Live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Comparing him to Tony Stark and Thanos is giving him too much credit. He's more like the scammer aliens from Futurama

He's not that competent, in either incarnation.

He never was not a villain.

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.

Never fell for this BS. Fuck elmo and fuck ironman too. No platform for fascism.

How I've always seen him

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.

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.

Back then he had a PR team. He probably fired them because he started buying their lies.

I hate to break it to the people 10 years ago, but Musk has always been a horrible person

I'm man enough to admit that I thought he was the closest thing we had to Tony Stark even though I knew at the time he wasn't really that close to Tony Stark, and now I know just how wrong I was. Damn.

False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat

Nah, Thanos was moderately competent.

more like

No on is looking at elon like that,and no one ever did

These days he looks more like this:

Was more or less aware of who he was until the cave incident where all his worse tendencies came to light with enough reach to get to me.

Then some research later, I was aware of tech bros and their ilk.

Thanos, really? I'd say more like Hancock. Pathetic and most likely forgotten by everyone 20 years later. Screen grab from the movie Hancock, where Will Smith plays a washed up amnesiac & alcoholic super hero. Image shows him flying above a highway wearing a dirty beanie, sunglasses and drinking from a bottle of whiskey

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I always saw Musk as a dumbass who didn't know what he was doing.

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.
Hypocrites

Relax, Thanos and Iron man had real power.

Actual Elon.

ITT: people saying they always knew

What I am upvoting: people talking about how their perception of him changed

He has always been...

Justin Hammer

Always saw him as the performative shit slinging monkey that he is.

Thanos is not much of a tweaker though.

He transformed a car into space garbage for publicity in 2015.

But Thanks did nothing wrong, he was the good guy in that story. Misunderstood, but he had the right idea.

I thought it was cool that he was making space ships and EVs. I like space. I like EVs. Guess I was naïve.

Thanos was the universe's biggest mass murderer, but at least he had a point (even if his solution was the dumbest thing imaginable}. Musk is just a PoS.

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.

Ten years ago, I barely knew who he was. Would've liked to have kept it that way.

15 years ago I thought he was a dorky rich guy with a well-connected publicist.

10 years ago I thought he was a too-full-of-himself car manufacturer who bought his way into the game who overestimated his own engineering prowess.

5 years ago I thought he was an asshole and wondered why other people seemed to respect him.

Now I think he's a pathetic rich guy who got used and thrown away by Trump, the guy famous for using people and then throwing them away. Fuckin' cuck of a chump who could have his cock in the US's pussy and still wouldn't have the balls to fuck.

I pat the people on the back for calling him out all those years ago. I have always been indifferent to him to be honest, until five years ago he tried to interfere in the rescue of Thai school children who got stuck in underwater cave, and calling the rescue divers pedo. Some time after that, I remember telling my ex-colleague of mine who fanboys Elon that it is not necessarily I don't like Elon, but that I don't trust him after the incident. He got offended after I mentioned I distrust Elon, and I was surprised that he hasn't heard of Elon's childish spat with the rescue divers. Fast forward to now, I wonder what my former colleague thinks of Elon now.

He fired the public image prople because he thougth he can do it better.

Just another ADHD trust-fund baby billionaire on a coke binge.

A picture of his stupid mug in panel 2 would have been better

Nah, people thought he was Tony Stark but he was really Justin Hammer.

Musk as Lex Luthor would be a better fit, and even that might be insulting to Luthor.

Filter didn’t work…

He’d look better like this

It's not the only option. What would you do if you could "snap" and all kids had school lunches, or houselessness went away? At least Gates is working on malaria. smh.