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His dock doesn't float, his wonder fuel is a disaster, his grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best, he didn't design the puzzle boxes, he didn't write the mystery and voila, it all adds up, the key to this entire case, and it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world I assumed that Elon Musk was a complicated genius. But why?
Just watched this movie. Not a great one, but the critique on musk was spot on
I'm lost, what movie are we talking about here?
Glass Onion
It's pretty heavy-handed, but if the last five years have taught me anything it’s that media literacy is so shit in this country that shows like The Boys have to literally tell you that Fascists Are Bad before these dunces start to think they're being mocked. (And I did enjoy the film, though it wasn't as good as the first, and I hope they crank out a few more Detective Foghorn Leghorn stories)
The real answer is he oaid really good publicists to craft his image. The reality set in when he fired that team.
He can remove the mask and breathe the racist air deeply. He no longer has any fear.
I've been hoping for a lengthy documentary on the guy that lays it ALL out, but when you go looking for some, you find dreck like this:
https://www.documentarytube.com/best-of/the-12-best-documentaries-about-elon-musk/
Looks like HBO is working on one, I hope it's not "balanced".
I remember when he had a cameo on Big Bang Theory. I didn't know much about the guy, but at the time, just like most Americans, just had a vague notion of him being an "engineer" or something.
I got better.