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TIL Musk played himself on a Simpsons episode a fucking decade ago
He also played a version of himself from another reality in Rick and Morty, which Dan Harmon later deeply regretted portraying him as a genius. Although that could be explained by the fact that it's an alternate universe version of him where he's not a fascist prick.
Lots of people fell for his veneer of competency and glazed him like crazy in those days, and there was a real groupthink mentality behind his supposed genius - he was always portrayed by the media as intelligent and then when people hear about him in passing for the first time they come to a conclusion that if that many people think he's a genius then he simply must be.
2015, not long before he started revealing his true colors.
But early on enough that only true haters like myself and fucking Thunderf00t for some reason really noticed. Seriously I thought I was going crazy back then for hating Musk, I could smell the profligate on him, feels good to be continuously vindicated.
I think the first whiff I had off him was when he started talking hyperloop back in 2013. I figured it was just sort of mis-step in his judgment but that was the first scratch in his teflon coating.
Yeah that's what made me find out about him funnily enough since it was so beyond stupid due to basic atmospheric dynamics that I legit got pissed at one of my teachers at the time for being excited about it. Turns out violence autism makes one weirdly aware of what are bombs.
Oh yes, that moment when you realize you know better than the teacher. That is a valuable lesson but also one that shouldn't go to ones head.
If it makes it any better that same teacher put a crack in my conservative upbringing by bringing to my attention the party swap. Good guy and frankly speaking it probably would've taken me till post 2020 to really shake it off instead of 2019, which may not seem like a lot but I should note that I am infact fueled by hatred as a baseline and that reactionary slop was cheap fuel for my fire. But thankfully I am now largely fueled by my own self supplied righteous furry, though that does make me some absolutely heinous and unhinged shit. But hey could be worse.