How many broken promises will it take before the public deems Elon Musk a con-man?

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I had a conversation with some friends a year ago where they asked me what I thought of Elon Musk. I said he was a bullshytter who's only genius is in his ability to get retail investors and institutions alike to stan his curated image & buy stock. We went back and forth about how the self driving still doesn't work safely after Elon said it was already working more than 5 years ago and the Hyperloop was dogshyt. They basically said I was hating and didn't know for sure because I didn't own a Tesla myself.

Recently one of them sent me this video saying I was on to something.


This YouTuber has a lot of content over the years calling bullshyt on the stuff Elon says in a hilarious british accent. I was only aware of the Hyperloop stuff and the FSD crashing constantly, but holy shyt I had no idea he's been bullshytting this hard for so long.

-Said that Automous driving could drive from Cali to NY back in 2017 without you touching the wheel. Present day they urge you to keep your hands on the wheel after a guy died using it and it's been the cause of at least 273 crashes. Got exposed for making a fake video of the tech working for investors.
- Displayed completely fake solar panel technology to investors
- Said they would land 2 shuttles in Mars in 2022....This year the only launch exploded before it reached the atmosphere.
- Promised a faster, better load bearing truck than diesel with the Tesla semi back in 2017. Only revealed last december and it has none of the power or autonomous tech he promised.
- Pushed regulators away from making new railways in favor of his "Hyperloop" that was supposed to send people 133mph through a vacuum tube and end traffic. Instead they made a fukking underground tunnel with people driving Teslas basically Ubering you through extremely narrow tunnel that is slower than the regular above ground traffic.
-Promised not to dump stock....dumped over 30 billion last year to massively overpay for Twitter and run it in the ground. Breaking a world record for the biggest loss of wealth by a single individual/

And unbelievably there is more. This dude's whole game seems to promise some crazy shyt to come out in a year or two, then twice as many years pass & the moment people begin to think "Hey remember when Elon said he was gonna make XYZ? :jbhmm: " he announces a dozen more crazy shyt thats gonna come out in a year or two.

Now we have robots, super AI and mind controlled electronics on the way. :mjgrin: Wow! Real life Iron Man!
 

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If anyone follows any major youtuber in the electric car space, you would know they all say to take Elon words with a grain of salt. FSD is a massive pre-order scam to raise money for future investments for the company but at something they have to produce it or give people their money back.
 

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A con-man is someone that deliberately steals to push something in bad faith. Musk actually puts his money where his mouth is (to mixed results) but if anything he's just a delusional billionaire. "Con-Man" doesn't apply here
:usure: I guess Theranos wasn't "lying" they were just overly ambitious on their timeline.

Bruh, he literally got on stage in front of investors and demo'd a FAKE product saying it would be on sale later that year.


How is that not a purposeful scam? The term snake oil salesman was made for scenarios exactly like this.
 

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- Pushed regulators away from making new railways in favor of his "Hyperloop" that was supposed to send people 133mph through a vacuum tube and end traffic. Instead they made a fukking underground tunnel with people driving Teslas basically Ubering you through extremely narrow tunnel that is slower than the regular above ground traffic.
This shyt right here was comically bad.
 
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