Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

  • RandAlThor@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    This is such a burn! ā€œAbramson noted, ā€œIt is also a particularly American disease to confuse wealth with intelligence and corporations with those who own them.ā€

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      Presumably his companies must just run themselves, because we seem to be expected to believe that heā€™s running a rocket ship company, an electric car company, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, moon-lighting as the de facto President of the United States, while also dicking around on Twitter all day long and being one of the worldā€™s #1 gamers and parenting like 15 children or whatever itā€™s supposed to be now. (Or at least, the ones that are still talking to him I guess.)

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        Also any sort of success.

        If youā€™re chronically ill or have family problems, you must have done something to deserve it, because god will reward the worthy. Makes it really easy to be bigoted.