Kevin M. Kruse: So he’s saying he keeps putting his hand on a hot stove, which sounds about right

So he’s saying he keeps putting his hand on a hot stove, which sounds about right

*Literal* messiah complex.

The Hot Stove Catcher In The Rye

Engineering is fun for him because he doesn't do engineering, other people have to actually do the work to try to make his stupid ideas actually function, and the successful stuff was already in progress when he bought companies.

Kim Jong Il style engineering. Drops by the place where work is happening, everyone stops working to entertain him, he makes a stupid comment that is praised as a transformative deep insight, he gets all the credit for any success and no blame for failure.

That man has never done anything that could be called engineering.

Not even imagineering.

Not even lego without instructions.

I wouldn't be shocked to hear he had a hand in some Tesla engineering. The numerous design flaws would be easier to explain. They were engineered by folks who shouldn't be building cars either way.

certainly not since college

At least people* have stopped saying “But he’s a genius in his own way!” *Nonderanged people.

Someone should ask him what the last engineering project he worked on was, and what he contributed.

(financial engineering doesn't count)

"approving POs is working on an engineering proj—" oh god what have I done with my life

He came up with the aesthetic for everyone’s favorite new car, the cybertruck

That's not his *hand*.

But you can see why he'd get them confused, since they are always attached.

It is kind of surprising that he gets them confused since one of them he is repeatedly and constantly compensating for.

Then again, it’s apparent neither has he used to make any of his ex’s happy.

“Masterful gambit, sir.”

“I, a mutlibillionaire and almost trillionaire, am going to effect global change through posting like a 4-Chan-pilled homeschooler” is just a wild self-conception for someone who could pay out-of-pocket for inpatient therapy.

Engineering is "fun" for him because he tosses out an idea and lets everyone *else* figure out how to do it (or not). There's no real consequences for him, no one calling him out on his bad ideas. He doesn't have that safety net with posting crap on Twitter.

Something something the definition of insanity

"admittedly ineptly at times" is both the closest he's ever gotten to self awareness and a wild understatement

nah, that’s just false modesty, he has to give an opening for his sycophants to fall over themselves praising his acumen.

Donate a large portion of my record setting wealth to immediately help people facing the worst circumstances. NO Eugenics posting. YES

MEGA PAIN.

Try again, maybe it won’t hurt this time

A cat will learn from this experience not to touch the hot stove.

So do most human children.

What effing engineering

The guy who actively encourages virulent transphobia on his platform is resisting the corrosion of civilization?

apartheid clyde on why he loves to apartheid

Someone in the political landscape needs to a version of this

Counteracting the corrosion of civilization by replying “Concerning” to random bullshit tweets. Give that guy his $56B compensation package already.

I like how he thinks his stans are so dense he has to explain the hot stove simile.

He probably only learned about it recently himself.

Messiah complex lol

I swear this sounds like a Simpsons joke. Homer as a kid putting his hand on a hot stove and screaming, pulling it off, looking at it like 🤔, putting it back on and screaming, and over and over again. Meanwhile Abe looks on like, “… Yep, that’s my dumbass boy all right.”

Corrosion of civilization that he's actively performing...

By "Doing Engineering" he means "giving marching orders to a bunch of engineers who he can fire if they talk back". Politics, people are perfectly capable of talking back, so there are repercussions for him fucking up.

Today I learned that South Africans say Civilization when they mean White Supremacy.

i fear they may not be the only ones who do.

And then the hot stove autonomously drives into a crowd of people.

If he really wanted to halt the corrosion of society, he would turn everything over to the people who know what in Hell they're doing.

Masterful gambit, sir.

Also, he's a money guy, not an engineer. BAs in Physics and Econ, neither of which is an Engineering specialty. Apparently he didn't think being Delos D. Harriman was kewl enough.

To be fair, he told everyone to vote Republican in November of 2022... and the Democrats ended up vastly outperforming, versus the polls & media narrative. So... maybe he -is- helping?

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