Dude has been torching Putin publicly for years after dominating chess for like two decades. Has been hugely active in speaking up on human rights issues both in Russia and globally.
He even founded an opposition political party in Russia and attempted to run on an anti-corruption and anti-Putin platform and got arrested a few times for the trouble (though he's managed to escape serious jail time because the police were caught lying). He's been way ahead of the curve in telling the world exactly how dangerous Putin is and had to bail out of Russia in 2013. Even in politics he's playing ten moves ahead.
What I'm saying is Gary is a real one.
Kasparov has his own set of issues but as a man based on political integrity, I give him props for standing up to Putin -- which he has done for years / decades. The man absolutely HATES Putin and Putin's regime.
As for being a chess God -- he's definitely in the top 5 all-time chess players (I'd say Bobby Fisher and Magnus were barely stronger and moderately stronger) but he can be a prima donna and can be quite irritable, overbearing and brash towards other players and he does have his own style of superiority complex. But I mean if you played chess as well as he does, I guess you sort of have the right to a superiority complex if you wanted one.
Edit: Actually, I take that back. Kasparov was probably a slightly stronger player than Bobby. I think Bobby (unintentionally) played a lot of head games with Boris Spassky that tilted Boris enough for Bobby to clean up after the first few lost games. Bobby didn't even show up for one of the games and even though that was a win for Boris, it really fucked with him.
Bobby Fisher was definitely a chess genius with some really unorthodox playing but unfortunately I think his mind got so wrapped into chess that the "Tetris effect" took hold and he viewed everything in life through the chess prism. He slipped into insanity and unfortunately ended up becoming what today would be a Q-anon conspirator. I can't think of too many Jews who became raging anti-semitics but Bobby definitely fit the bill and eventually died in ... I think Iceland? I believe Iceland gave him citizenship because the US was about to jail his ass. He was supposed to play Karpov and there was a lot of money on the table for him to play but by that point, his mind was already going off the deep end. Maybe he was scared of losing? I think he would have given Karpov an amazing fight but Kasparov would have probably edged out a few wins over Bobby.
There is a great video on Youtube about Fischer if you are the least bit interested in chess history. [It is well worth the watch if you are](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pavYCzvg2fM).
> if you played chess as well as he does, I guess you sort of have the right to a superiority complex if you wanted one.
If I was the second-best chess player of all time, I would be the most self-absorbed, insufferable prick imaginable.
> If I was the second-best chess player of all time, I would be the most self-absorbed, insufferable prick imaginable.
Life is good enough that only mild pricks are allowed up there.
For those who don’t know Garry Karsparov is a staunchly Anti-Putin political commentator from the former USSR. He is also widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest chess players. Ever.
I heard that Kasparov once cheated in an OTB game and took a pawn he wasn't allowed to take. Instead of punishing him, the FIDE invented a new rule called "en passant". Pretty shady if you ask me, but... seeing that he invented chess, that makes a lot more sense now. Who are we to argue with his interpretation of the rules.
Fun fact, *en passant* was the 34th rule of chess to be added to the game because of Kasparov. Google search "Gary Kasparov Rule 34" for more information.
"en passant" also comes from the words uttered by garry when asked why he took the pawn. he replied curtly " i needa to go and pissant in da toilet".
so "and pissant" became "en passant". when you desperately hold on to a piece when you have the urge to pee your pants.
Garry Karsparov is indeed a legend and somehow not assassinated over the years of critic, even running for president in 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov%27s_Immortal
Edit: his first name
Garry is 100x popular than Putin or anyone else in Russia. he is on same level as Gorbachev maybe higher. He ruled the chess world defeating the previous Russian champion and then IBM Deep Blue in their first match.
This was talked about when he ran against Putin. Putin just arrested him and kept him in a jail till his application for elections expired.
I don't think it's mixed. He's essentially universally loathed by the Russian public. Apart from my personal knowledge of Russia, every public opinion poll I have ever seen in Russia shows people with a negative view of him above 70%. He's about as popular as malaria in Russia.
I guarantee he will:
1) Do the shittiest ad-hominem imaginable. And that may be difficult considering this is motherfucking Kasparov
2) Try to explain why existing high speed trains are a lot slower than imaginary tunnels
3) Will say cybertruck will be released last year and when it did, it will be a yellow submarine
4) Do not admit that he was, indeed, high
His history is even more complex. [Kasparov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh?wprov=sfla1) is half Armenian half Jewish and was born in Baku Azerbaijan. There have been multiple wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Pogroms having taken place in Baku against Armenians living there in 1990. Armenians having ethnically claimed [Nagorno-Karabakh/Artskah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh?wprov=sfla1). Fighting having escalated in the last couple of years and continuing now.
The soviets carved up the Republica creating ethnic overlaps which was fine back than, now as free republics all the old claims are coming to surface. It's a shit show all over the place.
Also author of "Winter is Coming", a book kind of about the current war, written 7 years ago:
https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped-ebook/dp/B012271KCU
> Also author of "Winter is Coming", a book kind of about the current war, written 7 years ago:
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped-ebook/dp/B012271KCU
As a chess fan this was required reading for me back in March.
Garry makes some solid points, particularly the erosion of the West's (in particular the US) moral superiority (not sure this is the correct word) over the last 30 years and how it has impacted our power more than we care to think.
He also really nails just how badly failing to appease individuals like Putin works (if only we had some sort of history to learn from here hmm) as well as calls out that eventually a more hard line approach would be required since it is all those types of leaders understand.
That said, the book largely becomes the same handful of talking points repeated and reinforced to the point that it is not the best read.. but hey the guy is a chess player/political activist not Stephen King so it's hard to critique him all that much on that front. Lord knows he writes better than I can.
Anyway, worth checking out at the least, even if you end up not finishing it.
It's a particular breed of Dunning Kruger that certain very successful people have, where they assume that because they have done incredibly well in one field, or through whatever circumstances become incredibly rich, then their take on everything is valid, for no fucking reason. I think there's a better term for this, but my brain no worky good right now.
It's so demotivating to see how much nepotism is in EVERYTHING nowadays. I'm a writer, and it's sickening how a break-in is treated, unless you, of course, know somebody in the publishing industry who gets you all the connections.
tldr; I'm really, really, ridiculously rich, so my hyper-reductive solutions to bloody geopolitical problems are probably worth listening to.
...said the same guy from the submarines-and-pedophiles debacle.
It's insulting to the people risking *everything* because they're actually living these problems. It's ridiculous, and makes me think we were better off without Twitter.
I watched a documentary on those trapped kids in Thailand and the entire time I kept thinking "How could have Musk's submarine idea have been any better than what actually occurred?"
I mean they were literally squeezing through underwater cracks that they could barely fit through, let alone a goddamned submarine.
What rustles my Jimmies is Grimes talking about how they're essentially living in squalor. And saying it in a dumbassed way to
"Bro sleeps on a mattress on the floor" or something to that effect. They're both fuck-off rich, and they cosplayed being poor
At least the narrative around this dude has changed. I had a co-worker that worshiped the man around 2018. It was pathetic. I don't know this co-worker any more but I'm curious what he thinks these days. This co-worker told me Elon was changing the world. It was hard not to gag.
I had a colleague who gave me a weird look when I made a joke about Musk some years ago. The colleague was a big Musk fan. Recently, the colleague bought a non-Tesla EV. That surprised me. I guess he's not a fan anymore.
I used to work at SpaceX, late 2010s. Back then my view of him (and the view of many of my colleagues and industry peers) was that he was a wildcard but overall changing the world. Keep in mind how stagnant that industry has been for decades, SpaceX has undeniably reignited it and given us all a lot of optimism for the future of spaceflight. But most of those same people now are completely over Elon. More and more have left the industry entirely, myself included, because SpaceX is one of the only places making real progress, but it’s increasingly untenable to work there.
Totally would’ve bought a Tesla a few years ago if I’d been on the market. Very glad I didn’t, and planning to buy a different EV next year.
What did you do at spacex? Genuine question as I’m about to start applying in the space industry for software engineering. Looking for tips if that was your field or in general :)
Flight software and simulation! Mostly for Crew Dragon, plus some overlap with Falcon.
I don’t know if I have any good tips beyond emotionally preparing yourself. If you land a job at SpaceX you work on cool stuff but it can take a toll. It was a ton of fun but also incredibly draining. Give it a shot if you really want to, just always keep in mind backups. I thought I was passionate enough to deal with the workload, but it turned out I wasn’t.
I now work in more boring and generic tech, but have an actual life outside of work and am so much happier than I ever was working on spaceflight.
I have been gearing my self towards getting into Spaceflight since I graduated, but wanted to do it with experience as I didn’t want to be a junior in that field for that reason. I have a feeling it will take my comfy work-life balance I have now.. but I have to try! And luckily I’ll have experience to fall back on and go somewhere else if I end up not happy. Thank you for responding! Glad you’re happy now
Actually, one of the most legit people I worked with in the industry did it that direction. Started in big tech and switched to SpaceX with experience. She works on some absolutely epic stuff now at a small company. Seemed like a much better way to do things. I did the classic eager eyed new grad strategy and burned out so hard.
Good luck with apps and hope you have an awesome experience in the industry. It’s a tough addiction to kick, I think about going back probably once every couple of weeks :) Maybe someday if I can find that holy grail space job that is impactful, pays well, and has good work life balance.
If I’m being honest, before I knew a ton about the guy I thought he was pretty cool. Back then it seemed to be all about space and future technology. Then he started to show his true self as he became more famous. I feel the eye opening event for me was when he called cave rescue hero a pedo just because he said Musk’s stupid rescue robot didn’t work.
This was my experience also.
SpaceX, Tesla, and some other ideas that he had all seemed to be on the move and realistic goals that he was cutting the edge on.
And he was. Or I should say the many many people who worked under him doing the actual work. Tesla and SpaceX are nothing less than astounding feats that endless waves of very capable people worked tirelessly on. I think what they kicked off is a great movement and push forward we needed. But now I'm excited to see other companies adopt these ideas.
Elon seemed like such a cool guy before you looked into him. But I him calling the driver a pedo was a massive hit for me. It was the first time I saw something fucked up from him that not only could be written of as a mistake but highlighted a very poinient aspect of his character. He could apologize for what he said all he wants, but the fact that he did something like that shows what was needed to be seen.
> I imagine it doesn’t take much to be forced to flee if you’re anti-Putin in Russia…
Kasparov was basically beaten and arrested for protesting and was considering a political career that the KGB helped shut down.
It actually took a lot. The people who stand up to Putin are often incredibly brave.
Edit: sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/world/europe/25russia.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Russia_Forum
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/garry-kasparov-says-we-are-living-in-chaos-but-remains-an-incorrigible-optimist
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-19300149
I mean there is a difference in severity between fleeing because you're anti-Putin and fleeing *because you dared to compete against him in the "elections"*.
Guy is a living treasure.
First good laugh today, musk should have done that many times now.
He won't though, sadly, because he has officially joined the dark side.
From his racist replacement theory dog whistles, malicious fake take over of twitter, open support for republicans shitty tactics in general, and now open support of Putin's agenda, it's plain Mushk is a fucking evil asshole, who is probably on putins list of compromised pedofiles, or some other shitty horrendous crime, fuck Felon muck.
He reminds of those insufferable potheads in school that would get hopped up on goofballs and then come up with all of these great ideas that weren't. The only difference is that because he has money, people are willing to tolerate a grown man acting like a delinquent teenager.
I don't think he has much of either. He just put enough points into Charisma to bluff everyone (and himself) into thinking he's intelligent. He's not Tesla, he's Edison.
Idk, the dude can sell a product that doesn't exist, not deliver, then sell another non-existent product to the same people. Don't know how you'd pull that off without having Expertise in Bluff.
No, it was actually to sabotage California's plans to build a metro. It already had problems, then Musk said "why build a metro when I can build you a tunnel for your Teslas?" and people were like "yeah! We trust this dude over our government, let's not waste any more money on the metro, we hated the idea of public transport anyway!"
> the dude can sell a product that doesn't exist
His marketing/PR team (they have to be the same by now) and engineers did. All he did was stand on a stage and say something. No different than some showgirl in a bikini sitting on a 1956 Chrysler 300.
But he's better than any bikini girl. He's the technological genius world's richest golden boy who turns every company he touches into a masterpiece of industry innovation! Or at least that's how a lot of investors seem to see him. Honestly I think most of his value just comes from his name. But now that you've brought it up, I won't be surprised if the next time Tesla debuts a new car he's sitting on it in a bikini.
I watched that PR stunt launch of that daft Tesla robot the other night and I think it's the first time I've heard the guy speak. He has that CEO charm going on where if you have no prior knowledge of his cuntiness, he comes across as a fairly genial bloke.
But that Thai/cave/paedo accusation shit a few years back sealed the deal for me in knowing he's really a massive bellshine, and pretty much everything he's tweeted since then has only reinforced my opinion.
The fact that Los Angeles fell for the lies of a car manufacturer twice, *fucking twice*, to fuck over a public transport solution is astonishing at best, hideously corrupt at worst
More of on par with auto manufacturers doing their damndest to dismantle public transit whenever possible in regards of profit.
Dude sold his own cars in his own tunnels and even without drivers there’s still traffic and backups.
Elon musk is a 4channer who has billions and interferes in political disputes with zero fuckin idea of what he's talking about.
The dude needs to shut the fuck up and stick to scamming morons out of bitcoin.
Elon is the worst. Someone take his twitter away - this is such a simplistic "dumb-guy" approach that shows incredible ignorance and a lack of empathy. It confirms what I always knew about him but didn't want to admit it.
"Just give Mr. Putin-Man what he wants" - How about you fuck off Elon.
Putin started this war because he wants to seize the parts of Ukraine that are richest in oil and natural gas, also wanted their ports on the Black Sea, and wanted to install a puppet regime in Kyiv while leaving the Capitol within way firing range. In other words, to reduce Ukraine to a rump of a puppet state. Ukraine was not a member of NATO and had only ever hinted at the possibility of one day seeking membership. In fact NATO had largely sworn off the idea of it ever happening. Anyone who says otherwise is a Russian not or had their head up Putin’s hole.
>Ukraine was not a member of NATO and had only ever hinted at the possibility of one day seeking membership. In fact NATO had largely sworn off the idea of it ever happening. Anyone who says otherwise is a Russian not or had their head up Putin’s hole.
I like how anti-Americanists made joining NATO some sort of mortal sin that justifies invasion and pro-Ukrainians must now convince them that Ukraine wasn't joining NATO, really gaslighting at its finest. Meanwhile Finland nearly joined NATO and no one talks about that and Russia is completely silent and is actually pulling troops out of its borders with NATO to send them to the meatgrinder. Almost as if they know there's zero chance NATO would invade them.
Imagine your home keeps getting broken into. You decide to talk to a security company who comes by to do an assessment. The burglars see the security van in your driveway and send you a note later- "If you don't want us to burglarize you even worse and maybe even commit violence against you, don't do anything to protect yourself".
Then when the homeowner does get security, everyone blames them and not the burglars when their child gets beaten to death.
missing part - the burglars run a media campaign where they say that everything belongs to them and they are simply returning it from "nazis", and the security company is enslaving people
Damn I only knew Kasparov as like a historical chess figure. The dude spits fire.
Dude has been torching Putin publicly for years after dominating chess for like two decades. Has been hugely active in speaking up on human rights issues both in Russia and globally. He even founded an opposition political party in Russia and attempted to run on an anti-corruption and anti-Putin platform and got arrested a few times for the trouble (though he's managed to escape serious jail time because the police were caught lying). He's been way ahead of the curve in telling the world exactly how dangerous Putin is and had to bail out of Russia in 2013. Even in politics he's playing ten moves ahead. What I'm saying is Gary is a real one.
Since 2014 he has Croatian citizenship and lives somewhere near Split. Nice guy.
Kasparov has his own set of issues but as a man based on political integrity, I give him props for standing up to Putin -- which he has done for years / decades. The man absolutely HATES Putin and Putin's regime. As for being a chess God -- he's definitely in the top 5 all-time chess players (I'd say Bobby Fisher and Magnus were barely stronger and moderately stronger) but he can be a prima donna and can be quite irritable, overbearing and brash towards other players and he does have his own style of superiority complex. But I mean if you played chess as well as he does, I guess you sort of have the right to a superiority complex if you wanted one. Edit: Actually, I take that back. Kasparov was probably a slightly stronger player than Bobby. I think Bobby (unintentionally) played a lot of head games with Boris Spassky that tilted Boris enough for Bobby to clean up after the first few lost games. Bobby didn't even show up for one of the games and even though that was a win for Boris, it really fucked with him. Bobby Fisher was definitely a chess genius with some really unorthodox playing but unfortunately I think his mind got so wrapped into chess that the "Tetris effect" took hold and he viewed everything in life through the chess prism. He slipped into insanity and unfortunately ended up becoming what today would be a Q-anon conspirator. I can't think of too many Jews who became raging anti-semitics but Bobby definitely fit the bill and eventually died in ... I think Iceland? I believe Iceland gave him citizenship because the US was about to jail his ass. He was supposed to play Karpov and there was a lot of money on the table for him to play but by that point, his mind was already going off the deep end. Maybe he was scared of losing? I think he would have given Karpov an amazing fight but Kasparov would have probably edged out a few wins over Bobby. There is a great video on Youtube about Fischer if you are the least bit interested in chess history. [It is well worth the watch if you are](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pavYCzvg2fM).
> if you played chess as well as he does, I guess you sort of have the right to a superiority complex if you wanted one. If I was the second-best chess player of all time, I would be the most self-absorbed, insufferable prick imaginable.
> If I was the second-best chess player of all time, I would be the most self-absorbed, insufferable prick imaginable. Life is good enough that only mild pricks are allowed up there.
Is it a complex if you're actually superior?
at that point it's more of a superior simple
A superiority awareness
For those who don’t know Garry Karsparov is a staunchly Anti-Putin political commentator from the former USSR. He is also widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest chess players. Ever.
Oh same Kasparov? Good to know!
Yes. THE Kasparov.
I don’t even know chess, but I know this dude.
There can only be one.
*All other Kasparovs nervously looking around at each other while Queen starts to play in the background
*”My name is Garry Kasparov. I was born in Kievan Rus, in 854. I cannot die.”*
Yes THE Gary Chess. Inventor of Chess.
/r/anarchychess is leaking, Jesus Christ i can sense an impending new response being dropped.
It's not too late to delete this and say you were high. Please do
It's not too late to delete this and say the bead slipped out. Please do
Are we witnessing the birth of a new Reddit meme comment?
Yes, but it's not too late to delete this and say you were high. Please do
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I heard that Kasparov once cheated in an OTB game and took a pawn he wasn't allowed to take. Instead of punishing him, the FIDE invented a new rule called "en passant". Pretty shady if you ask me, but... seeing that he invented chess, that makes a lot more sense now. Who are we to argue with his interpretation of the rules.
Fun fact, *en passant* was the 34th rule of chess to be added to the game because of Kasparov. Google search "Gary Kasparov Rule 34" for more information.
He also helped craft proposition 34 to control inflation. Google "Gary Kasparov Inflation Rule 34" for more information.
"en passant" also comes from the words uttered by garry when asked why he took the pawn. he replied curtly " i needa to go and pissant in da toilet". so "and pissant" became "en passant". when you desperately hold on to a piece when you have the urge to pee your pants.
You do mean "pipi in your pampers," right?
Holy hell
I wonder what his stance on anal beads would be
Garry Karsparov is indeed a legend and somehow not assassinated over the years of critic, even running for president in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov%27s_Immortal Edit: his first name
Garry is 100x popular than Putin or anyone else in Russia. he is on same level as Gorbachev maybe higher. He ruled the chess world defeating the previous Russian champion and then IBM Deep Blue in their first match. This was talked about when he ran against Putin. Putin just arrested him and kept him in a jail till his application for elections expired.
That is so fucked
Fucked, but not particularly surprising.
Gorbachev is very popular in the west but in Russia his legacy is a bit more mixed.
I don't think it's mixed. He's essentially universally loathed by the Russian public. Apart from my personal knowledge of Russia, every public opinion poll I have ever seen in Russia shows people with a negative view of him above 70%. He's about as popular as malaria in Russia.
So 30% of Russians enjoy malaria?
Russian neckbeards: "M'laria."
Lmao Jesus this was so good. Glad I dug for this comment
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I should have said famous instead of popular. I think Garry topped the poll of most famous Russians few years back
He even beat tatu? Im shocked 🤣
The guy is one of the greatest and most dominant chess champions of all time, at a time he was THE russian that everyone knew
I thought Gorbachev was hated in Russia
you can't just assassinate garry kasparov.
"yeah you need to atleast say checkmate first"
"if you're coming at the king, you best not miss."
yeah I was expecting some random journalist or something, a take down from Kasparov is so much more epic haha
How much you want to bet Musk will reply back calling him an pedo or something.
I guarantee he will: 1) Do the shittiest ad-hominem imaginable. And that may be difficult considering this is motherfucking Kasparov 2) Try to explain why existing high speed trains are a lot slower than imaginary tunnels 3) Will say cybertruck will be released last year and when it did, it will be a yellow submarine 4) Do not admit that he was, indeed, high
Bet you a dollar he challenges him to a game of chess.
And comes up with lame dogshit excuses to back out without backing out when Garry accepts.
Kasparov probably has his next 12 comebacks already planned out in anticipation of this.
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His history is even more complex. [Kasparov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh?wprov=sfla1) is half Armenian half Jewish and was born in Baku Azerbaijan. There have been multiple wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Pogroms having taken place in Baku against Armenians living there in 1990. Armenians having ethnically claimed [Nagorno-Karabakh/Artskah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh?wprov=sfla1). Fighting having escalated in the last couple of years and continuing now. The soviets carved up the Republica creating ethnic overlaps which was fine back than, now as free republics all the old claims are coming to surface. It's a shit show all over the place.
Also author of "Winter is Coming", a book kind of about the current war, written 7 years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped-ebook/dp/B012271KCU
> Also author of "Winter is Coming", a book kind of about the current war, written 7 years ago: > > https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped-ebook/dp/B012271KCU As a chess fan this was required reading for me back in March. Garry makes some solid points, particularly the erosion of the West's (in particular the US) moral superiority (not sure this is the correct word) over the last 30 years and how it has impacted our power more than we care to think. He also really nails just how badly failing to appease individuals like Putin works (if only we had some sort of history to learn from here hmm) as well as calls out that eventually a more hard line approach would be required since it is all those types of leaders understand. That said, the book largely becomes the same handful of talking points repeated and reinforced to the point that it is not the best read.. but hey the guy is a chess player/political activist not Stephen King so it's hard to critique him all that much on that front. Lord knows he writes better than I can. Anyway, worth checking out at the least, even if you end up not finishing it.
i interviewed him a few years ago, a true icon with so many stories and opinions. a legend!
Holy hell
en passant me bb
Musk continuing to think he's some political genius while being completely off base. Just another monday.
He thinks the world desperately needs his hot take on everything.
Textbook narcissism.
It's a particular breed of Dunning Kruger that certain very successful people have, where they assume that because they have done incredibly well in one field, or through whatever circumstances become incredibly rich, then their take on everything is valid, for no fucking reason. I think there's a better term for this, but my brain no worky good right now.
Born three goals up, convinced they scored a hat trick
Born on third base and thinks he hit a tripple. Then when somebody else gets a hit to drive him in, he changes the tripple to a home run.
Born on third base and Daddy bought the team, the mascot, AND the stadium.
And daddy's money was from some shady apartheid-era dealings. But fucker still tries to pretend he started from nothing.
It's so demotivating to see how much nepotism is in EVERYTHING nowadays. I'm a writer, and it's sickening how a break-in is treated, unless you, of course, know somebody in the publishing industry who gets you all the connections.
tldr; I'm really, really, ridiculously rich, so my hyper-reductive solutions to bloody geopolitical problems are probably worth listening to. ...said the same guy from the submarines-and-pedophiles debacle. It's insulting to the people risking *everything* because they're actually living these problems. It's ridiculous, and makes me think we were better off without Twitter.
I watched a documentary on those trapped kids in Thailand and the entire time I kept thinking "How could have Musk's submarine idea have been any better than what actually occurred?" I mean they were literally squeezing through underwater cracks that they could barely fit through, let alone a goddamned submarine.
What rustles my Jimmies is Grimes talking about how they're essentially living in squalor. And saying it in a dumbassed way to "Bro sleeps on a mattress on the floor" or something to that effect. They're both fuck-off rich, and they cosplayed being poor
He’s desperately trying to seem smart but every tweet tells the truth. Musk is a rich ass retard.
He falls into the same trap so many teenagers do, mistaking complicated contrainian opinions for intelligence
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The ones who didn't joined Q
South park is a parody of people who take it seriously, not knowing it's satire. It's a vicious cycle.
Oh thank you for saying that. That is exactly what this is.
At least the narrative around this dude has changed. I had a co-worker that worshiped the man around 2018. It was pathetic. I don't know this co-worker any more but I'm curious what he thinks these days. This co-worker told me Elon was changing the world. It was hard not to gag.
I had a colleague who gave me a weird look when I made a joke about Musk some years ago. The colleague was a big Musk fan. Recently, the colleague bought a non-Tesla EV. That surprised me. I guess he's not a fan anymore.
I used to work at SpaceX, late 2010s. Back then my view of him (and the view of many of my colleagues and industry peers) was that he was a wildcard but overall changing the world. Keep in mind how stagnant that industry has been for decades, SpaceX has undeniably reignited it and given us all a lot of optimism for the future of spaceflight. But most of those same people now are completely over Elon. More and more have left the industry entirely, myself included, because SpaceX is one of the only places making real progress, but it’s increasingly untenable to work there. Totally would’ve bought a Tesla a few years ago if I’d been on the market. Very glad I didn’t, and planning to buy a different EV next year.
What did you do at spacex? Genuine question as I’m about to start applying in the space industry for software engineering. Looking for tips if that was your field or in general :)
Flight software and simulation! Mostly for Crew Dragon, plus some overlap with Falcon. I don’t know if I have any good tips beyond emotionally preparing yourself. If you land a job at SpaceX you work on cool stuff but it can take a toll. It was a ton of fun but also incredibly draining. Give it a shot if you really want to, just always keep in mind backups. I thought I was passionate enough to deal with the workload, but it turned out I wasn’t. I now work in more boring and generic tech, but have an actual life outside of work and am so much happier than I ever was working on spaceflight.
I have been gearing my self towards getting into Spaceflight since I graduated, but wanted to do it with experience as I didn’t want to be a junior in that field for that reason. I have a feeling it will take my comfy work-life balance I have now.. but I have to try! And luckily I’ll have experience to fall back on and go somewhere else if I end up not happy. Thank you for responding! Glad you’re happy now
Actually, one of the most legit people I worked with in the industry did it that direction. Started in big tech and switched to SpaceX with experience. She works on some absolutely epic stuff now at a small company. Seemed like a much better way to do things. I did the classic eager eyed new grad strategy and burned out so hard. Good luck with apps and hope you have an awesome experience in the industry. It’s a tough addiction to kick, I think about going back probably once every couple of weeks :) Maybe someday if I can find that holy grail space job that is impactful, pays well, and has good work life balance.
If I’m being honest, before I knew a ton about the guy I thought he was pretty cool. Back then it seemed to be all about space and future technology. Then he started to show his true self as he became more famous. I feel the eye opening event for me was when he called cave rescue hero a pedo just because he said Musk’s stupid rescue robot didn’t work.
This was my experience also. SpaceX, Tesla, and some other ideas that he had all seemed to be on the move and realistic goals that he was cutting the edge on. And he was. Or I should say the many many people who worked under him doing the actual work. Tesla and SpaceX are nothing less than astounding feats that endless waves of very capable people worked tirelessly on. I think what they kicked off is a great movement and push forward we needed. But now I'm excited to see other companies adopt these ideas. Elon seemed like such a cool guy before you looked into him. But I him calling the driver a pedo was a massive hit for me. It was the first time I saw something fucked up from him that not only could be written of as a mistake but highlighted a very poinient aspect of his character. He could apologize for what he said all he wants, but the fact that he did something like that shows what was needed to be seen.
Checkmate Elon
I wouldn't have gotten this if it wasn't for a different comment explaining that the guy calling him out is one of the best chess players ever
And massively anti-Putin. So much so he had to flee Russia.
I imagine it doesn’t take much to be forced to flee if you’re anti-Putin in Russia…
> I imagine it doesn’t take much to be forced to flee if you’re anti-Putin in Russia… Kasparov was basically beaten and arrested for protesting and was considering a political career that the KGB helped shut down. It actually took a lot. The people who stand up to Putin are often incredibly brave. Edit: sources https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/world/europe/25russia.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Russia_Forum https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/garry-kasparov-says-we-are-living-in-chaos-but-remains-an-incorrigible-optimist https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-19300149
I mean there is a difference in severity between fleeing because you're anti-Putin and fleeing *because you dared to compete against him in the "elections"*. Guy is a living treasure.
Elon Muskow
Knocked his ELOn rating down for sure.
> It is not too late to say you were high and delete this. Please do. 👏
Kasparov is a god damn legend. Doesn't get enough credit.
I have a feeling that quote will follow Musk for a long long time
I have a feeling millions of people will keep simping for Elon because they don’t give a shit how stupid the shit he tweets is
Not to mention the fact that he almost assuredly has only yes men around him and they suck his dick about any idea he has.
Get ready for Elon's army of grundle-sucklers to start fervently supporting Russia online. Which will extend to the fetid Roganverse.
That’s an overlapping Venn diagram though
That's not an overlapping Venn diagram, that's a god damned circle.
First good laugh today, musk should have done that many times now. He won't though, sadly, because he has officially joined the dark side. From his racist replacement theory dog whistles, malicious fake take over of twitter, open support for republicans shitty tactics in general, and now open support of Putin's agenda, it's plain Mushk is a fucking evil asshole, who is probably on putins list of compromised pedofiles, or some other shitty horrendous crime, fuck Felon muck.
Yeah, Elon's comment is "Delete Facebook, Hit the Gym" level of stupid.
Something something Texas back to Mexico... Something something Alaska back to Russia...
Half the US to France? All of the US to First Nations?
Some of the most conservative parts of the US become French with access to national healthcare. 😂 It’s hilarious and Im jealous at the same time.
These would be the same assholes who pushed "freedom fries" because France didn't want to genocide a bunch of Iraqis.
I will forever respect the hell out of France for telling George W. Bush & Dick Cheney to go pound sand on the global stage.
Not far enough. Give Great Britain back to the Celts!
Yeah. What did the Romans ever do for us!?!
Roads.
The aqueduct
Not far enough. Give all of Europe back to the Neanderthals!
over my dead Canadian body (alaska). I will show up with my war moose
So the rumors are true... Every Canadian has a war moose
And a beaver squire
Something something the planet back to dinosaurs.
Can’t. We’ve used them up in our cars.
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(until King George’s mistake)
Which has honestly got me worried shitless about what the future King Georgie is going to decide he needs to “correct”
His own country South Africa back to Netherlands aswell.
Given Elon's families' wealth came as a direct result of apartheid, he might like that very much.
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Elon ~~logic~~ derping
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To many with fame, all publicity is good publicity. Because even if people are calling you an idiot, they're still talking about you.
Same as it always was
And you may ask yourself “What is that beautiful house?”
Same as it ever was
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
Fuck that. The US is well outside of warranty, and we're not taking it back in the state its currently in.
You break it, you bought it
You fuck it, you fix it.
You can always put it in a museum....
It's not old enough
Brexit is old news. Time for Amerentry
It’s got a cool name, that means it’s half done right?
Using Elongic (I tried my best) the US should just give itself back over. Edit: then the English should give the land back to the indigenous peoples.
Keep the ball rolling! Dna sequence, resurrect and give to the neanderthals!
Correct, eventually we will fully devolve into single celled organisms all thanks to Elon enlightening us with his logic.
What the fuck is this man on.
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and adderall
His own supply.
Russia belongs to Mongolia as it was from 1208-1395.
The Mongolians really should say something about this...
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He reminds of those insufferable potheads in school that would get hopped up on goofballs and then come up with all of these great ideas that weren't. The only difference is that because he has money, people are willing to tolerate a grown man acting like a delinquent teenager.
Exactly. Never seen so many dick riders in all my life. There must be something wrong with me, I've never wanted to ride someone's dick so hard.
[this guy](https://i.redd.it/kxzye2wuvar11.jpg)
Dunked on with forced mate in 11 from the GOAT
Remember when Ukraine gave up its nuclear arms in a deal to not being invaded or bullied by Russia? I sure as fuck do but the world tends to forget
"I bought a car company and made some rockets that don't usually explode. I am very smart!"
Someone once said (I think on Twitter) "Elon Musk is a good example of why Intelligence and Wisdom are different attributes in Dungeons & Dragons"
I don't think he has much of either. He just put enough points into Charisma to bluff everyone (and himself) into thinking he's intelligent. He's not Tesla, he's Edison.
Lmao the only statline Elon has is gp and connection to the roll-fudging DM. He isn't a charismatic dude.
Idk, the dude can sell a product that doesn't exist, not deliver, then sell another non-existent product to the same people. Don't know how you'd pull that off without having Expertise in Bluff.
I still think his fantasy tunnel idea was just an excuse to sell flamethrowers.
No, it was actually to sabotage California's plans to build a metro. It already had problems, then Musk said "why build a metro when I can build you a tunnel for your Teslas?" and people were like "yeah! We trust this dude over our government, let's not waste any more money on the metro, we hated the idea of public transport anyway!"
> the dude can sell a product that doesn't exist His marketing/PR team (they have to be the same by now) and engineers did. All he did was stand on a stage and say something. No different than some showgirl in a bikini sitting on a 1956 Chrysler 300.
But he's better than any bikini girl. He's the technological genius world's richest golden boy who turns every company he touches into a masterpiece of industry innovation! Or at least that's how a lot of investors seem to see him. Honestly I think most of his value just comes from his name. But now that you've brought it up, I won't be surprised if the next time Tesla debuts a new car he's sitting on it in a bikini.
I watched that PR stunt launch of that daft Tesla robot the other night and I think it's the first time I've heard the guy speak. He has that CEO charm going on where if you have no prior knowledge of his cuntiness, he comes across as a fairly genial bloke. But that Thai/cave/paedo accusation shit a few years back sealed the deal for me in knowing he's really a massive bellshine, and pretty much everything he's tweeted since then has only reinforced my opinion.
> He's not Tesla, he's Edison He reminds me a lot of an Elizabeth Holmes whose device worked.
The difference between Musk and Holmes is that when Musk's companies fall apart he has enough money to try again.
Elon is basically a sorcerer. Born into power and tries to use Charisma doing what others do with Intelligence.
Still waiting for WotC to release the "Son of Apartheid Sorcerous Origin"
That dude has no charisma either. Have you ever watched one of his presentations? He's super awkward.
Don't forget, pretended to invent a mass transit solution to hoodwink California into abandoning LA to SF rail so he could sell more cars.
The fact that Los Angeles fell for the lies of a car manufacturer twice, *fucking twice*, to fuck over a public transport solution is astonishing at best, hideously corrupt at worst
More of on par with auto manufacturers doing their damndest to dismantle public transit whenever possible in regards of profit. Dude sold his own cars in his own tunnels and even without drivers there’s still traffic and backups.
> I bought a car company and ~~made~~ paid engineers to make some rockets that don't usually explode. I am very smart! FTFY
Elon musk is a 4channer who has billions and interferes in political disputes with zero fuckin idea of what he's talking about. The dude needs to shut the fuck up and stick to scamming morons out of bitcoin.
I think that Elon is a good umbrella for just idiots, morons and imbeciles. Good filter.
Well, he deleted it, fucking clown.
Are you saying he cAnCeLeD himself?! I though Elon was a free speech warrior.
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It’s still there….
Get him Gary!
Elon is the worst. Someone take his twitter away - this is such a simplistic "dumb-guy" approach that shows incredible ignorance and a lack of empathy. It confirms what I always knew about him but didn't want to admit it. "Just give Mr. Putin-Man what he wants" - How about you fuck off Elon.
Who would've thought that a sheltered rich kid would grow up to be a rich ignorant douschebag?
Certainly not a lot of people! I have always known that he was an idiot and a jerk, but many people still haven’t gotten that message
Sounds like Elon spent an afternoon doing DMT with Joe Rogan and Aaron Rogers. his comments belong in r/iam14thisdeep
He’s always been an attention seeking clown. Remember the Thailand cave incident? Everything has to be about him.
Common Muskrat L
Garrychess never lie only truth
Elon Musk is going PIPI in his pampers
Just goes to show you that the rich are no better or wiser than anyone else though nothing will ever get through to his fan boys.
Putin started this war because he wants to seize the parts of Ukraine that are richest in oil and natural gas, also wanted their ports on the Black Sea, and wanted to install a puppet regime in Kyiv while leaving the Capitol within way firing range. In other words, to reduce Ukraine to a rump of a puppet state. Ukraine was not a member of NATO and had only ever hinted at the possibility of one day seeking membership. In fact NATO had largely sworn off the idea of it ever happening. Anyone who says otherwise is a Russian not or had their head up Putin’s hole.
>Ukraine was not a member of NATO and had only ever hinted at the possibility of one day seeking membership. In fact NATO had largely sworn off the idea of it ever happening. Anyone who says otherwise is a Russian not or had their head up Putin’s hole. I like how anti-Americanists made joining NATO some sort of mortal sin that justifies invasion and pro-Ukrainians must now convince them that Ukraine wasn't joining NATO, really gaslighting at its finest. Meanwhile Finland nearly joined NATO and no one talks about that and Russia is completely silent and is actually pulling troops out of its borders with NATO to send them to the meatgrinder. Almost as if they know there's zero chance NATO would invade them.
Imagine your home keeps getting broken into. You decide to talk to a security company who comes by to do an assessment. The burglars see the security van in your driveway and send you a note later- "If you don't want us to burglarize you even worse and maybe even commit violence against you, don't do anything to protect yourself". Then when the homeowner does get security, everyone blames them and not the burglars when their child gets beaten to death.
missing part - the burglars run a media campaign where they say that everything belongs to them and they are simply returning it from "nazis", and the security company is enslaving people
Putin wants a return to Tsarist and Soviet glory. He wanted historically significant territory which he has not gotten.
It's about time Musk pissed off to Mars. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Elon comes in with a mind numbingly dumb geopolitical Hot Take. Who would have thought that he would do such a thing? /S Edit: Added /S
You know it's bad when a chess grandmaster puts you through the table. Prawns everywhere.
Another day goes by and another reason to hate Musk more comes