapse of a species. Giving them a chance to change.
and the population would still bounce back. He could have ended scarcity entirely and no one would have tried to stop him.
The comics version of him just wanted to have sex with Death. Its also stupid, but it at lease makes sense. The fact that it is stupid makes it even more realistic.
MCU != comics. That should be WELL established. I know they name-dropped 616 in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but that was more like a poor writing choice in an attempt to be an easter egg.
Adding more resources to remove scarcity is dumb. You’re acting as if you have 1000 units of resources and 1000 people, but then half it to 1000 units of resources and 500 people, well, they’ll just bounce back. But having 2000 units of resources and 1000 people, well, that’ll auto balance, and they won’t grow to match resources. Or even worse, infinite resources, to ensure scarcity is removed. Iron is a resource. Iron is found inside living things, and it’s found in the sun and the core of the planets. Double iron… what happens? The complete genocide of everything. Though it’s true, scarcity would be removed because everything is dead. Pick any resources and if you follow it, I mean really think about it, you’ll find it’s not a “oh just” type of solution. And it ignores the logistics of the whole thing too, he was snapping his fingers once, not putting out a beat, just so he can handle multiple worlds/species/requirements for each. It wasn’t open mic night at the MCU.
His plan, which I want to remind you, is in a movie which none of it needs to make sense… because ya know, magic rocks… If a planet is struggling, due to pollution or overpopulation… now that’s been solved, and they could potentially plan around that for the future. Put policies in place and whatnot. Other planets, well, people are very superstitious. The number of ghost stories on tv or YouTube, or the fact that organized religion exists, proves that. For those folks, seeing “Hey we got up to like X number of people and then god got mad (since 99.99999…% of all living things in the MCU would have no idea what or why half got dusted), we shouldn’t do that again”. And in the MCU, we see various gods do exist, and they don’t give a shit what happens to the mortals (Thor Love and Thunder).
I guess that tracks because Thanos is stupid as fuck.
Trying to solve the resource problem by killing half of the universe just doesn’t help. In a couple of decades, the population would be back to the previous number.
He could just snap his fingers and make those missing resources appear. Whole empty planets for people to live with abundance etc.
It feels like he thought of the problem for like one minute and decided to take the easiest short term solution possible.
he was doing it to prevent the celestials from emerging from planets killing the population. im guessing he probably thought of that already that alreayd, adding more natural resources would accelerate the emergence. also seems the stones is not powerful enough to affect celestials, or primordial beings(death, GOD, angels,etc), otherwise he wouldve just used it to kill them. he is stupid in that having the 6 stones, why dint he conjure about things that can kill celestials.
I thought his threat was going to be that the universe either gets itself under control or he does it again?
Thanos, really? I’d say more like Hancock. Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later.
nah, I like Hancock way more than Musk
They were both definitely authored by someone who doesn’t respect the audience
Hancock’s got a lot of problems but doesn’t strike me as a narcissist. He’s intimately aware of his character flaws and though he runs from them for awhile he eventually tries to fix himself, “turn a new leaf”. Men like musk aren’t capable of that sort of reflection, they simply know that they’re the shit and it’s everyone else who is wrong.
Nah, Hancock took way less drugs
Hancock had superpowers, so no.
He has always been…
They were in the same room in Ironman 2.
They filmed parts of Ironman 2 in a SpaceX factory. Interestingly the factory served as set for Hammer Industries.
Is that the baddie? I only saw the first Ironman movie and that was a million years ago.
Yes, but like the idiot corpo baddie backing some other baddie that does all the work, he doesn’t do much besides that.
Twinsies!
Exactly.
Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He’s more like
Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.
How id prefer to see him
Nah, at least Thanos thought he was doing the right thing. His goals were ultimately noble but psychotic.
Elon doesn’t care about doing the right thing, he only cares about money and his ego.
Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the “pedo guy” slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you’ve been paying attention he’s been outing himself for a long time.
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time i was willing to forgive a lot to get to Mars.
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Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.
Well now that we know that he’s an idiot, I have to look back at the things that I just took for granted. I didn’t talk to any rocket scientists 10 years ago so I just believed him when he owned a company that was showing results. Hindsight is 20/20
Musk was already a notoriously lying grifter 10 year ago.
It’s only naive fanboys who were too immature be able to set aside the natural human tendency to look up to famous people and/or did not had the life experience to recognize and be suspicious of salesman bollocks (whether decorated with techie terms or otherwise) when they heard it that didn’t suspect the guy was something else than what the adoring fans thought.
It’s not by chance that Musk’s fanboys were mainly young adult and teen techies.
I was never a fanboy, but 10 years ago I had hope that he and his companies would make the world a better place.
I never looked much into him as a person, but the promise of neat electric cars and humans living on Mars made it seem like the world was on a decent trajectory.
I was obviously naive in hindsight, but on the surface everything seemed to be fine.
Well, a decade ago I had hope too, but also already felt the guy was fishy (because he already had a history of overpromising and under-delivering and in the areas I was an expert in, I had spotted him outright lying) and so was skeptical about his promises and his companies. Also, having been involved in Tech Startups, my expectation from people in his position and his language were already negative since the Startup World back then was already dominated by scam artists with a salesmanship or Finance backgrund for whom Tech was a vehicle for self-enrichment, not by idealists who loved challenges or the actual Tech.
Also by that point I had already spent a good period in Investment Finance and could recognize a certain style of bollocks a mile away.
I wasn’t aware of just how much a shit person the guy was, but all my instints told me he was a sociopath who would only ever do anything better for the World if it made him more money than not doing it.
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Ten years ago, I barely knew who he was. Would’ve liked to have kept it that way.
ITT: people saying they always knew
What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed
I have a not-quite-physics degree (I could not mentally bring myself to do the proper physics capstone, but I basically have a physics degree.) I have had multiple conversations with astrophysicists, astronauts, and people who know their shit.
It has always been abundantly clear to me that he has been full of shit. I had to play coy a lot because I had some association with NASA, but the man does not know shit about rockets or physics and it’s always been abundantly clear to anyone who does.
I doubt he could do a simple kinematics problem.
You could have let this be a top-level comment, but you chose to make it directly a response to mine about how I’m interested in hearing about people who didn’t always know. Why did you do that.
I thought it was cool that he was making space ships and EVs. I like space. I like EVs. Guess I was naïve.
Same. I’d have rather space not be privatised, but was glad to see some interest in research again.
He has been a scumbag since forever.
From the Thai ‘pedophile’ incident to wanting to keep his factories open in peak Covid times under Biden.
All was OK when he served blue MAGA.
HypocritesThe Thai incident was I think the big event for a lot of people who until then though well of him.
