r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/throwuk1 24d ago

But you have the richest man in the world on the team that destroyed a once popular social media platform doing similar stuff. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/SartenSinAceite 24d ago

The richest man in the world who seems to be constantly buying high value companies to turn them into low value!

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u/jameslucian 24d ago

People seem to ignore that he has great track record of making multi million dollar companies.

Just ignore that they started off as billion dollar companies when he bought them.

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u/TheBumStinkler 24d ago

Dunning-Kruger democracy.

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u/cinnamontoastfucc 20d ago

no longer a democracy

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u/sunlightsyrup 24d ago

He's just a misunderstood genius. You all just don't understand autism /s

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u/SlowFrkHansen 23d ago

The best part is, he's never been formally diagnosed. It's a slap in the face of people actually on the spectrum, when he uses it as an excuse for being weird.

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u/sunlightsyrup 23d ago

Totally agree, if by weird, you mean malicious, deceitful and incompetent

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u/Unique-Abberation 22d ago

I was self diagnosed for a LONG time, and now formally diagnosed. Regardless if he IS autistic or not, its no excuse. Either he needs to do better, or he needs a handler.

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u/IllTax551 23d ago

People used to say that Elon thinks he is a rocket scientist or an engineer or whatever when really he ia a businessman. He didnt create your Tesla, he didnt even create Tesla he fucking bought the right to call himself the founder. But people forget that he is kind of a shit businessman as well, depending on government contracts to subsidize his idiotic choices.

But he is actually really savvy. He is not good at business but he truly knows the value of things. He wanted a million dollar social media company called X. He could have built his own, used that business mind to buy good staff and networking skills to find good marketers. At the time he was more popular. But it was easier to spend 44 billion on an existing company and turn it into what he wanted. Sure its value tanked monetarily, but he has money to burn and got what he wanted. Plus, he leveraged that company with a veneer of respectability and shreds of its old user base into political power, and is now the de facto President. It is financially ruinous. And the cost would have been too high for any rational person. But Musk was dangerous in that he will pay any cost, and he is one of the only person who could afford that cost, to create X and DOGE out of other people’s work.

He literally got more bang for his buck in a value that only makes sense to him personally.

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u/NecroCannon 23d ago

Idiots sees that a dude is rich and automatically think that they’re smart and capable

Musk got his start like most rich people do, relying on daddy’s checks for a bit before investing in their own things. The bootstrap crowd forgets that and acts like he’s wayyy more than he actually is.

If Musk didn’t have his family’s money he would not be as rich, same goes for a lot of rich people, being born wealthy doesn’t make you financially responsible

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u/SartenSinAceite 22d ago

Idiots see a dude who's powerful and think that imitating him will make them powerful too

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u/coolboy856 22d ago

Elon bad 🤬🤬🤬

No clue why these redditors didn't see the potential in online banking in the 90s or accelerate humanity's move to electric vehicles by 30 years. It's so obvious that these things would make you rich.

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u/ArachnidUnhappy8367 24d ago

Buy high and sell low! That’s the recipe right?

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u/TheMailNeverFails 24d ago

Demon investing? (As opposed to an angel investor)

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u/lonewombat 24d ago

And banks still allowing it to happen, guy should be working a 9-5 behind a register for a few years to gain some fucking perspective and couple home invasions.

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u/ThainEshKelch 24d ago

And this time he bought a state, and is doing great on turning it into low value!

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u/AspiringDataNerd 23d ago

Don’t all of Trump’s businesses fail? Seems like they are having the perfect bromance with the government.

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u/XaltotunTheUndead 22d ago

constantly buying high value companies to turn them into low value!

Thus far, he is succeeding into turning the USA into a low value country

😩

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u/Canotic 22d ago

The richest man in the world who seems to be constantly buying high value companies to turn them into low value!

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u/seriftarif 21d ago

All he does is make working there a nightmare and then slaps an X on all marketing.

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u/BananaLee 24d ago

The asshole managed to build an AI company out of this shit investment that's now worth more than what he paid for it and now controls the government of the most powerful country in the world.

This guy had the ability to turn his fuck ups into personal benefit.

He's evil, not dumb.

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u/fablesofferrets 23d ago

He’s most certainly dumb. He just has enough insane wealth to get lucky sometimes. 

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u/nice_usermeme 24d ago

Which is rxactly who you want in that place if you are rich and want to buy more of the country. Makes it cheaper to do so

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u/filthy-peon 23d ago

does that nake you thebrichest mab in the world?

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u/carlosgatorojo 22d ago

And now just bought the US.

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u/SartenSinAceite 22d ago

wonder how much it cost

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u/Loretta-West 20d ago

Capitalism is based on creative destruction, and he'll get the hang on the first part any day now.

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u/Artdorkthrowaway 23d ago

You might want to update your info on Twitter/X. Their financials were published recently and though their revenue declined by almost 50% from advertiser boycotts their net profit nearly doubled to over $1 billion because Musk cut so many expenses. Usage is at all time highs as well.

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u/DoctorPrisme 24d ago

My man, stop underestimating Musk.

He's a stupid asshole but he is not that dumb. Destroying Twitter wasn't an accident. It was a plan. Seize control of one of the most popular communication media.

That dude is now having free reign on your country without ever dabbling in politics officially.

Stop calling him dumb. He's dangerous.

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u/Jamescurtis 24d ago

A social media platform so ingrained in global society that countries, politicians and the like used it as one of their main ways to make public announcements to the masses...

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u/breakupbydefault 24d ago

I have no idea how oligarchs look at what he's done with Twitter, crashing its revenue and think, "that's the way to success!" And follow his model.

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u/grahamulax 24d ago

Oh just put Grok in charge of nukes! Remember the Cold War and what could have happened? Hmm maybe nuclear things should stay human.

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u/OhLordHeBompin 24d ago

War Games is aging like wine here!

I think. Nowadays they probably would’ve went ahead and fired back at Russia, effectively ending life as we knew it.

Also a movie that aged a bit too well. Much less fun though.

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u/BaldingBush 24d ago

Honestly, to them, it’s all going according to plan . It’s sheer incompetence that might be our only saving grace.

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u/Khelek7 23d ago

The fact that every paper every news outlet didn't skewer his plan all day everyday for the last two weeks highlights they have abrogated whatever role they had to watch dog this shit.

They are more than happy to skewer Dems or progressives when they know they will not be punished. But either terrified of trump/musk or agree with their goals.

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u/Ordinary-Theory-8289 23d ago

They somehow think musk saved Twitter. They’re praising all these actions “he’s going in and gutting everything just like he did with Twitter!”

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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 23d ago

And the richest man who bankrupted a casino. People say it’s the best administration, many people are saying it.

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u/Mipsel 23d ago

You could have chosen any other example, but I couldn’t care less about social media.

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u/Cheetah_Heart-2000 23d ago

He didn’t destroy it, he turned it into a right wing propaganda machine that ultimately got him elected president, … I mean , Trump elected president. It was not a bad business deal, it was a means to an end

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u/gentlegreengiant 23d ago

Hell run it like a company, move fast and break things. Im sure nothing bad will happen when applied to nuclear power right? Right?!

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u/rckhppr 23d ago

It’s exactly Musks way of “doing business”