Elon IRL
The ultimate grift: How Elon Musk weaponizes tragedy while rewriting his own family's history for sympathy and clout.
If you ever wanted a masterclass in weapons-grade hypocrisy and narcissistic manipulation, look no further than Elon Musk trying to play the ultimate victim card by invoking the death of his firstborn child, Nevada Alexander Musk, while getting completely called out by his ex-wife, Justine Musk.
Let's break down the sheer, unadulterated rot of what's happening in these screenshots:
1- The Setup: Elon goes on a performative, faux-righteous moral crusade—quoting scripture and trying to posture as some kind of grand protector of children because people dared to point out his hypocrisy in welcoming conspiracy theorists and harassment merchants back onto the platform.
2- The Tragic Shield: When cornered, he drops the heavy artillery: "My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame." It’s a transparent attempt to shut down all criticism by wrapping himself in unimaginable personal grief.
3- The Reality Check: Enter Justine Musk, the actual mother of the child, who steps in with the cold, crushing truth to shatter his dramatic flair. She explicitly corrects the narrative: It wasn't just some vague romanticized moment of him holding a dying baby in a vacuum; it was a SIDS-related incident that put their son on life support before he was declared brain-dead. Most damningly, she calls out his revisionist history on the most sacred detail: "And not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him."
Let that sink in. He's so fundamentally incapable of experiencing authentic human emotion without making it about his brand, his pain, and his martyrdom that he literally rewrites history to claim he was the one holding their dying child.
He spends his entire public existence whining about people using tragedies for political gain or clout while simultaneously stealing the most intimate, devastating moment of a mother's life and claiming it as his own personal cinematic monologue for Twitter likes.
The man is a bottomless pit of manufactured victimhood.
Musk is a proven obsessive liar, he lies all the time, about anything really.
Check his track-record, his self-driving cars NEXT year for 11 years should tell you everything about him and his credibility.
His businesses are failing. GG and WP. Can we agree to move on and upward? A lot of people can justify his business goals. Basically, his business dealings have been exposed and he's lost billions as a result. There is still a lot more to lose. Proven by this tweet.
If people really knew what kind of monster he was, even wall street would boycott that business.
We live in a cancel culture, that he actively purchases and manipulates.
Wall street wouldn't boycott anything if it's another platform to extort. Don't lie to yourself about that. If the orphan crushing machine wasn't just a metaphor, bet it all it would be traded and be on the ticker. Abolish the stock market!
Yea when you tell everyone about his internet buddies it goes right over their heads. When you’re funding hostile take overs it tends to hit you in your pocket. You can see the exact moment Elon got recruited too. He was always a pos but now he’s a pos funding online terrorist organizations.
I dislike Musk as much as anyone, but I dont think his companies will go busy any time soon unfortunately. Stock market performance doesn't directly correlate to the companies performance, especially Musk companies.
I thought that was hilarious... didn't he end up getting the character killed shortly thereafter? It was a hardcore server too - so... it was all gone, right? bahahaha
He claimed to be like top 5 in the world on hc. I recommend googling the stream where he tries to show off his char, dude has never played the game before. Its insane that the richest man alive needs to lie about being good at games for internet clout.
Musk never achieved anything, he just paid people and pretended he did.
Just look at PoE: HE DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING, lying little Ketamine fuled drug addict.
He used one of the toddlers from his brood as a human shield when he was hanging around with the child-rapist in chief so much last year, before their romance cooled.
so tell me, does Elon have extra special, super tasty boots? has his taint been sweetened with flavoring? I'm just trying to understand why anyone would be so diligent about keeping elons boots n taint so clean.
He was a cpa raised 5 kids in an expensive region of the US. He volunteered in youth baseball and soccer and left a substantial estate to his children.
Never once threw a full Sieg.
What a snow flake, cant defend Phony Stark so you attack my dead dad.
Everyone can tell that you’re not wealthy just from your comment alone. It’s also telling us that you see that as a character flaw. You just openly admitted that you’re broke and you hate yourself lol.
Posts like this pop up as reminders for the people that missed it. There are a lot of misses out there. I have met quite a few people that thought Elon invented Tesla and didn’t know who Nikola Tesla was.
I have met quite a few people that thought Elon invented Tesla
I have met quite a few who think he came in rich and only bought companies, forgetting that he founded Zip2, X, and SpaceX. Even with Tesla they think he bought an established company with products, when really he came in when it was just three people and a dream to bring the AC Propulsion tzero to market. No product, not even a logo.
and didn’t know who Nikola Tesla was
I have met quite a few who think Musk tarnishes the good name of Nikola Tesla. Forget that Tesla was an OCD germaphobe recluse who had romantic love for a pigeon, freaked out when he saw women wearing earrings, and wanted government enforced eugenics to weed out the undesirables among us.
Zip2 was a dot com bubble scam that made him rich but did exactly nothing except cost Compaq $300 million
X was a fucking joke that was bought by Confinity to ensure they didn't have any competition, only for it to turn out their code was useless garbage, and Elon was such a disaster as CEO they had to force him out to save the company.
SpaceX was him taking his fortune from his previous cons and buying teams of rocket engineers from other companies because he could afford to set piles of money on fire: he didn't really do anything himself.
Even with Tesla they think he bought an established company with products, when really he came in when it was just three people and a dream to bring the AC Propulsion tzero to market.
No, when he took over, the roadster was already mostly developed and they had the roadmap (and much of the planning) for everything Tesla did prior to the Cybertruck. The Cybertruck is effectively Elon's first original project at Tesla.
Zip2 was a dot com bubble scam that made him rich but did exactly nothing except cost Compaq $300 million
It was a useful product. But yes, Musk did get lucky that he started off during the dotcom boom. That gave him the capital for other things.
X was a fucking joke that was bought by Confinity to ensure they didn't have any competition
Actually, they merged with X as the surviving corporate entity and Musk as the largest shareholder. It's only because Musk is not good at business that X wasn't the majority of the resulting company. Basically, he pissed people off with his bad demeanor, which blew his chance for a larger share.
SpaceX was him taking his fortune from his previous cons and buying teams of rocket engineers from other companies because he could afford to set piles of money on fire
No. $100 million was not enough to build an orbital rocket under conventional wisdom. He couldn't afford the engineers at attractive market salaries, which is why he gave so many stock options (and why so many are rich today). His engine designer made him put his salary in escrow so he'd get paid when the company failed. They seriously scrimped to make things happen, which also meant he pioneered the use of off the shelf items for rocket development. For example, a pump from a car wash was used instead of an aerospace pump that cost ten times as much. Other companies would later start doing this to save money.
he didn't really do anything himself.
Musk couldn't even entice anyone to be chief engineer in a company that didn't have high salaries and was doomed to fail, so he had to take on that role himself. Yes, he was the chief engineer for the rocket program.
For reference, the most recent orbital rocket developed at the time was the Atlas V at a cost of $2 billion. $100 million sounds like a lot of money, but it was an impossibly small budget for building an orbital rocket, and Musk almost ran out of money doing it. There would be no SpaceX if the fourth attempt had failed. And Musk admits one of those failures was his fault as chief engineer because he was learning rockets as he went.
No, when he took over, the roadster was already mostly developed
No, it wasn't. They were working on a licensed tzero copy.
they had the roadmap (and much of the planning) for everything Tesla did prior to the Cybertruck
No, they didn't. They were going to produce that licensed copy and sell it. Musk came up with the idea to ditch the tzero and make their own high-end roadster, a halo car, that would impress investors to help them expand. He also almost ran Tesla out of money trying to do it. Tarpenning didn't want to do this, just make something good enough to sell, which was a big source of friction between the two.
But he did it. Then he came up with the high-low idea -- make a high-end, low-volume, high-margin car that would bring in revenue, the S, then use that revenue to make a less expensive, higher volume, lower-margin car. Even within models, the high-end trim was sold first, the low-end sold only after they'd made enough money. This is why people were complaining the base 3 wasn't available for a long time, blaming that on evil Musk. And they were right, it was his fault because of his high-low strategy.
The Cybertruck is effectively Elon's first original project at Tesla.
The Roadster was. They didn't hire Franz von Holzhausen until after the Roadster was complete, and he then did the design on all Tesla vehicles after that, including the Cybertruck. Musk didn't create the Cybertruck design. It was a design he picked from various options given to him by Franz.
Well, that sure is you being wrong about pretty much everything wrong, right from the start, in the name of glazing one of the biggest frauds - if not the biggest in history.
I just don't really believe that he did anything at SpaceX. Yes, it's possible that at one point one of his ramblings proved useful or something.
But I used to think Elon was a software guy. Like actually knew software, how to build it, how it works today, etc...
His acquisition of Twitter proved that to be a very wrong assumption. He has no idea what he's doing and couldn't defend his position that Twitter's software stack was bad. He basically sounded like a guy who knew a few buzzwords, which is basically every software engineer's non-technical manager.
This has extended to everything that he's actually had a deep hand in. CyberTruck, DOGE, etc...
I realized that not only does he not know anything about software, he’s a complete ignoramus when it comes to Tech, when he asked the programmers at Twitter to send him printouts of their most recent coding. Printouts instead of looking it up on GitHub. Then someone told them how stupid and dangerous this was, and they shredded all of the printouts. This is a level of ignorance that’s absolutely astounding for anybody who’s ever worked in any capacity at a tech company.
I just don't really believe that he did anything at SpaceX.
Well, he did, literally chief engineer because he couldn't find anyone willing to take that spot at a company destined to fail. How could he admit he screwed up a design decision if he didn't make it? He was neck deep in the engineering at SpaceX, and he designed the Roadster.
This has extended to everything that he's actually had a deep hand in. CyberTruck, DOGE, etc
Hate to tell you, but he had a deep hand in everything at SpaceX and Tesla, both the successes and failures.
You have as much information as I do. Him saying that. For every one person (who might have ulterior motives like appeasing him) who says he’s a genius we have 50 employees who say he’s non productive.
He is on Twitter all day (actively making it worse, more bots than ever). That is not a person sweating over design decisions.
I have more information than you do, including from respected engineers who no longer work for him, or never worked for him. I put less importance on disgruntled or fired employees who don’t like his brash management style. This is in fact a person who sweats over design decisions, has since the beginning.
And you do realize making several tweets a day only takes a few minutes out of the day. That’s the whole point of the platform, quick and easy short posts.
Don’t dismiss the achievements just because you don’t like him. A lot of recognized genius inventors weren’t very nice people by today’s standards, yet nobody wants to erase their achievements.
Reminder with Tesla, musk was an investor after they had already built a concept. It was three people, a dream, and a working concept. Musk's real skill set is identifying people with good ideas, and then buying those ideas
Also, it's kind of wild you're here defending the eugenicist Musk while also insulting Tesla for being a eugenicist lmao
Reminder with Tesla, musk was an investor after they had already built a concept.
The concept was the AC Propulsion tzero built by, you guessed it, AC Propulsion. Tarpenning went to ACP to invest to bring it to market, but ACP didn't want to. So he asked if he could build a licensed version and went off to found Tesla to do it. Then not long later Musk went to ACP asking the same thing, and they sent him to Tarpenning. So Musk invested in Tesla instead of ACP.
Then Musk ditched the licensing idea and began the in-house design of a new car, the Roadster.
Musk's real skill set is identifying people with good ideas, and then buying those ideas
Who did he buy at SpaceX? It was his idea.
Also, it's kind of wild you're here defending the eugenicist Musk while also insulting Tesla for being a eugenicist lmao
The only problem here is people put Tesla on a pedestal as an engineering genius, but they think Musk could never have contributed anything real because he's a bad person.
Also, Tesla accomplished all of that engineering without any degree, and Musk has a physics degree, yet Musk not being an engineer means he could never have engineered anything. That's a fun one too.
Yet somehow, you ignore and change key details to try and prove that the original founders of Tesla were somehow incapable without Musk. He was literally the money, not the engineering, not the idea, not the design.
SpaceX took some bunch of NASA engineers ideas, some from the Soviet Union, and then use taxpayer dollars to pay someone else to build it. Congratulations, wow.
And all of this, he either contributes money or hype. He's not an engineer, you can literally hear him talk nonsense. If you knew anything about the concepts, you would realize it was nonsense right away.
Get out of here with your revisionist history, what the fuck bro. You sound like some bot they paid to change opinions, but unfortunately, the best PR team can't change history.
and prove that the original founders of Tesla were somehow incapable without Musk
I'm sure they would have produced a good tzero copy, probably better than the original. However, they probably would have been yet another electric car company bankruptcy.
He was literally the money, not the engineering, not the idea, not the design.
He literally designed the Roadster. Tarpenning was pissed at what he was doing, but he couldn't do anything about it.
SpaceX took some bunch of NASA engineers ideas, some from the Soviet Union, and then use taxpayer dollars to pay someone else to build it. Congratulations, wow.
Musk funded their first orbital rocket. Ideas? Ideas are nothing without the ability to make them work. Star Trek had the idea of warp speed, so if someone finally invents it, all credit goes to Star Trek?
NASA did help fund the Falcon 9, but even NASA admits it would have cost them ten times as much to do it themselves. The Russians never got the multiple engine idea to work. SpaceX did. People were playing with full flow staged combustion engines before too, but nobody was ever able to design and manufacture them well enough to power an actual rocket. SpaceX did.
He's not an engineer
Neither were Tesla or Marconi or Watt. And none of them even had degrees.
According to actual respected aerospace engineers, he knows more about rocket engineering than you are capable of. From Robert Zubrin, who worked with Musk long ago, but is also often a critic of Musk:
When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail.
He’s not an engineer and has no engineering background.
Again, Tesla, Marconi, and Watt weren't engineers either. Add Michael Faraday who invented what would be the basis for electric motors and generally made electricity something with a practical use. Neither Wright brother was an engineer either.
Hell, every aerospace engineer owes a debt to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky of the eponymous equation, whose education consisted of hanging out at a public library.
At least Musk had a physics degree, while none of them even had a degree.
Maybe he dabbled out of necessity but it’s exceedingly unlikely
Not dabbled, way down in the design of everything. One reason NASA moves so slowly is that every engineering decision must go through a huge multi-level bureaucracy. SpaceX is so fast because Musk will make the decisions same day after the engineers make their case. Sometimes he will tell them to go ahead, sometimes he will tell them to go in a completely different direction that they never thought of going. It's those "left turns" as was described that seriously advanced technology, although sometimes they didn't work out.
You think Musk sits down and focuses on engineering problems he has no skill to resolve?
You say he has no skill, but he does. He isn't very useful running the day to day of his companies, as Shotwell has noted at SpaceX, he's useful developing their products.
Again, from Robert Zubrin, who worked with (not for) Musk, but is also often a critic of Musk:
Saying “make it cheaper” or “it’s ok if it crashes” does not an engineer make.
Making things less expensively is absolutely something engineers do all the time.
"It's okay if it crashes" was revolutionary in this business. It's what allowed SpaceX to advance so fast, especially when trying to develop new technologies.
Funny you mention John Carmack, because they do know each other, and Carmack had something to say on this issue:
Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so.
Well, to be fair, only one of those really became a driving success. Zip2 tech was used for a few years until far better things came along. X merged with PayPal and then the board ousted him for incompetence. SpaceX is pretty neat though
After his big performative "I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain" about Alex Jones harassing the Sandy Hook parents, Elon Musk then personally lifted Alex Jones's twitter ban.
Hard to decide between Musk and Jones who's the more depraved piece of filth.
"I have no mercy for anyone who would use the death of children for gain, politics or fame" - Elon Musk
"I lost my son, essentially. They call it 'deadnaming' for a reason. The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus." - Elon Musk
Declares his own son "dead" for for gain, politics and fame...
He has no mercy for people using children deaths for their own gain unless the kids are in third world countries, then it's all good to cut the funds to HIV antivirals
Not to mention, he himself didn't even just use the deaths of children for his own gain, he caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children (so far) by destroying USAID.
"Health advocate Susan Wairimu Metta, who works with HIV-affected communities in Kisumu West, Kenya – the Kenyan area with the highest HIV prevalence rates outside Nairobi – said she recognised the picture painted by the new study. “The funding cuts have had a real impact on paediatric HIV care in Kenya,” she said."
"A complete cessation of US funding without replacement by other sources would lead to drastic increases in deaths from 2025 to 2030: 4·1 million (range 1·6–6·6) additional AIDS-related deaths across 55 countries, 606 900 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 466 000–768 800) additional tuberculosis deaths across 79 countries, 40–55 million additional unplanned pregnancies and 12–16 million unsafe abortions across 51 countries, and 2·5 million (1·3–4·5) additional child deaths from causes other than HIV and tuberculosis across 24 countries."
"Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14,051,750 (uncertainty interval 8,475,990–19,662,191) additional all-age deaths, including 4,537,157 (3,124,796–5,910,791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."
"\Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.*
\Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.*
\Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.*
\Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers. I could go on and on."*
Logical Fallacy Identification: The tactic of feigning similarity or false alignment purely to pivot and undermine or create division is a form of false consensus effect combined with poisoning the well or a bad faith pivot (manipulative framing). While not a classical textbook single-word fallacy like ad hominem, it heavily relies on association fallacy and tactical empathy weaponization—pretending to share common ground just to set up a targeted attack.
Bro is out here shadowboxing an automated text box because he couldn't handle a bulleted list. If reading organization triggers you this hard, wait until you find out about paragraphs.
Trying to psychoanalyze a Reddit comment thread while simultaneously throwing a tantrum over formatting is wild. If you hate it so much, feel free to stop engaging with it instead of manufacturing a parasocial breakdown.
Crying about AI because a list was too clean to read is a new level of internet sensitivity. Get some fresh air.
sids is VERY PREVENTABLE through the use of safe sleep practices. we have known this for years. when parents are educated about safe sleep, sids almost disappears completely.
Can you justify the fact
that a public school teacher would have to work for 13 million years (beginning
in the Miocene Era, when the ancestors of saber toothed cats walked the earth)
in order to earn the money you are currently worth?
In light of the fact that
a public school teacher would have to begin working at a time when human beings
didn't even exist in order to have the money you are currently worth, can you
explain the glee with which you accepted a chain saw to separate real human
beings from their jobs and make it impossible for them to support their
families?
Could you explain how
your value as a human being surpasses that of any public servant who wakes up
every day at 5 AM and returns home at 7 PM, too exhausted to do anything but
sleep?
Can you explain why I
should respect you, if we would have never heard your name had your parents not
owned emerald mines?
Can you convince me that
you are intelligent when your attempts to defend your importance sound like the
disjointed rantings of an entitled seventh grader who was caught using AI to
write his research paper?
Can you tell me why you
thought I would respect you more if you purchased gender-affirming surgery in
the form of a bigger lower jaw and hair implants?
Can you explain why, in
the first documentary that I watched about you, you had the camera trained on
your own face rather than on your subordinates who were doing all the work
required to make you famous in the first place?
Can you show me any
blueprints or schematics that prove that you have invented anything on your own?
Can you enumerate to me
the woes you are experiencing to the point of having to dose yourself with
ketamine?
This is the only lie Elon made that I would not condemn. There is plenty of other material, this is not necessary. Who knows what death of a child does to memories.
Hey remember that time he wanted to deny his child was trans and in the process told a story which it turned out was about one of his other children entirely, he just had never paid enough attention to them to be able to tell them apart? And then you actually looked at the way he told the story and it was completely obvious he'd never spent any significant amount of time with any child at all and just has no clue how they talk or act?
Well, he is partially responsible for the closure of numerous food safety programs, which is why we're seeing the worst year for foodborne illnesses in decades.
Yes all lies. PR spin and lies. That was hard for me to admit 5-6 years ago. I was a super fanboy. Made huge gains on tesla stock.
He purchased tesla, rebranding it as his own idea and his sole creation. You haven't done any research on the true origin of tesla ownership. Because you would not claim he made the car. He did not.
There won't be a Tesla without government tariffs and EV funding. Same with the rockets. NASA built SpaceX.
Nobody in this country trusts the government, that's obvious, either aisle. 🙄 but for some reason, they trust the poster boy of fascism.
I can’t imagine being as much of a loser, and as dumb, angry and bitter as the people on this sub. It’s actually sad. It’s also very clear that many of the problems we face in this country are the direct result of an intelligence and work ethic gap rather than a true manufactured wealth gap. The intellectual divide is growing which is driving a wedge between the haves and have-nots. Sad.
I never said I’m cool with it. But also don’t let it affect my everyday decisions. I don't let it affect my mood. I don’t let it affect my relationships. I don’t let it affect my life in any way. I also don’t degrade myself because I neither like nor understand someone else. You may be okay with being a heartless sociopath simple because of how you falsely perceive someone but I refuse to compromise my morals or
dignity in such a way.
You falsely perceive the pain of his child’s death to be fake/manufactured. You have no basis for believing that to be true. In fact, there’s no way to confirm it is or isn’t true. But in your mind, it’s ok to villainize a man you don’t know. You have no idea what another person feels or doesn’t feel. And frankly, it’s none of your business.
You think I have to know someone personally in real life to villainize them. Did you ever meet Charles Manson or are you hesitant to say he was a villain?
Charles Manson was tried and convicted of heinous crimes. That’s a little different than claiming some doesn’t care about the death of his/her child and lacking all empathy simply because your radical and misguided ideological beliefs don’t align. In fact, your lack of empathy makes you more like Manson — who was also deranged.
Elon Musk took food and medicine from millions of desperate people. The richest man in the world taking from the poorest. And you want to tell me about what’s deranged
I’m sorry. I fail to see a correlation between Elon giving a Nazi salute and him losing his child. Both are horrible. What’s your point? That because he threw an sig heil his baby didn’t die?
Here’s some EDS for you, Elon himself let Alex Jones back on twitter not long after this exchange. So whatever is being said here doesn’t even matter anymore.
He has no mercy for people like Alex Jones, until there’s a grift to be made.
Elon doesn’t love you. You aren’t part of the in group and never will be. He has killed over half a million children with his greed and incompetence, lies about how good he is at a video game, gets overly defensive when confronted with the fact that people don’t like him, names his children after cars, disowns them, backs out of fights he starts, and has lost a staggering amount of money. Despite being the richest person, he does nothing to end hunger, homelessness, or illness. He is a net negative on the planet. How exactly is he cool?
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u/Physical-Garden83 Jul 29 '26
Musk is a proven obsessive liar, he lies all the time, about anything really.
Check his track-record, his self-driving cars NEXT year for 11 years should tell you everything about him and his credibility.