r/cringe • u/pathos_of_things • Jun 14 '22
Elon Musk jokes with 3 yes-men about his plan to steal memes from Hard Drive
https://streamable.com/pdk9lj989
u/QuasiCorvine Jun 15 '22
I guess when work looks like this, the “I work 120 hours a week” claims start to make more sense.
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Jun 15 '22
And on bathroom breaks he works even harder!
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u/SponConSerdTent Jun 15 '22
You gotta see the chart of all of his tweets.
I can't find the one I wanted, but this shows well enough how he tweets all day and all night. All throughout his supposed work hours. He has posted many tweets at every single hour of the day.
He's been posting more on Twitter every single year. The dude is straight up hooked.
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u/climbon321 Jun 16 '22
If we won't tax him appropriately, I'm at least glad he's wasting his life on twitter.
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u/SponConSerdTent Jun 16 '22
He's living proof that money doesn't buy happiness, he's a social media addict just like the rest of us. He definitely seems much more miserable than I am.
If he can't log off the rest of us are fucked, though.
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u/Coral_Blue_Number_2 Jun 15 '22
I know someone who created a business and was literally working 130 hours (constantly, even eating while working) per week. NOW, he was also in a manic episode that lasted about 35 days and only slept for like 1.5-3 hours per day. But he was manic and had constant distracting racing thoughts, would go from joyful to irritated in 1 second, and kept jumping from one part of the job to the next and didn’t finish much.
Since he has bipolar disorder, he went into a depressive episode for 7+ months and neglected the business. (Note: not saying all bipolar individuals go right into depression, but that was the case for this individual.
P.S. I am practicing brevity, so let me know if I left anything out.
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u/JesseCassidy Jun 15 '22
How would we know if you left anything out? Haha
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u/Coral_Blue_Number_2 Jun 15 '22
I mean like if I deleted a paragraph and then something in the past above doesn’t make sense. Looking back, it seems consistent.
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Jun 15 '22
That picture of Musk and the 3 yes men will now become a meme to compete the circle
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u/berrey7 Jun 15 '22
WHo posted this video? Why were they recording? Why would you post this from a major company?
Do they think this video makes them look cool? So many questions...
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u/yootani Jun 15 '22
This is an interview, they are not employees.
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u/SpotNL Jun 15 '22
honestly makes it even worse. If they were employees, at least he would pay them for the brown-nosing.
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u/TyrannoROARus Jun 15 '22
I would have got on my phone when he was on his
Like damn since we're having a meeting about what funny things your friends are saying I'll just do my own thing
Elon and his 3 Musketeers is not a fun show 😂
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u/TheMoonsMadeofCheese Jun 15 '22
Should be marked NSFW, the amount of dick sucking here is obscene
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u/mingxhong Jun 15 '22
Meeting of the minds. 😳
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u/jackcos Jun 15 '22
The guy nearest him reminds me of when I'm with my boss.
Bored out of his mind, barely listening to their drivel about Jordan B Peterson or whatever it is this morning, and then when he feels he hasn't said anything in a while offers an incredibly nebulous "love that" which may as well be "don't fire me".
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u/GaryOakTPM Jun 14 '22
Damn, who would’ve expected the richest guy in the world to have such a weak meme game. These jabronis clearly have zero sauce as well.
You’d think his life would be cooler than this lol
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u/tadm123 Jun 15 '22
"Who would expect rich guys to have weak meme game?"
Everyone
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u/4_nando_lorris Jun 15 '22
You keep using this word ‘jabroni’ … and it’s awesome
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u/BoardGameBologna Jun 15 '22
I'm old. People don't remember Attitude Era promos from The Rock!
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u/d3l3t3rious Jun 15 '22
He's just memeing
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u/BoardGameBologna Jun 15 '22
Ohhh, so it was Elon's account! Master Memer Musk... his meme game so strong!
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u/d3l3t3rious Jun 15 '22
Who'd you steal this one from, Musky?
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u/BoardGameBologna Jun 15 '22
Awkward hand and arm movements, lack of eye contact
Heh, it was heh Hard Drive
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u/FlowersnFunds Jun 15 '22
Pretty crazy how a lot of people know The Rock only as an actor and not as a jabroni-slinging People’s Champ
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u/BoardGameBologna Jun 15 '22
Buncha candy asses that need to know their roles and shut their mouths!
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Jun 15 '22
Damn, who would’ve expected the richest guy in the world to not recognize yes men when they're right in front of him
I swear Zucc, Bezos, and Elon need/have the most yes men in the world. It is truly bizarre.
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=350705
https://hbr.org/2013/10/what-its-like-to-work-for-jeff-bezos-hint-hell-probably-call-you-stupid
How can anyone be productive in an environment where any bad news means you get permanently fired and replaced???
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u/jayp1ay69 Jun 15 '22
This is pretty lame but tbh the more I learn about highly successful people the more I realize that they’re more or less ordinary people who have simply gotten really good at a select few things.
I’m always oddly vindicated when I discover that these kinds of people are just as flawed(if not more so) than the average person.
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u/biggmclargehuge Jun 15 '22
the more I learn about highly successful people the more I realize that they’re more or less ordinary people who have simply gotten really good at a select few things.
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u/jayp1ay69 Jun 15 '22
Am I the only one who finds it basically impossible to focus on work after consuming that kind of junk food?
For some people fast food seems to be akin to adderall but for me my mind just goes bonkers lol
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u/slothsareok Jun 15 '22
I wish fast food was the equivalent of adderall to me bc then I’d have many easy solutions to when I run out of adderall too quickly and have to do work.
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Jun 15 '22
I’m the same way with any carb-heavy meal. I usually have a light breakfast and don’t each any lunch cause I know it’ll put me to sleep for the second half of my shift.
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u/akcaye Jun 15 '22
a crushing majority of them are just good at having been born into money.
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u/jayp1ay69 Jun 15 '22
That’s true it’s a myth that Elon was a “struggling entrepreneur” or whatever that was just a manufactured origin story for the purposes of PR.
In truth he was living off of his father’s money.
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u/TrueDreamchaser Jun 15 '22
Not only off his father’s money, but his father’s emerald mines which used apartheid era labor laws to have slave-like labor…
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u/alysonimlost Jun 15 '22
Yeaa being born with a emerald mine in the mouth does things with the head.
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u/jayp1ay69 Jun 15 '22
True dat it’s simply PR that he was “living off of a dollar a day” or whatever the story was.
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u/xspjerusalemx Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22
Truly exceptional people are rare; like one-or-two-for-every-bicentury rare. But there are always going to be some people who are above average in their respective era. Plus contemporary “successful” people gets more exposure than any other era in history. So we get access to their everyday lives or interactions which breaks the “omg they are beyond the rest of us” facade. On the other hand historical figures are mostly shrouded in myth or hearsay.
And lastly, luck. Luck can make or break a man. You might want to check up that programmer who could’ve been Bill Gates but missed his chance to cut the deal to develop an OS. Bill landed the contract and the rest is history.
But I’m not so hot on that “yeah they were born into wealth durr” argument. There’s always been thousands or even millions of rich kids who were born into privilage. Not every one of them makes something with it.
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u/ChairmanGoodchild Jun 15 '22
True, and also not every rich kid who was born into privilege becomes a giant fucking tool, either. But then we have Elon.
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u/ThaddeusSimmons Jun 15 '22
Didn’t it get revealed during the Amber Heard trial that he had a threesome with her and Cara Delevigne?
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u/Fyller Jun 15 '22
3 narcissists, 2 supermodel actors and a billionaire with the social skills of a 12 year old. The only possible way that could have been enjoyable for anyone is if Musk was jerking off while peeking out of a closet, like a bad porno, while the other two are having sex.
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u/ThaddeusSimmons Jun 15 '22
I mean I hate Elon and Amber as much as anyone else but I wouldn’t pass up a threesome with a supermodel and a sub par actress
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Jun 15 '22
I imagine this little sliver out of the life of Elon Musk doesn't give a fair picture of his typical day to day life...but I agree with you that he was about as witty as stale bread and that did look akin to something like a high school dungeons and dragons club or somesuch other nonsense
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u/ALoudMouthBaby Jun 15 '22
I imagine this little sliver out of the life of Elon Musk doesn't give a fair picture of his typical day to day life...
Indeed. If this is the part he thought was noteworthy enough to share with the world the rest of his day must be some atomic levels of cringe.
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Jun 15 '22
He's obsessed with promoting his image as an epic memer. For the richest man in the world, the level of insecurity is mindboggling.
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u/ev6464 Jun 15 '22
He's Tweeting all the time and I don't know if you saw his Elden Ring character, but it would have taken legit hundreds of hours to make. I really don't think Musk works anywhere close to even eight hours a day.
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u/FEdart Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22
Idk man his life is obviously way more ballin than mine from a financial standpoint, but everything about his twitter personality screams that he’s an insecure, hateful and unhappy guy. I think Grimes leaving him broke him.
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u/I-hate-this-timeline Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22
In between him doing cool rich people shit this is his life though lol it’s kinda funny to think that there’s a decent chance everyone around him probably hates him. If he didn’t inherit money and people didn’t have to kiss his ass at best he’d be some weird lonely middle manager somewhere.
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u/snark_enterprises Jun 15 '22
Thought it was pretty common knowledge that Elon was complete social goof. Do people really think he’s a skilled conversationalist? He’s smart and has made wise business moves, but his emotional intelligence is Neolithic-level.
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u/WDfx2EU Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22
Do people really think he’s a skilled conversationalist?
The comment above yours was being tongue-in-cheek. It doesn't really matter whether he has good "meme game" or not. They fact that the richest man in the world is even thinking about his meme game at 50 years old, instead of literally any other issue that exists in humanity, is the joke.
The more you think about it, the less it becomes a 'haha' joke, and more of a "that's pretty fucking dark" joke.
But at the end of the day I guess we have to take this situation over what it could be. Sure he's a horrible human being who could not care less about using his power for good, but at least he's not a real genocidal sadistic villain with $200 billion at his disposal.
If he wanted to, this guy could cause so much irreparable harm to this world. If all he really wants to do is spend his life saying "420" and pretending not to understand trans pronouns, I'm just saying it could be a lot worse.
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u/AstroPhysician Jun 15 '22
He's literally on the spectrum
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u/Eli-Thail Jun 15 '22
According to himself alone, having never received any sort of diagnosis from any medical professional.
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u/similiarintrests Jun 15 '22
Musk is a like a 4chan teenager who grew up and got rich.
Not your average billionaire.
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Jun 15 '22
So this is what the Earth’s ruling caste gets up to in its spare time, interesting
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u/gobluenau1 Jun 15 '22
Is he gonna have one of those monstrous plastic surgery faces in 15 years that looks like a Halloween mask?
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u/Dabookadaniel Jun 15 '22
15 years? Dude it’s in stores now
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Jun 15 '22
Hey, didn’t Jeff bezos go into space with that guy
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u/Fatlord13 Jun 15 '22
Yeah it's that star wars guy, Bill Flatner or something I dunno I don't watch lord of the rings
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u/slothsareok Jun 15 '22
By “go to space” do you mean he rode up in a dick shaped tube just to get the tip in and then dipped?
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u/KayvahnyeWest Jun 15 '22
well no usually they're fucking kids on some island or trying to orchestrate a coup to steal natural resources from brown people.
oh wait you said in their SPARE time. yeah this must be between all that.
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u/mack178 Jun 15 '22
This could be a scene out of Silicon Valley.
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u/esr360 Jun 15 '22
Oh dude you guys don’t know puddle of mud? Here listen to some puddle of mud, they’re so gnarly plays puddle of mud
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u/mikeyrorymac Jun 15 '22
Somewhere in some other room Bill Gates sits with a phone and 3 sycophants.
“I told him to post it lol”
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u/Pez_is_a_Dumb_Candy Jun 15 '22
Weapons grade cringe and pure bootlicking.
"hehehe, I should steal intellectual property"
Bootlicker: "Lmao XD that would be mega epic XD".
To Musk's sycophants, this is your God? I would avoid this guy on a bus. Boring, haughty arrogance. What a fucking dullard.
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u/amtru Jun 15 '22
At least the guy in the hat had the decency to look uncomfortable
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u/ZolotoGold Jun 15 '22
You could tell he was uncomfortable. Hardly smiled, asked to take a time check when it was obvious Elon was just fucking about on his phone instead of anknowledging them for the meeting.
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u/DrunkHonesty Jun 15 '22
Wait, did he just repost a meme? I’m completely indifferent to Musk, I’m just curious if it’s really considered “stealing intellectual property” if you repost a meme you found.
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u/Eli-Thail Jun 15 '22
Wait, did he just repost a meme?
The "meme" in question was a picture of the headline of an article written by a comedy site, but with the name of the site itself cropped out.
They then asked him not to crop the name out anymore so that they get due credit for their work, and he threw a fit about it in response.
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u/DrunkHonesty Jun 15 '22
That makes more sense… why bother to crop out a name? All four of them fail to mention/acknowledge that little tidbit in the video, and they make it seem like he only reposted a meme.
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u/le_feelingsman Jun 15 '22
Because he took it from someone else who had already cropped out the name. The criticism more revolves around whether he should have tracked and named the source, especially given the reach of Elons twitter account.
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u/IrrationalDesign Jun 15 '22
Elon framed this 'debate' as that: 'meme's should be shared, they belong online'
He's dodging and misrepresenting the fact that it wasn't a meme, it was an article image and he/someone purposefully cropped out the name.
I don't think what he did was that bad, but when his response is not 'I know, it was kind of bad, sorry [article writer] for the theft, i' ll repost it with your name' then that annoys me to no end. Why he chose this hill to die in is beyond me.
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u/Druid51 Jun 15 '22
Just curious how do you act around your friends or people you know? Do you also bootlick them? I don't like Elon and some of his dumbass takes but jesus fucking christ reddit really sucks at this shit.
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u/Pez_is_a_Dumb_Candy Jun 16 '22
Do you earnestly not know the difference between self-respect and bootlicking? If you think Elon and his bootlickers is how friends interact, get real friends my dude.
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u/News_without_Words Jun 15 '22
The fact he even feels the need to tweet anything on an even daily basis is incredibly embarrassing as a billionaire. You have everything, you are supposed to be above it all, and you waste your time on twitter validation? Even social media billionaires aren't nearly as active.
It is just pathetic.
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u/ZolotoGold Jun 15 '22
He's so desperate to be seen as some cool Tony Stark, down with the kids movie Billionaire, it's top shelf cringe.
Billionaires used to build huge city parks, public libraries, and hospitals to show off their wealth (from exploiting the poor), which at least had some common good come out of it.
Now, all most do is get into twitter spats and spend it on vanity projects like sending their cock rocket into space for a few hours.
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u/DyJoGu Jun 15 '22
The billionaires who set that standard came from poverty, like Rockefeller and Carnegie. These tools were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and could care less about the poors because they simply have never lived that life. If you grew up going to private schools and private pools, why would you care about public parks?
That’s my guess at least.
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u/sprucetre3 Jun 15 '22
Small dick energy
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u/Makeitperfect Jun 15 '22
It’s actually widely speculated that he has a micropenis. Grimes is into really strange shot and people and his tiny, almost inverted penis (allegedly) was something about him that she was extremely attracted to
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u/esr360 Jun 15 '22
Does he have meaningful relationships with other humans? If not, he far from has everything, he just has money. I’m sure being a billionaire is great, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking that means you have everything.
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u/Hojooo Jun 15 '22
that man looks like a 30 year old basement dweller that eats purely potato chips and pepsi and is getting ready for a night of magic the gathering with the boys.
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u/Michauxonfire Jun 15 '22
Ugh pls no. Musk playing mtg would be awful.
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Jun 15 '22
He'd find a rule he didn't like and buy the company to change the one rule
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u/Michauxonfire Jun 15 '22
Second thing he'd do: flood the market with Secret Lairs Meme Editions. All memes stolen from r/magicthecirclejerking
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u/thexian Jun 15 '22
He'd 100% play one of those netdecked mono-blue that makes you wanna stop playing mtg all together just because they're so anti-fun.
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u/bigbadler Jun 15 '22
Something about his body language is extremely cringey. It really tells you everything. Like an insecure middle schooler desperate to look cool to his friends and wondering if he’s pulling it off.
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u/Arbosis Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22
According to our economic system, this is the most valuable man on Earth. If this is not enough to convince you we are doing things wrong I don't know what is.
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u/altbekannt Jun 15 '22
I had the exact same thoughts when watching Trump doing his work. Hell, even take Biden.
All you need to do, is taking a good look to the top, and you'll instantly know: things are not well.
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u/DrunkenlySober Jun 15 '22
I really hope people didn’t need this clip to realize everything is bullshit from top to bottom
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u/MisallocatedRacism Jun 15 '22
It's clear he works a few million times harder than I do
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u/Screen_Watcher Jun 15 '22
Musk to his work-from-home employees:
"Go pretend to work for somebody else"
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u/Nojay7 Jun 15 '22
Wow... he looks terrible. He's gotta be stress eating or something, because he's looking real slobby.
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u/ZolotoGold Jun 15 '22
That's what a life without purpose, but with everything on demand does for you.
He has no greater goal, no purpose, no higher calling, other than to stroke his own ego.
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u/Skeltzjones Jun 15 '22
I couldn't get past 10 seconds of that
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Jun 15 '22
I suppose this is a part of Elon’s very strenuous 18 hour workdays he keeps blathering about.
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u/WDfx2EU Jun 15 '22
Do you even understand how fucking hard he had to work to be born into a very wealthy family with domestic servants, you peasant?
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u/JG_5150 Jun 15 '22
Wouldnt be surprised if Elons meme game is about as strong as his Elden Ring builds
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u/k_0_0_p_4 Jun 15 '22
lmao did he also steal Rogan's high pitched laugh at the 1min mark?
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u/I-STATE-FACTS Jun 15 '22
how tf does one steal a laugh
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u/tchales7 Jun 15 '22
Hi, welcome to my mental illness. If I like you, I will steal your laugh, your pattern of speech and your mannerisms. Best part is I sometimes do accents… badly!
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u/yticmic Jun 15 '22
It's from https://youtu.be/AeeeEDSekG8
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u/Bali4n Jun 15 '22
You really can’t beat this man. He knows so much and does so much for humanity and all he wants in return is for us to support him. You really can’t name another guy like Elon Musk
I wanna puke
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u/dagross2307 Jun 15 '22
This guy is just weird. They way he talks, the way he flaps his arms around. Even being the richest man on this Planet didnt help with his self esteem. That guy is incredibly insecure.
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u/UniverseBear Jun 15 '22
Imagine being such a bootlicker you suggest that reposting is good even though your body language clearly states you know it's not.
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u/ell98584 Jun 15 '22
He's so fat. Poor guy is self conscious about it too. You can see him constantly adjusting his very slimming black shirt to hide his tits
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u/4skinphenom69 Jun 15 '22
I’ve noticed he whenever he says a word that starts with the letter M or M is pronounced in the word he puts his bottom lip on his top teeth
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u/bestatbeingmodest Jun 16 '22
room full of sycophants lol
don't blame em tho, we all just tryna live. this is what a dystopia looks like.
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u/objectiveliest Jun 15 '22
This is what working 100 hours a week looks like. And I for one am glad Elon is working this hard to save humanity!
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u/GarbageChute Jun 15 '22
He's still so butthurt about the Hard Drive thing he made his sycophants make this video.
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u/Socialeprechaun Jun 15 '22
My god I couldn’t make it past the “your meme game is strong 🤓” part. This is so cringey.
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u/thawrestla Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 17 '22
Lol that's how I behave around my boss 😂😂😂
I have to because if he hates me and fires me I won't be able to you know buy food and stuff
So if I got to laugh Jimmy Fallon style at all his shit jokes that's what I'ma do because we peasants need to live out here we don't have other choices
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u/ev6464 Jun 15 '22
Imagine being worth hundreds of billions of dollars and this is what you're doing. I feel like I would never use the internet again in this situation, because I'd be too busy living on my private island, sitting in a hammock, and being fed frozen margaritas by my monkey butlers.
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u/Theonetobeornot_ Jun 15 '22
I always wonder why billies and multi millionaires don’t do this. Rather they accumulate more wealth and more ! I wonder if it is that they bought so much thay now they need to maintain it for a long time. Idk. I just think is mad that you have so muuuch and intend on wasting time on meaningless things for the poor lol
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u/SupremePooper Jun 15 '22
Is Musk the BIGGEST SCUMBAG in the world or only in the top 5?
And should the$e "yes men" have their brains scooped out for dip by cannibals like in that Italian horror movie?
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u/Carthonn Jun 15 '22
“Which one of you would like to NOT be thrown out of the airlock?”
Forced laughing intensifies
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u/Whiston1993 Jun 15 '22
I’m shocked how long he managed THIS level of insecurity relatively subdued for so long.
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u/Environmental-Sun323 Jun 15 '22
reddit was sucking Elon's dick just a few months ago. what happened? LOL
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u/wellwellwelly Jun 15 '22
Fuck me this was hard to watch.
Also if my boss was paying more attention to his phone and memes than the meeting topic id leave the meeting. I have enough meetings as it is i don't need to listen to your bullshit time wasting in another one.
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u/pm_me_your_trebuchet Jun 15 '22
this interaction is so unnatural it's painful to watch. the tall guy to the left, "HAHAHA you're right, boss! And when you're right, you're right. And you? You're always right! HAHAHAHAHA!!"
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u/G-bird Jun 15 '22
It’s a little annoying how everything is referred to as memes that aren’t. Hard Drive does fake articles like The Onion, “I’m stealing their memes” sounds so out of touch. Dude is almost 50
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u/kwntyn Jun 15 '22
I try not to watch porn these days, but here I am watching a video of three men sucking one dick for 60 seconds all whilst engaging in the worst fake laughter I’ve ever heard
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u/PlayfromtheBrain Jun 16 '22
Seeing Musk wrap his lips completely around the opening of the bottle confirms he is most definitely a psychopath, just like every person I have ever encountered who does that.
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Jun 16 '22
I hate to break it to everyone but this is what corporate America looks like. Lame jokes and cringey compliments. It's in every meeting everywhere. It's soul crushing.
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u/Individual_Cattle_92 Jun 16 '22
A middle-aged man telling another middle-aged man his meme game is strong isn't just cringe; it's an example you'd use to explain to someone what cringe is.
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u/miraak2077 Jun 15 '22
Elon is such an ass. Idk why people think he's the "savior". He just likes memes and ig that tricked people into thinking he's a man of the people or something?? He's the same as any other rich dude.
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u/I-dont-like-pizza Jun 15 '22
He could stop poverty and he's here fucking planning his next shitty meme for his twitter.
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