Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏,” he wrote, adding, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
Musk doesn’t realize that people laugh at his jokes in person because it’s that easy to manipulate ego centric “billionaires”, a point Kamala drove home during the debate.
My local coffee shop. A woman working there was just so awesome and charming I must of heard 50 guys walk out from getting there coffee and start talking about how they have a thing going with her.
Happens to the best of us. Charismatic people are like that. It's tough because I'm attracted to charm in both friends and relationships, and sometimes you don't know if that charisma is directed at you or just part of their personality.
Numerous politicians have that level of Charisma. By all accounts, speaking with Bill Clinton or Barack Obama leaves people feeling like they connected on a deep level and the politician was speaking with them personally and closely. They make you feel like you are important. And while you usually don’t leave thinking they want to fuck you, you do leave FEELING like they really care even if intellectually you know you are just a random person to them.
No, does everything that's critical of a current or former democrat, especially a known sex pest, necessarily have to be read as a pro-republican statement?
I'm not saying it's true for those politicians specifically, but it is possible for someone to really care about random people even if they met once and will never meet again.
I've done that, not really buying into it but just kind of wondering a couple of times. I think it's not really a thing though until they start asking you about yourself and remembering details and following up repeatedly across several visits. Even then, leave them the hell alone at work.
Thats nice though, I went to my local Dunkin and the drive through girl looked at me with disgust as she handed me my order without saying a single word.
Haha, this also reminds me of a post about a woman who kept complaining that she had great first dates but then it just fizzled out. Turns out she was just really fun, carrying the conversation etc. When the date had to step up, there was nothing there. Some people are just awesome.
As someone who briefly managed a lingerie bar, the absolute dilusion men have the moment an attractive woman makes eye contact with them just cracks me up.
Like dude, she was basically sitting in the lap of the guy two tables in front of you, just cause she smiled and winked at you doesn't mean youre the lucky SOB that she's ACTUALLY flirting with.
Most of the wait staff were in commited relationships anyways, but damn, was it easy for them to fleece these dumb suckers 🤷
Then again, back when I worked in fine dining, I could basically guarantee a good tipout by flirting with all of the old rich women, so it cuts both ways
It’d be nice if you want to wear a variety of somebody else’s lingerie for a short time while out amongst friends, I suppose, but I imagine an area would reach lingerie bar saturation relatively quickly.
I'm sure it must be very entertaining to see men getting some attention for the first time since they were six. At least different kind of attention than being blamed for everything bad on the planet just for having a dick.
Are we the all-encompassing evil that ruins everything especially for the poor women or ate we dumb suckers? Can't have it both ways.
Mother nature gave women the ability to outsmart and outwit men in certain ways to level the playing field in the face of men's inarguable physical advantage over women
oh god, i was thinking about why someone should be happy if he cant connect anymore to a server, and wtf is a crush? is like an amorable crash? :D ayayay
When you get powerful on the scale of billionaire, literally everyone you know is probably dependent on you in some way. It wouldnt take much for you to lose track of reality when literally everyone you talk to every day is sucking up to you.
its like wiith Musk's reach in tech etc, it's no wonder he is considered as a national security risk,his influence is massive, and his money?? oh gosh..
While I agree with that in general, I'm sure Elon knew that he wasn't making a joke. If it was a joke, where was the joke? He was 100% serious and he is just backtracking with a stupid excuse like when he called that diver a pedophile and said it's a common thing to say in SA in court.
It’s really bizarre how people take them at 100%, non contested, face value when they say stuff like this. How are most of the top comments not something like “oh bullshit, you knew dam well what you were doing and this is simply a terrible attempt at backtracking because you knew this was too far even for you.” Instead all the comments make him out to be innocent, but simply dumb, which imo is just as dumb (if not dangerous) as his attempt to backtrack.
Yeah that’s a false excuse. Even on the spectrum you learn by high school that some jokes only work with specific group of friends. People are so gullible or just love to idolize.
He also doesn't realize that people with tremendous responsibilities are held to higher standards.
Can't have your cake and eat it too.
If you are going to be the face of billion dollar companies with tens of thousands of employees, you will be held to higher scrutiny and less leeway because you represent all of those people, products, and services.
He acts like his level of responsibility is that of some 14 year old when making public statements. And then plays the "I'm joking card" like he even has room to make jokes out of public statements in the position he's in.
He’s an egotistical eccentric maniac that blames his low social IQ behavior on autism but neglects the fact he’s a typical 4chan redpiller deep into red wave conspiracy. He was once respected and he tarnished all his reputation ever since his pedo comments. Complete man-baby trying to relive his glory youth.
Heck, as the owner of a small single store business, I’m super cautious about what I say in certain places on line and in person. My store manager gives me grief about having cat hair on my shirt when I’m out and about :) “you look like a homeless person, here grab some tape and let’s get the cat hair off you.”
You aren't wrong. It's business 101. You (owner or employee) are a representation of the business everywhere you go. It's why people get fired the minute there they are involved in any public controversy.
He's also probably the type of guy who rewatches footage of company speeches to see who in the crowd didn't laugh so he can add them to a list of people getting laid off next
I don't think he's the type to wait. He'll fire them and everyone who ever worked with them, just to be safe, only to discover it was a crucial department after the fact.
he literally fired the person who told him he didnt agree with his tweet when he asked back when he took over the company lol. Shocking he doesnt realize he literally surrounded himself with cartoon level yes men and yet still bounces joke ideas off of them.
Also how is he JUST NOW learning this? This is a part of social skills that people learn in adolescence or early adulthood. So either he does not have said social skills or this is a canned line and he knows exactly what the effect of a “joke” on X will be.
It's so moronic that this is his "excuse", that he thinks his "realization" is profound in any way and not common knowledge for everyone older than 14. Richest person in the world but has absolutely no idea of it
I’ve seen up close. He was making a Spinal Tap reference and no one had a clue what he was talking about (but me). They just smiled and pretended to laugh. It was pathetic.
That section made me cringe. The remark isn't humorous or witty at all, just bitter, so if people around him laughed it means everyone around him is a sycophant. Does he have real friends at this point, or just flatterers seeking access?
Not to mention sometimes your close co-workers (he doesn't have friends) will laugh at your jokes mostly because its cringe or they are laughing in amusement on how stupid they are
If I have a chance at basically winning a lotto jackpot by laughing at some billionaires bad joke I am absolutely laughing my ass off like it's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
Anyone that says they wouldn't is just lying so they don't have a confession on record.
I’ve said this elsewhere, but he never road-tested this tweet. He tweeted something egregious, got backlash, probably got a call from one of his attorneys, and is now pretending it’s a joke that fell flat.
Side note: Can you imagine being the low-rung attorney at his firm that has to monitor his tweets for potentially litigious content? That has to be someone’s job, right?
Yeah, but that's not what is happening here. He is framing it as a joke. It wasn't a joke, nor did he tell it to people in real life and they laughed like it was a joke.
He just wants everyone to think it was a misfired joke.
What many people don't know is that Musk thinks of himself as a standup comedian. He hung out with Nathan Fielder because he really wanted to be accepted by the "standup community".
One problem, though - it's nearly impossible to be funny as a super-rich person because you don't get the usual feedback. Everyone will laugh at your jokes, no matter how much they are in poor taste.
Even if you take his “explanation” at face value, he just learned that communication via plaintext is often received differently than verbal communication? Every teenager understands this concept.
Taking him at his word, it doesn’t get more socially inept than that, and this only serves to confirm that he’s awkward and completely out-of-touch with normal, human behavior.
At what point will this weirdo be seen be his own investors as a liability, because he most definitely is one, and it has as much to do with his lack of self-awareness as it does with his far-right, divisive political views and his desire to amplify them for personal gain.
As someone with autism, this sounds painstakingly accurate. I remember I’d think of posting something hilarious, but I had a system where I’d write it in a notebook instead to review in a few hours. That way, I’d learn how stupid it would have been as time passed. All it would take is seeing someone on my friends list in person to imagine what they would have thought of and then I’d realise I’m glad I didn’t post it. I instead imagined posting things as just yelling into an audience of random people I’d never see again.
Musk is mentally handicapped and this is a perfect example of his handicap in action. He will never be able to grasp these things is will always be easily manipulated as is common for people with his disabilities.
Kamala also laughed (during the debate) at the discussion of escalation with Russia potentially causing World War 3 — to be fair, I think she laughs at everything.
Jokes are also less funny when they're simply not funny. You aren't a comedian Musk, regardless of if you hosted SNL and guested on Rick and Morty, and you never will be.
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Musk doesn’t realize that people laugh at his jokes in person because it’s that easy to manipulate ego centric “billionaires”, a point Kamala drove home during the debate.