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mzmolly

(52,861 posts)
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:14 PM Jul 2025

Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk isn't motivated by money or power. He deeply cares about humanity - Elon 'Muck' Retweet

Elon likes to retweet BS that strokes his ego. Such as:

"Elon has a deep care about humanity, about getting us to the transition to a sustainable energy, about human civilization.

He is motivated not by making money, not by being powerful and kicking around people, but by these missions that came when he was a little kid sitting in the corner reading the superhero comics.

I've got to help humanity be space-faring. I've got to help it get over this sustainable energy issue.
I've got to help it fight off artificial intelligence that might be evil.

So, there is a goodness to his missions, and they are epic missions."




Source: NITTER

Elon cares so much about 'humanity' he recently proclaimed, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy..." CNN

Hmmm, is there superhero role model that doesn't want to pay taxes, is racist and lacks empathy? Perhaps little Elon confused villians with superheros while reading comics in the corner?
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Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk isn't motivated by money or power. He deeply cares about humanity - Elon 'Muck' Retweet (Original Post) mzmolly Jul 2025 OP
Hey Elon? If you're serious, start a foundation and hire me to distribute those evil $$$ to better uses for you! (n/t) Moostache Jul 2025 #1
Gutting USAID was so 'humane' mzmolly Jul 2025 #3
LOL, Yeah sure he does Bev54 Jul 2025 #2
He cares about pretending he's a rocket scientist and getting federal money to blow things up and . Attilatheblond Jul 2025 #4
Agree! mzmolly Jul 2025 #7
Walter Isaacson was the wrong one to write his biography--too easily bamboozled. hlthe2b Jul 2025 #5
I think Elon believes that. But that doesn't mean he actually does EdmondDantes_ Jul 2025 #6
SNL had an "UBERman" skit about a Nazi Superman. usonian Jul 2025 #8
CHAINSAW OF HUMANITY! 2MuchNoise Jul 2025 #9
😆 mzmolly Jul 2025 #10
His god is money Blue Full Moon Jul 2025 #11
Oh fuck off Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 #12

Moostache

(11,297 posts)
1. Hey Elon? If you're serious, start a foundation and hire me to distribute those evil $$$ to better uses for you! (n/t)
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:16 PM
Jul 2025

mzmolly

(52,861 posts)
3. Gutting USAID was so 'humane'
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jul 2025

as was firing droves of federal public servants, so he could lower his tax burden. Such a hero!

Where can we send his mask and cape?

Attilatheblond

(9,249 posts)
4. He cares about pretending he's a rocket scientist and getting federal money to blow things up and .
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:28 PM
Jul 2025

He cares about scarfing up all the personal data on as many people as he possibly can. He cares about being paid for internet service that he can turn off on a whim, and affect nations' ability to defend themselves. And, like the president he put in office, he cares about retribution.

Humanity? Not so much.
Exhibit A: kids who starved to death due to him trying to trash USAID and leaving food shipments already paid for to rot.
Exhibit B: Poorly made vehicles that are often mobile BBQs that risk everyone on the road and firefighters called to squelch the extremely hot vehicle fires, or self-guided missiles that sometimes mow down pedestrians.

Exhibit C: Listen to his older kids talking about what a piss poor father he is.

EdmondDantes_

(2,094 posts)
6. I think Elon believes that. But that doesn't mean he actually does
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:44 PM
Jul 2025

And it certainly doesn't excuse Isaacson an excuse for being so gullible.

Musk suffers from the delusion that he's a unique genius capable of doing the best for humanity. Many tech bros are in a similar boat. Unfortunately they mistake having a lot of money with being good at things unrelated to their companies.

usonian

(26,596 posts)
8. SNL had an "UBERman" skit about a Nazi Superman.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 08:04 PM
Jul 2025

Super powers must be wealth destruction, disasters, faulty science ( all-optical vision, no lidar, no radar, no X-RAY vision!!) apartheid, and a dozen Lois Lanes to

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