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CyberMacGyver ◴[] No.44510796[source]
One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever.

I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

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sorcerer-mar ◴[] No.44510983[source]
It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude?

Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

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olalonde ◴[] No.44512652[source]
You may not like Elon Musk but he's doing remarkably well for someone who is "clearly off the rails".
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feoren ◴[] No.44512774[source]
Yes, corruption pays. Although if "doing remarkably well" means being addicted to ketamine, having many exes and children who refuse to speak with you, tanking multiple businesses to the point that your products get sabotaged just for being associated with you, getting booed off stages, licking the boots of fascists in the hope they'll let you call them "daddy", paying people to play online games for you to impress nerds (unsuccessfully, instead getting online-bullied for it), etc., etc., then I think I'd rather not "do remarkably well", thank you very much.

Elon does not seem like a happy man. Is money the only points humans score themselves by? It's like watching someone bragging about getting the highest ever score at a game that they hate.

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1. AlexandrB ◴[] No.44513102[source]
> licking the boots of fascists in the hope they'll let you call them "daddy"

Which fascists?

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2. therouwboat ◴[] No.44513311[source]
German far-right party AfD?
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3. DonHopkins ◴[] No.44514086[source]
Do you mean that in the sense that he is licking the boots of so many fascists at once, including Trump, Xi Jinping, Putin, and any other fascist boot he can find, while calling them all daddy, that you're confused which of those many fascists feoren is referring to?
4. lawlessone ◴[] No.44514935{3}[source]
They are fascist.
5. therouwboat ◴[] No.44515090{3}[source]
What does sexual orientation or adopted daughter have to do it?
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6. CamperBob2 ◴[] No.44516200{4}[source]
He basically used 31 words to say "I've never heard of Ernst Roehm," for whatever reason. I don't think you can read much more into his comment than that.