Elon Musk, who's spent years engaging in questionable public advocacy, just said he wants to "control" an "enormous robot army."

I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, who have no f**king clue. I mean those guys are corporate terrorists. Lemme explain the core problem here, so many of the passive funds vote along the lines of what ISS and Glass Lewis recommend. Now, they have made many terrible recommendations in the past that if those recommendations had been followed would have been extremely destructive to the future of the company. Now, If you’ve got passive funds that essentially defer responsibility for the vote to Glass Lewis and ISS, then you can have extremely disastrous consequences for a publicly traded company if too much of the publicly traded company is controlled by index funds. It’s de facto controlled by Glass Lewis and ISS. This is a fundamental problem for corporate governance, because they’re not voting along the lines that are actually good for shareholders. That’s the big issue, I mean, that’s what it comes down to. ISS Glass Lewis corporate terrorism. -Elon Musk, Tesla Q3 shareholder conference call, October 22, 2025

  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    This guy is so desperate to be called the first trillionaire, it’s just really pathetic.

  • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 minutes ago

    Take a lot more drugs Elon. Be sure it’s enough to permenently quiet that scrambled brain of yours.

    In a time when the entire world seems to be suffering from unstable leadership, rising costs of everything because of the decisions of people like him, oppressive and invasive actions directed at some of the most vulnerable people.

    All that and much more, but this person with a net worth of $479,200,000,000 (according to Forbes as of today) is crying for $1,000,000,000,000 more for a large group of toy robots.

    Some people have nothing and go on to accomplish great things. He has everything and needs more handouts to do anything.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 minutes ago

    LOL

    Elmo Musk literally is not an engineer or even understands basic engineering. All the real world engineering done at his company is done by actual engineers

    What is his part in all those processes at jos companies, you ask?

    Lying.

    Literally lying. Its the only talent that Mr. Elmo has. Its the one thing he constantly does, at levels comparable to Trump.

    Most claims he makes about any of his companies products are just plain lies. Tesla full self driving? Not even close, and by now i wonder if they’re actually capable of getting a Tesla off a parking lot without crashing it, let alone do a full cross country.

    Same for SpaceX, where we definitely will go to Mars!never mind that reaching low earth orbit is about 1% of that task and he still can’t do that without blowing up his starshits. Hey, at least they blew up a banana over the Indian ocean.

    Wanna know what Elmo’s contributions are?

    Cyber truck.

    Launching the car that was supposed to be for the founder of Tesla into low earth orbit just to he an asshole

    The “idea” to use intercontinental ballistic rockets to transport people to the other side of the world “in 30 minutes”. This one I really really really do want him to try because tickets are CEO only expensive and nothing would make me laugh more than a bunch of stealing assholes all paying a million or so to just blow up on the launchpad.

    Talking about launchpads, remember that Florida launch with a starship with a boat load of engines that also failed was a complete success because “it left the launchpad” and anything beyond that was extras? Yeah, that launchpad was absolutely obliterated, cars parked various kilometers away got pelted by concrete debris, an ecological area got polluted, and the launchpad was left in rubble because Elmo decided that flame diverters, you know, those things used since like the sixties of the previous century really weren’t necessary.

    That is of course keeping in mind that he US tax payer paid 3 billion to take the US to the moon and well, that too is about at 1-2% mission completed, there is nothing remotely ready.

    Do I even have to mention Hyperloop? “Its just another air hockey table, its not that hard!”

    Meanwhile he keeps asking Tesla for a trillion dollars as well, even though he just got a gold package from Tesla that was light the highest payout in human history, even though Tesla makes a fraction of the cars that large brands make, ans even though he sent the extremely overvalued company (overvalued thanks to his constant lying about aaaalll the great things that are right there ready, just around the corner if you only pay me more money!!) right of a cliff with his Nazi antics combined with the laughable Nazirustbucket he designed…

    This is the guy asking for just a trillion dollar bro, I will make this work, bro! TRUST ME!

  • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 minutes ago

    This picture describes it pretty well.

    Or these fascists are distracting people from something important with these performances…

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    They succeeded in making “billion” the new million. Now, they’re trying to make “trillion” the new billion."

  • amos@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I just want this guy to die. Oh, I will be so happy when it happens.

    And all the other ones as well.

  • -RJ-@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Man who can’t buld fully self driving cars wants to build a f@*king robot army? I’ll pass. How about give him NO money so he can’t afford to build them in the first place.