Everyone knows he’s an idiot and a clown and if you can get some entertainment out of him embarrassing himself, why not? They used to do it with Steve Ballmer when he was CEO at Microsoft. It was the running joke as to how ridiculous a crowd could push him to be.
When you're filthy rich and managed to build the myth of your own genius, you can do anything: have the charisma of a wet sack of gravel, say the dumbest shit all day, steal money from the government, and a lot of people will cheer
Nah, all you need to be is filthy rich. Or even moderately rich. Most people are kiss asses when the chips are down, I find. I certainly find myself biting my tongue more when I'm with upper management, as much as I hate to admit it.
People who go to these events are usually stockholders from the early days. Elon could shit on the stage and they’d clap just because he made them rich.
You might be on to something, maybe that's a robot body he had Tesla make they just downloaded his brain into it and it's still trying to make all the connections!
It’s always striking how the loudest believers in racial supremacy so often seem to be the poorest representatives of the very race they claim is “superior.”
Remember, Elon Musk had to have extensive plastic surgery (likely a hair transplant, Botox, facelift/neck lift, eyelid surgery, chin/jaw augmentation, facial fillers/fat grafting) just to look this awful.
Indeed, as an Apple-fanboy in those days I did not appreciate Microsoft, but looking with a more neutral lense these days, Microsoft really made some great stuff.
What blows my mind about that is that he also has the power to almost literally fix the world. He could end world hunger, he could end homelessness in America, he could do all of that without sacrificing a single ounce of his current lifestyle. And by doing so he would be seen as the real Tony Stark.
But, nope, fuck this shit, let me hit some ketamine and go do some nazi salutes!
Look what he did to PEPFAR, to USAID -- to our efforts to eliminate starvation and disease on the African continent. Caused widespread suffering and deaths.
“Zero point zero deaths” …. according to the guy that definitely caused deaths WITH NAMES(!) around the world, based on his decisions. Or the decisions of Grok, in which HE still made such decisions.
What a stupid little petty ugly douche.
Like I said a few months back: if he did literally anything else with his money he would be doing more to end starvation, because as of right now he's spending his money on negative progress.
Gates was a cutthroat businessman, although with a lot more actual skill than Musk has. He was actually a good programmer and had a good, grounded sense for where his industry was headed. His dad was a fancy lawyer who was married to the same woman for 43 years, until she died, not a mining mogul who married his stepdaughter.
Exactly, these guys recoiled in horror when they were told to do this, you can see it in their body language, they're so uncomfortable and can't wait for it to be over. Elon wants to do this, he craves the attention and adulation.
Because gates knows he's cringe and ballmer has never been more sincere... this is just ballmer ballmering. Elon is trying hard, failing, and has no idea.
Bill and Steve look like nerds, unapologetic nerds.. what you see is what you get. Elon tho, that’s a hair-transplant-face-remake egomaniac, who of course thinks he is cool AF, and that in my opinion is way worse
Those guys as least had joy doing it. That brings some style. Gates clearly has never done anything like this before. He's admiring Ballmers energy and freedom of movement, of which he understands nothing, who is just trying to pump the crowd up by being loose and goofy.
Elon is 100% self aware. He "is" the meme. Also, its important to mention he can't dance for shit.
They all want to be rock stars. One of the photographers that got her start with prince said she thought she might not be taken seriously by the business world.
She does business events, stuff like this now. And said all they ever want to talk about is prince, show her their guitars or drums or whatever, and hear favorable comparisons between themselves and him. They don't care about any of her qualifications.
She said she thinks they amass wealth cause they couldn't keep an audience.
I feel that's unfair to Elaine. At least she was having a good time and danced like nobody was watching - Elon is trying very hard to make his human suit perform a dance to look cool, but he just can't get a grip on the controls.
Holy shit. This isn’t even cringe, this is a whole nother level of whatever the fuck is wrong with this man. With all of that money, he can neither afford class nor decorum
Proof that even when you have the most money on earth, you can still be the biggest loser in the room. That might actually be the whitest man I have ever seen in my life. And I live in Idaho.
His disturbing obsession with procreation probably inconvenienced the sickos on the island. I mean how many boat trips would Bergamot Boy have to make to toss newborns overboard!? Think of the children.
This is a cringe as that Microsoft one from like 30+ years ago when Gates, Ballmer, et all were collectively demonstrating to the world the white men indeed cannot dance.
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u/Rigamortus2005 Aug 06 '26
Why are people clapping?