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You can read the story below, but I truly believe stuff like this is going to unwind Elon. Promise the future and deliver the past is not a winning game plan.

Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’


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He is, was, and always shall be a con artist.
 
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To recap: Musk’s company spent two years developing a very narrow car tunnel. To anyone who ever believed Elon Musk’s bullshit: you’ve been had.

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Yea, nothing he ever does works.
 
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Yea, nothing he ever does works.
Just stop it.

Tesla ---> Teetering financially
Solar City ---> Teetering financially
Battery Venture with Panasonic ---> On hold or cancelled (depending on who you talk to.)
The Boring Company ---> Really???

Thank god SpaceX exists, because that seems to be Elon's one real success story.


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Dude's only more successful that everyone on this forum, combined.



Just a con man, for sure.

Or maybe someone who assesses projects and modifies the path forward.
 
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Yea, nothing he ever does works.
Just stop it.

Tesla ---> Teetering financially
Solar City ---> Teetering financially
Battery Venture with Panasonic ---> On hold or cancelled (depending on who you talk to.)
The Boring Company ---> Really???

Thank god SpaceX exists, because that seems to be Elon's one real success story.


If you fail and quit, you learn nothing. Wink

I don't believe he's a con man per say. I do believe he's come up with some great ideas which either were not correctly executed or are ahead of their time. IMO






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All these pictures are cool but if he didn't con the government into giving him BILLIONS in subsidies they would have never been taken.

Howard Hughes he is not. He is the typical scam artist using peoples money to drive his ego. As to the success of Space X? Throw enough shit at a wall and some is bound to stick.
 
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All these pictures are cool but if he didn't con the government into giving him BILLIONS in subsidies they would have never been taken.

Howard Hughes he is not. He is the typical scam artist using peoples money to drive his ego. As to the success of Space X? Throw enough shit at a wall and some is bound to stick.

Yeah, they are paying him to launch shit into space.

Which is the government modus operandi, because they don't build or make things. They pay people / companies to do that. Been that way forever.

It's understandable that haters are gonna hate. I certainly don't think he's perfect, but like I said before he's done more than everyone here, combined.

But it's always funny to watch y'all complain. Big Grin
 
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Yeah, they are paying him to launch shit into space.



Yup. That's what subsidy means. Unfortunately the .gov has given him subsidies for man other things. And that has been pissing money down the drain. Because he is a con artist. That's what con artists do.
 
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The dude accomplishes more before noon than you probably can in your whole life.

He’s a workaholic and it’s cool to have people of his sort in this country. I’d rather my kid look up to him than some dumb NBA player.

I’m not even sure he enjoys his billions, he’s too busy trying to run 700 complex projects.
 
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The dude accomplishes more before noon than you probably can in your whole life.


Nope. Unless fleecing the American taxpayer is considered honorable.
 
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The dude accomplishes more before noon than you probably can in your whole life.


Nope. Unless fleecing the American taxpayer is considered honorable.
I’m curious if you have the same view of Trump or the thousands of others who have used our tax money on their projects.
 
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I enjoy him fleecing me because I like is projects and he does some interesting shit.

#FleeceMeHardElon
 
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Using tax money is not the issue. It is the way he aquired it that is, specifically with reguards to Tesla.

Establishing a plan of action, asking for money, and delivering product is fine. Dumping tax money into a black hole is not.
 
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Using tax money is not the issue. It is the way he aquired it that is, specifically with reguards to Tesla.


I think you’re just jealous that you don’t send rockets into space.
 
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I think you’re just jealous that you don’t send rockets into space


Naw, just jealous I didn't find a way to fleece the taxpayer to make myself rich Smile
 
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If .gov hadn't conned us taxpayers into billions and billions, we wouldn't have Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

If taxpayers have to subsidize something/anything, I d far rather it be ROCKETS than welfare.

So there's that.
Besides, I am all against pork barrel politics, except when its MY backyard porkbarrel politics.

So, there's that, too. Smile


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I think you’re just jealous that you don’t send rockets into space


Naw, just jealous I didn't find a way to fleece the taxpayer to make myself rich Smile


If you figure out a way, I’m in!!
 
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I think you’re just jealous that you don’t send rockets into space


Naw, just jealous I didn't find a way to fleece the taxpayer to make myself rich Smile


Pretty sure he founded PayPal to get rich.
He currently follows the rules to get tax subsidies. There rules are there to get money and he is doing it.
Hard to fault someone who is actually doing something with innovation.
Far more than any of us doing anything. He’s not doing it unlawfully. More power to him.


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