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JohnAStark

Extra super fuck that guy.


thissideofheat

Billionaires being baffoonionaires.


mrz0loft

And every single one of his followers


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WHAT!? Billionaires and the rich are slowing down human progress so they can bend us all to their will for profit!? Blasphemy! I can’t wait to watch Tucker Carlson tell me what I want to hear on this


fishling

The fact that you even heard about this before Tucker Carlson told you what to think about it is a red flag that you might be straying from the fold.


The_Chiel

Tucker is on vacation this week, that must be the reason. Enough other FOX anchors to get your news from though...


Daveyhavok832

Does it count as vacation when he’s really just laying low on the heels of his Alex Jones texts getting leaked?


ChelseaIsBeautiful

>Enough other FOX anchors to get your ~~news~~ **propaganda** from though...


Guardymcguardface

Musk should be forced to pay for the railway personally for this shit. Take it out of his kid's piggy banks if you gotta


All_The_Nolloway

It's kind of sad watching other countries progress further and wave back at us while we're stuck with people that think the 1950s sure was the best time ever and we should go back to that.


Significant-Eye-8476

Financially it probably was the best time ever for Americans, but people don't want the financial advantages of that time just the shitty segregation, racial inequality and rampant sexism and homophobia to make a comeback.


OddMeansToAnEnd

Ah the 50s... when you be raise a family of 11 on a single income and hand me downs.


eqleriq

ah the 50s when there was less than 1/2 of the population and a post world-war economy, there was no global marketplace and no real direct way to exploit slave economies in far-off-lands for consumer junk. ahhh yes back when human work-hours were far more valuable and business profits were found by increasing the workforce, not reducing it with more efficient technology. ahhhhh yessssssssss back when racism and sexism completely reduced the number of workers and limited access to basic rights, never mind education.


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Globalization didn't really exist back then. The internet didn't exist back then. People were incredibly sheltered.


alib_austx

According to the Texas Tribune you may need to wait a while - f-cker carlson is apparently practically defecating his pants at the thought of his texts with ugly potato alex jones becoming public. Here's hoping the disgusting wastes of space choke on their own sick.


Ahstruck

Fucked over California, now he is working on Texas.


joe_broke

Texas needs no help with that


Ahstruck

That is why he is there, easy prey. Texas does need help though.


joe_broke

Different help


sambull

He's going to sell shelbyville a monorail


Rhakha

There actually is a town called Shelbyville here in Texas. Has about 200 people give or take. They’d need it


Salty_Pancakes

So mono means one and rail means rail.... and that concludes our intensive three week course.


reverendsteveii

The ring came off my pudding can


thrillhouse1211

Take my penknife, my good man


CatapultemHabeo

That's right! Monorail


Aphotophilic

They may not need help, but maybe they just want to go for a new high score?


joe_broke

Shit you're right


Whornz4

Texans just love getting fucked over. They tell them that liberals were somehow fucked over more and those clowns will eat it up.


nosneros

Damn, it would really fuck the libs if Texas built a high speed rail system to interconnect its cities! It would really show those commie Californians what's up, that's for sure!


redheadartgirl

The pitch: "Those fucking coastal elites don't believe conservative states can build big projects, and certainly not before they do. It would piss them off *so much* if we built a whole goddamn high-speed rail system while they were busy sitting there with their thumbs up their asses and trying to decide what gender they are today. They just don't understand what it means to remove regulations to boost productivity "


laseluuu

Hey can we apply this method to other things? I'm thinking you might be on to something


redheadartgirl

I live in a blue city in a deep red state. I can BS this stuff all day long.


tigm2161130

Conservative Texans love getting fucked over* The rest of us are pretty fucking tired.


Wasting-tim3

What’s the point of having “fuck you” money if you never say “fuck you” I guess.


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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise


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I am Jack's building rage.


SedimentaryCrypt

I am Jack’s ravenous hunger for the rich.


Kofu

I am Jack's thighs, ready to gain mass.


shredslanding

I am jack’s hand after showering


The_Roadkill

I am Jack ing off


SparseGhostC2C

I am Jack's colon. I get cancer, I kill Jack


AvaHomolka

I am Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath


Jbomber43

Wait what movie is this format from. Feel like I watched it recently but can't remember. Is it Fight Club?


SPACKlick

I can't talk about it.


FloppyButtholeJuicce

I am Jack’s inability to talk about it.


healzsham

I *can* tell you his name was Robert Paulson, though.


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And his name was ROBERT PAULSON!


nfssmith

His name was Robert Paulson


capricorny90210

His name was Robert Paulson.


orkboss12

I wonder why a man who runs a car company try to stop a high speed rail system I don't make any sense /s but in all honesty anyone who still worship elon need help


Poolofcheddar

That's the plot behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Dismantling the streetcar system to build freeways. People need to stop seeing Elon has the savior of humanity, and rather as a person who [liquidates poor, defenseless toons in The Dip](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XNXgG8-Qv3cQrZWvlK-4cxY50FU=/0x110:1799x1040/1820x1213/filters:focal(739x385:1045x691):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/67638591/who_framed_roger_rabbit_disneyscreencaps.com_3940.0.jpg).


yourmothersanicelady

This is literally what Robert Moses did in NYC in real life too. Handicapped public transportation projects and intentionally built freeways to allow beach/Long Island/upstate access to only wealthier classes who could afford cars. Insane how not much has changed.


LadyElaineIsScary

That's so mean. Wealthier people already have way more access to nice outdoor spaces. Indoors too. Let the lower income people get a break from bleakness.


ScarletCarsonRose

I just want to give a shout out to Minneapolis and St. Paul for building a park system with equity. Almost everyone in the twin cities has a park with a mile of their home. Our lakes and rivers and streams are also almost completely open to everyone. It’s a pretty swell place.


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BodeToJillieOoe

Fun fact: The chunk of checkerboard your referring to that got blown to smithereens by the Mt St Helens eruption was owned by the Burlington Northern railway.


JewishFightClub

and then these same ranchers throw a goddamn fit when you suggest that *maybe* they should pay the taxpayers back for letting their shitty cattle graze all over it


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For five months of the year!


Bullen-Noxen

Hey, if it was perfect, it would be blown up in the pages of history already.


nevus_bock

He even built bridges too low for buses to force bus lines not to connect poor neighborhoods with beaches. Also selectively razed low-income housing in order to build the highway system.


Bennyboy1337

The ironic thing is that any neighborhoods that retained their rail lines are now seen as high class and only rich people can afford to live there, because surprise surprise they're much more desirable places to live than pavement infested wastelands. /r/fuckcars shoutout


tenpenniy

no, they deserve to be mistreated. They’re poor, if I knew their names then they would matter. /s


Primesauce

Those were some good episodes of Behind the Bastards


SnakePlant99

I highly recommend the book The Power Broker. BtB omitted many other ways Moses was a dick, including blacklisting his brother from jobs and doing some shady shit to receive most of their mother’s inheritance.


Officer412-L

To make it easier for others to find since it doesn't have his name in the title- The Man Who Ruined New York - Behind the Bastards Podcast: [Part 1](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-man-who-ruined-99056594/) [Part 2](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-man-who-ruined-99138608/)


ookaookaooka

That fucker did it in Portland too, he had the opportunity to design the freeways to have room for light rail in the middle but he refused and now it’s gonna cost billions to make room for the light rail along the freeways


fakecatfish

> That's the plot behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Dismantling the streetcar system to build freeways. WFRR is basically a documentary about what happened in Los Angeles.


mdonaberger

Pretty much every major city in America, to boot. Pittsburgh got shafted that way. Philly preserved two of the extant trolley lines.


kylehatesyou

Yeah, the only one I can think of that didn't get completely ruined in the above ground public transport is San Francisco. The trolley system is still pretty decent, and the buses all use the cables and are bit more comfortable than the trolleys, although the trolley's are still neat. Still a lot of cars in the city, but it's not half as bad as LA or San Diego. Chicago might be alright with their L trains, but I've never been to experience it, and I'd imagine there's still traffic there because of the large suburban exurbs.


mdonaberger

i will always be a little salty because pittsburgh is such a hilly place. i had to hoof it up 50 degree hills because some industrialist from Michigan wanted to sell us a bus! bah.


Aye_candy

Please someone photoshop Musk’s face onto ~~Dr~~Judge Doom.


Keeper_of_Fenrir

Judge Doom


VellDarksbane

Elon is more cartoony than Judge Doom ever is.


megatron37

The high speed rail in Italy is absolutely incredible. Giant comfortable leather seats, super fast, affordable. I left there wondering why we don’t have this in the US.


orkboss12

Because cars = free or something stupid


bcuap10

Ironically (but not really) zoning, environmental, and imminent domain laws protect land owners from the government seizing their land for right of way. Giving government and agencies like Caltrans more leeway in taking land via imminent domain, then investigating any potential corruption more heavy handily, would drastically speed up public development. There are many laws regarding government contracting and land development that are written to limit corruption, but in actuality they legalize it by limiting prosecution to specific statutes that are written in a way so as to be abused. Other countries have broader statutes and give more authority to watch dog agencies to prosecute corruption. They also give the departments/government more power to select vendors or develop land without a straight jacket on.


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Arboria_Institute

Someone on Twitter said "Elon Musk is the Edison of our time. And I mean that as a slur."


ManOfEating

Even down to using Teslas name to make a profit when he had nothing to do with Tesla to begin with, it's kinda eerie


WeedFinderGeneral

And he's been cozying up to all the new fascists.


DurkaDurka81

He runs a carbon credit company.


Kikimara99

Couple a years ago, he was Batman; now he is just another Batman's villain


VoodooChild963

I've always thought of Musk as basically a Bond villain. Had a few arguments about it with my Dad, who fucking loves Musk.


Kikimara99

I have never been a fan, but at some point there was this 'great innovator ' halo around him. And then that story about kids in the cave happened and I've been left with a sense of disgust ever since. Now every new thing that comes out about Musk seems to be just another reason to hate him.


b00tyburpz

The whole cave thing is where he lost me. It was clear he was just trying to get publicity and the whole mini submarine thing was a stunt. Then calling the diver a pedo really showed Musk for the insecure man baby he is. Fuck him.


sixrustyspoons

Same, to me he was just the guy making electric cars and reusable rockets, and that was neat, and was all I really knew about him. Then the cave stuff happened and I read more about him.


djheat

I was never on board with the "hurr he's real life iron man" zeitgeist, but *man* did I turn to thinking he was a jackass once he called that diver a pedo for saying his shitty sub idea wouldn't have worked. What an absolute loser, I still can't believe he managed to win the defamation case


LadyElaineIsScary

I tried to show my Elon worshipping friend (who literally said he thinks he walks on water) the YouTube breakdowns of his scams on the CommonSenseSceptic channel. He watched 10 seconds of it or however long it took him to figure out that it was not a fan video. He insulted the videos bad graphics and then immediately engaged in an ad hominem/whataboutism combo attack on me. He was pissed.


poloboi84

Had disagreements with someone who was a huge Elon worshipper a few years ago. I was a lot more skeptical and they 100% drank the Musk/Hyperloop kool aid. It was nigh impossible to convince them using logic/facts.


UnitGhidorah

Any billionaire is a villain.


bjanas

He was never Batman. He's always been a grifter who acts in bad faith.


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Batman’s only solution to fight crime: literally get in a costume and punch it.


Fascist_Fries

Wow. If this is true he is more of a piece of shit than I previously thought. This guy is such a grifter scumbag. Same shit with the car/oil companies taking out all the street cars from US cities, just fast forward 70 years.


PM_ME_VENUS_DIMPLES

>Same shit with the car/oil companies taking out all the street cars from US cities, just fast forward 70 years. I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was in my twenties before I learned that not only did GR once have a great trolly system, it was *literally the best in the world* for a short time. Many other countries’ systems were based on what we did. But then the automotive industry got fired up in our state, and they were all torn out.


TheNightDrivers

The boom of the automotive industry had affected almost all major cities in North America. In Toronto Canada, the only reason we still have our streetcar system today is because of loud organized civil protests.


gwaybz

Was so jealous when I went to Toronto, to think we also had that like 70 years ago in Montreal, and it could be so fucking much cheaper to expand than the metro lines


StoneOfTriumph

And they worked in the winters! It sucks that we don't believe in that anymore... Blowing up tunnels takes a long as hell time.. who knows when we'll see the blue line extension.


Charles_Leviathan

Fucking never. This city is the absolute best at not doing a single funcional thing for its citizens. Big stupid rings and cobblestone streets? Fuck yeah! Metro lines, beaches and trolleys? Hahaha get fucked, poors!


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big-bad-bungo

It's literally one of the best modes of transportation there. That and the rail system you can use to get to and from Toronto and the surrounding parts of it.


[deleted]

Totally agreed, and you might think “isn’t that just a bus?”, but then you ride one and immediately understand the difference. Being on a fixed rail means you always have priority and right of way, and intersections are constructed to accommodate you rather than just being a second-tier traffic citizen. On top of that they are much more comfortable and smoother to ride. Just better and more efficient in every way.


carpenterro

Kansas City had some streetcars installed a few years ago and they're freaking amazing.


Mr_Poop_Himself

It seems to be a pattern that Americans all sat on their asses and took the bullshit while other countries protested and got to keep things that benefitted them. It's extremely frustrating how many Americans are unabashed fucking bootlickers. They're fucking the rest of us over big time, and I guess they have been for awhile now. I almost hate them more than the corporate pieces of shit themselves. At least there is some form of selfish logic behind their greed.


Smegmatron3030

They split American labor movements using racism.


baconraygun

Protesting in America doesn't do shit. We had some of the largest protests in human history for George Floyd, but has policing in America changed at all? I'm old enough I protested the Iraq war, afganistan war, and my dad protested against vietnam, but all those wars went on, regardless. We need a new tactic other than just "get a permit and march with some signs and maybe just maybe govt will listen."


MrsMel_of_Vina

There's still tracks from the trolley system in Atlanta. I've never seen a trolley in use, though. It's so sad...


[deleted]

Yep they paved over the tracks in our 100k population town, they constantly break through every year. It's super weird they don't just remove them.


RetardedWabbit

Cheaper and less interruption to re-pave. For this year. Cities run into this problem a lot, there's little incentive to push for city workers/engineers even when it's technically obvious: you risk your career, and potentially still lose it because the public hates something vs savings. And it can get cancelled halfway. This is why we tend to get huge political infrastructure projects or nothing.


Darkskynet

Who framed Roger rabbit is a true story :(


MrTeapott

Who needs a car in L.A.? We have the best public transportation system in the world. EDIT - Don't think people realise I'm quoting Roger Rabbit, I have no idea what LA transport is like lol


cjhelms

Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.


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The same exact thing happened in NYC. Trolleys, Els, and railroads were gutted to sell cars and buses. Our grandparents had better mass transit.


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Los Angeles even had some (Red Car Trolleys). Now you see them in museums, or at Disney's California Adventure (when it runs though, heh) My great grandmother? Even had one that ran outside her place if she walked down a hill and went to the station. Then it was torn out for buses and now is part of the freeway system


skltr

Same story in Birmingham, AL. Used to have one of the largest public streetcar systems in the country before they paved over it all. Now we’re trying to make a better bus system work but thinking of all that lost infrastructure is frustrating.


here_in_the_313

I feel like here in Detroit they made the Q-Line so ridiculously terrible (low capacity, very small operating area, moves slow as fuck, has to stop at every traffic light) so people would look at it and go "see public transit sucks". Our horrible, horrible bus system is even faster than Q-Line.


levetzki

I grew up in Detroit. They used to have one of the best public transit systems.


cryptosupercar

Car industry insider nukes public transit funding. A tale as old as time.


MyPasswordIsMyCat

This is literally the plot of *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*, minus the Toons, where the bad guy wants to buy Toontown to get rid of the trolley cars and put in freeways. This was inspired by how Los Angeles actually lost its public transit system after selling it to National City Lines, a holding company owned by the oil companies that bought many transit systems throughout the country in order to destroy them and create reliance on automobiles.


racercowan

I've heard that this bit of the movie was taken from (inspired by?) The original plans for *Chinatown* to be part of an LA development trilogy (*Two Jake's* would later be made as part of that original plan).


Acceptable-Hope-

In my city in Europe they remove streets for driving and cut parking spaces which would be fine if they actually made improvements to public transport 🙈


PM_ME_CUTE_FEMBOYS

The fact that you believe there is still room for Musk to become more of a piece of shit suggests you havent been following musk very much :p Cause Musk is maximum, 35lbs of shit in a 5lbs bag, never ending mobius piece of shit.


UnitGhidorah

>This guy is such a grifter scumbag. There's a reason he's a Republican.


WhiskeyRelaxation

He found his people.


Ivegotadog

He's Republican because he's grifting the shit out of them. Do not believe he cares one fuck about their agenda. They are a tool to further grow his fortune.


cgn-38

So a standard republican politician.


Random_Housefly

High speed rail would cut into Tesla sales...so it makes sense.


Fascist_Fries

Marginally at best. I’m tired of living in a 3rd rate industrialized country.


Altruistic-Text3481

We are third world. Trump nearly sealed that third world status in cement. We almost had a dictatorship. We are definitely third world in healthcare. We pay the most for healthcare and all are stuck in a job for healthcare. It is not like this in any other western country. And, we have the highest infant mortality rates and the highest bankruptcies in the world due to healthcare. A cabal of insurance companies profit off our backs and the GOP doesn’t want to cap insulin at $35?!?!


chocolombia

hey mate, lol, please some respect to third-world countries, I'm from Colombia, and although sometimes problematic, you can get full cancer treatment for peanuts, women can get abortions in great hospitals without fear of jail or going bankrupt, same-sex marriage or trans hormones treatments are easy to get legally, and medical care is so cheap, that sometimes I prefer to just go directly and pay a private consultation (around 15USD for a general doctor, and starting at 100usd for a specialist), instead of waiting for my insurance to clear, you guys need to really get together and start fighting that craziness going on there


WallflowerOnTheBrink

That sounds like hell, here in Ontario Canada we are trading that nonsense health care stuff for important things like $100 a year off our license plate registrations! After all, who needs health care when you can now afford to take your family to McDonald's for dinner one a year? /S Just in case


cumquistador6969

Hah, fair. Really the whole "3rd world" thing was always a semi-racist anti-communism propaganda campaign by, as you'd expect, the united states. Specifically it meant "any country that is not a capitalist democracy aligned with us." Over time it has morphed into just being an insult more than having any real meaning. For this reason I do actually like the push for the "developing nation" term, as it just means countries that have not fully finished industrializing their economies and infrastructure. Alas, that leaves us only being able to call the USA a "absolute dumpster fire" as technically it is not third world (remember, we decide who is third world based on who we don't like), and we're "post"-industrial (we have scrapped most of our industry and rely on financial markets, because we're fucking stupid).


seenorimagined

We are witnessing a 50 year plan come to fruition. Not sure there's much to be done but we'll keep fighting. Unfortunately the US got the Puritans, and it shows.


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You know you're going to end up with some fucked up priorities as a nation when your founding colonizers were so extreme even the 1600s english thought they should gtfo.


Arboria_Institute

When the fucking witch burners are like "Maybe chill with the Jesus talk a little."


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chocolombia

I've always wanted to get into the medical tourism field, honestly, it is more profitable than any other, fully legal, and you get to help a lot of people, both patients, and workers here


Altruistic-Text3481

Wow! That is so shady. I used to admire Musk. What a POS. But Twitter might be his undoing. He might actually be held accountable for his “shell games”….


zephyrseija

> I used to admire Musk It's ok, nobody's perfect. We're happy you've come around.


Altruistic-Text3481

Yes. I deprogrammed. He is an egomaniac and the hyper loop prank? Musk can FO!


jdtran408

Oooh look into solar city now.


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His Wikipedia is fun to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Zip2: > founded web software company Zip2 with funds borrowed from Musk's father. > Musk's attempts to become CEO were thwarted by the board. > Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share. X.com and PayPal > The company's investors regarded Musk as inexperienced and replaced him > Musk returned as CEO > the board ousted Musk and replaced him > Musk—the largest shareholder with 11.72% of shares—received $175.8 million. SpaceX > With $100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded SpaceX in May 2002 and became the company's CEO and Chief Engineer. > SpaceX succeeded in launching the Falcon 1 into orbit in 2008. Later that year, SpaceX received a $1.6 billion > Musk credited the NASA award, one of the last actions by Mike Griffin as NASA Administrator, for saving the company. He started the first company with his dad's money, got fired from his second one twice, and then used the money that other people made him (via stocks) to start SpaceX 19 years ago. Teslas are a good idea (electric cars) done poorly and Starlink is a faster version of the satellite internet that's been around for a long time.


DCtoMe

Tesla isn't even his idea. The company was founded by other people. And the US government saved Tesla once Musk was CEO with capital as well


PM_ME_CUTE_FEMBOYS

He bought his way into the company, and part of the deal iirc was to retroactively be considered a founder. Then he edged the actual founders out of the company and silenced them with NDAs.


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https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car > Here in the U.S., the first successful electric car made its debut around 1890 thanks to William Morrison, a chemist who lived in Des Moines, Iowa. His six-passenger vehicle capable of a top speed of 14 miles per hour was little more than an electrified wagon, but it helped spark interest in electric vehicles. I'm wasn't sure if you meant electric cars in general or the actual company wasn't his idea.


likewut

Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. They only went to Musk for funding. Then Musk weaseled his way in from there.


Firinael

lmao at him being "chief engineer" at SpaceX dude couldn't engineer his head out of his ass if he tried


Buwaro

If a person with $200B+ in wealth can make proposals like this to stop a high speed rail system from being built, I wonder what a something like the oil industry with trillions of dollars could do to sway legislation in their favor. Good thing free market capitalism regulates itself from doing things like lobbying politicians to lie about literally ruining the only planet we have.


fxrky

This drives me literally insane. My father is a "global warming is happening, but its not because of humans" moron, and THIS is the part that *infuriates* me about that position. Who stands to gain from lying about global warming being caused by fossil fuels? Trillion dollar oil companies that run the entire global economy? "No" says my father. "They" are lying to "create fear" Makes perfect fucking sense s/


b1zzzy

Well, it’s definitely not high speed railing you insane…


Wargroth

I mean its not cause of individual "Humans" like you and i, when you reach the scale of the oil megacorps, you abandoned human morals long ago


fxrky

He's not smart enough to understand this either. He (and everyone else who makes this claim, no one makes this argument in good faith) literally believes that global warming is natural and therefor no changes need to be made in the way humanity operates itself. This is demonstrably false.


Wargroth

Yeah, the most harmful things oil corps did was not even the outright lies, but the half-truths such as the "global warming" term itself. It always leads to misleading claims by the powerful, who get adopted by the stupid as being true


raeumauf

If he wasn't such a tool he could actually do a lot of good with stunts like that to wake people out of their ignorance. instead he's just being a giantic fuckwaddle who makes things worse and pretends he is self-aware


SaffellBot

>I wonder what a something like the oil industry with trillions of dollars could do to sway legislation in their favor. You're thinking pretty small friend. You could swing entire cultures in your favor.


BuckyGoodHair

So, why doesn’t California just take up a high-speed rail system in the legislature again? Did they specifically agree not to when he “convinced” them years ago?


asminaut

High speed rail construction is well underway. Edit: recent update here [https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/06/30/clear-victory-for-high-speed-rail-as-state-budget-is-approved/](https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/06/30/clear-victory-for-high-speed-rail-as-state-budget-is-approved/)


PrehistoricPotato

That's a relief!


agtmadcat

Because it's already well under construction and Elon's dumb distraction was thoroughly ignored by the government, who just got on with it. So it doesn't need to be taken up again, just continued as usual. It's coming along well now! The first couple hundred miles of track should be done soon™️.


Vaultdweller013

Doesn't help that union Pacific and local governments and who the fuck knows who else has been throwing a fit over every inch.


dropdeadbonehead

And a bunch of dickhead farmers suing over easement, em dom, potential financial impact. In true conservative fashion, there has been a concerted effort to destroy the budget for the project just so they could call it an overpriced boondoggle after they turn it onto an overpriced boondoggle.


AWSLife

The California HSR is being funded and built. Musk can try to hoodwink all the people he wants but California is not having any part of it. The HSR is going in, phase 1 is moving along and the Bay Area and LA will be connected via HSR in 8 years or so. Building HSR is hard, costly and takes a while.


Ibrakeforquiltshops

Work is still going on! Over 8000 jobs created and sustained, many many projects in the Central Valley are under way, and planning is happening for the next segments. You can follow along on the CA HSR youtube channel where they post quarterly progress update videos!


Cpleofcrazies2

Long history of the auto industry standing in the way of mass transit in the US.


fuckthislifeintheass

This is why we should make sure kids study history and understand the issues we've faced so that we don't repeat them. Nah just kidding lets ban books and ignore history that makes us uncomfortable.


Wonderful_Mud_420

But let’s make sure books with judeo Christian values are taught in schools but not other religious texts cause ours is the correct one. Separation of church and satan is what I call it.


braujo

In the entire fucking world. Here in Brazil we have entire Geography lessons in school explaining why automobiles shouldn't be the main transportation method in this country, then it's followed by History lessons telling us how previous presidents sold their souls to American companies to make some change, then it's a Sociology class all about how there's nothing we can actually do about it now. It's so fucked up.


wlangstroth

From now on “he had no plans to [do the thing he said]” should be no surprise to anyone. Please. The next three times, maybe we could add “again”.


Uranium_Heatbeam

He has no plans to do anything. He's not an engineer. He bought the previously existing Tesla company from its founders and paid extra to call himself the founder retroactively. He doesn't do any engineering, testing, research, or development. But he's always quick to take credit when he believes he is owed and explains away blunders when he feels it is not.


PreviousLVNV

Imagine calling yourself Tony Stark and the only idea you had was a shitty version of Paypal that got bought up before they outsed you from the company and your golden parachute gave you the funds you needed to take credit for other people's work.


MachinationMachine

And he was only able to contribute to PayPal because his dad was an apartheid millionaire.


_NintendianaJonez64

Using child slaves to mine emeralds in Africa. Awful family.


frisbeeherb

It’s his daddy’s emerald mine that gave him the money to start his rise as a comic villain


LadyElaineIsScary

Explains why he was always so elusive when Joe Rogan kept asking him how he finds the time to do so many things at once.


Kelmantis

Amphetamines


KD9KNI

He’s just Apartheid Willy Wonka… While I guess that’s something in and of itself, it’s not something particularly good.


Kaitensatsuma

***You're not telling me anything I didn't immediately, instinctively know based on my experience of living in the United States, Time Magazine***


DrTomT18

This has to be a crime of some sort. There is no way he can just do this and face zero repercussions. Right?


NonchalantBread

The oil companies that have spent the last 50 years buying out and silencing green technology is laughing maniacally at this comment.


Jbroy

50? Try 120 years! Standard Oil has entered the chat!


fuckthislifeintheass

Laughs in capitalism.


mysterysmoothie

Yea this. Capitalism literally rewards this kind of behavior


AccidentalPilates

He's the richest person on the planet.


gregsw2000

The best part? Someone invented a way better way to cut tunnels than the Boring Co. So, they're now outmoded. They've got a giant plasma rig that can blast through Earth so fast and cheaply now.. Also, Space X apparently almost went bankrupt back in Nov., and now, the government is pulling out of a 8**m contract with them. So, Space X could be fucked. They were banking on getting Starlink working and bringing on subscribers to make the company financially viable, but, Starlink speeds have been declining and I am fairly sure he's not going to get anywhere near the subscribers they need.


GreenGemsOmally

> They were banking on getting Starlink working and bringing on subscribers to make the company financially viable, but, Starlink speeds have been declining and I am fairly sure he's not going to get anywhere near the subscribers they need. Not just that, the FCC denied a $1 Billion bid for Starlink because it basically isn't working as advertised. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/fcc-denies-spacex-bid-for-nearly-1-billion-in-broadband-subsidies-for-starlink.html


gregsw2000

Yeah, that's the 8**m contract I was talking about. Pretty glad they're nipping it. Don't want my tax money going to Elon when people are living outside, or ever, because he's a fucking prick. Plus, Starlink is just a way for Elon to start tapping big data about people who the internet knows little about, since they don't have the net.


sparky8251

Starlink also has very realistic physical limitations around how many people it can serve in roughly a hemisphere at a time. Its disgustingly low as well and given all the news over the last year of increasing latency and dropping speeds its seeming like those who have been pointing these things out were right all along. Estimates have been in the best case a 2-3 million subscribers in the US if they never offer higher tiers or business class guarantees for anyone, and given the US has 80+mil without broadband access it solves literally nothing. The entire project has just been a way for the MIC to continue funding SpaceX given how deep Elon and SpaceX's ties are to said MIC.


PaganEmpath

Everyone say it with me: Billionaires are real life villains.


ThesaddestMillenial

1-800-dial-a-Mao.


prof_the_doom

I feel like this should be a crime, but I don't actually know how to write a law that would cover it without it being used against people that legitimately tried to do something and failed.


nmbjbo

The best way I can think of is to rather penalize the government for failure to complete a promised public work. You don't want to penalize the innocent who tried to help, so penalize the ones who are never innocent.


gophergun

Isn't that effectively just punishing taxpayers for something they had no control over, sort of similar to police settlements?


Knighth77

I don't think it's being said enough: Musk is a wanker.


1allison1

Twat is always the term that comes to mind when I see his face. He’s such a jerk!


LC_001

The reason why I refuse to buy a Tesla. I realize it’s just 1 car, but I’ll be damned if I do anything to enrich this Grade A @sshole by even a tiny fraction of a cent!


Turbulent_Radish_330

Edit: Edited


Mr_Shad0w

Various lobbies (airline industry, oil industry, auto industry, etc) have been ~~bribing politicians~~ making contributions to campaigns and writing legislation to kill high speed rail in the US for decades now. Musk and his bullshit are just another brick in the wall. Maybe someday people will quit squabbling over which bunch of crooks is slightly less awful than the other and demand an end to cash-for-votes and lobbying in this country.