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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

He also lost nearly a trillion dollars for Tesla. Tells the Tesla employees to keep their stock, hinting at how great things are and how much better they will be soon, and then the entire c-suite sells off around a hundred million in stock...

Elmo really is the best of all humans... At evaporating the wealth of others

I've said this for nearly s decade now, Elmo is a lyoni scammer who got lucky, that is all

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

“He got lucky” is another way to also say that, as terrible as he is at everything he does, including hiding it, the people who give him literally anything are always clamouring to prove just how stupid they can be by simping for him at every turn.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That too.

The guy is (well, was) charming, in his weird ways, and he really does have a quality to somehow convince people of all the lies he's spouting.

Beyond that, he also got incredibly lucky

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Was he ever? Really his only thing was being a nerd, and we thought he was at least vaguely cool for the whole fast electric vehicle thing, but it took barely any time for it to come out that actually he’s both bad at being a nerd and a huge liar about how involved he really was with Tesla. He’s been poison for soooo long now, I literally have no idea how anyone falls for it these days.

It’s not skill, there are just that many people who are that stupid.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

He had his charms for sure, that convinced a lot of people he was more than he is

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